urxvt settings

BitJam · posted: 2014-05-04 00:54

I ported my uxrvt settings to antiX. I've attached two screen shots to try to give you an idea of what it looks like. The first one shows the"tabs" feature.

The settings are in the attached Xresources. gz file. Ungzip it and then rename it to .Xresources. Finally, add this line to your startup file:

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 [ -r ~/.Xresources ] && xrdb -load ~/.Xresources

For testing just run the following in the command line:

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xrdb -load ~/.Xresources

and then open a new urxvt.

This configuration is probably way too fancy for antiX. The fancy background stuff (blurring and tinting) is expensive and people might find the text colors a little confusing. The font size changer (which IMO is a *great* feature for a live system) was not available in antiX so I took the stuff for it out of .Xresources.

Arch (of course) has a
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. With a little tweaking, we could probably come up with a good default for antiX-14.

rokytnji · posted: 2014-05-04 01:13

Too freaking cool. Thanks BitJam.

BitJam · posted: 2014-05-04 01:51

Here is a recipe to make the font size adjustable via ctrl-shift-up/down.

1) Make the following two directories:

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mkdir -p ~/.config/xresources
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/urxvt/perl

2) Unzip the attached font.gz file and put it in the /usr/local/lib/urxvt/perl directory.

3) Add these lines to your .Xresources file:

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URxvt.perl-lib: /usr/local/lib/urxvt/perl
URxvt.keysym.Control-Shift-Up:      perl:font:increment
URxvt.keysym.Control-Shift-Down:    perl:font:decrement

4) Edit the following line in .Xresources by adding",font" at the end so it becomes:

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URxvt.perl-ext-common:  default,tabbed,matcher,font

5) Re-run xrdb and open a new urxvt:

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xrdb -load ~/.Xresources
urxvt &

The switching is rather funky in VirtualBox. That might be partly due to an interaction between Virtual box and the ctrl-shift key combo.

edit: A more up-to-date way to enable font size changes is available in this
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. The recipe basically the same, with a more up-to-date extension. Again, I think this is a great feature for a LiveCD/USB that will be run on different systems.