[Solved] True transparency possible in rxvt-unicode...?

I'm just wondering if it's even possible to run urxvt with true transparency, without adding command line arguments. I've tried urxvt*depth:32 and urxvt*bg:rgba:1000/1000/1000/cccc in .Xdefaults, and several permutations of scripts/hints found on the web, to no avail. urxvt -bg rgba:1000/1000/1000/cccc works as it should. Is there something obvious I'm missing, or is it just not an option?
Oops, if I had only read it before posting it... that should be urxvt*background, not urxvt*bg. Somewhere during my fiddling I changed that to match the command-line syntax just on the off chance. It didn't change anything when I first edited it, but apparently I've hit the magic config now. Never mind
Last edited by Trent (2009-09-19 01:09:18)

Here's the relevant part:
urxvt*depth:32
urxvt*foreground:#B0B0B0
urxvt*background:rgba:2000/2000/2000/cccc
@ShortError: the transparent resource turns on pseudo transparency, not true transparency.

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[SOLVED] Highlighted text in the shell, appearance rxvt-unicode

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[SOLVED] rxvt-unicode not switching to fullscreen

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but all other sources said .Xdefaults so I don't think I'm doing anything wrong here),
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Ok, I didn't notice that message during install and it's not on the wiki, so...
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urxvt.colorIT: #bbbbbb
urxvt.colorUL: #999999
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Last edited by colbert (2011-07-05 03:04:36)

URxvt*foreground: rgba:aaaa/aaaa/aaaa/7777
I think this is your font color. Have you tried changing it?
XTerm*foreground: White
This one is for xterm so no wonder it doesn't do anything in urxvt.
Edit: Setting
urxvt.foreground: #aaaaaa
does produce dark font, '#ffffff' gets me bright white, as expected.
Last edited by karol (2011-07-04 23:32:06)

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http://i.imgur.com/hrEEh3H.jpg
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clear-shadow = true;
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shadow-offset-y = -7;
shadow-exclude = [ "name = 'Notification'", "class_g = 'URxvt'", "class_g = 'Conky'", "class_g ?= 'Notify-osd'", "class_g = 'Cairo-clock'" ];
shadow-ignore-shaped = false;
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menu-opacity = 0.8;
inactive-opacity = 0.8;
frame-opacity = 0.7;
inactive-opacity-override = false;
alpha-step = 0.06;
blur-kern = "3x3box"
blur-background-exclude = [ "window_type = 'dock'", "window_type = 'desktop'" ];
opacity-rule = [ ]
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fade-out-step = 0.03;
fade-exclude = [ ];
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backend = "glx"
mark-wmwin-focused = true;
mark-ovredir-focused = true;
detect-rounded-corners = true;
detect-client-opacity = true;
refresh-rate = 0;
vsync = "opengl-swc";
dbe = false;
paint-on-overlay = true;
focus-exclude = [ "class_g = 'Cairo-clock'" ];
detect-transient = true;
detect-client-leader = true;
invert-color-include = [ ];
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glx-copy-from-front = false;
glx-no-rebind-pixmap = true;
glx-swap-method = "undefined";
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wintypes:
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Last edited by Chetyre (2014-04-10 16:51:23)

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[SOLVED] vim-powerline with rxvt-unicode

Hi! I was wondering if anyone has been able to make the vim plugin vim-powerline work with urxvt.
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URxvt*loginShell:true
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URxvt.tabbed.tab-bg: 0
Last edited by ruaz (2012-03-31 12:23:37)

I use powerline, but i have it installed via YADR. I had to tweak settings here-and-there as it's oriented towards a OSX install, but on the whole it worked out of the box. What exactly is the issue you're seeing? I think the only special stuff I did was making sure I had suitable fonts, and a snippet along the lines of:
if has("gui_running")
" GUI stuff
else
colorscheme solarized
set background=dark
let g:Powerline_symbols = 'unicode'
endif
EDIT: BTW, I can highly recommend the YADR configs; they are nicely organized and use a lot of nice plugins for any serious dev work.
Last edited by nogoma (2012-03-30 23:15:44)

[solved] rxvt-unicode-8.5a-1

Update Issue
update rxvt-unicode-8.5a-1,
[root@arch-01 jada]# pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
warning: ffmpeg: local (20071009-1) is newer than extra (20070505-4)
resolving dependencies... done.
looking for inter-conflicts... done.
Targets: rxvt-unicode-8.5a-1
Total Package Size: 2.08 MB
Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
checking package integrity... done.
cleaning up... done.
(1/1) checking for file conflicts [#####################] 100%
(1/1) upgrading rxvt-unicode [#####################] 100%
[root@arch-01 jada]# pacman -Scc
Do you want to remove all packages from cache? [Y/n] y
removing all packages from cache... done.
[root@arch-01 jada]# pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
warning: ffmpeg: local (20071009-1) is newer than extra (20070505-4)
resolving dependencies... done.
looking for inter-conflicts... done.
Targets: rxvt-unicode-8.5a-1
Total Package Size: 2.08 MB
Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
:: Retrieving packages from extra...
rxvt-unicode 2.1M 550.1K/s 00:00:04 [#####################] 100%
checking package integrity... done.
cleaning up... done.
(1/1) checking for file conflicts [#####################] 100%
(1/1) upgrading rxvt-unicode [#####################] 100%
[root@arch-01 jada]#
It doesn't take the update! With "pacman -Syu" it will allways update again and again ...........
Last edited by JaDa (2007-11-22 19:52:08)

the problem was solved today with the new update
rxvt-unicode-8.5a-2
the right packages are now on the update server
Last edited by JaDa (2007-11-22 19:54:04)

[SOLVED] Escape sequences instead of colors in rxvt-unicode

On a Git cheat sheet I found that I could add nice colors to Git's output, so I edited my ~/.gitconfig by adding:
[color]
ui = auto
[color "branch"]
current = yellow reverse
local = yellow
remote = green
[color "diff"]
meta = yellow bold
frag = magenta bold
old = red bold
new = green bold
[color "status"]
added = yellow
changed = green
untracked = cyan
However, when performing a git log my terminal looks like this:
ESC[33mcommit 226dcb52565b58952b78fb107d8d9def3ca396abESC[m
Merge: 8f8af9f 93341d8
where ESC's colors are reversed. So, instead of yellow commit lines it outputs everything in plain text.
What's wrong with my configuration? I am using rxvt-unicode 9.15-3.
Last edited by Marcel- (2012-12-06 13:14:12)

Someone on the mailing list said that this was due to incorrect parameters to my pager, less. Adding -R to $LESS (or deleting the variable entirely) solved this issue.

[~SOLVED] screen + rxvt-unicode scroll

I'm using screen on top of rxvt-unicode, but I'm unable to achieve desired scrolling behaviour. I have found the following termcapinfo everywhere, even on Arch forums:
termcapinfo rxvt-unicode ti@:te@ #enable SHIFT-PGUP / SHIFT-PGDOWN scroll
termcapinfo rxvt ti@:te@
termcapinfo rxvt 'hs:ts=\E]2;:fs=07:ds=\E]2;screen07′
But if I get some output on a window, and then I change to another window and I press Shift+PgUp, I can seen the output from the previous window. Could it be possible to get just the contents of the current window when scrolling? Or does scrolling work this way?
I think I have $TERM correctly set ("rxvt-unicode" outside from screen, "screen" inside).
Last edited by panecillo (2009-03-15 16:01:31)

It may not be immediately obvious to the new screen user, but this is one of screen's key features. You won't be able to use your terminal's scroll features while using screen so you'll have to use screen's copy mode.
To scroll back through screen's history, first enable the copy mode by pressing Ctrl+a [ . Now, use either one of the arrow keys, page up, page down, home and end keys to scroll through screen's history.
Pressing Enter will start marking text for copying. Pressing Enter again will copy the selected text into the clipboard. Now, to paste that text, press Ctrl+a ].
Moreover, screen has the ability to log its output to a file on the disk. To enable screen logging, press Ctrl+a H to enable it and again to disable it. By default, the log file will be saved as $HOME/screenlog.1 .

[Solved] no non-ASCII character input in rxvt-unicode

Hello everyone,
For some days now, I can't write any non-ASCII characters any more in rxvt-unicode and rxvt-unicode-patched. Unfortunately, downgrading the rxvt-unicode package doesn't seem to help. To have at least a temporary solution, I'd like to know at least which packages I could try to downgrade as well. Any ideas, anyone?
greez,
maxmin
Last edited by Maximalminimalist (2011-03-12 13:12:26)

When I try to type a non-ASCII-character I get nothing at all. This happens with my custom keyboard layout (modified programmer dvorak) and in some layouts I already tried (us: altgr-intl, ch, de and fr)
When I paste a non-ASCII characters in rxvt-unicode I get
maxmin ~ $ ?
This happens only on my x86_64 desktop which is more up to date than my i686 laptop. (I'm afraid now to do any updates.)
EDIT: I'm sorry, I don't know what you mean with locale settings. What do you mean with that?
EDIT2: Maybe just typing locale in the terminal is what you mean:
maxmin ~ $ locale
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG=en_US.utf8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8"
LC_TIME="en_US.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.utf8"
LC_NAME="en_US.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL=
With other terminal emulators I get sometimes also nothing and sometimes right displayed but wrong interpreted character in vim. I didn't take notes while doing that but I'll try again if needed.
Last edited by Maximalminimalist (2011-03-06 21:51:23)

[SOLVED]missing terminfo entry rxvt-unicode-256color

i've installed rxvt-unicode-patched 9.18-3 from aur. first i could not open any terminal because of missing rxvt-unicode-256color terminfo entry in /usr/share/terminfo/r. i fixed this by adding URxvt*termName: rxvt-256color into .Xresources, but as far as i understand, this is not the right thing to do.
what should i do?
Last edited by s0l!d (2013-08-14 15:24:28)

pacman -Qi rxvt-unicode-terminfo
Name : rxvt-unicode-terminfo
Version : 9.18-7
Beschreibung : Terminfo files for urxvt
Architektur : i686
URL : http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode.html
Lizenzen : GPL
Gruppen : Nichts
Stellt bereit : Nichts
Hängt ab von : Nichts
Optionale Abhängigkeiten: Nichts
Benötigt von : rxvt-unicode-patched
Optional für: Nichts
Konflikt mit : Nichts
Ersetzt : Nichts
Installationsgröße: 5,00 KiB
Packer : Sébastien Luttringer <[email protected]>
Erstellt am : Fr 05 Jul 2013 15:03:33 CEST
Installiert am : Do 08 Aug 2013 23:07:11 CEST
Installationsgrund : Installiert als Abhängigkeit für ein anderes Paket
Installations-Skript : Nein
Verifiziert durch: Signatur

[SOLVED] Rxvt-unicode fails to paste PRIMARY selection owned by Vim

Urxvt almost always work with the X PRIMARY selection. i.e., if I select some
text in Firefox or other applications, I will be able to paste it in urxvt.
But Vim seems to be an exception. Steps to reproduce:
1. Select some text ("foo") in Vim, either using the mouse or in visual mode.
Leave the Vim window open.
2. In another urxvt window, press Shift-Insert, _nothing_ is pasted.
Middle mouse click has the same effect as Shift-Insert in urxvt.
3. Issue the command `xsel -po`, and the text "foo" is printed. This means
the text is indeed what the X PRIMARY selection holds (or points to).
4. The text "foo" is also pasted in Firefox by middle mouse click.
The text "foo" is also pasted in xterm by either middle mouse click or
Shift-Insert.
5.1. If you do `xsel -po | xsel -pi`, urxvt will behave like everyone else.
5.2. Without doing 5.1, quit Vim (:q). After that, "foo" will be pasted in
urxvt by Shift-Insert.
What Vim does on quit is documented in its help (:h x11-cut-buffer):
Vim wrote:
There are, by default, 8 cut-buffers: CUT_BUFFER0 to CUT_BUFFER7. Vim only
uses CUT_BUFFER0, which is the one that xterm uses by default.
Whenever Vim is about to become unavailable (either via exiting or becoming
suspended), and thus unable to respond to another application's selection
request, it writes the contents of any owned selection to CUT_BUFFER0. If the
"+ CLIPBOARD selection is owned by Vim, then this is written in preference,
otherwise if the "* PRIMARY selection is owned by Vim, then that is written.
My guesses are:
* Urxvt somehow requires the cut buffer (CUT_BUFFER0) to sync with the
PRIMARY selection, otherwise it will fail to request the PRIMARY selection.
* The reason why text selected from applications other than Vim can be pasted
just fine in urxvt is probably that they always sync the cut buffer with the
PRIMARY selection.
I may be wrong, so please do comment.
If my conclusion proves to be right, I will file a bug report to rxvt-unicode.
Edit: This issue is fixed in rxvt-unicode 9.12.
Last edited by lolilolicon (2011-07-02 16:31:45)

lolilolicon wrote:
Urxvt almost always work with the X PRIMARY selection. i.e., if I select some
text in Firefox or other applications, I will be able to paste it in urxvt.
But Vim seems to be an exception. Steps to reproduce:
1. Select some text ("foo") in Vim, either using the mouse or in visual mode.
Leave the Vim window open.
2. In another urxvt window, press Shift-Insert, _nothing_ is pasted.
Middle mouse click has the same effect as Shift-Insert in urxvt.
3. Issue the command `xsel -po`, and the text "foo" is printed. This means
the text is indeed what the X PRIMARY selection holds (or points to).
4. The text "foo" is also pasted in Firefox by middle mouse click.
The text "foo" is also pasted in xterm by either middle mouse click or
Shift-Insert.
5.1. If you do `xsel -po | xsel -pi`, urxvt will behave like everyone else.
5.2. Without doing 5.1, quit Vim (:q). After that, "foo" will be pasted in
urxvt by Shift-Insert.
What Vim does on quit is documented in its help (:h x11-cut-buffer):
Vim wrote:
There are, by default, 8 cut-buffers: CUT_BUFFER0 to CUT_BUFFER7. Vim only
uses CUT_BUFFER0, which is the one that xterm uses by default.
Whenever Vim is about to become unavailable (either via exiting or becoming
suspended), and thus unable to respond to another application's selection
request, it writes the contents of any owned selection to CUT_BUFFER0. If the
"+ CLIPBOARD selection is owned by Vim, then this is written in preference,
otherwise if the "* PRIMARY selection is owned by Vim, then that is written.
My guesses are:
* Urxvt somehow requires the cut buffer (CUT_BUFFER0) to sync with the
PRIMARY selection, otherwise it will fail to request the PRIMARY selection.
* The reason why text selected from applications other than Vim can be pasted
just fine in urxvt is probably that they always sync the cut buffer with the
PRIMARY selection.
I may be wrong, so please do comment.
If my conclusion proves to be right, I will file a bug report to rxvt-unicode.
Hi lolilolicon,
I cannot reproduce the errors from step 2. My system has the following packages:
gvim 7.3.206-1
vim-runtime 7.3.206-1
rxvt-unicode 9.12-1
To be fair, rxvt-unicode was upgraded to 9.12 recently (I think it was sometime last week), and I also recall vim's visual mode selections NOT being paste-able into a separate urxvt window. But I guess the 9.12 update fixed things. (There are a couple regression fixes with the words "selection" to describe them @ http://cvs.schmorp.de/rxvt-unicode/Changes .) I tested both gvim and regular console vim (visual mode) and it all worked. I also double-checked with `xsel -po`.

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