The mrxvt program is a
terminal emulator for
X Window System. It provides
DEC VT102
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compatible terminals.
mrxvt is based on
rxvt 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
desktop environments like
GNOME
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or
KDE
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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
pseudo-transparency with tinting, user supplied background images (XPM, JPEG, PNG), off-focus fading, text shadow, multiple style (
NeXT,
Rxvt,
Xterm,
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, Plain) scrollbars,
XIM
The X Input Method (or XIM) was the original input method framework for the X Window System.
It predates IBus, Fcitx, SCIM, uim and IIIMF. The specification is published most recently in 1994 by (and copyright held by) the X Consortium. Although ...
, multi-language support (Chinese, Korean, Japanese),
Freetype font and logging.
mrxvt does not have
Unicode 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
OpenBSD
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ports collection.
See also
*
List of terminal emulators
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Character-oriented te ...
References
External links
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X Window programs
Free software programmed in C
Free terminal emulators