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[radky]

System Requirements
rxvt-unicode (urxvt), gtkdialog4 (0.7.21 or greater), xdialog, perl (optional)

Purpose and Base Features
UrxvtControl provides graphical access to common configuration options of the rxvt-unicode (urxvt) terminal emulator. The user interface automatically adjusts to the available options supported by the installed version of urxvt. For example, the default urxvt 9.05 of most Puppies released since 2008 does not (as compiled) provide native support for Perl plugins. However, urxvt 9.20 of tahrpup-6.x supports useful plugins (extensions) such as tabs, clickable URLs and auto-copy of selected text to the X-Clipboard.

UrxvtControl Options
•Color of Foreground (Text) and Background
•Color of Cursor, URLs and Underline (urxvt >= 9.19 is required for cursor color independent of underline color)
•Tabs (on/off) and Tab Color (Perl plugin support required, such as urxvt 9.20 in tahrpup 6.x)
•Font Name and Style Attributes (Default:fixed-width monospace fonts)
•Font Size (Default:15 Range:10-24)
•Font Antialiasing (on/off)
•Font Hinting (on/off)
•Font Spacing (Default:0 Range:-5 .. 0) Note: requires urxvt >= 9.07
•Interface Width (Default:80 Range:50-200)
•Interface Height (Default:24 Range:10-80)
•Borderless (on/off) Note: This option is window-manager dependent. For example, supported by openbox, but not by JWM).
•Transparency (on/off)
•Transparency Shading (Default:85, Darken (0 .. 100) or lighten (-1 .. -100))
•Scroll Bar (on/off)
•Scroll Side (right or left)
•Scroll Style (rxvt and plain, plus next and xterm in supported compilations of urxvt - such as tahrpup 6.x)
•Scroll Width (Default:10 Range:7-20) Note: This option applies only to rxvt, plain and xterm scroll styles.
•Scrollback buffer (Default:1000 Range:0-65535) Note: Large scrollback buffers require more system memory.

For your convenience, the 'Tabs' option may be enabled or disabled without changing the status of other Perl extensions, or you can select the tray 'Plugin' button to completely enable/disable Perl extensions. The 'Restore' button will reload the original urxvt configuration settings that were in place before the first-run of UrxvtControl. If required, the 'Edit' button will provide quick access to /root/.Xdefaults for viewing or manual editing of the urxvt configuration settings. For a tooltip status report, please hover the mouse pointer over the interface header text (Urxvt Terminal Control).

Caveats for the resize-font and tabbed plugins

Window:
The tabbed plugin interferes with the capacity of the resize-font plugin to correctly resize the terminal window when the font size changes on-the-fly. Consequently, this may require manual resizing of the window to view all text. However, if the tabbed plugin is disabled (Tabs=off in UrxvtControl), the resize-font plugin maintains the correct aspect ratio of the terminal window.

Text:
When the resize-font plugin is enabled, text displayed in the terminal may truncate when a maximized urxvt window is restored to the original size. Also, decreasing text to a very small size (1-2 px) may result in complete loss of visible text.

rxvt-unicode changelog
http://dist.schmorp.de/rxvt-unicode/Changes

Download
http://www.smokey01.com/radky/UrxvtControl-1.3.pet

Locales
French: http://www.smokey01.com/radky/MoManager-fr-urxvtcontrol-1.2.pet (thanks ASRI éducation)

Main Interface with Perl plugin support (tahrpup and xenialpup)


Main Interface without Perl plugin support (most Pups since 2008)


Transparent urxvt with multiple tab windows and clickable URL in tahrpup

[radky]

UrxvtControl-1.3
- Add support for 'scrollWithBuffer:true' which enables active scrollback to buffered terminal text
- Add perl-extension support for changing urxvt font-size by hotkey (resize-font plugin)
- Add Resize option to the main GUI (enable/disable resize-font plugin)
- The resize-font plugin provides the following keyboard shortcuts
• Ctrl+Up: Increase font size of the current terminal
• Ctrl+Down: Decrease font size of the current terminal
• Ctrl+equal: Reset font size to original numerical value
• Ctrl+slash: Show current font resource in popup dialog

Please see caveats in the first post concerning urxvt plugins (resize-font and tabbed).

UrxvtControl-1.2
- Adjust GUI widget width for non-English locales

UrxvtControl-1.1
- improved gettext for internationalization (thanks ASRI éducation)

[radky]

Files required for urxvt perl extensions are not included in the initial base release of tahrpup 6.0, but are in the devx.

This pet contains the perl files required by tahrpup for urxvt plugins such as tabs, clickable URLs and automatic copy of selected text to the X-clipboard.

[radky]

Re. BK's Quirky April and April64:

Although the default urxvt terminal of Quirky April/April64 is current (v9.20), it does not support background transparency (or perl plugins).

Consequently, setting the transparency option to 'On' in UrxvtControl has no effect on the urxvt terminal of Quirky April/April64.

[neerajkolte]

Tested in Fatdog64-700 beta2.

Works nicely.
Liked the transparent look.
Thanks

- Neeraj.

[radky]

Thank you Neeraj.

[666philb]

missed you posting this .... added to the next tahrpup

thanks

[Flash]

I tried UrxvtControl in Slacko 5.9.3. After installing it, I found I could not copy & paste into a console the way I'm used to (highlight to copy, then simultaneous left & right click to paste.) I couldn't find a way to paste, so I uninstalled it.
Also, it would really be great if each font in the drop-down list of fonts were shown in its own font. That may not be possible, but if it is it sure would make the app a winner in my book. (That and the copy/paste thing.)

[radky]

Hi Flash,

UrxvtControl changes only the urxvt section of /root/.Xdefaults. No other system files are modified.

In Puppy, setting the mouse to paste text into the terminal by "simultaneous right/left clicking" is controlled by the InputDevice section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

[nic007]

[Flash]

I use a Kensington Orbit trackball that doesn't have a middle button, only a scroll ring which does nothing but turn, and the left and right clickers.

[radky]

[ASRI éducation]

Tested with Precise-CE.
All seems to be ok.
Thank you radky!

[Flash]

[radky]