securitybreach Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 (edited) I have been trying to use the urxvt terminal terminal lately and have ran into some issues. Does anyone here use this terminal?If you have never heard of it, here is a description: rxvt-unicode is a highly customizable terminal emulator forked from rxvt. Commonly known as urxvt, rxvt-unicode can be daemonized to run clients within a single process in order to minimize the use of system resources. Developed by Marc Lehmann, some of the more outstanding features of rxvt-unicode include international language support through Unicode, the ability to display multiple font types and support for Perl extensions. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Urxvt I am trying to get my head around this terminal because the documentation and options are so vast. http://pod.tst.eu/http://cvs.schmorp.de/rx.../doc/rxvt.7.pod The man page is 1480 lines long........ Basically this terminal uses the file ~/.Xdefaults for its configuration:Here is my ~/.XdefaultsXcursor.theme: Neutralurxvt.font: xft:Terminus-8urxvt.perl-ext-common: default,matcher,tabbedURxvt.urgentOnBell: trueurxvt*termName: xtermurxvt*scrollBar: falseurxvt*saveLines: 8192urxvt*matcher.button: 3urxvt*urllauncher: firefoxurxvt.background: #cbd9e2urxvt.foreground: #22303durxvt*cursorColor: #6dacd8# blackurxvt*color0: #cbd9e2urxvt*color8: #666666# redurxvt*color1: #6dacd8urxvt*color9: #62aada# greenurxvt*color2: #315b81urxvt*color10: #477ea7# yellowurxvt*color3: #4282b0urxvt*color11: #62aada# blueurxvt*color4: #315b81urxvt*color12: #477ea7# magentaurxvt*color5: #4282b0urxvt*color13: #62aada# cyanurxvt*color6: #315b81urxvt*color14: #477ea7# whiteurxvt*color7: #22303durxvt*color15: #FFFFFF Right now urxvt is configured to go fullscreen and transparent. It works fine on my second monitor as I run gnuscreen in fullscreen mode but I am having to still use xfce4-terminal as my normal terminal since I cannot figure out how to resize urxvt. I would like to set it to go fullscreen when I hit F-11. I am clueless on how to do this though. I do not think it matters but I use OpenBox window manager. In OpenBox all apps go fullscreen with F-11, so its not a syntax issue there. So anyone have a clue or atleast some documentation or howtos in layman terms for urxvt?Thanks Edited March 22, 2009 by securitybreach Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted March 22, 2009 Author Share Posted March 22, 2009 Ok now I have it set where I can resize using alt-rightmouse drag which is ok. Although, I cannot get it transparent for some reason: URxvt*termName: rxvt ## borderless and no scrollbar URxvt*scrollBar_right: false URxvt*scrollBar: false URxvt*borderLess: urxvt*background: rgba:0000/0000/0000/dddd ## teh transparency stuff URxvt*inheritPixmap: true URxvt*tintColor: white URxvt*shading: 0 ## geometry and font URxvt*geometry: 84×24 URxvt*font:monospace:pixelsize=10 ## change default colors URxvt*background: #000000 URxvt*foreground: #A8A8A8 URxvt*color0: #000000 URxvt*color1: #A80000 URxvt*color2: #00A800 URxvt*color3: #A85400 URxvt*color4: #0000A8 URxvt*color5: #A800A8 URxvt*color6: #00A8A8 URxvt*color7: #A8A8A8 URxvt*color8: #545054 URxvt*color9: #F85450 URxvt*color10: #50FC50 URxvt*color11: #F2FC50 URxvt*color12: #5054F8 URxvt*color13: #F854F8 URxvt*color14: #50FCF8 URxvt*color15: #FFFFFFURxvt.perl-ext-common: default,matcherURxvt.urlLauncher: firefoxURxvt.matcher.button: 2URxvt.matcher.pattern.1: \\bwww\\.[\\w-]\\.[\\w./?&@#-]*[\\w/-] Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted March 22, 2009 Author Share Posted March 22, 2009 (edited) I got it: URxvt*borderLess: False In order to resize, I had to enable border, The reason I could not get transparency is that had to restart X for the ~/.Xdefaults to re-initalize.Yeah!! Nothing but urxvt now!!!!!!Thanks Edited March 22, 2009 by securitybreach Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 Looks like it has a lot of options . . . seems promising If you would want to start it a smaller size: geometry: geom Create the window with the specified X window geometry [default 80x24]; option -geometry. Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted March 22, 2009 Author Share Posted March 22, 2009 (edited) I just wanted the option of going fullscreen or windowed mode. I have it now where it is 84×24 by default and I can resize it to fullscreen by dragging. I think why it was going fullscreen only is that in my first .Xdefaults did not have these options: URxvt*geometry: 84×24 to window it URxvt*borderLess: False to allow resizingThanks Edited March 22, 2009 by securitybreach Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted March 22, 2009 Author Share Posted March 22, 2009 (edited) To remove the line around the border in urxvt, I unchecked the box "Windows retain a border when undecorated" in obconf (OpenBox configuration editor).Now it is set just like I had xfce4-terminal set, without the border and resizing by alt-rightmouse dragging. Except its alot more stable (xfce4-Terminal used to crash when changed preferences with curses-programs running) and uses way less resources than xfce4-terminal did. Plus I had to install a bunch of Xfce4 dependencies just to get the terminal whereas urxvt has no dependencies.Thanks Edited March 22, 2009 by securitybreach Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 Now it is set just like I had xfce4-terminal set, without the border and resizing by alt-rightmouse dragging. Great . . glad you have it the way you want it Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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