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Prevent terminal from giving information about its background, so that Vim always sets bg=light (default)
I use Rxvt-Unicode and set background to black in .Xdefaults. Vim detects that, cf. help 'background' : "dark" is used when 'term' is "linux", "screen.linux", "...
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URXVT tab feature cuts off bottom of terminal
In Ubuntu Focal with X server, I am using URXVT and I have enabled the tabs feature URxvt.perl-ext: tabbedalt URxvt.perl-ext-common: default,tabbed However, it cuts off the bottom ...
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With urxvt: unable to prevent title in title bar from being overwritten
I'm using urxvt version 9.22 under Ubuntu 20.04.1. Even though I use -title MYTITLE on the urxvt command line, and even though I set the following Xresource ... URxvt.insecure: false ... the title in ...
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URxvt not pulling from .Xresources when starting X. Issue with .xinitrc?
I have my DWM Archbox configured to launch a URXVT terminal when X is started. I have URXVT configured just how I like through my .Xresources file. Below is my .xinitrc #! /bin/sh exec xrdb -merge ~/....
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Disable automatically copying selection to clipboard in urxvt
There are 2 kind of clipboards on my os (manjaro i3). Xclip, which keeps the last selected text, and the regular clipboard which must be explicitly copied. I have noticed urxvt copies selected text in ...
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How can I have colored emoji in URxvt?
Let me first clarify that xfce4-terminal does show colored emojis on the very same system for which I ask the question. URxvt, on the other hand, doesn't show them. Based on archlinux wiki, Emojis ...
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echo checkmark in shellscript (zsh) how-to
Why is this checkmark not printed correctly when executing my shellscript, even though echo alone outputs corrctly? script: #!/bin/sh YELLOW='\033[1;33m' NC='\033[0m' # no color echo "enter your ...
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Confused On Colors Xterm Vs Zsh - How to set Xterm without breaking Zsh colors?
I am confused by the color settings for xterm (or uxvt in my case but uses the same) verus the zsh PROMPT colors. If I change the xterm colors then it changes the zsh prompt colors and I think it ...
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