> But what is wrong with Gnome-Terminal? The dependencies: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/desktops/gnome-3/3.12/core/gnome-terminal/default.

> But what is wrong with Gnome-Terminal? The dependencies: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/desktops/gnome-3/3.12/core/gnome-terminal/default.nix 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/kde-4.14/applications/konsole.nix 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/applications/misc/st/default.nix 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.