Urxvt

rxvt-unicode (urxvt for short) is a clone of the rxvt terminal emulator. It is packaged for just about every major GNU/Linux and BSD distribution, and it's an excellent terminal emulator, lightweight and fast, as its name suggests it has full unicode support and it's fully extendable with Perl. Some of the Perl extensions distributed with urxvt add tabs, quake-like terminal behaviour, clipboard integration, clickable URL's... You can find some tips for using rxvt-unicode and awesome on the Urxvt tips wiki page.


 * NOTE: If you often work on remote hosts with SSH that don't have urxvt installed you can scp your local terminfo entry for rxvt-unicode to the "~/.terminfo/r" directory.

In order to get the most out of urxvt, you will want to modify its X resources. You can configure them in your .Xdefaults file. Here is an example to get you started:

! General !urxvt*termName: rxvt-256color urxvt*loginShell:        true urxvt*scrollBar:        false urxvt*secondaryScroll:   true urxvt*saveLines:        65535 urxvt*cursorBlink:      false urxvt*urgentOnBell:      true !urxvt*override-redirect:false !urxvt*borderLess:      false !urxvt*internalBorder:      0 !urxvt*externalBorder:      0 ! Extensions urxvt*perl-lib:       /usr/lib/urxvt/perl/ urxvt*perl-ext-common: default,matcher,searchable-scrollback urxvt*urlLauncher:    /usr/bin/firefox urxvt*matcher.button: 1 ! - catch ugly URLs urxvt.cutchars:       `'*<>[]{|}"  ! Appearance  !  - use a bitmap font  urxvt*font:        -xos4-terminus-medium-*-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*  urxvt*boldFont:    -xos4-terminus-bold-*-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*  !  - use xft for drawing fonts  !urxvt*font:       xft:Terminus:8  !  - cursor  urxvt*cursorColor: #DCDCCC  !  - pseudo transparency  !urxvt*shading:    50  !urxvt*transparent:true  !  !  - color scheme  urxvt.background:  #000000  urxvt.foreground:  #EBEBFF  ! black + red  !urxvt*color0:     #3f3f3f  urxvt*color0:      #000000  urxvt*color1:      #e01010  ! green + yellow  urxvt*color2:      #00AA00  urxvt*color3:      #FFFF00  ! blue + purple  urxvt*color4:      #112037  urxvt*color5:      #A020F0  ! cyan + white  urxvt*color6:      #5B5BC7  urxvt*color7:      #fefefe  ! bright-black + bright-red  urxvt*color8:      #6a6a6a  urxvt*color9:      #FF5555  ! bright-green + bright-yellow  urxvt*color10:     #90EE90 urxvt*color11:    #ffff2f ! bright-blue + bright-purple urxvt*color12:    #5B5BC7 urxvt*color13:    #e628ba ! bright-cyan + bright-white urxvt*color14:    #7D7DFB urxvt*color15:    #ffffff