The mrxvt program is a

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for

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. It provides DEC VT102 compatible terminals. mrxvt is based on

rxvt Rxvt (acronym for our extended virtual terminal) is a terminal emulator for the X Window System, and in the form of a Cygwin port, for Windows. History Rxvt was originally written by Rob Nation and later extensively modified by Mark Olesen, who ...

version 2.7.11 CVS (in 2004), and features most of functionality of rxvt. Unlike rxvt, it provides multiple tabs. Like rxvt, mrxvt aims to be light, fast, flexible and does not depend on

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s like

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. The primary features of mrxvt include (but are not limited to) multiple tabs, dynamically changeable tab titles, customizable command for each tab, input broadcasting, fast

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with tinting, user supplied background images (XPM, JPEG, PNG), off-focus fading, text shadow, multiple style (

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Rxvt Rxvt (acronym for our extended virtual terminal) is a terminal emulator for the X Window System, and in the form of a Cygwin port, for Windows. History Rxvt was originally written by Rob Nation and later extensively modified by Mark Olesen, who ...

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, Plain) scrollbars, XIM, multi-language support (Chinese, Korean, Japanese), Freetype font and logging. mrxvt does not have

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support, though a Unicode version is in development. The latest released version of mrxvt, which was released in 2008, is vulnerable to , which can cause the terminal to crash. This vulnerability led to mrxvt being removed from the

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