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-10.1 platform.
![[Note]](../images/note.png)
Please be aware that rxvt-unicode is affected by an issue in perl where the SIGFPE handler is set to SIG_IGN (i.e. the signal is ignored). If you are building an LFS system from within urxvt and running the testsuites, tests in bash and check which test raising this signal will fail.
Download (HTTP): http://dist.schmorp.de/rxvt-unicode/Attic/rxvt-unicode-9.22.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 93782dec27494eb079467dacf6e48185
Download size: 910 KB
Estimated disk space required: 23 MB (plus 9 MB if gdk-pixbuf is present)
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU
gdk-pixbuf-2.42.4 (for background images) and startup-notification-0.12
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/rxvt-unicode
Install rxvt-unicode by running the following commands:
sed -i '/if (perl)/,+5d' src/rxvtperl.xs && ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-everything && make
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root user:
make install
sed -i '/if (perl)/,+5d' src/rxvtperl.xs: This prevents a segmentation fault when closing a urxvt terminal, caused by deallocating a private environment copy before destructing the perl interpreter which calls getenv().
--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 or ~/.Xdefaults files 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 left button click to open an
underlined URL in the specified browser, sets a background and
foreground color and loads an Xft font (as the root user):
cat >> /etc/X11/app-defaults/URxvt << "EOF"
! Use the specified colour as the windows background colour [default white]
URxvt*background: black
! Use the specified colour as the windows foreground colour [default black]
URxvt*foreground: yellow
! Select the fonts to be used. This is a comma separated list of font names
URxvt*font: xft:Monospace:pixelsize=18
! Comma-separated list(s) of perl extension scripts (default: "default")
URxvt*perl-ext: matcher
! Specifies the program to be started with a URL argument. Used by
URxvt*url-launcher: firefox
! When clicked with the mouse button specified in the "matcher.button" resource
! (default 2, or middle), the program specified in the "matcher.launcher"
! resource (default, the "url-launcher" resource, "sensible-browser") will be
! started with the matched text as first argument.
! Below, default modified to mouse left button.
URxvt*matcher.button: 1
EOF
In order to view the defined X resources, issue:
xrdb -query
In order to add the modifications of the new user configuration file, keeping previously X configurations (of course, unless you are changing any on previously define), issue:
xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
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.
If you use a Desktop Environment, a menu entry can be included,
issuing, as the root user:
cat > /usr/share/applications/urxvt.desktop << "EOF" &&
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Rxvt-Unicode Terminal
Comment=Use the command line
GenericName=Terminal
Exec=urxvt
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=utilities-terminal
Categories=GTK;Utility;TerminalEmulator;
#StartupNotify=true
Keywords=console;command line;execute;
EOF
update-desktop-database -q
For that, you need desktop-file-utils-0.26 and at least one of gnome-icon-theme-3.12.0, oxygen-icons5-5.79.0 and lxde-icon-theme-0.5.1. Uncomment the line with “StartupNotify=true” if startup-notification-0.12 is installed.
/usr/lib/urxvt/perl
Last updated on 2021-03-11 15:38:40 -0600