by schischa

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running deamonized

Just yesterday I presented my urxvt / rxvt-unicode config and promised to check out the deamon mode as it is saving ressources if you have lots of urxvt windows open and increases startup time to nearly zero.

To run urxvt deamonized you first need to start the deamon and fork it to the background with:

# urxvtd -q -f

after that simply start urxvt as client

# urxvtc

The startup options like tinting color and so on are the same as if you would start the “normal” urxvt session. Running urxvt deamonized has at least one big disadvantage: if the deamon is killed or crashes all terminal windows will be gone too as the deamon provides them. As I didn’t have a single urxvt crash the last year I would be heavily surprised if it happened now and will tell you immediately ;)
I suggest putting the urxvtd in the the startup configuration of your desktop environment or, if you aren’t using a complete one but only a wm like myself, to your .xinitrc.

little config update

I just decided to set all options in the Xdefaults and updatet it. There are _no_ options necessary any more for urxvt looking like that any more:

here the config file:

my Xdefaults