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Rxvt is a terminal emulator for the X Window System, originally written by Rob Nation and later extensively modified by Mark Olesen, who took over maintenance for several years. It is intended to be a slimmed-down replacement for xterm, omitting some of its little-used features, like Tektronix 4014 emulation. Rxvt is an extended version of the older xvt terminal emulator by John Bovey of the University of Kent at Canterbury. The name originally stood for "Robert's xvt", but was later re-dubbed "our xvt" (pronounced like the letters r-x-v-t).

Newer versions of rxvt have primitive support for pseudo-transparency.

The Rxvt distribution also includes an analog clock program called rclock.

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