How do you customize rxvt?

[djnrempel]

I want to change the colours in rxvt - can anyone tell me how to do that?

[alienjeff]

rxvt --help

man rxvt

google

[DaveS]

If you add this text under the 'savelines' entry in /root/.Xdefaults the colours will change to those you specify. Mine is for black background, white text

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Rxvt*background: black
Rxvt*foreground: white
Rxvt*scrollColor: black
Rxvt*scrollBar_right: true

[djnrempel]

Thanks!

[[MOB]Trip]

cool

[Gorilla no baka]

rxvt --help

man rxvt

google

And don`t forget...

Count your blessings... !!!

[djnrempel]

rxvt --help

man rxvt

google

As the 'computer guy' in my own office, I can identify with the impatience behind a "RTFM" response like this. And I generally do try to search for an answer before I ask others for help.

In this case however, google did not produce anything. Perhaps I didn't use the right search terms.. rxvt --help produces a list of options, but does not tell you where to set them. man rxvt leads to a web page where the word "Manual" is not an active link, though it looks like it should be. I clicked on the "New Site" link which brought me to sf.net, clicked on "Support", only to be told that "Unfortunately, this project hasn't indicated the best way to get help."

But now, because I asked, we have a handy thread that others have already found, searching for the same answer I was.

All that is to say: yes, I know I should RTFM, but in this case "TFM" did not get me anywhere.

/off-topic

I now am using Dave's config, except I made my text green, because I like it to look really old-school. Well, maybe it should be amber in that case.

[djnrempel]

This page gives useful documentation of the options displayed by rxvt --help: http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/rxvt1.html

Through this, I found three more options I want to tweak:

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Rxvt*scrollBar_floating: true
Rxvt*title: consolepup
Rxvt*geometry: 80x65

The geometry option makes the window open with 65 lines of space - so when you type something like rxvt --help, you can actually see most of the output at once.

title lets me have the window named the much friendlier "consolepup" instead of "rxvt"

And scrollBar_floating removes the "trough" from the scrollbar, which looks nicer IMO. I also changed the scrollbar color to grey, instead of having a grey trough with a black scrollbar as before. This was confusing, because it looked like the grey trough was the scroll bar, because the black scrollbar just looked like more background.

Here's my complete .Xdefaults file. The top section is the one's I've played with, the bottom section I'm not sure how to work:

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!warning, needs about 500 bytes per line for scrollback buffer...
Rxvt*saveLines: 1000
Rxvt*background: black
Rxvt*foreground: green
Rxvt*scrollColor: grey
Rxvt*scrollBar_right: true
Rxvt*scrollBar_floating: true
Rxvt*title: consolepup
Rxvt*geometry: 80x65
Rxvt*colorUL: green
!Rxvt*reverseVideo: true

Rxvt*keysym.0xFF50:\001
Rxvt*keysym.0xFF57:\005
!Rxvt*menu: /root/.rxvt.menu
! idea here is 7x14 only iso8859-1, xft:mono fills in other characters...
URxvt.font: x:7x14,xft:mono
!URxvt.font: xft:mono:pixelsize=14
URxvt.boldFont: x:7x14,xft:mono
URxvt.italicFont: xft:mono:italic:autohint=true

Now I'd just like to tweak the colours output by the ls command. Maybe that's set in options for 'ls'?

[DaveS]

I now am using Dave's config, except I made my text green, because I like it to look really old-school. Well, maybe it should be amber in that case.

I like black backgrounds because it makes the command line look scary

I THINK you can use a Hex colour here too, so try menu>graphic>gtcolorchooser to get exactly the colour you want. As for searching, use this (bookmark it), a brilliant way to search this forum http://wellminded.com/puppy/pupsearch.html

[DaveS]

Double post

[djnrempel]

As for searching, use this (bookmark it), a brilliant way to search this forum http://wellminded.com/puppy/pupsearch.html

I'm running Puppies 4.3.1 which has Firefox 3.5.2 with Murga forum search in the search box - that would produce the same results, no?

[djnrempel]

Okay, LS_colors explained explains the options. To set them, add this to ~/.bashrc:

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alias ls='ls --color'
LS_COLORS='di=1:fi=0:ln=31:pi=5:so=5:bd=5:cd=5:or=31:mi=0:ex=35'
export LS_COLORS

I got an error when I inserted spaces, so don't do that. Note that 0 is the default color.

For quick reference, the codes are:

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di 	 Directory
fi 	File
ln 	Symbolic Link
pi 	Fifo file
so 	Socket file
bd 	Block (buffered) special file
cd 	Character (unbuffered) special file
or 	Symbolic Link pointing to a non-existent file (orphan)
mi 	Non-existent file pointed to by a symbolic link (visible when you type ls -l)
ex 	File which is executable (ie. has 'x' set in permissions). 
*.pet  - all files with extension pet (or  whatever you want to set

And the colours are:

0 = Default Colour
1 = Bold
4 = Underlined
5 = Flashing Text
7 = Reverse Field
31 = Red
32 = Green
33 = Orange
34 = Blue
35 = Purple
36 = Cyan
37 = Grey
40 = Black Background
41 = Red Background
42 = Green Background
43 = Orange Background
44 = Blue Background
45 = Purple Background
46 = Cyan Background
47 = Grey Background
90 = Dark Grey
91 = Light Red
92 = Light Green
93 = Yellow
94 = Light Blue
95 = Light Purple
96 = Turquoise
100 = Dark Grey Background
101 = Light Red Background
102 = Light Green Background
103 = Yellow Background
104 = Light Blue Background
105 = Light Purple Background
106 = Turquoise Background

These codes can also be combined with one another:
di=5;34;43

Setting the LS_COLORS di parameter to the above example will make directories appear in flashing blue text with an orange background (just because flashing text is available doesn't mean you should use it!)

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[jangirke]

puppy linux rxvt configure prompt 4.3.1

Do You know how to set up the promt to show the directory I am at?

[trapster]

Try this in your /root/.bashrc file:

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export PS1="\[\e[32;1m\]\T: \w > \[\e[0m\]"

and this in your /root/.Xdefaults file:

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Rxvt*keysym.0xFF50:\001
Rxvt*keysym.0xFF57:\005
!Rxvt*menu: /root/.rxvt.menu
Rxvt*saveLines: 1000
Rxvt.background: "black"
Rxvt.foreground: "white smoke"

[Béèm]

Cool, trapster.
In dpup the part of .Xdefaults was already there.

But still a question.
How can I get the time in 24 hour format?

[Kal]

Hi Béèm,

For JWM go to /root/.jwmrc-tray (hidden file, left click eye in rox toolbar) and edit this line with text editor, at the bottom to read like this:

<Clock format="%H:%M ">minixcal</Clock>

I believe that should work. Restart JWM.

[Béèm]

Hi Béèm,

For JWM go to /root/.jwmrc-tray (hidden file, left click eye in rox toolbar) and edit this line with text editor, at the bottom to read like this:

<Clock format="%H:%M ">minixcal</Clock>

I believe that should work. Restart JWM.

Thanks I know that and that's how I operate, but my question was how the get the 24 hour clock format in the script trapster proposed. Thus having it in the rxvt terminal.

[Kal]

Try changing the upper case "T" to lower case "t" in the code, like so:

export PS1="\[\e[32;1m\]\t: \w > \[\e[0m\]"

[Béèm]

Thanks, that did it.
Lines of code like this are really Chinese for me.

[CatDude]

Hello Béèm

...Lines of code like this are really Chinese for me.

You, me, and plenty of others too i should think.

You may find this page useful (i did): http://www.pantz.org/software/shell/enhancingshellprompt.html

CatDude
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