I think the wiki page of mrxvt has a good summary: "It implements many useful features seen in some modern X terminal emulators (like gnome-terminal and konsole) but aims to be fast, lightweight and independent of standard toolkits or desktop environments (e.g. Gnome / KDE)."
Features
** Multi-tab support
** Run time changeable per-tab titles / backgrounds / colors.
** Session support for each tab
** Input broadcasting to all tabs
** Customizable keyboard shortcuts
** Translucency and pseudo transparency support
** JPEG / PNG / XPM background support
** Off-focus background fading
** Xft support.
• Text shadow
• Menubar / popup menus
** XIM and multi-language (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) support.
• Five different scroll bar styles
** Small and fast.
** Does not depend on GTK / Qt / Gnome / KDE.
** Available on multiple platforms.
** utmp/wtmp/lastlog logging
Personally, I do not care much about menubar/popup menus. It is too
primitive from today’s point of view. Losing this feature is not a
big deal for me. And for different style of scroll bar styles, I
probably would only keep two (xterm style and probably another one
that looks modern ;)). Text shadow is also optional. Except these,
I’d keep the rest (marked by **). That’s it from my point of view
the requirements of mrxvt.
And new features would be utf8, better copy & paste support.
Thanks,
Jingmin
On Jun 1, 2015, at 7:29, David Morris <otha...@othalan.com> wrote:
> I suppose, the real question is: what are the requirements mrxvt was
> developed around?
>
> Is being self contained to the extent possible one of the original
> design requirements or is that an artifact of something else such as
> maintaining high performance as was suggested earlier?
>
> Speaking of requirements, has anyone ever written down requirements
> for mrxvt or has it grown organically?
>
> Thank you for your thoughts on all of this!
>
> David
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