rxvt (acronym for our extended virtual terminal) is a terminal emulator for the X Window System
Questions tagged [rxvt]
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How do I change rxvt colors to white on black?
By default, on Ubuntu, rxvt terminal is black on white. How do I change it to white on black? I'm running Lubuntu 16.04 LTS
Nickolai Leschov
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How would I configure my font to be bolder?
I'm in a bit of dilemma here. I'm using Urxvt as my terminal Fantasque Sans Mono as my font. Here's the result: The regular version is just too skinny for me. So I configured Urxvt to use the bold style: Now it's too bold for my taste. Is there any…
menixator
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rxvt-unicode doesn't display unicode characters
I do not understand why rxvt-unicode doesn't display some Unicode characters correctly such as ☁ or ☂ while ⚡ is displayed correctly. These symbols are replaced by a little box as you can see in the screenshot: Here's my locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8…
random.cpp
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Full font hinting for urxvt in Ubuntu 19.04?
I'm running 19.04 and I followed Full font hinting not working in Ubuntu 18.04 to enable full font hinting. It works for graphical applications such as Chromium, but not my terminal (urxvt). How do I enable full font hinting for urxvt? Edit: Here is…
jth
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Unicode Characters aren't working on urxvt terminal
I want to change my terminal from gnome to urxvt. But there are some issues in urxvt that I cannot resolve. I use vifm for my terminal file manager. Vifm looks different when I am in urxvt. This is what it looks like when I am in gnome-terminal. And…
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Where to place rxvt extensions?
I've trying to configure my rxvt-unicode so I need to know where to place extensions for it. I've tried this folder: ~/.urxvt/ext/ and properly configured my ~/.Xdefaults but no luck. Looks I should use some another folder but what the folder?
JavaRunner
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Got syntax error when setupping powerline theme
I am taking example from this bash.rc file to apply this to my shell: #======================================================================# # .bashrc # Fichero de opciones del shell bash # # Electro7 # 23 sep 2019 # Versión común - WSL, debian y…
Leon
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How to launch terminal + cal command?
I have an issue in which I was unable to find a solution till now. While I use several scripts to launch specific commands through URXvt: #!/bin/sh urxvt -geometry 40x20+990+30 -w 0 -b 0 -e nmtui when I try to launch the same window with cal command…
Giorgos_Kappa
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How can I auto-close an urxvt terminal after executing an expect script?
I've written a script to handle quick copying of passwords to the clipboard: #!/usr/bin/expect -f spawn -noecho zsh expect "$ " send "pass show -c " interact exit This script is launched like this: urxvt -e /home/user/pass_script.sh The script runs…
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Enable dead key usage in urxvt
I'm able to normaly use dead keys over the whole system. FYI I live in Brazil and we use accented letters, as in é á ó ã õ. We need dead key support for this as we type first the accent key " ´ " and then the proper key " a " to get and á It doesn't…
Leo Zerino
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urxvt isn't launching with the tmux as a startup command
Previously this line was working and was launching the urxvt with a tmux in it: urxvt -e tmux … but after my latest install of 18.04.1 Ubuntu it's not launching any more. urxvt version is v9.22 . I've got it successfully started with those command…
KhaimovMR
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