RXVT-Unicode Features

rxvt-unicode is a customizable terminal emulator forked from rxvt. Features of rxvt-unicode include international language support through Unicode, transparency, the ability to display multiple font types and support for Perl extensions.

I have always liked rxvt because it has a very simple UI and its configurable using .Xresources. It supports Nerd fonts and Powerline fonts.

Nerd Fonts

TABS

The best feature that I like is the presence of tabs

Key	Description
Shift+Down	New tab
Shift+Left	Go to left tab
Shift+Right	Go to right tab
Ctrl+Left	Move tab to the left
Ctrl+Right	Move tab to the right
Ctrl+d	Close tab

Fonts

You can also change font size on the fly

The default key bindings are

• Ctrl++ (or Ctrl+Shift+=) to increase size
• Ctrl+- to decrease size
• Ctrl+= to reset size
• Ctrl+? to see current size

Navigate URLS

You can also navigate URLS

Key	Description
Alt+u	Enter selection mode. The last URL on your screen will be selected. You can repeat Alt+u to select the next upward URL.
k	Select next upward URL
j	Select next downward URL
Return	Open selected URL in browser and quit selection mode
o	Open selected URL in browser without quitting selection mode
y	Copy (yank) selected URL and quit selection mode
Esc	Cancel URL selection mode

All of this is well documented here

BTW, I made the videos using byzanz. You do have to provide the coordinates of the screen to use the tool. For that I used the XdoTool (Available as a native package in the arch repo)

simply place the cursor on the screen and run

xdotool getmouselocation –shell

and then

byzanz-record –x=x-cord –y=y-cord –width=xxx –height=xxx –duration=15 sample.gif to create the GIF animation.

My .Xresources file can be found here

Note: You will have to install the perl extensions to get these features for RXVT.

Daemonize RXVT

Tip: Consider running urxvtd as a daemon accepting connections from urxvtc clients.

Stick this in your .xinitrc

urxvtd -q -o -f &

Followed by 

bindsym $mod+Return exec urxvtc &

In your I3 Config file