When comparing LilyTerm vs Extraterm, 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 Extraterm is ranked 40th. The most important reason people chose LilyTerm is:
You can also color and reorder tabs, as well as manipulate tabs through keybindings.
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 speed
not the fastest ever, but for me its a good comprimise of features vs performance
Pro Cross platform
Pro Supports tab, splits and panes
You can set up your own layout with multiple splits and tabs.
Pro Shell integration
The shell integration makes it possible to group in command output in "frames" which show success/failure.
Pro Image support
You can view images and other data types like audio directly in the terminal.
Pro Keyboard based text selection
It is possible to go into a cursor mode where you can select text just like in a text editor. It even supports multiple cursors.
Pro Global shortcuts
You can configure global shortcuts to open the terminal.
Pro Keyboard friendly "Command Palette"
Just like Sublime, Atom and VSCode you can easily search and find commands from the drop down Command Palette.
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.
