How to have a lightweight, beautiful, functional terminal

"Install 256-color support for rxvt-unicode (urxvt) in Ubuntu or Arch.

"In Ubuntu I have instructions here.

"In Arch, you can grab the rxvt-unicode-256color from AUR.

"Or if you wish just continue on with xterm which should work nicely out of the box.

"To test it out, use this 256colors2.pl script(you must right click and Save Link As in order to access the file). Download it, set it executable, open a fresh urxvt terminal, and run:

$ ./256colors2.pl

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