More software that rocks: rxvt-unicode

This one didn’t arrive on time for the previous post, so here it is now.

I’ve been meaning to find alternatives to Konsole for a bit now. I’ve always wanted the ability to click on URLs in my terminal emulator and have them open on my browser, which the Konsole in KDE3 can’t do. When I learnt that KDE4’s Konsole can, I ooh-ooh-ooh’ed and I gave it a try. But whilst KDE3’s Konsole is a very good application, amazing, even, I found KDE4’s to suck in a variety of ways, including speed. And then my quest began.

I gave rxvt-unicode a try yesterday, and so far I’m very satisfied. I quickly managed to configure it to my taste; it has tabs, which I can’t do without, and you can click on URLs as well. These two features are implemented via Perl extensions because, yes, rxvt is extendable with Perl. These two extensions are not very configurable, though, so in order to have the Next tab/Previous tab movements use my preferred keys, I had to edit the Perl source and place it under $HOME.