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! Compile xft: Attempt to find a visual with the given bit depth;
! URxvt*depth: bitdepth
! Compile xft: Turn on/off double-buffering for xft (default
! URxvt*buffered: boolean
! Create the window with the specified X window geometry [default
! URxvt*geometry: geom
! Use the specified colour as the windows background colour [default
URxvt*background: #000000
! Use the specified colour as the windows foreground colour [default
URxvt*foreground: #eaeaea
! Use the specified colour for the colour value n, where 0-7
! URxvt*colorn: colour
!
! URxvt*colorBD: colour
! Use the specified colour to display bold or italic characters when
! URxvt*colorIT: colour
! Use the specified colour to display underlined characters when the
! URxvt*colorUL: colour
! If set, use the specified colour as the colour for the underline
! URxvt*underlineColor: colour
! If set, use the specified colour as the background for highlighted
! URxvt*highlightColor: colour
! If set and highlightColor is set, use the specified colour as the
! URxvt*highlightTextColor: colour
! Use the specified colour for the cursor. The default is to use the
! URxvt*cursorColor: colour
! Use the specified colour for the colour of the cursor text. For
! URxvt*cursorColor2: colour
! True: simulate reverse video by foreground and background colours;
! URxvt*reverseVideo: boolean
! True: specify that jump scrolling should be used. When receiving
! URxvt*jumpScroll: boolean
! True: (the default) specify that skip scrolling should be used.
! URxvt*skipScroll: boolean
! Fade the text by the given percentage when focus is lost; option
! URxvt*fading: number
! Fade to this colour, when fading is used (see fading:). The default
! URxvt*fadeColor: colour
! Set the application icon pixmap; option -icon.
! URxvt*iconFile: file
! Use the specified colour for the scrollbar [default #B2B2B2].
! URxvt*scrollColor: colour
! Use the specified colour for the scrollbars trough area [default
! URxvt*troughColor: colour
! The colour of the border around the text area and between the
! URxvt*borderColor: colour
! Select the fonts to be used. This is a comma separated list of font
! URxvt*font: fontlist
URxvt*font: xft:Hack-regular:pixelsize=24
! URxvt*boldFont: fontlist
!
! URxvt*italicFont: fontlist
! The font list to use for displaying bold, italic or bold italic
! URxvt*boldItalicFont: fontlist
! When font styles are not enabled, or this option is enabled (True,
! URxvt*intensityStyles: boolean
! Set window title string, the default title is the command-line
! URxvt*title: string
! Set the name used to label the windows icon or displayed in an
! URxvt*iconName: string
! True: de-iconify (map) on receipt of a bell character. False: no
! URxvt*mapAlert: boolean
! True: set the urgency hint for the wm on receipt of a bell
! URxvt*urgentOnBell: boolean
! True: use visual bell on receipt of a bell character; option -vb.
! URxvt*visualBell: boolean
! True: start as a login shell by prepending a - to argv[0] of the
! URxvt*loginShell: boolean
! Specify the maximum time in milliseconds between multi-click select
! URxvt*multiClickTime: number
! True: inhibit writing record into the system log file utmp; option
! URxvt*utmpInhibit: boolean
! Specify a command pipe for vt100 printer [default lpr(1)]. Use
! URxvt*print-pipe: string
! Set scrollbar style to rxvt, plain, next or xterm. plain is the
! URxvt*scrollstyle: mode
! Set the scrollbar width in pixels.
! URxvt*thickness: number
! True: enable the scrollbar [default]; option -sb. False: disable
! URxvt*scrollBar: boolean
! True: place the scrollbar on the right of the window; option -sr.
! URxvt*scrollBar_right: boolean
! True: display an rxvt scrollbar without a trough; option -st.
! URxvt*scrollBar_floating: boolean
! Align the top, bottom or centre [default] of the scrollbar thumb
! URxvt*scrollBar_align: mode
! True: scroll to bottom when tty receives output; option -si.
! URxvt*scrollTtyOutput: boolean
! True: scroll with scrollback buffer when tty receives new lines
! URxvt*scrollWithBuffer: boolean
! True: scroll to bottom when a non-special key is pressed. Special
! URxvt*scrollTtyKeypress: boolean
! Save number lines in the scrollback buffer [default 64]. This
! URxvt*saveLines: number
! Internal border of number pixels. This resource is limited to 100;
! URxvt*internalBorder: number
! External border of number pixels. This resource is limited to 100;
! URxvt*externalBorder: number
! Set MWM hints to request a borderless window, i.e. if honoured by
! URxvt*borderLess: boolean
! Compile frills: Disable the usage of the built-in block
! URxvt*skipBuiltinGlyphs: boolean
! Specifies the terminal type name to be set in the TERM environment
URxvt*termName: rxvt-unicode-256color
! Specifies number of lines (pixel height) to insert between each row
! URxvt*lineSpace: number
! True: handle Meta (Alt) + keypress to set the 8th bit. False:
! URxvt*meta8: boolean
! True: the mouse wheel scrolls a page full. False: the mouse wheel
! URxvt*mouseWheelScrollPage: boolean
! True: store tabs as wide characters. False: interpret tabs as
! URxvt*pastableTabs: boolean
! True: blink the cursor. False: do not blink the cursor [default];
! URxvt*cursorBlink: boolean
! True: Make the cursor underlined. False: Make the cursor a box
! URxvt*cursorUnderline: boolean
! True: blank the pointer when a key is pressed or after a set number
! URxvt*pointerBlank: boolean
! Mouse pointer foreground colour.
! URxvt*pointerColor: colour
! Mouse pointer background colour.
! URxvt*pointerColor2: colour
! Specifies number of seconds before blanking the pointer [default
! URxvt*pointerBlankDelay: number
! The string to send when the backspace key is pressed. If set to DEC
! URxvt*backspacekey: string
! The string to send when the delete key (not the keypad delete key)
! URxvt*deletekey: string
! The characters used as delimiters for double-click word selection
! URxvt*cutchars: string
!
! URxvt*{|}
! OverTheSpot, OffTheSpot, Root; option -pt.
! URxvt*preeditType: style
! name of inputMethod to use; option -im.
! URxvt*inputMethod: name
! The locale to use for opening the IM. You can use an "LC_CTYPE" of
! URxvt*imLocale: name
! Specify the font-set used for XIM styles "OverTheSpot" or
! URxvt*imFont: fontset
! Change the meaning of triple-click selection with the left mouse
! URxvt*tripleclickwords: boolean
! Enables "insecure" mode. Rxvt-unicode offers some escape sequences
! URxvt*insecure: boolean
! Set the key to be interpreted as the Meta key to: alt, meta, hyper,
! URxvt*modifier: modifier
! Specify the reply rxvt-unicode sends to the shell when an ENQ
! URxvt*answerbackString: string
! Turn on/off secondary screen (default enabled).
! URxvt*secondaryScreen: boolean
! Turn on/off secondary screen scroll (default enabled). If this
! URxvt*secondaryScroll: boolean
! Turn on/off hold window after exit support. If enabled, urxvt will
! URxvt*hold: boolean
! Sets the working directory for the shell (or the command specified
! URxvt*chdir: path
! Compile frills: Associate action with keysym sym. The intervening
! URxvt*keysym.sym: action
! URxvt*perl-ext-common: string
! Comma-separated list(s) of perl extension scripts (default:
! URxvt*perl-ext: string
! Perl code to be evaluated when all extensions have been registered.
! URxvt*perl-eval: string
! Colon-separated list of additional directories that hold extension
! URxvt*perl-lib: path
! Additional selection patterns, see the urxvtperl(3) manpage for
! URxvt*selection.pattern-idx: perl-regex
! Selection auto-transform patterns, see the urxvtperl(3) manpage for
! URxvt*selection-autotransform.idx: perl-transform
! This resource is deprecated and will be removed. Use a keysym
! URxvt*searchable-scrollback: keysym *DEPRECATED*
! Specifies the program to be started with a URL argument. Used by
! URxvt*url-launcher: string
! Compile frills: Sets the WM_TRANSIENT_FOR property to the given
! URxvt*transient-for: windowid
! Compile frills: Sets override-redirect for the terminal window,
! URxvt*override-redirect: boolean
! Turn on/off ISO 14755 (default enabled).
! URxvt*iso14755: boolean
! Turn on/off ISO 14755 5.2 mode (default enabled).
! URxvt*iso14755_52: boolean
! Compile xft: Attempt to find a visual with the given bit depth; option -depth.
! URxvt*depth: bitdepth
! Compile xft: Turn on/off double-buffering for xft (default enabled). On some card/driver combination enabling it slightly decreases performance, on most it greatly helps it. The slowdown is
! URxvt*buffered: boolean
! Create the window with the specified X window geometry [default 80x24]; option -geometry.
! URxvt*geometry: geom
! Use the specified colour as the windows background colour [default White]; option -bg.
! URxvt*background: colour
! Use the specified colour as the windows foreground colour [default Black]; option -fg.
! URxvt*foreground: colour
! Use the specified colour for the colour value n, where 0-7 corresponds to low-intensity (normal) colours and 8-15 corresponds to high-intensity (bold = bright foreground, blink = bright
! URxvt*colorn: colour
!
! URxvt*colorBD: colour
! Use the specified colour to display bold or italic characters when the foreground colour is the default. If font styles are not available (Compile styles) and this option is unset, reverse video
! URxvt*colorIT: colour
! Use the specified colour to display underlined characters when the foreground colour is the default.
! URxvt*colorUL: colour
! If set, use the specified colour as the colour for the underline itself. If unset, use the foreground colour.
! URxvt*underlineColor: colour
! If set, use the specified colour as the background for highlighted characters. If unset, use reverse video.
! URxvt*highlightColor: colour
! If set and highlightColor is set, use the specified colour as the foreground for highlighted characters.
! URxvt*highlightTextColor: colour
! Use the specified colour for the cursor. The default is to use the foreground colour; option -cr.
! URxvt*cursorColor: colour
! Use the specified colour for the colour of the cursor text. For this to take effect, cursorColor must also be specified. The default is to use the background colour.
! URxvt*cursorColor2: colour
! True: simulate reverse video by foreground and background colours; option -rv. False: regular screen colours [default]; option +rv. See note in COLOURS AND GRAPHICS section.
! URxvt*reverseVideo: boolean
! True: specify that jump scrolling should be used. When receiving lots of lines, urxvt will only scroll once a whole screen height of lines has been read, resulting in fewer updates while still
! URxvt*jumpScroll: boolean
! True: (the default) specify that skip scrolling should be used. When receiving lots of lines, urxvt will only scroll once in a while (around 60 times per second), resulting in far fewer updates.
! URxvt*skipScroll: boolean
! Fade the text by the given percentage when focus is lost; option -fade.
! URxvt*fading: number
! Fade to this colour, when fading is used (see fading:). The default colour is black; option -fadecolor.
! URxvt*fadeColor: colour
! Set the application icon pixmap; option -icon.
! URxvt*iconFile: file
! Use the specified colour for the scrollbar [default #B2B2B2].
! URxvt*scrollColor: colour
! Use the specified colour for the scrollbars trough area [default #969696]. Only relevant for rxvt (non XTerm/NeXT) scrollbar.
! URxvt*troughColor: colour
! The colour of the border around the text area and between the scrollbar and the text.
! URxvt*borderColor: colour
! Select the fonts to be used. This is a comma separated list of font names that are checked in order when trying to find glyphs for characters. The first font defines the cell size for characters;
! URxvt*font: fontlist
! URxvt*boldFont: fontlist
!
! URxvt*italicFont: fontlist
! The font list to use for displaying bold, italic or bold italic characters, respectively.
! URxvt*boldItalicFont: fontlist
! When font styles are not enabled, or this option is enabled (True, option -is, the default), bold/blink font styles imply high intensity foreground/background colours. Disabling this option
! URxvt*intensityStyles: boolean
! Set window title string, the default title is the command-line specified after the -e option, if any, otherwise the application name; option -title.
! URxvt*title: string
! Set the name used to label the windows icon or displayed in an icon manager window, it also sets the windows title unless it is explicitly set; option -n.
! URxvt*iconName: string
! True: de-iconify (map) on receipt of a bell character. False: no de-iconify (map) on receipt of a bell character [default].
! URxvt*mapAlert: boolean
! True: set the urgency hint for the wm on receipt of a bell character. False: do not set the urgency hint [default].
! URxvt*urgentOnBell: boolean
! True: use visual bell on receipt of a bell character; option -vb. False: no visual bell [default]; option +vb.
! URxvt*visualBell: boolean
! True: start as a login shell by prepending a - to argv[0] of the shell; option -ls. False: start as a normal sub-shell [default]; option +ls.
! URxvt*loginShell: boolean
! Specify the maximum time in milliseconds between multi-click select events. The default is 500 milliseconds; option -mc.
! URxvt*multiClickTime: number
! True: inhibit writing record into the system log file utmp; option -ut. False: write record into the system log file utmp [default]; option +ut.
! URxvt*utmpInhibit: boolean
! Specify a command pipe for vt100 printer [default lpr(1)]. Use Print to initiate a screen dump to the printer and Ctrl-Print or Shift-Print to include the scrollback as well.
! URxvt*print-pipe: string
! Set scrollbar style to rxvt, plain, next or xterm. plain is the authors favourite.
! URxvt*scrollstyle: mode
! Set the scrollbar width in pixels.
! URxvt*thickness: number
! True: enable the scrollbar [default]; option -sb. False: disable the scrollbar; option +sb.
! URxvt*scrollBar: boolean
! True: place the scrollbar on the right of the window; option -sr. False: place the scrollbar on the left of the window; option +sr.
! URxvt*scrollBar_right: boolean
! True: display an rxvt scrollbar without a trough; option -st. False: display an rxvt scrollbar with a trough; option +st.
! URxvt*scrollBar_floating: boolean
! Align the top, bottom or centre [default] of the scrollbar thumb with the pointer on middle button press/drag.
! URxvt*scrollBar_align: mode
! True: scroll to bottom when tty receives output; option -si. False: do not scroll to bottom when tty receives output; option +si.
! URxvt*scrollTtyOutput: boolean
! True: scroll with scrollback buffer when tty receives new lines (i.e. try to show the same lines) and scrollTtyOutput is False; option -sw. False: do not scroll with scrollback buffer when tty
! URxvt*scrollWithBuffer: boolean
! True: scroll to bottom when a non-special key is pressed. Special keys are those which are intercepted by rxvt-unicode for special handling and are not passed onto the shell; option -sk. False: do
! URxvt*scrollTtyKeypress: boolean
! Save number lines in the scrollback buffer [default 64]. This resource is limited on most machines to 65535; option -sl.
! URxvt*saveLines: number
! Internal border of number pixels. This resource is limited to 100; option -b.
! URxvt*internalBorder: number
! External border of number pixels. This resource is limited to 100; option -w, -bw, -borderwidth.
! URxvt*externalBorder: number
! Set MWM hints to request a borderless window, i.e. if honoured by the WM, the rxvt-unicode window will not have window decorations; option -bl.
! URxvt*borderLess: boolean
! Compile frills: Disable the usage of the built-in block graphics/line drawing characters and just rely on what the specified fonts provide. Use this if you have a good font and want to use its
! URxvt*skipBuiltinGlyphs: boolean
! Specifies the terminal type name to be set in the TERM environment variable; option -tn.
! URxvt*termName: termname
! Specifies number of lines (pixel height) to insert between each row of the display [default 0]; option -lsp.
! URxvt*lineSpace: number
! True: handle Meta (Alt) + keypress to set the 8th bit. False: handle Meta (Alt) + keypress as an escape prefix [default].
! URxvt*meta8: boolean
! True: the mouse wheel scrolls a page full. False: the mouse wheel scrolls five lines [default].
! URxvt*mouseWheelScrollPage: boolean
! True: store tabs as wide characters. False: interpret tabs as cursor movement only; option "-ptab".
! URxvt*pastableTabs: boolean
! True: blink the cursor. False: do not blink the cursor [default]; option -bc.
! URxvt*cursorBlink: boolean
! True: Make the cursor underlined. False: Make the cursor a box [default]; option -uc.
! URxvt*cursorUnderline: boolean
! True: blank the pointer when a key is pressed or after a set number of seconds of inactivity. False: the pointer is always visible [default].
! URxvt*pointerBlank: boolean
! Mouse pointer foreground colour.
! URxvt*pointerColor: colour
! Mouse pointer background colour.
! URxvt*pointerColor2: colour
! Specifies number of seconds before blanking the pointer [default 2]. Use a large number (e.g. 987654321) to effectively disable the timeout.
! URxvt*pointerBlankDelay: number
! The string to send when the backspace key is pressed. If set to DEC or unset it will send Delete (code 127) or, with control, Backspace (code 8) - which can be reversed with the appropriate DEC
! URxvt*backspacekey: string
! The string to send when the delete key (not the keypad delete key) is pressed. If unset it will send the sequence traditionally associated with the Execute key.
! URxvt*deletekey: string
! The characters used as delimiters for double-click word selection (whitespace delimiting is added automatically if resource is given).
! URxvt*cutchars: string
!
! URxvt*{|}
! OverTheSpot, OffTheSpot, Root; option -pt.
! URxvt*preeditType: style
! name of inputMethod to use; option -im.
! URxvt*inputMethod: name
! The locale to use for opening the IM. You can use an "LC_CTYPE" of e.g. "de_DE.UTF-8" for normal text processing but "ja_JP.EUC-JP" for the input extension to be able to input japanese characters
! URxvt*imLocale: name
! Specify the font-set used for XIM styles "OverTheSpot" or "OffTheSpot". It must be a standard X font set (XLFD patterns separated by commas), i.e. its not in the same format as the other font
! URxvt*imFont: fontset
! Change the meaning of triple-click selection with the left mouse button. Instead of selecting a full line it will extend the selection to the end of the logical line only; option -tcw.
! URxvt*tripleclickwords: boolean
! Enables "insecure" mode. Rxvt-unicode offers some escape sequences that echo arbitrary strings like the icon name or the locale. This could be abused if somebody gets 8-bit-clean access to your
! URxvt*insecure: boolean
! Set the key to be interpreted as the Meta key to: alt, meta, hyper, super, mod1, mod2, mod3, mod4, mod5; option -mod.
! URxvt*modifier: modifier
! Specify the reply rxvt-unicode sends to the shell when an ENQ (control-E) character is passed through. It may contain escape values as described in the entry on keysym following.
! URxvt*answerbackString: string
! Turn on/off secondary screen (default enabled).
! URxvt*secondaryScreen: boolean
! Turn on/off secondary screen scroll (default enabled). If this option is enabled, scrolls on the secondary screen will change the scrollback buffer and, when secondaryScreen is off, switching
! URxvt*secondaryScroll: boolean
! Turn on/off hold window after exit support. If enabled, urxvt will not immediately destroy its window when the program executed within it exits. Instead, it will wait till it is being killed or
! URxvt*hold: boolean
! Sets the working directory for the shell (or the command specified via -e). The path must be an absolute path and it must exist for urxvt to start. If it isnt specified then the current working
! URxvt*chdir: path
! Compile frills: Associate action with keysym sym. The intervening resource name keysym. cannot be omitted.
! URxvt*keysym.sym: action
URxvt.keysym.C-plus: font-size:increase
URxvt.keysym.C-minus: font-size:decrease
URxvt.font-size.step: 8
URxvt*perl-ext-common: font-size, tabbed
! Comma-separated list(s) of perl extension scripts (default: "default") to use in this terminal instance; option -pe.
URxvt*perl-ext: tabbed
URxvt.tabbed.tabbar-bg:0
URxvt.tabbed.tabbar-fg:4
URxvt.tabbed.tab-fg: 4
URxvt.tabbed.tab-bg: 0
! Perl code to be evaluated when all extensions have been registered. See the urxvtperl(3) manpage.
! URxvt*perl-eval: string
! Colon-separated list of additional directories that hold extension scripts. When looking for perl extensions, urxvt will first look in these directories, then in $URXVT_PERL_LIB, $HOME/.urxvt/ext
! URxvt*perl-lib: path
! Additional selection patterns, see the urxvtperl(3) manpage for details.
! URxvt*selection.pattern-idx: perl-regex
! Selection auto-transform patterns, see the urxvtperl(3) manpage for details.
! URxvt*selection-autotransform.idx: perl-transform
! This resource is deprecated and will be removed. Use a keysym resource instead, e.g.:
! URxvt*searchable-scrollback: keysym *DEPRECATED*
! Specifies the program to be started with a URL argument. Used by the "selection-popup" and "matcher" perl extensions.
! URxvt*url-launcher: string
! Compile frills: Sets the WM_TRANSIENT_FOR property to the given window id.
! URxvt*transient-for: windowid
! Compile frills: Sets override-redirect for the terminal window, making it almost invisible to window managers; option -override-redirect.
! URxvt*override-redirect: boolean
! Turn on/off ISO 14755 (default enabled).
! URxvt*iso14755: boolean
! Turn on/off ISO 14755 5.2 mode (default enabled).
! URxvt*iso14755_52: boolean
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