rxvt-unicode is clone of the familiar rxvt terminal emulator,
that partially supports unicode, with a lot of caveats. So
why bother?
(1) bugfixes. Upstream development of rxvt is dead. cygwin's
rxvt is moribund. rxvt-unicode is actively maintained.
(2) For cygwin-1.7, rxvt-unicode should be able to ACTUALLY
support unicode. Stay tuned for the rxvt-unicode-X-8.x
series for cygwin-1.7.
(3) Pretty. xft support. Styled text[*]. Looks cool with
inheritPixmap and xsri. (xft with antialias is a bit slower,
but not too bad on a fast machine, and you can go back to
non-antialias or plain old bitmap fonts if you're desperate).
(4) Lightweight. Has an optional client-server mode where all
client windows are part of the same process. Yes, it does
present a single-point-of-failure (but so does xwin!) -- but
I haven't had a problem yet.
(5) no need for run.exe: the standalone urxvt-X and the server
urxvtd-X will hide their console window themselves (using code
borrowed from inetutils). You still get a quickly dis-
appearing cmd box, which could be avoided by using run.exe,
but...)
This is a bug fix and feature enhancement release.
[[ compiled using gcc-3.4.4-999 ]]
This will most likely be the final rxvt-unicode-X update for the cygwin-1.5
distribution; future development will continue with rxvt-unicode-X-7.7-20
for cygwin-1.7.
CHANGES (from rxvt-unicode-X-7.7-6)
===========================
* Fix bug(s) in postinstall/preremove scripts
* Update setup.hint
* Recompile against latest (modular) X libraries
* Update postinstall/preremove scripts
* Update to build with stock cygport
* Use cygutils to create Start Menu shortcuts for
urxvtc-X (client)
urxvt-X (standalone)
There is no shortcut for the daemon urxvtd-X; you're
better off adding that to your X server startup script.
[*]
BoldItalic:
tput sitm ; tput bold ; echo 'hello, world!' ; tput sgr0
Italic:
tput sitm ; echo 'hello, world!' ; tput ritm
Bold:
tput bold ; echo 'hello, world!' ; tput sgr0
Fun prompt:
ITb=`tput sitm`
BDb=`tput bold`
NRM=`tput sgr0`
GRN="\[\e[32m\]"
YLW="\[\e[33m\]"
PS1="\[\e]0;\w\a\]\n$itb$bdb$grn\u$...@$grn\h $ITb$YLW\w$NRM\n\$ "
gives:
GreenBoldItalicUserName Def@ GreenNormalMachineName YellowItalicPath
--
Charles Wilson
volunteer rxvt-unicode-X maintainer for cygwin
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