"#rxvt-unicode" has some rxvt-unicode enthusiasts that might be
interested in learning about new and exciting problems (but not FAQs :).
+ I use Gentoo, and I have a problem...
+ There are three big problems with Gentoo Linux: first of all, most if
+ not all Gentoo systems are completely broken (missing or mismatched
+ header files, broken compiler etc. are just the tip of the iceberg);
+ secondly, the Gentoo maintainer thinks it is a good idea to add broken
+ patches to the code; and lastly, it should be called Gentoo GNU/Linux.
+
+ For these reasons, it is impossible to support rxvt-unicode on Gentoo.
+ Problems appearing on Gentoo systems will usually simply be ignored
+ unless they can be reproduced on non-Gentoo systems.
+
Does it support tabs, can I have a tabbed rxvt-unicode?
Beginning with version 7.3, there is a perl extension that implements a
simple tabbed terminal. It is installed by default, so any of these
How do I compile the manual pages on my own?
You need to have a recent version of perl installed as /usr/bin/perl,
- one that comes with pod2man, pod2text and pod2xhtml (from Pod::XHTML).
+ one that comes with pod2man, pod2text and pod2xhtml (from Pod::Xhtml).
Then go to the doc subdirectory and enter "make alldoc".
Isn't rxvt-unicode supposed to be small? Don't all those features bloat?
libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x00002aaaaabc3000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00002aaaaada2000)
- libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00002aaaaaeb0000)
- libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00002aaaab0ee000)
- /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00002aaaaaaab000)
+ libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00002aaaaaeb0000)
+ libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00002aaaab0ee000)
+ /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00002aaaaaaab000)
No large bloated libraries (of course, none were linked in statically),
except maybe libX11 :)
Rendering, Font & Look and Feel Issues
I can't get transparency working, what am I doing wrong?
- First of all, transparency isn't officially supported in rxvt-unicode,
- so you are mostly on your own. Do not bug the author about it (but you
- may bug everybody else). Also, if you can't get it working consider it a
- rite of passage: ... and you failed.
+ First of all, please address all transparency related issues to Sasha
+ Vasko at sasha@aftercode.net and do not bug the author about it. Also,
+ if you can't get it working consider it a rite of passage: ... and you
+ failed.
Here are four ways to get transparency. Do read the manpage and option
descriptions for the programs mentioned and rxvt-unicode. Really, do it!
- 1. Use inheritPixmap:
+ 1. Use transparent mode:
Esetroot wallpaper.jpg
- urxvt -ip -tint red -sh 40
+ urxvt -tr -tint red -sh 40
That works. If you think it doesn't, you lack transparency and tinting
support, or you are unable to read.
to use effects other than tinting and shading: Just shade/tint/whatever
your picture with gimp or any other tool:
- convert wallpaper.jpg -blur 20x20 -modulate 30 background.xpm
- urxvt -pixmap background.xpm -pe automove-background
+ convert wallpaper.jpg -blur 20x20 -modulate 30 background.jpg
+ urxvt -pixmap "background.jpg;:root"
- That works. If you think it doesn't, you lack XPM and Perl support, or
- you are unable to read.
+ That works. If you think it doesn't, you lack AfterImage support, or you
+ are unable to read.
3. Use an ARGB visual:
standard foreground colour.
For the standard background colour, blinking will actually make the text
- blink when compiled with "--enable-blinking". with standard colours.
- Without "--enable-blinking", the blink attribute will be ignored.
+ blink when compiled with "--enable-text-blink". Without
+ "--enable-text-blink", the blink attribute will be ignored.
On ANSI colours, bold/blink attributes are used to set high-intensity
foreground/background colors.
Until then, you might get away with switching fonts at runtime (see "Can
I switch the fonts at runtime?" later in this document).
+ How can I make mplayer display video correctly?
+ We are working on it, in the meantime, as a workaround, use something
+ like:
+
+ urxvt -b 600 -geometry 20x1 -e sh -c 'mplayer -wid $WINDOWID file...'
+
Keyboard, Mouse & User Interaction
The new selection selects pieces that are too big, how can I select single words?
If you want to select e.g. alphanumeric words, you can use the following
URxvt.selection.pattern-0: ([^"&'()*,;<=>?@[\\\\]^`{|})]+)
- Please also note that the *LeftClick Shift-LeftClik* combination also
+ Please also note that the *LeftClick Shift-LeftClick* combination also
selects words like the old code.
I don't like the new selection/popups/hotkeys/perl, how do I change/disable it?
In this case either do not specify a preeditStyle or specify more than
one pre-edit style, such as OverTheSpot,Root,None.
+ If it still doesn't work, then maybe your input method doesn't support
+ compose sequences - to fall back to the built-in one, make sure you
+ don't specify an input method via "-im" or "XMODIFIERS".
+
I cannot type "Ctrl-Shift-2" to get an ASCII NUL character due to ISO 14755
Either try "Ctrl-2" alone (it often is mapped to ASCII NUL even on
international keyboards) or simply use ISO 14755 support to your
IRC*keysym.M-C-1: command:\033]710;suxuseuro\007\033]711;suxuseuro\007
IRC*keysym.M-C-2: command:\033]710;9x15bold\007\033]711;9x15bold\007
- "Alt-Shift-1" and "Alt-Shift-2" switch between two different font sizes.
+ "Alt-Ctrl-1" and "Alt-Ctrl-2" switch between two different font sizes.
"suxuseuro" allows me to keep an eye (and actually read) stuff while
keeping a very small window. If somebody pastes something complicated
(e.g. japanese), I temporarily switch to a larger font.
arises).
The correct solution for this problem is to install the terminfo, this
- can be done like this (with ncurses' infocmp and works as user and
- admin):
+ can be done by simply installing rxvt-unicode on the remote system as
+ well (in case you have a nice package manager ready), or you can install
+ the terminfo database manually like this (with ncurses infocmp. works as
+ user and root):
REMOTE=remotesystem.domain
infocmp rxvt-unicode | ssh $REMOTE "mkdir -p .terminfo && cat >/tmp/ti && tic /tmp/ti"
- ... or by installing rxvt-unicode normally on the remote system,
-
One some systems you might need to set $TERMINFO to the full path of
$HOME/.terminfo for this to work.
If you don't plan to use rxvt (quite common...) you could also replace
the rxvt terminfo file with the rxvt-unicode one and use "TERM=rxvt".
+ nano fails with "Error opening terminal: rxvt-unicode"
+ This exceptionally confusing and useless error message is printed by
+ nano when it can't find the terminfo database. Nothing is wrong with
+ your terminal, read the previous answer for a solution.
+
"tic" outputs some error when compiling the terminfo entry.
Most likely it's the empty definition for "enacs=". Just replace it by
"enacs=\E[0@" and try again.
infocmp -C rxvt-unicode
- Or you could use this termcap entry, generated by the command above:
-
- rxvt-unicode|rxvt-unicode terminal (X Window System):\
- :am:bw:eo:km:mi:ms:xn:xo:\
- :co#80:it#8:li#24:lm#0:\
- :AL=\E[%dL:DC=\E[%dP:DL=\E[%dM:DO=\E[%dB:IC=\E[%d@:\
- :K1=\EOw:K2=\EOu:K3=\EOy:K4=\EOq:K5=\EOs:LE=\E[%dD:\
- :RI=\E[%dC:SF=\E[%dS:SR=\E[%dT:UP=\E[%dA:ae=\E(B:al=\E[L:\
- :as=\E(0:bl=^G:cd=\E[J:ce=\E[K:cl=\E[H\E[2J:\
- :cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:cr=^M:cs=\E[%i%d;%dr:ct=\E[3g:dc=\E[P:\
- :dl=\E[M:do=^J:ec=\E[%dX:ei=\E[4l:ho=\E[H:\
- :i1=\E[?47l\E=\E[?1l:ic=\E[@:im=\E[4h:\
- :is=\E[r\E[m\E[2J\E[H\E[?7h\E[?1;3;4;6l\E[4l:\
- :k1=\E[11~:k2=\E[12~:k3=\E[13~:k4=\E[14~:k5=\E[15~:\
- :k6=\E[17~:k7=\E[18~:k8=\E[19~:k9=\E[20~:kD=\E[3~:\
- :kI=\E[2~:kN=\E[6~:kP=\E[5~:kb=\177:kd=\EOB:ke=\E[?1l\E>:\
- :kh=\E[7~:kl=\EOD:kr=\EOC:ks=\E[?1h\E=:ku=\EOA:le=^H:\
- :mb=\E[5m:md=\E[1m:me=\E[m\017:mr=\E[7m:nd=\E[C:rc=\E8:\
- :sc=\E7:se=\E[27m:sf=^J:so=\E[7m:sr=\EM:st=\EH:ta=^I:\
- :te=\E[r\E[?1049l:ti=\E[?1049h:ue=\E[24m:up=\E[A:\
- :us=\E[4m:vb=\E[?5h\E[?5l:ve=\E[?25h:vi=\E[?25l:\
- :vs=\E[?25h:
+ Or you could use the termcap entry in doc/etc/rxvt-unicode.termcap,
+ generated by the command above.
Why does "ls" no longer have coloured output?
The "ls" in the GNU coreutils unfortunately doesn't use terminfo to
xprop -root XIM_SERVERS
- *
+
My input method wants <some encoding> but I want UTF-8, what can I do?
You can specify separate locales for the input method and the rest of
main(), or things like the dynamic loader of your system, which should
result in very little risk.
- On Solaris 9, many line-drawing characters are too wide.
- Seems to be a known bug, read
- <http://nixdoc.net/files/forum/about34198.html>. Some people use the
- following ugly workaround to get non-double-wide-characters working:
-
- #define wcwidth(x) wcwidth(x) > 1 ? 1 : wcwidth(x)
-
I am on FreeBSD and rxvt-unicode does not seem to work at all.
Rxvt-unicode requires the symbol "__STDC_ISO_10646__" to be defined in
your compile environment, or an implementation that implements it,
wchar_t. This is, of course, completely fine with respect to standards.
However, that means rxvt-unicode only works in "POSIX", "ISO-8859-1" and
- "UTF-8" locales under FreeBSD (which all use Unicode as wchar_t.
+ "UTF-8" locales under FreeBSD (which all use Unicode as wchar_t).
"__STDC_ISO_10646__" is the only sane way to support multi-language apps
in an OS, as using a locale-dependent (and non-standardized)
system libraries once and for all, instead of forcing every app to carry
complete replacements for them :)
- I use Solaris 9 and it doesn't compile/work/etc.
- Try the diff in doc/solaris9.patch as a base. It fixes the worst
- problems with "wcwidth" and a compile problem.
-
How can I use rxvt-unicode under cygwin?
rxvt-unicode should compile and run out of the box on cygwin, using the
X11 libraries that come with cygwin. libW11 emulation is no longer
multi-byte encodings (you might try "LC_CTYPE=C-UTF-8"), so you are
likely limited to 8-bit encodings.
+ Character widths are not correct.
+ urxvt uses the system wcwidth function to know the information about the
+ width of characters, so on systems with incorrect locale data you will
+ likely get bad results. Two notorious examples are Solaris 9, where
+ single-width characters like U+2514 are reported as double-width, and
+ Darwin 8, where combining chars are reported having width 1.
+
+ The solution is to upgrade your system or switch to a better one. A
+ possibly working workaround is to use a wcwidth implementation like
+
+ http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/wcwidth.c
+
+ I want 256 colors
+ Are you sure you need 256 colors? 88 colors should be enough for most
+ purposes. If you really need more, there is an unsupported patch for it
+ in the doc directory, but please do not ask for it to be applied.
+
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