Tilda vs Termite

There are tons of customizations you can make: from adding colors to text, turning backgrounds transparent, setting the size to be "maximized", toggling scrollbar on and off, adjusting orientation/borders/animation, etc.

The drop-down function in Tilda does not get in the way and can be accessed at any time with a keyboard shortcut.

You can monitor information displayed by applications under Tilda.

Tilda is a very minimal and lean terminal emulator. It requires very few dependencies and the amount of resources needed is small.

Tilda supports tabs. By default: to open a new tab press Ctrl + Shift + t. To move through them: Ctrl + PgUp/PgDn.

Termite is a minimalistic terminal emulator. It does not need too many resources to run and it's designed primarily to work with window managers.

Termite supports a command mode which is very useful if you prefer to use Vim-like keybindings. It takes inspiration from Vim, one of the most popular text editors, so someone who is used to Vim's commands will find themselves at home.

Termite supports true color palettes, meaning that it allows for up to 16,777,216 possible colors.

Termite is most suited to a tiling window manager with a simple config file.

Termite is easy to configure. Reconfiguration does not require logging out or rebooting.

You can just press Ctrl-PLUS, Ctrl-MINUS or Ctrl-EQUALS to change font size.

Ranger image preview works in termite.