ROXTerm vs Termite

ROXTerm supports dragging and dropping items into the Terminal window.

In ROXTerm, users can use D-Bus to configure terminals from other applications, allowing for communication between multiple computer programs.

ROXTerm includes a configuration manager which can easily be run by selecting Configure... in the terminal's menu, or by simply running roxterm-config. You can then easily swap configuration files with other users, manage profiles, and customize things like color schemes or keyboard shortcuts.

ROXTerm uses the latest GTK widget set which is great a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces.

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.