When comparing Xiki 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 Xiki is ranked 23rd. 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 Adds GUI features
Xiki uses some GUI concepts on top of shell. For example, commands can have nested menus and these menus are just text indented by two spaces. You can also either use the mouse or the keyboard to navigate or issue commands.
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 Requires learning many new concepts and ways of using them
Xiki adds a lot of concepts which are not found on other terminals. You have to learn a lot of new tricks to make it useful which unfortunately you cannot use on other terminal emulators.
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.