1 | FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS |
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2 | How do I know which rxvt-unicode version I'm using? |
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3 | The version number is displayed with the usage (-h). Also the escape |
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4 | sequence "ESC [ 8 n" sets the window title to the version number. |
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6 | I am using Debian GNU/Linux and have a problem... |
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7 | The Debian GNU/Linux package of rxvt-unicode contains large patches |
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8 | that considerably change the behaviour of rxvt-unicode. Before |
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9 | reporting a bug to the original rxvt-unicode author please download |
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10 | and install the genuine version |
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11 | (<http://software.schmorp.de#rxvt-unicode>) and try to reproduce the |
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12 | problem. If you cannot, chances are that the problems are specific |
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13 | to Debian GNU/Linux, in which case it should be reported via the |
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14 | Debian Bug Tracking System (use "reportbug" to report the bug). |
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16 | For other problems that also affect the Debian package, you can and |
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17 | probably should use the Debian BTS, too, because, after all, it's |
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18 | also a bug in the Debian version and it serves as a reminder for |
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19 | other users that might encounter the same issue. |
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21 | When I log-in to another system it tells me about missing terminfo data? |
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22 | The terminal description used by rxvt-unicode is not as widely |
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23 | available as that for xterm, or even rxvt (for which the same |
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24 | problem often arises). |
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26 | The correct solution for this problem is to install the terminfo, |
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27 | this can be done like this (with ncurses' infocmp): |
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29 | REMOTE=remotesystem.domain |
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30 | infocmp rxvt-unicode | ssh $REMOTE "cat >/tmp/ti && tic /tmp/ti" |
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31 | |
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32 | ... or by installing rxvt-unicode normally on the remote system, |
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34 | If you cannot or do not want to do this, then you can simply set |
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35 | "TERM=rxvt" or even "TERM=xterm", and live with the small number of |
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36 | problems arising, which includes wrong keymapping, less and |
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37 | different colours and some refresh errors in fullscreen |
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38 | applications. It's a nice quick-and-dirty workaround for rare cases, |
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39 | though. |
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41 | If you always want to do this (and are fine with the consequences) |
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42 | you can either recompile rxvt-unicode with the desired TERM value or |
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43 | use a resource to set it: |
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45 | URxvt.termName: rxvt |
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47 | If you don't plan to use rxvt (quite common...) you could also |
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48 | replace the rxvt terminfo file with the rxvt-unicode one. |
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50 | "bash"'s readline does not work correctly under rxvt. |
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51 | I need a termcap file entry. |
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52 | One reason you might want this is that some distributions or |
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53 | operating systems still compile some programs using the |
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54 | long-obsoleted termcap library (Fedora Core's bash is one example) |
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55 | and rely on a termcap entry for "rxvt-unicode". |
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57 | You could use rxvt's termcap entry with resonable results in many |
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58 | cases. You can also create a termcap entry by using terminfo's |
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59 | infocmp program like this: |
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61 | infocmp -C rxvt-unicode |
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63 | Or you could use this termcap entry, generated by the command above: |
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65 | rxvt-unicode|rxvt-unicode terminal (X Window System):\ |
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66 | :am:bw:eo:km:mi:ms:xn:xo:\ |
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67 | :co#80:it#8:li#24:lm#0:\ |
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68 | :AL=\E[%dL:DC=\E[%dP:DL=\E[%dM:DO=\E[%dB:IC=\E[%d@:\ |
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69 | :K1=\EOw:K2=\EOu:K3=\EOy:K4=\EOq:K5=\EOs:LE=\E[%dD:\ |
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70 | :RI=\E[%dC:SF=\E[%dS:SR=\E[%dT:UP=\E[%dA:ae=^O:al=\E[L:\ |
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71 | :as=^N:bl=^G:cd=\E[J:ce=\E[K:cl=\E[H\E[2J:cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:\ |
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72 | :cr=^M:cs=\E[%i%d;%dr:ct=\E[3g:dc=\E[P:dl=\E[M:do=^J:\ |
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73 | :ec=\E[%dX:ei=\E[4l:ho=\E[H:i1=\E[?47l\E=\E[?1l:ic=\E[@:\ |
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74 | :im=\E[4h:is=\E[r\E[m\E[2J\E[H\E[?7h\E[?1;3;4;6l\E[4l:\ |
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75 | :k1=\E[11~:k2=\E[12~:k3=\E[13~:k4=\E[14~:k5=\E[15~:\ |
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76 | :k6=\E[17~:k7=\E[18~:k8=\E[19~:k9=\E[20~:kD=\E[3~:\ |
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77 | :kI=\E[2~:kN=\E[6~:kP=\E[5~:kb=\177:kd=\EOB:ke=\E[?1l\E>:\ |
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78 | :kh=\E[7~:kl=\EOD:kr=\EOC:ks=\E[?1h\E=:ku=\EOA:le=^H:\ |
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79 | :mb=\E[5m:md=\E[1m:me=\E[m\017:mr=\E[7m:nd=\E[C:rc=\E8:\ |
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80 | :sc=\E7:se=\E[27m:sf=^J:so=\E[7m:sr=\EM:st=\EH:ta=^I:\ |
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81 | :te=\E[r\E[?1049l:ti=\E[?1049h:ue=\E[24m:up=\E[A:\ |
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82 | :us=\E[4m:vb=\E[?5h\E[?5l:ve=\E[?25h:vi=\E[?25l:\ |
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83 | :vs=\E[?25h: |
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85 | Why does "ls" no longer have coloured output? |
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86 | The "ls" in the GNU coreutils unfortunately doesn't use terminfo to |
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87 | decide wether a terminal has colour, but uses it's own configuration |
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88 | file. Needless to say, "rxvt-unicode" is not in it's default file |
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89 | (among with most other terminals supporting colour). Either add: |
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91 | TERM rxvt-unicode |
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93 | to "/etc/DIR_COLORS" or simply add: |
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95 | alias ls='ls --color=auto' |
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96 | |
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97 | to your ".profile" or ".bashrc". |
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99 | Why doesn't vim/emacs etc. use the 88 colour mode? |
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100 | Why doesn't vim/emacs etc. make use of italic? |
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101 | Why are the secondary screen-related options not working properly? |
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102 | Make sure you are using "TERM=rxvt-unicode". Some pre-packaged |
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103 | distributions (most notably Debian GNU/Linux) break rxvt-unicode by |
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104 | setting "TERM" to "rxvt", which doesn't have these extra features. |
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105 | Unfortunately, some of these (most notably, again, Debian GNU/Linux) |
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106 | furthermore fail to even install the "rxvt-unicode" terminfo file, |
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107 | so you will need to install it on your own (See the question When I |
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108 | log-in to another system it tells me about missing terminfo data? on |
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109 | how to do this). |
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111 | My numerical keypad acts weird and generates differing output? |
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112 | Some Debian GNUL/Linux users seem to have this problem, although no |
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113 | specific details were reported so far. It is possible that this is |
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114 | caused by the wrong "TERM" setting, although the details of wether |
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115 | and how this can happen are unknown, as "TERM=rxvt" should offer a |
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116 | compatible keymap. See the answer to the previous question, and |
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117 | please report if that helped. |
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119 | Rxvt-unicode does not seem to understand the selected encoding? |
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120 | Unicode does not seem to work? |
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121 | If you encounter strange problems like typing an accented character |
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122 | but getting two unrelated other characters or similar, or if program |
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123 | output is subtly garbled, then you should check your locale |
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124 | settings. |
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126 | Rxvt-unicode must be started with the same "LC_CTYPE" setting as the |
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127 | programs. Often rxvt-unicode is started in the "C" locale, while the |
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128 | login script running within the rxvt-unicode window changes the |
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129 | locale to something else, e.g. "en_GB.UTF-8". Needless to say, this |
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130 | is not going to work. |
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132 | The best thing is to fix your startup environment, as you will |
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133 | likely run into other problems. If nothing works you can try this in |
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134 | your .profile. |
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136 | printf '\e]701;%s\007' "$LC_CTYPE" |
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138 | If this doesn't work, then maybe you use a "LC_CTYPE" specification |
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139 | not supported on your systems. Some systems have a "locale" command |
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140 | which displays this (also, "perl -e0" can be used to check locale |
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141 | settings, as it will complain loudly if it cannot set the locale). |
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142 | If it displays something like: |
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143 | |
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144 | locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: ... |
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146 | Then the locale you specified is not supported on your system. |
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148 | If nothing works and you are sure that everything is set correctly |
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149 | then you will need to remember a little known fact: Some programs |
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150 | just don't support locales :( |
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152 | Why do some characters look so much different than others? |
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153 | How does rxvt-unicode choose fonts? |
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154 | Most fonts do not contain the full range of Unicode, which is fine. |
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155 | Chances are that the font you (or the admin/package maintainer of |
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156 | your system/os) have specified does not cover all the characters you |
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157 | want to display. |
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159 | rxvt-unicode makes a best-effort try at finding a replacement font. |
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160 | Often the result is fine, but sometimes the chosen font looks |
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161 | bad/ugly/wrong. Some fonts have totally strange characters that |
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162 | don't resemble the correct glyph at all, and rxvt-unicode lacks the |
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163 | artificial intelligence to detect that a specific glyph is wrong: it |
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164 | has to believe the font that the characters it claims to contain |
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165 | indeed look correct. |
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167 | In that case, select a font of your taste and add it to the font |
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168 | list, e.g.: |
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170 | rxvt -fn basefont,font2,font3... |
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172 | When rxvt-unicode sees a character, it will first look at the base |
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173 | font. If the base font does not contain the character, it will go to |
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174 | the next font, and so on. Specifying your own fonts will also speed |
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175 | up this search and use less resources within rxvt-unicode and the |
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176 | X-server. |
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178 | The only limitation is that none of the fonts may be larger than the |
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179 | base font, as the base font defines the terminal character cell |
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180 | size, which must be the same due to the way terminals work. |
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182 | Why do some chinese characters look so different than others? |
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183 | This is because there is a difference between script and language -- |
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184 | rxvt-unicode does not know which language the text that is output |
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185 | is, as it only knows the unicode character codes. If rxvt-unicode |
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186 | first sees a japanese/chinese character, it might choose a japanese |
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187 | font for display. Subsequent japanese characters will use that font. |
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188 | Now, many chinese characters aren't represented in japanese fonts, |
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189 | so when the first non-japanese character comes up, rxvt-unicode will |
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190 | look for a chinese font -- unfortunately at this point, it will |
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191 | still use the japanese font for chinese characters that are also in |
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192 | the japanese font. |
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194 | The workaround is easy: just tag a chinese font at the end of your |
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195 | font list (see the previous question). The key is to view the font |
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196 | list as a preference list: If you expect more japanese, list a |
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197 | japanese font first. If you expect more chinese, put a chinese font |
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198 | first. |
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199 | |
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200 | In the future it might be possible to switch language preferences at |
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201 | runtime (the internal data structure has no problem with using |
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202 | different fonts for the same character at the same time, but no |
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203 | interface for this has been designed yet). |
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204 | |
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205 | Until then, you might get away with switching fonts at runtime (see |
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206 | "Can I switch the fonts at runtime?" later in this document). |
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207 | |
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208 | Why does rxvt-unicode sometimes leave pixel droppings? |
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209 | Most fonts were not designed for terminal use, which means that |
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210 | character size varies a lot. A font that is otherwise fine for |
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211 | terminal use might contain some characters that are simply too wide. |
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212 | Rxvt-unicode will avoid these characters. For characters that are |
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213 | just "a bit" too wide a special "careful" rendering mode is used |
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214 | that redraws adjacent characters. |
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216 | All of this requires that fonts do not lie about character sizes, |
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217 | however: Xft fonts often draw glyphs larger than their acclaimed |
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218 | bounding box, and rxvt-unicode has no way of detecting this (the |
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219 | correct way is to ask for the character bounding box, which |
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220 | unfortunately is wrong in these cases). |
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222 | It's not clear (to me at least), wether this is a bug in Xft, |
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223 | freetype, or the respective font. If you encounter this problem you |
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224 | might try using the "-lsp" option to give the font more height. If |
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225 | that doesn't work, you might be forced to use a different font. |
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227 | All of this is not a problem when using X11 core fonts, as their |
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228 | bounding box data is correct. |
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229 | |
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230 | My Compose (Multi_key) key is no longer working. |
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231 | The most common causes for this are that either your locale is not |
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232 | set correctly, or you specified a preeditStyle that is not supported |
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233 | by your input method. For example, if you specified OverTheSpot and |
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234 | your input method (e.g. the default input method handling Compose |
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235 | keys) does not support this (for instance because it is not visual), |
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236 | then rxvt-unicode will continue without an input method. |
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237 | |
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238 | In this case either do not specify a preeditStyle or specify more |
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239 | than one pre-edit style, such as OverTheSpot,Root,None. |
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240 | |
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241 | I cannot type "Ctrl-Shift-2" to get an ASCII NUL character due to ISO |
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242 | 14755 |
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243 | Either try "Ctrl-2" alone (it often is mapped to ASCII NUL even on |
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244 | international keyboards) or simply use ISO 14755 support to your |
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245 | advantage, typing <Ctrl-Shift-0> to get a ASCII NUL. This works for |
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246 | other codes, too, such as "Ctrl-Shift-1-d" to type the default |
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247 | telnet escape character and so on. |
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248 | |
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249 | How can I keep rxvt-unicode from using reverse video so much? |
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250 | First of all, make sure you are running with the right terminal |
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251 | settings ("TERM=rxvt-unicode"), which will get rid of most of these |
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252 | effects. Then make sure you have specified colours for italic and |
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253 | bold, as otherwise rxvt-unicode might use reverse video to simulate |
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254 | the effect: |
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255 | |
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256 | URxvt.colorBD: white |
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257 | URxvt.colorIT: green |
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258 | |
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259 | Some programs assume totally weird colours (red instead of blue), how |
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260 | can I fix that? |
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261 | For some unexplainable reason, some rare programs assume a very |
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262 | weird colour palette when confronted with a terminal with more than |
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263 | the standard 8 colours (rxvt-unicode supports 88). The right fix is, |
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264 | of course, to fix these programs not to assume non-ISO colours |
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265 | without very good reasons. |
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267 | In the meantime, you can either edit your "rxvt-unicode" terminfo |
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268 | definition to only claim 8 colour support or use "TERM=rxvt", which |
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269 | will fix colours but keep you from using other rxvt-unicode |
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270 | features. |
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271 | |
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272 | I am on FreeBSD and rxvt-unicode does not seem to work at all. |
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273 | Rxvt-unicode requires the symbol "__STDC_ISO_10646__" to be defined |
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274 | in your compile environment, or an implementation that implements |
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275 | it, wether it defines the symbol or not. "__STDC_ISO_10646__" |
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276 | requires that wchar_t is represented as unicode. |
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278 | As you might have guessed, FreeBSD does neither define this symobl |
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279 | nor does it support it. Instead, it uses it's own internal |
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280 | representation of wchar_t. This is, of course, completely fine with |
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281 | respect to standards. |
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282 | |
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283 | However, "__STDC_ISO_10646__" is the only sane way to support |
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284 | multi-language apps in an OS, as using a locale-dependent (and |
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285 | non-standardized) representation of wchar_t makes it impossible to |
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286 | convert between wchar_t (as used by X11 and your applications) and |
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287 | any other encoding without implementing OS-specific-wrappers for |
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288 | each and every locale. There simply are no APIs to convert wchar_t |
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289 | into anything except the current locale encoding. |
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290 | |
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291 | Some applications (such as the formidable mlterm) work around this |
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292 | by carrying their own replacement functions for character set |
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293 | handling with them, and either implementing OS-dependent hacks or |
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294 | doing multiple conversions (which is slow and unreliable in case the |
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295 | OS implements encodings slightly different than the terminal |
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296 | emulator). |
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297 | |
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298 | The rxvt-unicode author insists that the right way to fix this is in |
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299 | the system libraries once and for all, instead of forcing every app |
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300 | to carry complete replacements for them :) |
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301 | |
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302 | How does rxvt-unicode determine the encoding to use? |
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303 | Is there an option to switch encodings? |
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304 | Unlike some other terminals, rxvt-unicode has no encoding switch, |
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305 | and no specific "utf-8" mode, such as xterm. In fact, it doesn't |
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306 | even know about UTF-8 or any other encodings with respect to |
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307 | terminal I/O. |
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308 | |
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309 | The reasons is that there exists a perfectly fine mechanism for |
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310 | selecting the encoding, doing I/O and (most important) communicating |
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311 | this to all applications so everybody agrees on character properties |
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312 | such as width and code number. This mechanism is the *locale*. |
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313 | Applications not using that info will have problems (for example, |
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314 | "xterm" gets the width of characters wrong as it uses it's own, |
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315 | locale-independent table under all locales). |
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316 | |
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317 | Rxvt-unicode uses the "LC_CTYPE" locale category to select encoding. |
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318 | All programs doing the same (that is, most) will automatically agree |
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319 | in the interpretation of characters. |
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320 | |
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321 | Unfortunately, there is no system-independent way to select locales, |
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322 | nor is there a standard on how locale specifiers will look like. |
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324 | On most systems, the content of the "LC_CTYPE" environment variable |
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325 | contains an arbitrary string which corresponds to an |
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326 | already-installed locale. Common names for locales are |
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327 | "en_US.UTF-8", "de_DE.ISO-8859-15", "ja_JP.EUC-JP", i.e. |
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328 | "language_country.encoding", but other forms (i.e. "de" or "german") |
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329 | are also common. |
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330 | |
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331 | Rxvt-unicode ignores all other locale categories, and except for the |
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332 | encoding, ignores country or language-specific settings, i.e. |
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333 | "de_DE.UTF-8" and "ja_JP.UTF-8" are the normally same to |
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334 | rxvt-unicode. |
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335 | |
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336 | If you want to use a specific encoding you have to make sure you |
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337 | start rxvt-unicode with the correct "LC_CTYPE" category. |
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338 | |
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339 | Can I switch locales at runtime? |
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340 | Yes, using an escape sequence. Try something like this, which sets |
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341 | rxvt-unicode's idea of "LC_CTYPE". |
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342 | |
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343 | printf '\e]701;%s\007' ja_JP.SJIS |
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344 | |
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345 | See also the previous answer. |
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346 | |
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347 | Sometimes this capability is rather handy when you want to work in |
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348 | one locale (e.g. "de_DE.UTF-8") but some programs don't support it |
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349 | (e.g. UTF-8). For example, I use this script to start "xjdic", which |
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350 | first switches to a locale supported by xjdic and back later: |
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351 | |
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352 | printf '\e]701;%s\007' ja_JP.SJIS |
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353 | xjdic -js |
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354 | printf '\e]701;%s\007' de_DE.UTF-8 |
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355 | |
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356 | You can also use xterm's "luit" program, which usually works fine, |
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357 | except for some locales where character width differs between |
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358 | program- and rxvt-unicode-locales. |
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359 | |
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360 | Can I switch the fonts at runtime? |
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361 | Yes, using an escape sequence. Try something like this, which has |
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362 | the same effect as using the "-fn" switch, and takes effect |
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363 | immediately: |
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364 | |
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365 | printf '\e]50;%s\007' "9x15bold,xft:Kochi Gothic" |
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366 | |
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367 | This is useful if you e.g. work primarily with japanese (and prefer |
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368 | a japanese font), but you have to switch to chinese temporarily, |
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369 | where japanese fonts would only be in your way. |
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370 | |
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371 | You can think of this as a kind of manual ISO-2022 switching. |
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372 | |
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373 | Why do italic characters look as if clipped? |
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374 | Many fonts have difficulties with italic characters and hinting. For |
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375 | example, the otherwise very nicely hinted font "xft:Bitstream Vera |
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376 | Sans Mono" completely fails in it's italic face. A workaround might |
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377 | be to enable freetype autohinting, i.e. like this: |
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378 | |
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379 | URxvt.italicFont: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:italic:autohint=true |
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380 | URxvt.boldItalicFont: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:bold:italic:autohint=true |
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381 | |
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382 | My input method wants <some encoding> but I want UTF-8, what can I do? |
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383 | You can specify separate locales for the input method and the rest |
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384 | of the terminal, using the resource "imlocale": |
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385 | |
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386 | URxvt*imlocale: ja_JP.EUC-JP |
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387 | |
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388 | Now you can start your terminal with "LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8" and |
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389 | still use your input method. Please note, however, that you will not |
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390 | be able to input characters outside "EUC-JP" in a normal way then, |
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391 | as your input method limits you. |
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392 | |
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393 | Rxvt-unicode crashes when the X Input Method changes or exits. |
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394 | Unfortunately, this is unavoidable, as the XIM protocol is racy by |
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395 | design. Applications can avoid some crashes at the expense of memory |
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396 | leaks, and Input Methods can avoid some crashes by careful ordering |
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397 | at exit time. kinput2 (and derived input methods) generally |
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398 | succeeds, while SCIM (or similar input methods) fails. In the end, |
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399 | however, crashes cannot be completely avoided even if both sides |
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400 | cooperate. |
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401 | |
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402 | So the only workaround is not to kill your Input Method Servers. |
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403 | |
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404 | Rxvt-unicode uses gobs of memory, how can I reduce that? |
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405 | Rxvt-unicode tries to obey the rule of not charging you for |
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406 | something you don't use. One thing you should try is to configure |
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407 | out all settings that you don't need, for example, Xft support is a |
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408 | resource hog by design, when used. Compiling it out ensures that no |
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409 | Xft font will be loaded accidentally when rxvt-unicode tries to find |
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410 | a font for your characters. |
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411 | |
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412 | Also, many people (me included) like large windows and even larger |
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413 | scrollback buffers: Without "--enable-unicode3", rxvt-unicode will |
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414 | use 6 bytes per screen cell. For a 160x?? window this amounts to |
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415 | almost a kilobyte per line. A scrollback buffer of 10000 lines will |
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416 | then (if full) use 10 Megabytes of memory. With "--enable-unicode3" |
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417 | it gets worse, as rxvt-unicode then uses 8 bytes per screen cell. |
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418 | |
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419 | Can I speed up Xft rendering somehow? |
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420 | Yes, the most obvious way to speed it up is to avoid Xft entirely, |
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421 | as it is simply slow. If you still want Xft fonts you might try to |
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422 | disable antialiasing (by appending ":antialiasing=false"), which |
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423 | saves lots of memory and also speeds up rendering considerably. |
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424 | |
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425 | Rxvt-unicode doesn't seem to anti-alias its fonts, what is wrong? |
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426 | Rxvt-unicode will use whatever you specify as a font. If it needs to |
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427 | fall back to it's default font search list it will prefer X11 core |
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428 | fonts, because they are small and fast, and then use Xft fonts. It |
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429 | has antialiasing disabled for most of them, because the author |
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430 | thinks they look best that way. |
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431 | |
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432 | If you want antialiasing, you have to specify the fonts manually. |
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433 | |
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434 | Mouse cut/paste suddenly no longer works. |
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435 | Make sure that mouse reporting is actually turned off since killing |
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436 | some editors prematurely may leave the mouse in mouse report mode. |
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437 | I've heard that tcsh may use mouse reporting unless it otherwise |
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438 | specified. A quick check is to see if cut/paste works when the Alt |
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439 | or Shift keys are depressed. See rxvt(7) |
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440 | |
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441 | What's with this bold/blink stuff? |
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442 | If no bold colour is set via "colorBD:", bold will invert text using |
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443 | the standard foreground colour. |
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444 | |
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445 | For the standard background colour, blinking will actually make the |
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446 | text blink when compiled with "--enable-blinking". with standard |
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447 | colours. Without "--enable-blinking", the blink attribute will be |
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448 | ignored. |
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449 | |
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450 | On ANSI colours, bold/blink attributes are used to set |
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451 | high-intensity foreground/background colors. |
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452 | |
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453 | color0-7 are the low-intensity colors. |
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454 | |
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455 | color8-15 are the corresponding high-intensity colors. |
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456 | |
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457 | I don't like the screen colors. How do I change them? |
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458 | You can change the screen colors at run-time using ~/.Xdefaults |
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459 | resources (or as long-options). |
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460 | |
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461 | Here are values that are supposed to resemble a VGA screen, |
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462 | including the murky brown that passes for low-intensity yellow: |
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463 | |
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464 | URxvt.color0: #000000 |
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465 | URxvt.color1: #A80000 |
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466 | URxvt.color2: #00A800 |
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467 | URxvt.color3: #A8A800 |
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468 | URxvt.color4: #0000A8 |
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469 | URxvt.color5: #A800A8 |
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470 | URxvt.color6: #00A8A8 |
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471 | URxvt.color7: #A8A8A8 |
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472 | |
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473 | URxvt.color8: #000054 |
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474 | URxvt.color9: #FF0054 |
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475 | URxvt.color10: #00FF54 |
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476 | URxvt.color11: #FFFF54 |
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477 | URxvt.color12: #0000FF |
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478 | URxvt.color13: #FF00FF |
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479 | URxvt.color14: #00FFFF |
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480 | URxvt.color15: #FFFFFF |
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481 | |
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482 | And here is a more complete set of non-standard colors described |
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483 | (not by me) as "pretty girly". |
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484 | |
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485 | URxvt.cursorColor: #dc74d1 |
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486 | URxvt.pointerColor: #dc74d1 |
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487 | URxvt.background: #0e0e0e |
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488 | URxvt.foreground: #4ad5e1 |
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489 | URxvt.color0: #000000 |
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490 | URxvt.color8: #8b8f93 |
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491 | URxvt.color1: #dc74d1 |
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492 | URxvt.color9: #dc74d1 |
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493 | URxvt.color2: #0eb8c7 |
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494 | URxvt.color10: #0eb8c7 |
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495 | URxvt.color3: #dfe37e |
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496 | URxvt.color11: #dfe37e |
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497 | URxvt.color5: #9e88f0 |
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498 | URxvt.color13: #9e88f0 |
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499 | URxvt.color6: #73f7ff |
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500 | URxvt.color14: #73f7ff |
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501 | URxvt.color7: #e1dddd |
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502 | URxvt.color15: #e1dddd |
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503 | |
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504 | How can I start rxvtd in a race-free way? |
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505 | Despite it's name, rxvtd is not a real daemon, but more like a |
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506 | server that answers rxvtc's requests, so it doesn't background |
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507 | itself. |
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508 | |
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509 | To ensure rxvtd is listening on it's socket, you can use the |
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510 | following method to wait for the startup message before continuing: |
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511 | |
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512 | { rxvtd & } | read |
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513 | |
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514 | What's with the strange Backspace/Delete key behaviour? |
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515 | Assuming that the physical Backspace key corresponds to the |
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516 | BackSpace keysym (not likely for Linux ... see the following |
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517 | question) there are two standard values that can be used for |
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518 | Backspace: "^H" and "^?". |
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519 | |
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520 | Historically, either value is correct, but rxvt-unicode adopts the |
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521 | debian policy of using "^?" when unsure, because it's the one only |
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522 | only correct choice :). |
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523 | |
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524 | Rxvt-unicode tries to inherit the current stty settings and uses the |
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525 | value of `erase' to guess the value for backspace. If rxvt-unicode |
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526 | wasn't started from a terminal (say, from a menu or by remote |
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527 | shell), then the system value of `erase', which corresponds to |
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528 | CERASE in <termios.h>, will be used (which may not be the same as |
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529 | your stty setting). |
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530 | |
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531 | For starting a new rxvt-unicode: |
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532 | |
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533 | # use Backspace = ^H |
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534 | $ stty erase ^H |
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535 | $ rxvt |
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536 | |
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537 | # use Backspace = ^? |
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538 | $ stty erase ^? |
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539 | $ rxvt |
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540 | |
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541 | Toggle with "ESC [ 36 h" / "ESC [ 36 l" as documented in rxvt(7). |
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542 | |
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543 | For an existing rxvt-unicode: |
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544 | |
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545 | # use Backspace = ^H |
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546 | $ stty erase ^H |
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547 | $ echo -n "^[[36h" |
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548 | |
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549 | # use Backspace = ^? |
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550 | $ stty erase ^? |
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551 | $ echo -n "^[[36l" |
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552 | |
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553 | This helps satisfy some of the Backspace discrepancies that occur, |
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554 | but if you use Backspace = "^H", make sure that the termcap/terminfo |
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555 | value properly reflects that. |
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556 | |
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557 | The Delete key is a another casualty of the ill-defined Backspace |
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558 | problem. To avoid confusion between the Backspace and Delete keys, |
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559 | the Delete key has been assigned an escape sequence to match the |
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560 | vt100 for Execute ("ESC [ 3 ~") and is in the supplied |
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561 | termcap/terminfo. |
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562 | |
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563 | Some other Backspace problems: |
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564 | |
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565 | some editors use termcap/terminfo, some editors (vim I'm told) |
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566 | expect Backspace = ^H, GNU Emacs (and Emacs-like editors) use ^H for |
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567 | help. |
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568 | |
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569 | Perhaps someday this will all be resolved in a consistent manner. |
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570 | |
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571 | I don't like the key-bindings. How do I change them? |
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572 | There are some compile-time selections available via configure. |
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573 | Unless you have run "configure" with the "--disable-resources" |
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574 | option you can use the `keysym' resource to alter the keystrings |
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575 | associated with keysyms. |
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576 | |
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577 | Here's an example for a URxvt session started using "rxvt -name |
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578 | URxvt" |
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579 | |
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580 | URxvt.keysym.Home: \033[1~ |
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581 | URxvt.keysym.End: \033[4~ |
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582 | URxvt.keysym.C-apostrophe: \033<C-'> |
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583 | URxvt.keysym.C-slash: \033<C-/> |
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584 | URxvt.keysym.C-semicolon: \033<C-;> |
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585 | URxvt.keysym.C-grave: \033<C-`> |
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586 | URxvt.keysym.C-comma: \033<C-,> |
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587 | URxvt.keysym.C-period: \033<C-.> |
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588 | URxvt.keysym.C-0x60: \033<C-`> |
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589 | URxvt.keysym.C-Tab: \033<C-Tab> |
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590 | URxvt.keysym.C-Return: \033<C-Return> |
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591 | URxvt.keysym.S-Return: \033<S-Return> |
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592 | URxvt.keysym.S-space: \033<S-Space> |
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593 | URxvt.keysym.M-Up: \033<M-Up> |
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594 | URxvt.keysym.M-Down: \033<M-Down> |
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595 | URxvt.keysym.M-Left: \033<M-Left> |
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596 | URxvt.keysym.M-Right: \033<M-Right> |
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597 | URxvt.keysym.M-C-0: list \033<M-C- 0123456789 > |
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598 | URxvt.keysym.M-C-a: list \033<M-C- abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz > |
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599 | URxvt.keysym.F12: command:\033]701;zh_CN.GBK\007 |
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600 | |
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601 | See some more examples in the documentation for the keysym resource. |
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602 | |
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603 | I'm using keyboard model XXX that has extra Prior/Next/Insert keys. How |
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604 | do I make use of them? For example, the Sun Keyboard type 4 has the |
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605 | following mappings that rxvt-unicode doesn't recognize. |
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606 | KP_Insert == Insert |
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607 | F22 == Print |
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608 | F27 == Home |
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609 | F29 == Prior |
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610 | F33 == End |
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611 | F35 == Next |
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612 | |
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613 | Rather than have rxvt-unicode try to accommodate all the various |
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614 | possible keyboard mappings, it is better to use `xmodmap' to remap |
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615 | the keys as required for your particular machine. |
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616 | |
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617 | How do I distinguish wether I'm running rxvt-unicode or a regular xterm? |
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618 | I need this to decide about setting colors etc. |
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619 | rxvt and rxvt-unicode always export the variable "COLORTERM", so you |
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620 | can check and see if that is set. Note that several programs, JED, |
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621 | slrn, Midnight Commander automatically check this variable to decide |
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622 | whether or not to use color. |
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623 | |
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624 | How do I set the correct, full IP address for the DISPLAY variable? |
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625 | If you've compiled rxvt-unicode with DISPLAY_IS_IP and have enabled |
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626 | insecure mode then it is possible to use the following shell script |
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627 | snippets to correctly set the display. If your version of |
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628 | rxvt-unicode wasn't also compiled with ESCZ_ANSWER (as assumed in |
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629 | these snippets) then the COLORTERM variable can be used to |
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630 | distinguish rxvt-unicode from a regular xterm. |
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631 | |
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632 | Courtesy of Chuck Blake <cblake@BBN.COM> with the following shell |
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633 | script snippets: |
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634 | |
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635 | # Bourne/Korn/POSIX family of shells: |
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636 | [ ${TERM:-foo} = foo ] && TERM=xterm # assume an xterm if we don't know |
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637 | if [ ${TERM:-foo} = xterm ]; then |
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638 | stty -icanon -echo min 0 time 15 # see if enhanced rxvt or not |
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639 | echo -n '^[Z' |
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640 | read term_id |
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641 | stty icanon echo |
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642 | if [ ""${term_id} = '^[[?1;2C' -a ${DISPLAY:-foo} = foo ]; then |
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643 | echo -n '^[[7n' # query the rxvt we are in for the DISPLAY string |
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644 | read DISPLAY # set it in our local shell |
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645 | fi |
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646 | fi |
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647 | |
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648 | How do I compile the manual pages for myself? |
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649 | You need to have a recent version of perl installed as |
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650 | /usr/bin/perl, one that comes with pod2man, pod2text and pod2html. |
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651 | Then go to the doc subdirectory and enter "make alldoc". |
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652 | |
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653 | My question isn't answered here, can I ask a human? |
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654 | Before sending me mail, you could go to IRC: "irc.freenode.net", |
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655 | channel "#rxvt-unicode" has some rxvt-unicode enthusiasts that might |
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656 | be interested in learning about new and exciting problems (but not |
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657 | FAQs :). |
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658 | |
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