rxvt
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Original author(s) | Rob Nation |
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Developer(s) | rxvt project |
Stable release | 2.6.4
/ November 1, 2001 |
Preview release | 2.7.10
/ March 26, 2003 |
Type | Terminal emulator |
License | GPL-2.0-or-later |
Website | rxvt |
Rxvt (acronym for our extended virtual terminal)[1] is a terminal emulator for the X Window System, and in the form of a Cygwin port, for Windows.
History
Rxvt was originally written by Rob Nation
The name originally stood for "Rob's xvt" (with XVT stands for 'X Virtual Terminal'),[2] but was later re-dubbed "our xvt" (pronounced like the letters r-x-v-t).
Features
Aside from features such as those controlled by resource files, rxvt's terminal emulation differs from xterm in two important ways:
- It emulates a VT102, rather than a VT220. That means that it handles 8-bit data differently, does not implement the C1 controls that xterm does. xterm does implement a switch "-k8"[3] to suppress that functionality; rxvt does not provide an option to emulate a VT220.
- The strings sent for function keys are different. xterm sends strings that are encoded using the same rules as the ANSI/ISO escape sequences. Rxvt's do not, though they provide comparable flexibility in this area.
Newer versions of rxvt have primitive support for pseudo-transparency.
The rxvt distribution also includes an analog clock program called rclock. Very old distributions included a copy of vttest, but dropped that in 1996 with version 2.18.
Forks
- aterm (from rxvt 2.4.8) created for use with the AfterStep window manager (no longer maintained)
- Eterm (from rxvt 2.21) created for use with Enlightenment
- mrxvt (from rxvt 2.7.11) created for multiple tabs and additional features (latest version released in 2008-09-10)
- urxvt (rxvt-unicode) (from rxvt 2.7.11)[4]
- Wterm,[5] designed for NeXTSTEP style window managers such as Window Maker[6]
See also
References
- ^ "Welcome to RXVT". Retrieved February 23, 2016.
- ^ a b "Linux Journal Interviews Robert Nation". Linuxjournal.com. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
- ^ Thomas E. Dickey. "XTERM- Change Log - Patch #175 - 2003/3/9 - XFree86 4.3.0".
- ^ urxvt(1) - Linux man page
- ^ Wterm(1) man
- ^ Wterm - The Lightweight Feature-Rich Terminal Emulator for X
External links
- rxvt on SourceForge
- "rxvt". Freecode.