Two things that I miss in urxvt from xterm are:How do you scroll up and down with the keyboard? In xterm I used Shift + Page Up (or Down), but that doesn't work.A cool xterm feature is that when you type, the mouser pointer gets invisible. Anyway to get that in urxvt?
urxvt: how to scroll terminal output / hide mouse pointer
rxvt
Shift+PageUp (and PageDown)  works here, without any special settings...Have a look at man urxvt:pointerBlank: boolean   True: blank the pointer when a key is pressed or after a set number   of seconds of inactivity. False: the pointer is always visible   [default].[...]pointerBlankDelay: number   Specifies number of seconds before blanking the pointer [default   2]. Use a large number (e.g. 987654321) to effectively disable the   timeout.This could be what you're looking for.  (The man page also explains where to set these Xresource directives.)