Revisiting urxvt
January 1st, 2009 | Published in Personal | 7 Comments
Back in the day, way back in the day, I was a huge rxvt and aterm fan. Tonight, while being bored, I fired up my old Debian Potato desktop (ahh the good ‘ol days), and started playing around. I have to admit, even though KDE was ancient, and my setup was old, it still looked good. With the PC being an old Pentium 133 with a whopping 64MB of RAM, and no Internet connection, there was no way I was going to play around with trying to get a screen shot. So after some tweaking this is what I got so far:
Not to shabby. I must admit, I like this old look and will keep it for a while and see if it wears thin on me or not.
Interested in a similar effect? Here is my ~/.Xdefaults file:
URxvt.termName: rxvt URxvt.transparent: true URxvt.inheritPixmap: false URxvt.scrollBar: false URxvt.savelines: 1000 URxvt.urlLauncher: firefox URxvt.cursorBlink: true URxvt.geometry: 93x26 URxvt.fading: 25% urxvt.font: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:pixelsize=10 urxvt.boldfont: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:bold:pixelsize=10 urxvt.depth: 32 urxvt.background: rgba:0000/0000/0000/dddd URxvt.foreground: grey80 URxvt.tintColor: #262626 URxvt.borderLess: true URxvt.borderColor: #888888 *foreground: rgba:0000/0000/0000/dddd *background: rgb:10/10/10 !black *color0: rgb:20/20/20 *color8: rgb:75/77/73 !!red *color1: rgb:cc/00/00 *color9: rgb:ef/29/29 !!green *color2: rgb:4e/9a/06 *color10: rgb:8a/e2/34 !!brown/yellow *color3: rgb:c4/a0/00 *color11: rgb:fc/e9/4f !!blue *color4: rgb:34/65/a4 *color12: rgb:72/9f/cf !!magenta *color5: rgb:75/50/7b *color13: rgb:ad/7f/a8 !!cyan *color6: rgb:06/98/9a *color14: rgb:34/e2/e2 !!white *color7: rgb:d3/d7/cf *color15: rgb:ee/ee/ec
January 4th, 2009 at 23:56:12 (#)
How about Mutt and irssi (?) rc files?
January 5th, 2009 at 00:49:30 (#)
If you are interested in my mutt rc files and my irssi config stuff, I would be more than happy to place everything up somewhere for people to view.
January 10th, 2009 at 04:03:50 (#)
How about your KMenu icon? Is there any place i can visit to get it?
Sorry oot, just curious he he he…
This is not oot, does konsole could do like your rxvt did? I like the style, nice..
January 10th, 2009 at 11:59:49 (#)
http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/Kubuntu+start+button?content=92234
April 6th, 2009 at 02:59:08 (#)
I am using your code in my .Xdefaults — it seems my resizing and window moving options are gone now.. Any ideas?
June 25th, 2009 at 07:07:43 (#)
Shawn: “URxvt.borderLess: true” probably gets rid of your window border, so you can’t resize like that…if you mean that the client menu (one you get when right clicking the title bar) doesn’t let you resize/move then maybe deleting the line “URxvt.geometry: 93×26″ might help?
July 4th, 2009 at 02:10:29 (#)
Hi,
Now my urxvt terminal looks superb. Thanks for sharing your ~/.Xdefaults.
Please share Mutt and irssi rc files too.
Thanks