Questions tagged [rxvt]

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 to render GIF animations in urxvt in order to integrate animated previews in ranger?

Ranger optionally uses the w3mimgdisplay binary in order to display image previews in the terminal. Similarly I would like animated gifs to be animated in ranger's preview area. I've been testing in urxvt: #! /bin/bash clear gifsicle -e $1 for f in…
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Using the "urxvt::term" Class

I wanted to know if there are any resources available for understanding and using the 'term' class in urxvt. The documentation makes a very general set of references to it, but doesn't really define the terms. The uxrvt perl extensions also make…
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tmux set-titles stopped woorking for rxvt-unicode

Suddenly my tmux stopped to change terminal window title for rxvt-unicode. The only major change I remember doing last week was updating bash. It'still working with xterm, so it may be something strictly with rxvt. Here are my current…
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Error in symbols font on tmux statusbar

Look at my Tmux status bar: I down't see symbols. How I can fix this? My config files is these: .Xresurces #define S_base03 #002b36 #define S_base02 #073642 #define S_base01 #586e75 #define S_base00 #657b83 #define…
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urxvt -cd "/abs/path" not loading user zsh config

When I run urxvt -cd "/absolute/path" to start a terminal in a directory, it doesn't load my user zsh settings, it only loads the global ones in /etc. Here's some context: Running latest stable versions of rxvt-unicode and zsh (on Arch Linux). I've…
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Converting from rxvt login batch to mintty in cygwin

Here is my cygwin.bat file for starting a cygwin terminal window via rxvt. @echo off C: set PATH=%PATH%;C:\cygwin\bin REM SHELL needed for any screen instances started from bash set SHELL=/bin/bash set HOME=C:\cygwin\home\Dragos set…
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How to run urxvt terminal with the default yum shell command in PyQt5?

I want to run the urxvt terminal that should start with yum shell commands by default, But I am getting a problem to integrate it with the PyQt5. this is the class EmbTerminal that is called when a button is clicked to run yum shell. I want that…
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How to get rid of vim status line flickering when switching tab?

I want to replace xfce4-terminal to urxvt but there is flickering of lines with bg property set (tabline, statusline) when switching tabs in vim (or neovim). I have no issue using xfce4-terminal which I have chosen for that reason (I used xterm…
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prefix-t does not display time in rxvt-unicode on Debian Jessie

I'm following a tmux tutorial, and I noticed that Prefix-t does not display anything in my rxvt-unicode terminal. If I run that in an xterm, I see the current time displayed in the middle of the window. I'm curious as to whether anyone knows…
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Ncurses from sources and Urxvt don't get along

After installing ncurses from sources, my urxvt is not functioning well. Opening applications likencmpcpp or mutt will give me Error opening terminal: rxvt-unicode-256color. Also opening zsh on urxvt will give me weird keypress behavior, like…
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How to use brewperl for installing applications on Ubuntu

I am use Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with Perl 5 (v5.18.2), but for new versions of rxvt and surf I need Perl v5.20+. As solution I found perlbrew and install Perl v5.20, found .deb with rxvt, but anyway cannot install, because it use system Perl. My question…
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cygwin xterm not responding to keyboard

My cygwin xterm is not responding to the keyboard. I am able to run rxvt, but when I start other X applications I have the same problem. From the rxvt command prompt, I get the following: $ xterm xterm Xt error: Can't open display: :0 The contents…
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How do I disable scrolling in Urxvt?

Is it possible to disable scrolling in urxvt when we use with tmux? The problem I have is that tmux clear-history command won't clear the urxvt scroll buffer (Shift+Page Up), hence we always have history in the console. The only other way isto…
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Urxvt - powerline wrong color

after quite a hard time I actually get powerline work in urxvt. There is only one problem left: http://i57.tinypic.com/nnk4g9.png Does sombody know how I switch the bg-color of the command-number? It's impossible for me to set the color…
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Automatically starting tmux after rxvt

I want to automatically run tmux after starting a rxvt terminal. I used to do this by invoking tmux in my ~/.zshrc but this had the problem of having to hit ^D twice when I wanted to close my terminal. I tried using rxvt -e tmux and rxvt -e zsh -c…
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