rxvt-unicode 8.2

[Ag. Hatzimanikas]

This a ticket to include rxvt-unicode terminal emulator in the book.

Features.

• Works without issues in every locale.

• Embedded perl interpreter (--enable-perl).

Some things you can do with some perl extensions,already included in the distribution.

Tabbed terminal.Shift-Left and Shift-Right will switch to the tab left or right of the current one, while Shift-Down creates a new tab.

Middle click in an url,opens the program specified in the resources. urlLauncher.eg. URxvt*urlLauncher:firefox or by starting the urxvtc client like urxvtc -pe tabbed

Incremental scrollback buffer search pressing Alt+s.

Popup menu to Ctrl-Button2 that lets you toggle options at runtime.

• Daemon.

That means you can start the daemon (urxvtd) and then you can connect the clients (urxvtc) to it.Very efficient in terms of memory usage. Warning.If the daemon crashes for some reason you will loose the clients too.However this is a very rare case;In more than 2 years of heavy usage I didn't have such a crash.

*Active development.

Instructions (some of the config options could be excluded):

./configure --prefix=/usr \
	--enable-xft \
	--enable-font-styles \
	--enable-transparency \
	--enable-tinting \
	--enable-fading \
	--enable-utmp \
	--enable-wtmp \
	--enable-lastlog \
	--disable-rxvt-scroll \
	--disable-next-scroll \
	--disable-xterm-scroll \
	--enable-perl \
	--with-x

Current version is 7.9. Download link for anyone is interested to give it a try and for testing reasons. ​http://dist.schmorp.de/rxvt-unicode/rxvt-unicode-7.9.tar.bz2

Some of the options you can put in the ~/.Xdefaults (preferable according with the author instead of .Xresources).

URxvt*inheritPixmap:true
URxvt*scrollColor: gray
URxvt*saveLines: 5500
URxvt*scrollBar_floating: false
URxvt.scrollBar: false
URxvt*scrollstyle: urxvt
URxvt*font: xft:DejaVu LGC Sans Mono:style=Book:pixelsize=17
URxvt.background: black
URxvt.foreground: gold1
URxvt.shading: 30
URxvt.tintColor: white
URxvt*colorRV: White
URxvt*colorBD: AntiqueWhite
URxvt*pointerColor: red
URxvt*pointerColor2: red
URxvt*cursorColor2: Blue3
URxvt*borderLess: true
URxvt*perl-ext: mark-urls
URxvt*urlLauncher: Start-elinks-from-firefox  #this is just a script(place your browser instead,it doesn't have to be an absolute path.)
URxvt.color0: rgb:0/0/0
URxvt.color1: rgb:cc/00/00
URxvt.color2: rgb:00/cc/00
URxvt.color3: #bd5e01
URxvt.color4: rgb:00/00/cc
URxvt.color5: rgb:cc/00/cc
URxvt.color6: rgb:00/cc/cc
URxvt.color7: rgb:aa/aa/aa
URxvt.color8: rgb:33/33/33
URxvt.color9: rgb:ff/00/00
URxvt.color10: rgb:00/ff/00
URxvt.color11: rgb:ff/ff/00
URxvt.color12: rgb:00/00/ff
URxvt.color13: rgb:ff/00/ff
URxvt.color14: rgb:00/ff/ff
URxvt.color15: rgb:ff/ff/ff

Project page: ​http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode.html

[Ag. Hatzimanikas]

A small correction.

Middle click in an url,opens the program specified in the resources.

eg.

URxvt*urlLauncher:firefox

and by starting the urxvtc client like that.

urxvtc -pe mark-urls

where -pe stands for (p)erl(e)xtension.

[dnicholson@…]

Looks like a good candidate for inclusion from here. Post-6.2 of course. Thanks, Ag.

[Ag. Hatzimanikas]

Added in r7007.