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rxvt (acronym for our extended virtual terminal)[1] is a terminal emulator for the X Window System. It has many forks including rxvt-unicode (urxvt), mrxvt, etc.

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How can I set tmux vi-mode highlight color

Looking for a way to control text/cursor highlighting colors when in vi-mode in tmux. I can not seem to find many answers from googling around. I love tmux and use this feature quite a bit, and I have been living with this flaw for some time and…
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How do I figure out what font a running urxvt is using?

I found some escape codes for changing fonts in urxvt. I'd like to use these to dynamically change my font size. I've seen a few plugins that do this, but they're fairly opinionated about it and usually rely on a hardcoded list of fonts to toggle…
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How to stop rxvt from spacing fonts miles apart?

I installed the latest release of MinGW/MSYS, and I like to use rxvt terminal over the boring windows command prompt. But this new build spaces the letters too much: most fonts I have tried are messed up - even Courier New (ttf), Consolas (ttf), or…
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How do I change the colors displayed in cygwin rxvt?

When I print "\[\e[34m\]sometext" I get some text in blue, but can I specify the shade of blue somewhere?
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How do I enable history to record a here-document and its input?

When I use the command line I can recall history by using C-P or up arrow. However this does not work when trying to recall input to a here-document. # cat < a > b > c > ! a b c # cat <
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any way to get rxvt to recognize shift+tab?

I'm simply trying to get shift+tab to be a recognized key sequence during my rxvt terminal sessions. So I can map it to usefulness such as: bindkey "\e[Z" reverse-menu-complete But, based on my research, I'm pretty sure the answer is no. Just…
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zsh: up-line-or-history does not work in urxvt

up-line-or-history works well in gnome-terminal, but does not work after I switched to urxvt. I've tested this by explicitly calling this command in zsh (M-x in emacs mode). Can anyone give me a clue of why? I'm on Debian Jessie.
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PyQT(also C++ QT binding) embedded urxvt terminal loosing focus

I have problem with embedding urxvt terminal within QT application. Below is simplified code example. When i create a QT window and embed urxvt terminal inside(by using -embed parameter), i have a problem with focus. When the window is created, the…
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How to fix terminal emacs selection highlighting

I'm giving terminal emacs a go. I'm running it in mintty on Cygwin and rxvt on Ubuntu 12.04. I have a problem: selected text is too hard to read. Here's how the text looks in mintty with TERM=xterm (I use a slightly different mapping for blue to…
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MRXVT bash script to change tab title

I am not exactly a pro at BASH Scripting, but I can get by with the basics. I use MRXVT with Cygwin on my windows box (MRXVT is an RXVT Terminal with tabs. RXVT is a Standard Cygwin terminal, but with enhanced features). I found a command to change…
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No color scheme in tmux 2.1

if I echo $TERM from my terminal, I get rxvt-unicode-256color and tput colors shows 256. I like the custom color scheme that I have there as defined in my .Xresources file. However, when I launch tmux -2, things change. echo $TERM shows…
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Vim key maps act weird in urxvt

Recently I started to use & favor urxvt due to its vast amount of options and because of the transparency feature. Unfortunately, some key mapping in Vim do not work in urxvt. For example, I have mapped Ctrl + Up/Down and Shift + Up/Down to 5…
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Symbols showing up on urxvt with agnoster

I just started using and customising urxvt and it turns out that my agnoster theme for oh-my-zsh produces symbols/text in place of where the arrows should be. Here are some screenshots: urxvt terminator (another terminal) Thanks in advance.
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readline: remapping \C-m (Ctrl+m)

I want to have a custom binding for \C-m in my ~/.inputrc. However, the moment I replace it I can no longer enter any commands. E.g., "\C-m": vi-forward-word The problem seems to be that there exists a default binding "\C-m": accept-line That is…
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Powerline/arrowline arrows are too small in urxvt

I first tried to install powerline on my computer and had problems with the arrows not rendering correctly which was easily corrected by installing a patched font. However, although the arrow symbols were rendered correctly they were much smaller…
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