Terminal – Lightweight Replacement for `rxvt-unicode`

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I am currently using rxvt-unicode as a terminal emulator. Since I also like the configurability of terminal emulators from GNOME and KDE, I wonder whether there is some kind of replacement for rxvt-unicode with more features but not as many dependencies as the GNOME or KDE terminals.

Specifically, I am interested in the following:

Tabs
Font size changes on the fly (via CTRL++ or something similar)
UTF-8 support (OK, urxvt already has this, obviously)
Possibility to open a new tab/new window at the current directory

Best Answer

No, but: rxvt-unicode has tab support.

Add this to your .Xdefaults/.Xresources:

urxvt.perl-ext-common: default,tabbed

I also like to disable the 'selection' perl extension so that it is possible to triple-click-and-drag to select multiple complete lines (as in xterm). Then your .Xdefaults would look like this:

urxvt.perl-ext-common: default,tabbed,-selection

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Increase font size in rxvt-unicode without editing ~/.Xdefaults

From the man page:

CHANGING FONTS Changing fonts (or font sizes, respectively) via the keypad is not yet supported in rxvt-unicode. Bug me if you need this.

   You can, however, switch fonts at runtime using escape sequences,

e.g.:

      printf '\e]710;%s\007' "9x15bold,xft:Kochi Gothic"

   You can use keyboard shortcuts, too:

      URxvt.keysym.M-C-1: command:\033]710;suxuseuro\007\033]711;suxuseuro\007
      URxvt.keysym.M-C-2: command:\033]710;9x15bold\007\033]711;9x15bold\007

   rxvt-unicode will automatically re-apply these fonts to the output so

far.

Depending on the shell you use you could assign those to keyboard shortcuts. In zsh you could define a shell function and use bindkey to bind it to an alt-key for example.

Configurable tab-bar, or rich-featured terminal emulator

I'd recommend terminal emulator like urxvt, which has daemon-client version which allows opening new windows in instant, and many other features (but no tabs), and tiling window manager like i3 (the layout you want is called stacking, and most tiling WMs support it, in addition to tiling and tabbed).

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Increase font size in rxvt-unicode without editing ~/.Xdefaults

Configurable tab-bar, or rich-featured terminal emulator

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