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Add to SafariWhen comparing Wterm vs LilyTerm, the Slant community recommends LilyTerm for most people. In the question“What are the best terminal emulators for UNIX-like systems?” LilyTerm is ranked 19th while Wterm is ranked 28th. The most important reason people chose LilyTerm is:
You can also color and reorder tabs, as well as manipulate tabs through keybindings.
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Pros
Pro Fast
Wterm is very fast despite using very little memory.
Pro Memory efficient
Each instance requires only about 6.3 MB of RAM, even with 10.000 lines of buffer.
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 The official repository is inactive
The official repository for Wterm seems to be inactive, with open bug reports as far back as 2006.
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.
