When comparing feh vs LilyTerm, the Slant community recommends feh for most people. In the question“What are the best applications to use on a X11 window manager?” feh is ranked 9th while LilyTerm is ranked 14th.
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Pros
Pro Loads up images extremely fast
Pro Minimalistic
Goes well with tiling window managers.
Pro Support for tabbing
You can also color and reorder tabs, as well as manipulate tabs through keybindings.
Pro Transparency support improves usability
LilyTerm has true transparency support, making for better GUI usability.
Pro Change encoding on-the-fly
LilyTerm can change encoding on-the-fly. UTF-8 is the default encoding.
Pro Lightweight
LilyTerm is a terminal emulator that aims to be as lightweight as possible. It requires minimal system resources and has very few dependencies.
Pro Fullscreen support
LilyTerm has fullscreen support which improves visibility.
Cons
Con Junky rescaling by default in WMs
Fixable by running these commands:
echo "alias feh='feh --scale-down --image-bg black & disown" >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bash_profile
But after entering those two commands for all users, feh works flawlessly, and is extremely responsive. Would definitely recommend.
Con Annoying behaviors
The default configuration may have some annoying behaviors (that can be removed by changing the default config). Such include asking for confirmation when reusing an existing window or when starting the terminal to launch a specific command.