On Mon, September 26, 2011 13:18, chris (fool) mccraw wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 13:48, Rich Shepard <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>   Is anyone here familiar with urxvt (rxvt-unicode)specifically?
>
> yup, i use it exclusively.
>
> I just
>> added that package to my system in hope of resolving the problem of
>> accents
>> not displaying in virtual terminals and alpine, and seeing X in spaces
>> in
>> some received messages to which I compose a reply.
>
> i can't remember the path that led me to it, but it was a variety of
> display issues with international text vs gnu screen as i recall.
> anyway, it did solve those problems and bring new ones :/.  still
> overall it is an upgrade for me.
>
>
>>   I've read the man pages but am not sure just what options to specify
>> (and
>> I think they all go in ~/.Xdefaults) to return the console font to
>> legibility and return the color of directory names back to yellow (as
>> set in
>> /etc/DIR_COLORS) from the blue to which urxvt changed it.
>
> i specify almost all my options in .Xdefaults.  i set a few via the
> command line, but they're the same as xterm command line
> flags--nothing about the font or colors on the command line.
>
>>   There is no 'showfont' command here so I don't have any idea what
>> console
>> fonts are available to me. I use 10x20 which was quite clear and
>> readable
>> with rxvt windows but is larger and much less clear in the urxvt
>> windows.
>
> hmm.  my font looked the same in rxvt/urxvt, although urxvt has an
> annoying propensity for bolding it at times--this fortunately stopped
> being a problem at some point (now works fine under screen, whereas it
> used to kind of trash my display under termcap-heavy apps like
> screen/vim/centerim).  you might look for a font that has no bold, or
> to somehow set the bold font to the normal font to work around that
> tendency if that happens to be the problem you are experiencing.
>
> to actually answer one of your questions, i explicitly change some of
> the colors (dark blue is not visible against my preferred black
> background) in my .Xdefaults like so:
>
> *Rxvt.colorUL:          Cyan3
> *Rxvt.color4:           RoyalBlue
> *Rxvt.color12:          RoyalBlue
>
> (affects Rxvt as well as uRxvt.  URxvt* appears to be the appropriate
> Xdefaults class if you just want to affect uRxvt).
>
> wish i could recall where i got the font color lists--might have been
> in the well-hidden urxvt(7) man page--this is not the same as the
> urxvt(1) man page.  you might check it out for more info (man 7 urxvt)
>
> let me know how it goes!
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You might want to look at /etc/X11/rgb.txt for the list of colors.
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