How to use the urxvt like VTE (Terminator)

[Marc Lehmann]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 01:41:45PM +0200, Jiri Polcar <polcar at physics.muni.cz> wrote:
> What did come to my mind is to implement Python VTE-like api to urxvt. A
> least methods that is used in the Terminator. It looks like a lot of
> work. My question is if someone can see a easier way how to connect the
> Terminator feature with urxvt.

rxvt-unicode has multiple features to help with this:

1. you can embed it using xembed (see doc/embed*)
2. you can pass fd's to urxvt and/or programs running inside
   (e.g. urxvt -hold -e sh -c 'cat <&5' 5</etc/passwd)
3. you can extend it with perl, which is embedded (man urxvtperl).

all those should allow you to communicate with anything inside urxvt from
outside, using a standard urxvt binary.

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