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! > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >
You might want to look at /etc/X11/rgb.txt for the list of colors. -- Timothy J. Bruce visit my Website at: http://www.tbruce.com Registered Linux User #325725 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
