rxvt-unicode is a clone of the terminal emulator rxvt, an X Window System terminal emulator which includes support for XFT and Unicode.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.4 platform.
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gdk-pixbuf-2.28.2, or libAfterImage (these add support for background images and simulated transparency)
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/rxvt-unicode
Install rxvt-unicode by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-everything && make
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root user:
make install
--enable-everything: Add
support for all non-multichoice options. Details about the
different options can be found in the file README.configure.
--disable-xft: Remove support for Xft
fonts.
--disable-perl: Disable the embedded
Perl interpreter.
--disable-afterimage: Remove support
for libAfterImage.
The rxvt-unicode terminal emulator
uses the resource class URxvt and
the resource name urxvt. You can add
X resource definitions to a user's ~/.Xresources file or to the system-wide
/etc/X11/app-defaults/URxvt file. The
following example will load the matcher Perl
extension (assuming Perl support
wasn't disabled), which enables a middle button click to open an
underlined URL in the specified browser, sets a background and
foreground color and loads an Xft font:
cat >> /etc/X11/app-defaults/URxvt << "EOF"
URxvt*perl-ext: matcher
URxvt*urlLauncher: firefox
URxvt.background: black
URxvt.foreground: yellow
URxvt*font: xft:Monospace:pixelsize=12
EOF
The rxvt-unicode application can also run in a daemon mode, which makes it possible to open multiple terminal windows within the same process. The urxvtc client then connects to the urxvtd daemon and requests a new terminal window. Use this option with caution. If the daemon crashes, all the running processes in the terminal windows are terminated.
You can start the urxvtd daemon in the system or
personal startup X
session script (e.g., ~/.xinitrc) by
adding the following lines near the top of the script:
# Start the urxvtd daemon
urxvtd -q -f -o &
For more information, examine the urxvt, urxvtd, urxvtc, and urxvtperl man pages.
/usr/lib/urxvt/perl
Last updated on 2013-08-20 15:41:29 -0700