[arch-general] archlinux on old hardware

Dimitrios Apostolou jimis at gmx.net
Fri Sep 18 08:49:07 EDT 2009


On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Daenyth Blank wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 17:04, Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis at gmx.net> wrote:
>> The other is that I had trouble finding a truly lightweight X terminal
>> (there were times when xterm was considered bloated ;) so I packaged myself
>> rxvt. Most other distributions offer it so in case you decide to include it
>> I attach the PKGBUILD.
>
> rxvt is available in the AUR (which you can read about on the wiki).
> The repos have mrxvt and rxvt-unicode packaged as binaries.
>
Thanks for the tip, I didn't search the AUR. I assumed it was deprecated 
because of rxvt-unicode, which is much more heavyweight. Would the devs 
consider including it in extra? it's one of the simplest but most basic 
packages available.


Dimitris


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