urxvt

rxvt-unicode (commonly known as urxvt) is a modern, Unicode-aware, colour vt102 terminal emulator intended as an xterm replacement that uses significantly less memory than a conventional xterm and many other Unicode supporting terminal emulators.

It supports using multiple fonts at the same time, including Xft fonts, and client-server technology to reduce memory consumption when using multiple windows.

Unlike the original rxvt, rxvt-unicode stores all text in Unicode internally. That means it can store and display most scripts in the world.

Features include:

• Stores text in 16-bit Unicode (either UCS-2 or UCS-4)
• Uses locale-correct input, output and width
• Daemon mode: one daemon can open multiple windows on multiple displays, which improves memory usage and startup time considerably
• Embedded perl, for endless customization and improvement opportunities, such as:
  • Tabbed terminal support
  • Regex-driven customisable selection that can properly select shell arguments, urls etc
  • Selection-transformation and option popup menus
  • Automatically transforming the selection once made
  • Incremental scrollback buffer search
  • Automatic URL-underlining and launching
  • Remote pastebin, digital clock, block graphics to ascii filter and whatever you like to implement
• Crash-free
• Completely flicker-free
• Transparency
• Re-wraps long lines instead of splitting or cutting them on resizes
• Full combining character support
• Multiple fonts supported at the same time
• FreeType font support
• Supports Xft and core fonts in any combination
• Can easily be embedded into other applications
• All documentation accessible through manpages
• Locale-independent XIM support
• Many small improvements, such as improved and corrected terminfo, improved secondary screen modes, italic and bold font support, tinting and shading
• Encapsulation of privileged operations in a separate process (improves security)
• Optimised for local and remote connections

Last Updated Monday, February 06 2012 @ 03:43 AM EST