Posts tagged ‘rxvt-unicode’

How to have a lightweight, beautiful, functional terminal

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I’ve done a lot over the past few months to make my time spent on the command line a bit more enjoyable and easier to use.  Hopefully you’ll find these steps useful as well.

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Get rxvt-unicode with 256 color support on Ubuntu

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rxvt-unicode (commonly called urxvt) already has 88 color support, and for most things, this is fine. But sometimes you just want a tad more, maybe for vim color themes.

So here’s my build log of compiling rxvt-unicode with the 256 color patch on Ubuntu Hardy, and debianizing (packaging) it.

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