What is LilyTerm?
LilyTerm: light, but functional terminal emulator
LilyTerm is a terminal emulator based off of libvte that aims to be fast and lightweight, Licensed under GPLv3.
Features:
1) Low resource-consumption
-- No additional library required
-- Supports "Single Instance Application" mode, launching another session of LilyTerm as another window of the original/parent LilyTerm
-- May drag and drop tabs between LilyTerm windows, or drag the tab on the root window for create a new LilyTerm window.
-- Every LilyTerm window may has it's own font / geometry / environments / settings.
2) Multi Tab
-- Colorful and Reorderable tab bar.
-- Bold the current and actived tab.
-- Shows "Root privileges", "XTerm Title", "CmdLine", and "PWD" on the tab name.
-- Rename the tab name with <Ctrl><E>.
-- Ability to manipulate tabs with function keys (add, destroy, switch, move).
3) Color scheme
-- True transparency support (requires compositing enabled).
-- Support for background transparency and saturation.
-- Custom foreground/background colors.
-- Custom the color theme and the brightness of foreground text.
4) Other Interesting Features
-- Ability to change encoding environment for current or new tab on-the-fly (UTF-8 by default)
-- Hyperlink support.
-- Fullscreen support.
-- The text of terminal emulator will be dim when lost focus.
-- Confirm before running a -e option command.
-- Temporarily (or permanently via editing the profile) enable/disable function keys, hyperlinks, and the right-click menu
-- Custom the function keys.
-- User/system-profile support.
-- Extensive UTF-8 support.
-- Good geometry and window hint behavior.
-- gtk-alternative-button-order support.
-- The VTE_CJK_WIDTH is setted to 'narrow' by default.
LilyTerm is a terminal emulator based off of libvte that aims to be fast and lightweight, Licensed under GPLv3.
Features:
1) Low resource-consumption
-- No additional library required
-- Supports "Single Instance Application" mode, launching another session of LilyTerm as another window of the original/parent LilyTerm
-- May drag and drop tabs between LilyTerm windows, or drag the tab on the root window for create a new LilyTerm window.
-- Every LilyTerm window may has it's own font / geometry / environments / settings.
2) Multi Tab
-- Colorful and Reorderable tab bar.
-- Bold the current and actived tab.
-- Shows "Root privileges", "XTerm Title", "CmdLine", and "PWD" on the tab name.
-- Rename the tab name with <Ctrl><E>.
-- Ability to manipulate tabs with function keys (add, destroy, switch, move).
3) Color scheme
-- True transparency support (requires compositing enabled).
-- Support for background transparency and saturation.
-- Custom foreground/background colors.
-- Custom the color theme and the brightness of foreground text.
4) Other Interesting Features
-- Ability to change encoding environment for current or new tab on-the-fly (UTF-8 by default)
-- Hyperlink support.
-- Fullscreen support.
-- The text of terminal emulator will be dim when lost focus.
-- Confirm before running a -e option command.
-- Temporarily (or permanently via editing the profile) enable/disable function keys, hyperlinks, and the right-click menu
-- Custom the function keys.
-- User/system-profile support.
-- Extensive UTF-8 support.
-- Good geometry and window hint behavior.
-- gtk-alternative-button-order support.
-- The VTE_CJK_WIDTH is setted to 'narrow' by default.
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da_doomer It's very fast, has customization options, it's not bloated, it's simple.
Positive comment • almost 5 years ago • as an alternative to Xfce-Terminal
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- Developed by Adrian Sampson
- Open Source and Free product.
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