Questions tagged [rxvt]
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urxvt: how to scroll terminal output / hide mouse pointer
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…
Emanuel Berg
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urxvt Open new tab with the same current directory as the current tab
Whenever a new tab is opened in urxvt, the cwd(current working directory) is the default directory set in bashrc.
How to make the new tab to be opened at the cwd of the current tab?
ma08
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urxvt ~/.Xresources not reading/loading?
Yesterday I created a file called .Xresources, and I can't seem to get it to load into urxvt. I have tried pasting in stuff, and restarted the terminal, logged in and logged out, restarted my computer several times.
But I still have this white GUI.…
Cra
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Why is enabling 8 bit control sequences not recommended?
./configure --help: --enable-8bitctrls enable 8 bit control sequences (not recommended)
As far as I can tell, the only affected code is this part of src/command.C:
/*{{{ process non-printing single characters */
void…
Andrei Korshikov
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urxvt starts two processes
I've started using urxvt and noticed that it starts 2 PIDs each time opened. They are consecutive. I do not include bash.
ps
PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
21193 0.1 0.3 113368 29340 ? Ss 12:13 0:00…
Krackout
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Font selection for colored text
I'm trying to set the font of my urxvt terminal. It seems to be working fine for text with no colors, whereas colored text is displayed differently:
As you can see the colored upper-case letters have the same height as the x-height of the…
fredefox
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Can't force urxvt load font, no matter what (unable to load base fontset)
I want to urxvt load DejaVu Sans Mono for Powerline font, but it doesn't work with xft no matter what.
Excerpt from ~/.Xresources from my dotfiles
! this work
! URxvt.font: -*-dejavu sans mono-medium-r-*-*-0-*-*-*-*-*-koi8-u
! none of these -…
srghma
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Not fully transparent background on urxvt
I looked up several answers on StackExchange network, neither of them worked as I wanted.
I started using urxvt on Ubuntu instead of gnome-terminal, and wanted to configure it's look to be similar. I succeed with fonts, but can't beat transparent…
Lapshin Dmitry
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run sub-process of a urxvt perl extension in calling urxvt window
I am trying to write a rxvt-unicode perl extension to do what mrxvt PrintScreen does. I.e., the extension should pipe urxvt's contents to user-defined commands. The main purpose would be viewing urxvt's contents unwrapped in less -S.
Here are my…
EndlosSchleife
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Fixing title in rxvt application
I need to use the title (-title/-T) for a terminal app called cmus in rxvt. But, When I am running
urxvt -e cmus -T "cmus"
It opens and closes. cmus is a music player and it changes the title dynamically depending on the track so I'm finding it…
Galilean
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Controlling the highlight color
I setup rxvt-unicode and I also installed a plugin to do code folding.
The image above is of my terminal, you see the folds in the code the problem is that grey line, it's always that color and it clashes with my underlying text.
Other than that…
user1610950
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