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(on Wikipedia)
http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode.html

A nice light terminal emulator. A Unicode-capable version of rxvt.

When I learned that aterm does not support unicode, I went looking for its replacement. It suggested rxvt-unicode, so here I am. See Unicode VGA font for the font I ended up using.

• aka urxvt

• It is not tabbed, use one of the /tag/terminal-multiplexers (I currently use this one).

  • Okay, technically it's tabbed with the "tabbed" perl extension:
    \urxvt -pe tabbed

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• http://pod.tst.eu/http://cvs.schmorp.de/rxvt-unicode/doc/rxvt.1.pod
• \man 7 urxvt or view the man page online

• TODO ~/.Xresources has bunches of configuration done.. and the clipboard stuff has to be removed or figured out for Slackware 14.1

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• 2019-02-25 - I switched to QTerminal
• 2016-03-29 - 9.21 on Slackware 14.1
• 2016-03-26 - 9.19 on Lubuntu 14.04.4 LTS
• 2014-06-04 - 9.19 on Lubuntu 14.04
• 2007-08-20 - (version not recorded) on (distribution not recorded)
• I had been using this for some time.

• (date not recorded) - I had been using aterm

2016-03-29 - 9.21 ∞

See Unicode VGA font for my font changes.

• ~/.Xdefaults is now ~/.Xresources. My file, with extensive urxvt configuration, is found on github.

• //TODO - I need to figure out my extensions. I can see things explode with:

\xrdb  -load ~/.Xresources ; \urxvt

• Some files are not appearing correctly, as they have unusual fonts in them. My system can show them (revealed by charmap), so it's a SpaceFM (or dependency) issue.

  • This was my workaround for filenames to include a slash (/).
  • This problem also exists for SpaceFM
  • This worked as-expected for 2016-03-26 - 9.19. As I'm using the exact same Unicode VGA font, literally lifted from that Lubuntu install, I know this isn't a font issue.

2016-03-26 - 9.19 ∞

options: perl,xft,styles,combining,blink,iso14755,unicode3,encodings=eu+vn+jp+jp-ext+kr+zh+zh-ext,fade,transparent,tint,pixbuf,XIM,frills,selectionscrolling,wheel,slipwheel,smart-resize,cursorBlink,pointerBlank,scrollbars=plain+rxvt+NeXT+xterm

Installed with their repository.

2014-06-04 - 9.19 ∞

See Unicode VGA font for my font changes.

• TODO - There seem to be some sort of alt-commands that bring up a yellow bar at the bottom.

  • I think I disabled that in my ~/.Xdefaults anyway..
• While triple-clicking selects the whole current line, if I drag down to select the following lines, it begins the highlight from the original mouse-click position.

• Holy shit, I can resize the window and it will adjust the line wrapping!

Setting the font ∞

You can do it with -fn .. Here's an example:

\urxvtc  -fn '-*-fixed-medium-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*'

Get another font using xfontsel.

For my Unicode VGA font, I could find it with:

\xlsfonts | \grep  bolkhov

Tabbed ∞

Well I suppose this could be considered tabbed..

\urxvt  -pe tabbed

• TODO - Is there a way to use traditional hotkeys instead of clicking with the mouse?

• TODO - Is there a way to have the title used instead of tab numbers?

Change the title on directory change ∞

In Zsh, I did this:

precmd() {
  \print  -Pn "\e]2;%~\a"
}

Other changes (Xdefaults) ∞

1) Create ~/.Xdefaults or edit it if there is already one.

My ~/.Xdefaults can be found at https://github.com/spiralofhope/misc-configuration/tree/master/home-user--dotfiles/Xdefaults

2) Make sure .Xdefaults is being loaded when you start X.

For Openbox, I added this line in my ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh

\xrdb  -load ~/.Xdefaults

Others reported that adding that into their ~/.xsession worked for them. I have not tested this.

2007-08-20 - (version not recorded) ∞

• But it still doesn't display my international characters back from my Slackware days..

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