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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; 23 years ago (2001-11-01) |
| Preview release | 2.7.10 / March 26, 2003; 21 years ago (2003-03-26) |
| Type | Terminal emulator |
| License | GPL-2.0-or-later |
| Website | rxvt |
Rxvt (acronym for our extendedvirtualterminal)[1] is aterminal emulator for theX Window System, and in the form of aCygwin port, forWindows.
Rxvt was originally written by Rob Nation[2] and later extensively modified by Mark Olesen, who took over maintenance for several years. It is intended to be a slimmed-down alternate forxterm, omitting some of its little-used features, likeTektronix 4014 emulation andtoolkit-style configurability. The latter refers to the Xt resource mechanism, e.g., for binding keys. Rxvt is an extended version of the older xvt terminal emulator by John Bovey of theUniversity of Kent.
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).
Aside from features such as those controlled by resource files,rxvt's terminal emulation differs fromxterm in two important ways:
Newer versions of rxvt have primitive support forpseudo-transparency.
The rxvt distribution also includes an analog clock program called rclock. Very old distributions included a copy ofvttest, but dropped that in 1996 with version 2.18.
