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Installed Programs: urxvt, urxvtd, and urxvtc
Installed Libraries: Many Perl extensions located under
/usr/lib/urxvt/perlInstalled Directory: /usr/lib/urxvt
rxvt-unicode-9.31
Introduction to rxvt-unicode
rxvt-unicode is a clone of the terminal emulator rxvt, an X Window System terminal emulator which includes support for XFT and Unicode.
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Note
Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if LFS or dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the books.
Note
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 test suites, tests in bash and check which test raising this signal will fail.
Package Information
Download (HTTP): http://dist.schmorp.de/rxvt-unicode/Attic/rxvt-unicode-9.31.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 3d0ec83705c9b9ff301a4b9965b3cd9f
Download size: 860 KB
Estimated disk space required: 22 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU
rxvt-unicode Dependencies
Required
libptytty-2.0 and a graphical environment
Optional
gdk-pixbuf-2.42.10 (for background images) and startup-notification-0.12
Installation of 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
Command Explanations
--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.
Configuring rxvt-unicode
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
EOFIn 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 -qFor that, you need desktop-file-utils-0.27 and at least one of gnome-icon-theme-3.12.0, oxygen-icons5-5.109.0 and lxde-icon-theme-0.5.1. Uncomment the line with “StartupNotify=true” if startup-notification-0.12 is installed.