rxvt-unicode
rxvt-unicode is a clone of the well known terminal emulator rxvt, modified to store text in Unicode and to use locale-correct input and output. It also supports mixing multiple fonts at the same time, including Xft fonts, real transparency, and an optional embedded Perl interpreter that allows you to extend your terminal easily.
| Tags | Desktop Environment Software Development Internationalization Terminals Terminal Emulators/X Terminals Text Processing fonts Utilities |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | OS Independent POSIX Linux Unix |
| Implementation | C++ |
Recent releases
- 08 Nov 2008 19:19
Changes: This release fixes a load of minor bugs, such as memory leaks with libafterimage, correct adjusting of line length and wide characters on insert/delete/erase, a number of minor wide character problems, a problem with perl on HPPA systems, disabling mouse reporting on reset, and many others. There have also been some small feature enhancements, such as being able to specify an icon image, an upgrade of the embedded libev, an OSC sequence to change the border color, a new Perl extension "overlay-osc", clearing the urgency hint on focus out, and a few others.
- 15 Jun 2008 20:43
Changes: This release fixes a bug causing problems with many windows opened from urxvtd on non-Linux kernels, fixes a bug in handling multi-byte characters on some non-GNU/Linux systems, works around Fedora removing isastream, and works around buggy window managers a bit better in the tabbed extension. A lot of minor bugs have been fixed as well. On the feature side, tabs are now movable, there is a new --chdir option, a more rational clear-till-end-of-line command sequence, and some more minor improvements, especially with the tabbed extension.
- 25 Jan 2008 13:21
Changes: Calling urxvtc with illegal arguments will no longer crash urxvtd. Xft font drawing has been rewritten to be faster and more correct again (fixing the compose character corruption). The xterm bracketed paste mode extension has been implemented. The RENDER server extension is no longer required for transparency and background pixmaps. The documentation concerning alpha channels in colours has been improved, the "urxvt stays black until the first event arrives" bug has been fixed, and a number of minor cleanups and bugfixes have been implemented.
- 24 Dec 2007 02:59
Changes: Urxvtd will now close windows and clear the selection in a timely fashion instead of waiting for the next event. The terminfo file has been changed to use the same escape sequences for cursor keys at all times. Changing the root pixmap will now update the pixmap in urxvt again, instead of resulting in flickering after the change. The look of the right-hand-side xterm scrollbar has been fixed, and there were some minor improvements and reorganizations to the code.
- 15 Dec 2007 13:46
Changes: Libev was updated, working around a problem with the Linux 2.4 kernel and curing the problem of urxvt sometimes not refreshing in a timely fashion. The -C option now works as expected. The urxvtd will flush X events only once per display, not per open window. The slipwheeling behavior has been improved. Text blinking will no longer take miniscule amounts of CPU time when not used. There have been a lot of small code cleanups and code size optimizations.
- All comments
Recent commentsRe: Transparent Scrollbar
> as the scrollbar is already trasnparent
> - what are you missing?
ah - sorry dude - when did you add that?
future feature requests or bug reports
Future feature requests or bug reports on freshmeat are likely to be ignored by the rxvt-unicode author.
Better use <rxvt-unicode@lists.schmorp.de> for that.
If you don't intend to communicate with the author, feel free to use freshmeat, though :)
Re: Great work on v4.0
as screen has no way to turn on italic, i wonder how it can display it as reverse? please note that screen is a different terminal than rxvt-unicode and uses it's own set of control sequences.
it might be possible to maske screen learn italic, though. I am not sure.
Great work on v4.0
As the subject says the new version is simply fantastic, the increase in xft rendering speed is phenomenal as well, I can finally use transparency without any visible slowdown. The inclusion of bold and italic font support makes it without a doubt the best terminal emulator on my system.
The only problem I've seen so far is that italic and italic-bold text gets reverse-videoed when using GNU Screen, is this a Screen problem or have I not set urxvt up correctly?
Re: Bug reports
Indeed, it's better to contact the list or the author directly. Comments on freshmeat get overlooked easily, and certainly there will be no timely response on freshmeat.