Mrxvt (previously named as materm) is a lightweight and powerful multi-tabbed X terminal emulator based on the popular rxvt and aterm. It implements many useful features seen in some modern X terminal emulators, like gnome-terminal and konsole, but keep to be lightweight and independent from the GNOME and KDE desktop environment. The following are the major features of mrxvt (* are new features compared with rxvt, + are enhanced features compared with rxvt):
* multi-tab support
* runtime dynamic tab title
* session support for each tab
* input broadcasting for all tabs
* user configurable keyboard shortcuts
* translucent window support
. pseudo-transparent background per terminal
* pseudo-transparent scrollbar/menubar/tabbar
* background color tinting
* color text shadow
* off-focus background fading
+ NeXT/rxvt/xterm/SGI/plain style scrollbar
+ user supplied background image per terminal (jpeg/png/xpm)
* user supplied background image for scrollbar/menubar/tabbar (jpeg/png/xpm)
. only depends on X, no GTK, no Qt
. small and fast
* freetype font (xft)
+ XIM and multi-languages (Chinese/Korea/Japanese) suppport
. multiple platforms
. utmp/wtmp/lastlog logging
Please read the README and README.configure for more details about mrxvt and its features.

Jun 08, 2006. You can help! We've installed a Wiki for mrxvt. We need help migrating content from the current website to the wiki. We also need help adding new content to the wiki. If you have some really cool tip / trick you use with mrxvt, then the wiki is the place for it. If you found a work around some really ugly problem with mrxvt, then share your knowledge :). To avoid spam, currently wiki is protected by password. If you want to contribute to the wiki, please ask us for setting up an account and password. Thank you for your support!

Apr 09, 2006. Mrxvt version 0.5.0 is released! After active development by our new leading developer Gautam Iyer for more than three month, we hereby present you this newest and best ever release of mrxvt. This release has significantly improved performance and further reduced resource usage even though mrxvt's footprint was already very small. New features include but is not limited to: better and intelligent tabbar apperance, full screen mode, new powerful macros (replacing hotkeys), XRender alphablending, popup menus, etc. Numerious bugs have been fixed as well. Please test it out and send us bug reports, comments, suggestions, and of course patchs.
Notice: If you do not find the configure script in the source tarball, it means that you have downloaded the old tarball. Our apologies to forget to generate it. Please download the new tarball again.

Jan 26, 2006. We have got a new developer! Let us welcome Gautam Iyer to the development team and applaud his wonderful contributions to the project! For the new code in progress, please check out our CVS repository.

Nov 14, 2005. Mrxvt version 0.4.2 is released! This is a bug fix release with lots of fixes. Sorry I did not have much time to devote to the development of mrxvt in the past months. So the new features, like UTF-8, are still not available. If you are willing to help on the development, please do not hesitate to let me know!

May 02, 2005. Mrxvt version 0.4.1 is released! This release fix lots of bugs! No new features are introduced.

Apr 19, 2005. It has been a while since 0.4.0, and some of you might wonder about the status of the project. This project is not dead! I am still fixing bugs, and planning new features. The updates are slow due to my recent busy schedule. Please be a little patient, and thank you all for the supports!

Feb 25, 2005. Mrxvt version 0.4.0 is released! This is a long awaited stable release since there have been no more bug reports recently. ;-) This release fixes several minor bugs.

Old news

Here is one screen shot of mrxvt-0.5.0 with many tabs, a scroll-bar and showing a popup menu:

Here are a few screenshots of the older versions (0.4.x) of mrxvt. Click an image to enlarge it.

mrxvt windows with different features		transparent mrxvt with 10 tabs		mrxvt with transparent scrollbar and red tinting		mrxvt with freetype font and bottom tabbar		mrxvt with Chinese font and text shadow