Rxvt on windows

Thanks for this post. With a little experimentation, I was able to get rxvt looking exactly mintty and I can use nano in rxvt. With the info you provided, I was able to experiment with the command line parameters of rxvt, along with a. Xdefaults file, to make rxvt native look exactly like mintty. This is nice, because I can't run nano under mintty but can under rxvt. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password.

Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog. Podcast Making Agile work for data science. Stack Gives Back Featured on Meta. New post summary designs on greatest hits now, everywhere else eventually. ConEmu wrapping WSL is too unstable for my liking. Powershell has no tabbing and is a memory hog. The less said about Command Prompt, the better.

He uses ConEmu which works for him but not me unfortunately. He also mentions using MobaXterm to run graphical Linux applications. MobaXterm is far more than just an X server so I looked for something more lightweight. Xming looked good and seemed to work well in my initial experiments. Xdefaults and add these configuration lines:. After relaunching, you have a tab index at the top of your terminal. The default entries are [NEW] and 1. These entries are clickable. You can click the [NEW] entry to open a new tab, and you can click on a number to switch to that tab.

There are many more Perl extensions that you can and should try. Most terminals don't act very much like text editors, even though that's pretty much what they look like. For instance, if you start a command such as echo ello and then decide that you meant to type hello , you can't just click on the e to send your cursor there for a quick edit. The rxvt terminal changes that.

The way rxvt accomplishes this is by calculating and then issuing the number of cursor-left or cursor-right keypresses required for the cursor to change its location. The result is an experience familiar to anyone who's ever used any text editor, and it's a small and quick convenience that you'll come to appreciate even if you don't use it all the time after all, it does require your fingers to move away from your keys.

There are more features in rxvt than the ones listed here. The way to find them is to use rxvt as your terminal and look for ways to solve the things that annoy you about working in a terminal or working with an old "out-dated" one like rxvt.

You'll be surprised at what you find. Thanks, I thought that was actually useful and insightful. All too often these I use XYZ articles tell you nothing, this at least had some useful tips and ideas.

Hi Seth, thanks for sharing. I wasn't aware rxvt was customizable to this extent. It looks pretty good and able to streamline to a specific user's needs. I will definitely try out the tips you mentioned. My worry with rxvt is that last I checked, it wasn't updated or maintained anymore.

My worry is that a vulnerability or vulnerability chain can be used in combination with rxvt to pose a security threat. Using something that is no longer updated or maintained seems like too big of a risk to me. How do you feel about that, is that a reasonable thing for me to be concerned about? The last time I looked at the rxvt source code, it was last updated a very long time ago. For that reason, I went back to gnome-terminal. Terminator seems to have a similar issue. However, you're right; there's not much by way of rigorous secturity auditing.

To be honest, though, I'm not too concerned about the quality of the cade, as it's proven to be pretty robust and pretty simple it's a pretty bare wrapper around whatever shell it's providing.

Given my use case running it as a terminal on my local machine behind the network's firewall and behind my computer's local firewall , I feel it's a relatively safe bet.