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Pasting 'required text' into terminal emulator results in '^[[200~required text~'
These characters are used for bracketed paste mode. Some terminal-based programs enable this mode so that they could distinguish pasted text from directly typed text.
For example, text editors ...
17
votes
rxvt - how to clear scrollback
If you want to clear the scroll-back by pressing Ctrl-L, add this to your ~/.Xresources
URxvt.keysym.Control-l: command:\033c
This is like running:
echo -ne '\033c'
However it outputs the text to ...
15
votes
Get Ctrl+Arrow to work under tmux+urxvt
Add this to your .Xdefaults
URxvt.keysym.Control-Up: \033[1;5A
URxvt.keysym.Control-Down: \033[1;5B
URxvt.keysym.Control-Left: \033[1;5D
URxvt.keysym.Control-Right: \033[1;5C
URxvt will now ...
13
votes
Emacs key for Home & End
These worked for me:
(global-set-key (kbd "<home>") 'beginning-of-line)
(global-set-key (kbd "<end>") 'end-of-line)
11
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Pasting 'required text' into terminal emulator results in '^[[200~required text~'
There is an additional way that this problem can manifest. Readline's ~/.inputrc file can contain the following:
set enable-bracketed-paste On
This is not fixed by any of the above methods and has ...
8
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How to configure rxvt-unicode to behave similar to gnome-terminal? (or other's from xfce/mate)
Attempt to answer own question:
Matches gnome-shell, with grey on black colors set.
Details:
RMB to launch URL (to allow regular LMB/MMB paste).
Ctrl-Shift-C/V for copy-paste.
Ctrl +/- to zoom fonts,...
7
votes
urxvt settings - reload without restarting terminal?
I created a Perl extension that reloads urxvt configuration upon recieving SIGUSR1: https://github.com/regnarg/urxvt-config-reload
Currently it supports only reloading color configuration but other ...
6
votes
Fixed highlighting in tmux
I run urxvt in arch linux. The op's answer did not help me. This helped me:
https://github.com/tmux/tmux/blob/2.1/FAQ#L355-L383
search for italic and run that; then, put this in tmux config
set -g ...
6
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Display unicode in tmux?
Would you please try the following and see if it helps?
rename .tmux.conf to something else
set LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
Clarification:
I have seen the existence of ~/.tmux.conf may cause problem so just ...
5
votes
Some unicode symbols still not displayed with urxvt or xterm
Fernando Basso's answer already helped me a lot. However, as he also pointed out, I still could not get all the glyphs to work. Especially the symbol indicating the line in airline (㏑) didn't work ...
5
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Some unicode symbols still not displayed with urxvt or xterm
What I do here to get the glyphs I need working on urxvt is to add more fonts in the font list:
URxvt.font: xft:Ubuntu Mono:pixelsize=18:antialias=true:hinting=true,\
xft:Source Code Pro:...
5
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How to disable urxvt autoscroll on output?
I see that the question was posted a year ago, but it is at the top of my search results.
I've found and using this config:
URxvt*scrollTtyOutput: false
URxvt*scrollWithBuffer: true
URxvt*...
5
votes
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How to disable the bell in urxvt?
I was able to disable the bell on GNOME with the command:
$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences audible-bell false
In general, the PC speaker page from the ArchWiki appears to have a ...
4
votes
Pasting 'required text' into terminal emulator results in '^[[200~required text~'
This seems to work for me (though it doesn't make sense)
In my ubuntu Mate Terminal I go Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts
goto
Paste - the keys are already mapped to Shift+Ctrl+V
I select and re-enter by ...
4
votes
urxvt triple-click not selecting lines as expected
Fixed by disabling the selection Perl extension.
I was under the misapprehension that -pe "" would disable all extensions (I think I read this somewhere), but it doesn't.
In fact I'm not sure ...
3
votes
Mouse wheel scrolling in less and vim using urxvt
I wrote this for a very similar question, see https://superuser.com/a/1356948/900060
Paste this in $HOME/.urxvt/ext/vtwheel (create the file if it doesn't exist):
#! perl
# Implements a scrollwheel ...
2
votes
How can I prevent or interrupt accidental copy/paste in the terminal?
Using urxvt makes this very easy. Simply enable confirm-paste in your .Xresources.
URxvt.perl-ext-common: confirm-paste,
I think it comes with certain packages of urxvt or urxvt perls... But ...
2
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How can I make a searchable shortcuts cheat sheet?
This is hard to answer, because depending on your workflow, what works for you and what works for others may be vastly different. But I'm going to go ahead and make a recommendation: If you do most ...
2
votes
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Close prompt for urxvt
A perl script did the trick. I ended up with this:
#!/usr/bin/perl
sub on_wm_delete_window {
my ($self, $event) = @_;
my $CP = `ps --ppid $self->{shell_pid} -o pid= | wc -l`;
chomp $...
2
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Rendering of unicode symbols in urxvt (height / width) vs. gnome-terminal
The different heights are expected, just like the issue that too wide symbols are replaced with a square symbol..
I've asked about this on the rxvt-unicode mailing list a while ago (Q4 2004), and ...
2
votes
How to prevent terminal from closing after command exits?
workon is a function (not a separate executable) for a reason: its job is to set something in the current shell. I don't use the tool and I don't know the details. It's irrelevant if it sets variables,...
1
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Pasting 'required text' into terminal emulator results in '^[[200~required text~'
To stop this on Ubuntu 22.04, I added this line to ~/.inputrc:
"\C-v": ""
For me, my clipboard manager (Diodon) would always send a Ctrl+V to the terminal, after which I would ...
1
vote
Urxvt with weird colors in Vim
tldr: Workaround - set term to 88 color mode.
I've also had issues like this. I found that urxvt as provided in centos(7, and 8-stream) only supports 88 color mode. It even provides the symlink /usr/...
1
vote
Missing parts of utf-8 charset in urxvt with VcXsrv
The problem comes from using characters which are in the Private Use plane of Unicode, which is not guaranteed to have anything particular in that. Windows XP systems could explicitly edit the fonts ...
1
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How do I map Ctrl + F8 in vim?
[After testing, I have transferred my comment to an answer.]
Your set command is not using the same value as your scancode. Also, you need to be sure you're using an escape character instead of the ...
1
vote
How to execute command on urxvt startup
If you want to put that into your .bashrc file, it would be improved a little:
you should ensure that the string is directed to the terminal
also, the shell should be interactive (in case some script ...
1
vote
How do I "unbind" Ctrl+BackSpace in URxvt?
I simply managed to unbind it with
URxvt.keysym.C-BackSpace: command:\000
Remember to do xrdb ~/.Xresources and restart urxvt.
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