Here’s the second part of the GTK terminal emulators test. It’s N – Z today. Again we have 9 terminal emulators to take a look at.
The candidates
Here are the candidates:
- QuTerm / Homepage
- ROXTerm / Homepage
- Sakura / Homepage
- Stjerm / Homepage
- Termite / Homepage
- Tilda / Homepage
- Tinyterm / Homepage
- vTerminal / Homepage
- Xfce4-Terminal / Homepage
(Again: Since there’s a lot of them out there, I may well have missed some interesting ones. Feel free to tell me in this case!)
Not tested
Last time I forgot to mention 3 more terminal emulators which don’t run on my test system:
(If you happen to get any of these to work on Arch and care to tell me, I’d be happy for any comments.)
Testing system
The testing system was the same that I described in my previous post.
QuTerm
QuTerm is a Quake-style terminal emulator which uses GTK2.
LXDE with QuTerm
Installation
pacman -U quterm-0.1-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz (4868 / 5 KB)
Statistics
Memory usage after starting up LXDE and opening QuTerm via the menu (with a second login on tty2) and used disk space after removing pacman cache. Here are the values I got with cat /proc/meminfo and df respectively df -h:
| Arch Linux LXDE | QuTerm 0.1 |
| MemTotal: | 3625888 kb |
| MemFree: | 3514496 kb |
| Buffers: | 10508 kb |
| Cached: | 61876 kb |
| Rootfs: | 830984 / 812 MB |
| RAM used at startup: | 111392 / ~109 MB |
| Disk space (less LXDE system): | 13504 / ~13 MB |
ROXTerm
ROXTerm is a terminal emulator which uses GTK3.
LXDE with ROXTerm
Installation
pacman -S roxterm (230084 / 230 KB + 13 dependencies: 14899200 / 14,9 MB)
Statistics
Memory usage after starting up LXDE and opening ROXTerm via the menu (with a second login on tty2) and used disk space after removing pacman cache. Here are the values I got with cat /proc/meminfo and df respectively df -h:
| Arch Linux LXDE | ROXTerm 2.7.2 |
| MemTotal: | 3625888 kb |
| MemFree: | 3506020 kb |
| Buffers: | 10552 kb |
| Cached: | 68612 kb |
| Rootfs: | 933296 / 912 MB |
| RAM used at startup: | 119868 / ~117 MB |
| Disk space (less LXDE system): | 115816 / ~113 MB |
Sakura
Sakura is a terminal emulator which uses GTK3.
LXDE with Sakura
Installation
pacman -S sakura (40416 / 40 KB + 12 deps: 14899200 / 14,9 MB)
Statistics
Memory usage after starting up LXDE and opening Sakura via the menu (with a second login on tty2) and used disk space after removing pacman cache. Here are the values I got with cat /proc/meminfo and df respectively df -h:
| Arch Linux LXDE | Sakura 3.0.4 |
| MemTotal: | 3625888 kb |
| MemFree: | 3508796 kb |
| Buffers: | 10204 kb |
| Cached: | 68288 kb |
| Rootfs: | 929500 / 908 MB |
| RAM used at startup: | 117092 / ~114 MB |
| Disk space (less LXDE system): | 112020 / ~109 MB |
Stjerm
Stjerm is a Quake-style terminal emulator which uses GTK2.
LXDE with Stjerm
Installation
pacman -U stjerm-git-0.16_19_g4038b07-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz (19564 / 20 KB)
Statistics
Memory usage after starting up LXDE and opening Stjerm via run (with a second login on tty2) and used disk space after removing pacman cache. Here are the values I got with cat /proc/meminfo and df respectively df -h:
| Arch Linux LXDE | Stjerm 0.16_19 |
| MemTotal: | 3625888 kb |
| MemFree: | 3515092 kb |
| Buffers: | 10552 kb |
| Cached: | 61552 kb |
| Rootfs: | 829620 / 811 MB |
| RAM used at startup: | 110796 / ~108 MB |
| Disk space (less LXDE system): | 12140 / ~12 MB |
Termite
Termite is a terminal emulator which uses GTK3.
LXDE with Termite
Installation
pacman -U vte3-select-text-0.34.6-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz (356904 / 357 KB 12 dep: 14899200 / 14,9 MB)
pacman -U termite-6-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz (19520 / 20 KB)
Statistics
Memory usage after starting up LXDE and opening Termite via the menu (with a second login on tty2) and used disk space after removing pacman cache. Here are the values I got with cat /proc/meminfo and df respectively df -h:
| Arch Linux LXDE | Termite 6 |
| MemTotal: | 3625888 kb |
| MemFree: | 3510272 kb |
| Buffers: | 10220 kb |
| Cached: | 67108 kb |
| Rootfs: | 931076 / 910 MB |
| RAM used at startup: | 115616 / ~113 MB |
| Disk space (less LXDE system): | 113596 / ~111 MB |
Tilda
Tilda is Quake-style a terminal emulator which uses GTK2.
LXDE with Tilda
Installation
pacman -U tilda-git-20130625-2-i686.pkg.tar.xz (64824 / 65 KB + 2 deps: 133120 / 133 KB)
Statistics
Memory usage after starting up LXDE and opening Tilda via the menu (with a second login on tty2) and used disk space after removing pacman cache. Here are the values I got with cat /proc/meminfo and df respectively df -h:
| Arch Linux LXDE | Tilda git-20130625 |
| MemTotal: | 3625888 kb |
| MemFree: | 3516252 kb |
| Buffers: | 9800 kb |
| Cached: | 62824 kb |
| Rootfs: | 830976 / 812 MB |
| RAM used at startup: | 109636 / ~107 MB |
| Disk space (less LXDE system): | 13496 / ~13 MB |
Tinyterm
Tinyterm is a terminal emulator which uses GTK2.
LXDE with Tinyterm
Installation
pacman -U tinyterm-svn-20100223-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz (4180 / 4 KB)
Statistics
Memory usage after starting up LXDE and opening Tinyterm via run (with a second login on tty2) and used disk space after removing pacman cache. Here are the values I got with cat /proc/meminfo and df respectively df -h:
| Arch Linux LXDE | Tinyterm svn-20100223 |
| MemTotal: | 3625888 kb |
| MemFree: | 3514148 kb |
| Buffers: | 10520 kb |
| Cached: | 62804 kb |
| Rootfs: | 829576 / 811 MB |
| RAM used at startup: | 111740 / ~109 MB |
| Disk space (less LXDE system): | 12096 / ~12 MB |
vTerminal
vTerminal is a terminal emulator which uses GTK2.
LXDE with vTerminal
Installation
pacman -U vterminal-13-3-i686.pkg.tar.xz (11988 / 12 KB + 2 deps: 40960 / 41 KB)
Statistics
Memory usage after starting up LXDE and opening vTerminal via run (with a second login on tty2) and used disk space after removing pacman cache. Here are the values I got with cat /proc/meminfo and df respectively df -h:
| Arch Linux LXDE | vTerminal 13 |
| MemTotal: | 3625888 kb |
| MemFree: | 3510000 kb |
| Buffers: | 12940 kb |
| Cached: | 62480 kb |
| Rootfs: | 831176 / 812 MB |
| RAM used at startup: | 115888 / ~113 MB |
| Disk space (less LXDE system): | 13696 / ~13 MB |
Xfce4-Terminal
Xfce4-Terminal is a terminal emulator which uses GTK2.
LXDE with Xfce4-Terminal
Installation
pacman -S xfce4-terminal (300188 / 300 KB + 4 deps: 399360 / 399 KB)
Statistics
Memory usage after starting up LXDE and opening Xfce4-Terminal via the menu (with a second login on tty2) and used disk space after removing pacman cache. Here are the values I got with cat /proc/meminfo and df respectively df -h:
| Arch Linux LXDE | Xfce4-Term 0.6.2 |
| MemTotal: | 3625888 kb |
| MemFree: | 3505716 kb |
| Buffers: | 11160 kb |
| Cached: | 63488 kb |
| Rootfs: | 835304 / 816 MB |
| RAM used at startup: | 120172 / ~117 MB |
| Disk space (less LXDE system): | 17824 / ~17 MB |
What’s next?
The next post will be a summary of the GTK terminal tests and provide a table for easy comparison.
[Update (08/10): Corrected Termite’s disk usage values – copied the wrong ones before.]
