When comparing LilyTerm vs MuPDF, the Slant community recommends MuPDF for most people. In the question“What are the best applications to use on a X11 window manager?” MuPDF is ranked 6th while LilyTerm is ranked 14th. The most important reason people chose MuPDF is:
It was written in C and opengl, so your hardware was used fully.
Specs
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Pros
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.
Pro Super fast
It was written in C and opengl, so your hardware was used fully.
Pro Vim-mode shortcut keys
Super easy to use with rapid response.
Pro Excellent for presentations
Pro Annotation capability
With mupdf-gl, you can do most of the annotations and comments.
Cons
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.
Con No print option
Con No two page mode
Con Not enough functionality
If you want "minimal," you got it.