Up until right now I’ve been using xterm. While it’s not the best of terms it does support 256 colors out of the box (and I don’t use fancy stuff like transparency/translucency). What it has been lacking however, and which Flo pointed out, was the support to make URLs clickable. This is an important feature, especially since I use mutt and slrn regularly, and my IRC-client is irssi, so the majority of links I’m interested in arrives in my terminal.

So I went looking for a term with clickable urls but also with 256-color-support and found rxvt-unicode (or short: urxvt), which is a fork of the original rxvt with unicode-support (duh!). To get 256 colors working you have to apply the urxvt-8.2-256color.patch in the doc subdirectory of the source.

`Up until right now I’ve been using xterm. While it’s not the best of terms it does support 256 colors out of the box (and I don’t use fancy stuff like transparency/translucency). What it has been lacking however, and which Flo pointed out, was the support to make URLs clickable. This is an important feature, especially since I use mutt and slrn regularly, and my IRC-client is irssi, so the majority of links I’m interested in arrives in my terminal.

So I went looking for a term with clickable urls but also with 256-color-support and found rxvt-unicode (or short: urxvt), which is a fork of the original rxvt with unicode-support (duh!). To get 256 colors working you have to apply the urxvt-8.2-256color.patch in the doc subdirectory of the source.

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To configure urxvt you can conveniently use your ~/.Xdefaults. Mine looks like this:

``Up until right now I’ve been using xterm. While it’s not the best of terms it does support 256 colors out of the box (and I don’t use fancy stuff like transparency/translucency). What it has been lacking however, and which Flo pointed out, was the support to make URLs clickable. This is an important feature, especially since I use mutt and slrn regularly, and my IRC-client is irssi, so the majority of links I’m interested in arrives in my terminal.

So I went looking for a term with clickable urls but also with 256-color-support and found rxvt-unicode (or short: urxvt), which is a fork of the original rxvt with unicode-support (duh!). To get 256 colors working you have to apply the urxvt-8.2-256color.patch in the doc subdirectory of the source.

`Up until right now I’ve been using xterm. While it’s not the best of terms it does support 256 colors out of the box (and I don’t use fancy stuff like transparency/translucency). What it has been lacking however, and which Flo pointed out, was the support to make URLs clickable. This is an important feature, especially since I use mutt and slrn regularly, and my IRC-client is irssi, so the majority of links I’m interested in arrives in my terminal.

So I went looking for a term with clickable urls but also with 256-color-support and found rxvt-unicode (or short: urxvt), which is a fork of the original rxvt with unicode-support (duh!). To get 256 colors working you have to apply the urxvt-8.2-256color.patch in the doc subdirectory of the source.

`

To configure urxvt you can conveniently use your ~/.Xdefaults. Mine looks like this:

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The nice side-effect is that urxvt is about 10 times faster than xterm (try it by cat-ing a large file and using ‘time’ to measure it).