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Urxvt is a rxvt-unicode (Urxvt for short) terminal emulator for the X Window System, also available for Windows in the form of a Cygwin port.

Urxvt is a rxvt-unicode (Urxvt for short) terminal emulator for the X Window System, also available for Windows in the form of a Cygwin port.

RXVT was originally written by Rob Nation and later extensively modified by Mark Olesen, who took over maintenance for several years. It is intended to be a slimmed-down alternate for xterm, omitting some of its little-used features.

The latter refers to the Xt resource mechanism, e.g., for binding keys. rxvt is an extended version of the older xvt terminal emulator by John Bovey.

The name originally stood for "Rob's xvt" (with XVT stands for 'X Virtual Terminal'), but was later re-dubbed "our xvt" (pronounced like the letters r-x-v-t).

Wikipedia resources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rxvt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_terminal_emulators

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How to apply an environment variable for the whole command

In my Bash terminal, I regularly execute a chain of commands. For example: cmd1 && cmd2 && cmd3 Now, I want to define an environment variable which is applied to all three commands and which only scoped to those commands. I tried: MY_VAR=abc cmd1…
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Is it possible to distinguish several Firefox browsing windows?

I use AwesomeWM, and would like to place different Firefox windows on differents tags. For instance, I would like to group a few tabs in a window for "communication websites" (Slack, Whatsapp, Mattermost, Hangouts, …), and it would stay on a…
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neovim Ctrl-Cursor key bind prints characters in rxvt terminals, does what it should in others

I have neovim configured to change the size of a split window via Ctrl-Cursor keys: keymap("n", "", ":resize -2", opts) keymap("n", "", ":resize +2", opts) keymap("n", "", ":vertical resize -2", opts) keymap("n",…
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How use colorized unicode codes in PS1 on urxvt?

I would like to have colorized PS1 (this works for me so far), but also use some special characters, when I am on git repository (and let the colors show, if it is up-to-date, have some uncommited changes, is behind master etc etc) and here it…
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Editing shell command in vim on the fly from the terminal

I just saw a video where a guy were doing some commands and then he needed to edit the command that he was currently typing in the console. It looked like he was doing some shortcut and the line that he was typing appeared in a vim buffer, ready for…
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Some key mappings for combinations with the PageUp/PageDown keys don't work

I use rxvt-unicode terminal emulator on Manjaro, and the following two mappings in my .vimrc don't work, nnoremap :tabprevious nnoremap :tabnext even though the following does work nnoremap …
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Fake Transparency in URxvt Using ImageMagick in i3

The most popular way to set your background in i3 seems to be using feh, via something like: exec_always feh --bg-fill /home/user/Pictures/wallpaper.jpg in your ~/.config/i3/config file. Then, in ~/.Xresources you can configure URxvt to be…
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Problem rendering powerline font in urxvt

I downloaded some Powerline fonts and tried to set some of those in my .Xresources file but all the time urxvt can't render some fonts. My current config is this one: URxvt*font: xft:Source\ Code\ Pro\ for\ Powerline:size=13, \ …
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Launch urxvt with python venv

So I am trying to create a script that launches a urxvt terminal and sourcing a venv/bin/activate python env at the same time like this: virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python2.7 /tmp/venv; urxvt -e sh -c "bash -c 'source /tmp/venv/bin/activate'; bash" I…
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urxvt remapping Shift-PgUp/Shift-PgDown to Shift-Control-PgUp/PgDown

has someone experience in configuring urxvt? I'm trying to figure out how to remap shift-page_up/down to control-shift-page_up/down. I figured out how to use eval perl script's scroll_down_pages/scroll_up_pages functions for that which works but…
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can not open tmux session over ssh with `urxvt -e`

when I run this command urxvt -e ssh -t my-remote-server tmux new -As default-session in rofi, urxvt will come out, and exit immeditelly. the question is: how can I keep urxvt window alive with above situation? I have tried those, and them all work…
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Identically configured urxvt has different width/font rendering on different X servers

I have two different desktop hosts connected via their DisplayPort outputs to two DisplayPort inputs on the same 4K monitor: idyllic, a small-form-factor PC using the onboard Intel HD Graphics 500 of its Celeron N3350 processor. (I've also a…
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List of control sequences in \033[ (for urxvt keysym)

I am trying to remap cursor moves and such in my terminal, using Urxvt "keysym" resource. For example, this shortcut (in my .Xresources) does previous-word : *keysym.Control-h: \033[1;5D I didn't find a complete (working) list of sequences like…
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No color scheme in tmux 2.1

if I echo $TERM from my terminal, I get rxvt-unicode-256color and tput colors shows 256. I like the custom color scheme that I have there as defined in my .Xresources file. However, when I launch tmux -2, things change. echo $TERM shows…
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ncurses in urxvt does not print repeating characters

Running an ncurses program in urxvt squeezes repeating characters in strings. For example I expect "--------" but I get "-". I have written a short program that reproduces the problem. The code is below. I have verified that the output is as correct…
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