rxvt-unicode: options I use
These are the most common options I use as a default terminal.
| option | purpose |
|---|---|
| -rv | Reverse video — black->white, white->black; changes the behavior of progams that care about dark and light terminals |
| -fade 75 | When the terminal window looses focus, this setting fades to the paramenter’s percentage of brightness |
| -ls | Start the shell as a login shell |
| +sb | Turn off the scrollbar |
| -bc | Blink the cursor |
| -ip (or -tr) | Turn off inheriting parent window’s pixmap … or “make transparent” |
| -tint [color] | Tint the window a color — useful when you use -tr and have many, many, many terminals |
e.g.
urxvtc -rv -fade 75 -ls +sb -bc -ip -tint brown