! Nicer colours
URxvt.color0: #000000
-URxvt.color1: #A80000
-URxvt.color2: #00A800
-URxvt.color3: #A8A800
-URxvt.color4: #0000A8
-URxvt.color5: #A800A8
-URxvt.color6: #00A8A8
-URxvt.color7: #A8A8A8
-URxvt.color8: #000054
-URxvt.color9: #FF0054
-URxvt.color10: #00FF54
-URxvt.color11: #FFFF54
-URxvt.color12: #0000FF
-URxvt.color13: #FF00FF
-URxvt.color14: #00FFFF
+URxvt.color1: #BB0000
+URxvt.color2: #00BB00
+URxvt.color3: #BBBB00
+URxvt.color4: #0000BB
+URxvt.color5: #BB00BB
+URxvt.color6: #00BBBB
+URxvt.color7: #BBBBBB
+URxvt.color8: #555555
+URxvt.color9: #FF5555
+URxvt.color10: #55FF55
+URxvt.color11: #FFFF55
+URxvt.color12: #5555FF
+URxvt.color13: #FF55FF
+URxvt.color14: #55FFFF
URxvt.color15: #FFFFFF
-! Partial transparency
-URxvt.background: white
-URxvt.foreground: black
+! Partial transparency for a dark on light terminal
+URxvt.background: #FFFFFF
+URxvt.foreground: #000000
URxvt.inheritPixmap: True
-URxvt.tintColor: black
+URxvt.tintColor: #000000
URxvt.shading: -10
-! urxvt behaves identically to xterm-color and a lot more programs know about
-! xterm-color, so we fake it
+! Partial transparency for a light on dark terminal
+!URxvt.background: #000000
+!URxvt.foreground: #BBBBBB
+!URxvt.inheritPixmap: True
+!URxvt.tintColor: #FFFFFF
+!URxvt.shading: 10
+
+
+! This option sets the TERM environment variable:
+! TERM=rxvt-unicode won't work because systems don't have a terminfo file for
+! TERM=xterm because different systems have inconsistent terminfo files for it
+! (differing ideas about what xterm sends as backspace)
+! TERM=xterm-color works well with the few key fixes below
URxvt.termName: xterm-color
-! Make the home key work
+! Make the keys behave like the xterm-color terminfo says they should
URxvt.keysym.Home: \033[1~
URxvt.keysym.End: \033[4~
+URxvt.backspacekey: ^H
+URxvt.deletekey: \033[3~
! Scrollback buffer
URxvt.saveLines: 8192