diff --git a/.Xresources b/.Xresources
index ce889df1..f9fd2703 100644
--- a/.Xresources
+++ b/.Xresources
@@ -84,13 +84,27 @@ URxvt.color15 : white
 !!==============================================================================
 !! Xterm
 
+xterm*termName: xterm-256color
+xterm*locale: true
+
 ! XTerm*charClass: 33:48,36-47:48,58-59:48,61:48,63-64:48,95:48,126:48
 ! xterm.font:              xft:Dina:pixelsize=18
 ! xterm*font       : -*-dejavu sans-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
 xterm*faceName:DejaVu Sans Mono:pixelsize=14
 
 !! Make Meta-* bindings work.
-*VT100.eightBitInput: false
+xterm*eightBitInput: false
+
+!! Fix the backspace key
+xterm*backarrowKey: false
+xterm*ttyModes: erase ^?
+
+xterm*saveLines: 4096
+
+xterm*selectToClipboard: true
+
+xterm*charClass: 33:48,36-47:48,58-59:48,61:48,63-64:48,95:48,126:48
+xterm*on3Clicks: regex ([[:alpha:]]+://)?([[:alnum:]!#+,./=?@_~-]|(%[[:xdigit:]][[:xdigit:]]))+
 
 xterm*background: black
 xterm*foreground: white
@@ -110,4 +124,3 @@ xterm*color12 : #1e90ff
 xterm*color13 : magenta
 xterm*color14 : cyan
 xterm*color15 : white
-
diff --git a/.bashrc b/.bashrc
index baeb8615..f42ebe8b 100644
--- a/.bashrc
+++ b/.bashrc
@@ -4,27 +4,6 @@
 ## Shell-independant code: everything we set here must be exported before we run
 ## our favorite shell.
 
-## Terminal
-## WARNING: This is often a bad idea!
-## FreeBSD urxvt $TERM variable is not set properly for some reasons.
-# if [ ! "$(uname -o)" = "GNU/Linux" ]; then
-# 	case "$TERM" in
-# 	*rxvt*) export TERM="rxvt-unicode-256color";;
-# 	esac
-# fi
-## Most xterm-based terminals support 256 colors, so let's turn this on.
-# if [ "$TERM" = "xterm" ]; then
-# 	export TERM="xterm-256color"
-# fi
-## Title: If this is an xterm set the title to user@host:dir
-#case "$TERM" in
-#xterm*|rxvt*)
-#    PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD/$HOME/~}\007"'
-#    ;;
-#*)
-#    ;;
-#esac
-
 ## Enable color support of ls.
 if [ "$TERM" != "dumb" ]; then
 	if [ "$OSTYPE" = "linux-gnu" ]; then
diff --git a/.xprofile b/.xprofile
index 99bd3ea5..21b3dfa5 100644
--- a/.xprofile
+++ b/.xprofile
@@ -6,13 +6,19 @@ for i in qutebrowser dwb luakit chromium google-chrome; do
 	command -v $i >/dev/null 2>&1 && export BROWSER=$i && break
 done
 
-## X resources for URxvt et al.
-[ -f "$HOME/.Xresources" ] && xrdb -merge "$HOME/.Xresources"
+## X resources for xterm, rxvt et al.
+# [ -f "$HOME/.Xresources" ] && xrdb -merge "$HOME/.Xresources"
 ## Dynamic values. We could have defined the value from a variable in
 ## .Xresources which we would have set with the preprocessor. But the login
 ## manager may merge after sourcing this file without setting the preprocessor
 ## variable, thus overwriting the value with the variable name.
-echo "URxvt.url-select.launcher: $BROWSER" | xrdb -merge
+cat <<EOF | xrdb -merge
+URxvt.url-select.launcher: $BROWSER
+
+*VT100*translations: #override Ctrl Meta <KeyPress> U: exec-formatted("$BROWSER '%t'", CLIPBOARD) \n\
+	Shift <KeyPress> Up:scroll-back(1,line,m) \n\
+	Shift <KeyPress> Down:scroll-forw(1,line,m)
+EOF
 
 ## Load custom keymap and configure input devices.
 xkbcomp -I"$HOME/.xkb" "$HOME/.xkb/usim.xkb" $DISPLAY