alt to aterm with transparency and utf support [SOLVED]

gnychis · Last edited by gnychis on Thu Aug 03, 2006 11:12 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hey guys,

I've used aterm for about 3 years now and its been able to satisfy all my needs! However, I have a new need... utf support, which aterm lacks. I was wondering what is another light weight terminal like aterm, that supports transparency, with utf support.

Thanks!
George
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swimmer · Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 7:12 pm Post subject:

Hi,

I can only recommend rxvt-unicode

gnychis · Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 7:48 pm Post subject:

awesome, seems to be what i need

it doesn't seem to read my ~/.Xdefaults file though, what do i need to do to get it to read it?

it contains the font and settings i want it to use, which xterm and aterm read from
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Kenji Miyamoto · Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 7:52 pm Post subject:

It should use the ~/.Xdefaults file:

i92guboj · Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 7:58 pm Post subject:

swimmer · Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 7:59 pm Post subject:

I use URxvt-resources in .Xdefaults and it works like a charm

gnychis · Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 8:36 pm Post subject:

ahhh okay, you're right, it is reading it

http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/gnychis/terms.png

I have two last requests... here is a screenshot of my aterm, xterm, and urxvt terminals

Notice how xterm and aterm have a title that is my "username@hostname path" but urxvt doesn't, any ideas how to get it to do this?

Second, in the actual shell itself, to the left of my cursor everything is bold in xterm and aterm, but not in urxvt

Thanks!
George

swimmer · Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 8:53 pm Post subject:

1: I guess you are not logged in ...
you could use "URxvt*loginShell: true" in your ~/.Xdefaults

2: I can only guess again ;-)

Check you $PS1 and see if you can fix it there ...

HTH
swimmer

gnychis · Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 9:19 pm Post subject:

i'm confused, how can i not be logged in? I tried putting that in Xdefaults but still don't get what i expect in my title

gnychis · Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 9:20 pm Post subject:

oh, and if i specify a bold font like you do in your config, my shell info does show up in bold, however how come i can't get the current font to show bold like the other two terminals can get it to?
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gnychis · Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 9:39 pm Post subject:

okay, i fixed the bold problem with this:
URxvt*boldFont: fixed 10 Pitch:style=Bold:pixelsize=14
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swimmer · Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 9:56 pm Post subject:

Uh sorry - I meant with "1:" and "2:" your first and second request ;-)

And indeed - regarding "2:" I forgot to think on the bold font :-/
I am glad that you resolved it anyway ...

My comments in "1:" were meant to solve your problem with the title ... if I do an 'urxvt +ls' I don't have any titles as well. So please try the solution above and report if that worked.

Greetz
swimmer

gnychis · Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 10:58 pm Post subject:

i see... i have "URxvt*loginShell: true" in my ~/.Xdefaults but no luck with it :\
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i92guboj · Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 11:06 pm Post subject:

gnychis · Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 11:12 pm Post subject:

awesome, your question lead to my solution

its exported in ~/.bashrc, and what used to be:

i92guboj · Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 11:24 pm Post subject:

Yeah! that's what I thought. Im glad that the thing is working nicely now.

Enjoy urxvt, the finest term ever!

Regards.

swimmer · Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 11:40 pm Post subject:

You're welcome and have fun!!!

swimmer