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> But what is wrong with Gnome-Terminal?

The dependencies: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/desktops/g...

If you're using Gnome, you probably have those already so it's no big deal. The same goes for Konsole in KDE: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/desktops/k...

If not, pulling in a few hundred MB of dependencies for a terminal emulator seems distasteful. st is much more self-contained: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applicatio...

That's why st is usually compared to xterm; they're small, basic and desktop-agnostic.




That's good to know. Without Gnome(3) Gnome-Terminal might not be the right choice.




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