Rxvt-unicode

Rxvt-unicode, known as urxvt is fast and lightweight terminal emulator.

Font
One can set the font par application per se like the following. {{file|~/.Xresources|| !-*-{ URxvt !-*- General settings -*- URxvt*termName:      rxvt-unicode-256color URxvt*font:          xft:terminus:size=8:antialias=false URxvt*allow_bold:    False }} Or else, set a font globaly for X applications.

Additionaly, one can tweak Xft settings.

Copy/Paste and URL handling
A perl module can be used to get copy/paste and URL handling capabilities. Addidionally, you will need either or  for copy/paste capabilities. One can grap the sources of a perl modules from muennich's github or an ebuild for example. Or either, get another perl module on the intertubes.

Here is an example of a `~/.Xressources'. The following lines can be added to `~/.Xdefault' of course instead. The actual prefered location is the previous oe.

Menu icon
This adds menu entry and menu icon for urxvt. If urxvt doesnt have a .desktop file, create one.

Application icon
For setting application icon urxvt has to be compiled with afterimage USE flag.