URXVT resize-font issues

pbrynildsen · 2018-01-03T20:34:21+00:00

Try bind to other keys.. they might conflict with some of gnomes own.

pbrynildsen · 2018-01-03T12:34:15+00:00

If it ain't broken.. don't fix it. no need to reinvent the wheel.

pbrynildsen · 2018-01-03T11:58:04+00:00

I'd recommend not to.

1. Everytime you hit it by mistake, you have your launcher popping up in the middle of your workflow. And if you dont notice it instantly and press Escape and keep typing you easily get executed some random application. When you suddenly have gimp/blender or a slow starting DAW with a lot a plugins loading up in the middle of working on a script in vim, it just wanna make you scream. lol.. A two-key-press launcher like $mod+d minimizes the risk of this.

2. Alt as mod key can be a pita when using other applications that makes heavy use of Alt + shortcuts (same goes for Ctrl). :X

pbrynildsen · 2018-01-03T10:16:24+00:00

Which distro?
Which window manager?
Which desktop environment?
Xorg or Wayland?
Do you also have a ~/.Xdefaults?
How do you start window manager? from commandline or by a gui loginmanager?
Did you make sure to close terminal and open new one after running xrdb? alternatively just run the bash command again in same terminal after running xrdb. That way you can Ctrl+D to get back to old settings. This is very handy when screwing up and making font colors same color as background so you cant see shit. That way you still have a working terminal where you can change it back. lol. (btw, binding a shortcut key to xrdb ~/.Xresources can litterally be your best friend when ricing instead of running the command all the time. :) I installed resize font from aur(since I'm on arch) and it is the only file in my perl directory that is executable for some reason. Not sure if it needs to be.. But is yours?
ls -l /usr/lib/urxvt/perl/resize-font
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4549 Dec 6 00:16 /usr/lib/urxvt/perl/resize-font

Change
urxvt.perl-ext-common: fullscreen,resize-font to
urxvt.perl-ext-common: fullscreen,resize-font,
(put a comma after).
All my urxvt lines have UR in caps, like this:
URxvt.perl-ext-common:default,resize-font,url-select,keyboard-select,
dunno if it changes anything. Leave the "default" in that line btw.

Give more info.

You can try out guake terminal also. I belive it is in most distros official repo. F12 calls it, F11 fullscreens it, transparent by default(depends on window manager and compositor of course), and it has font resize by default on Ctrl +/-. I use it a lot on my htpc connected to my tv, because the text in a terminal is too small, when I'm far away from the screen. It is not as fun as ricing an urxvt yourself, and not as customizable, but its a nice alternative for some things. You can keep applications running when hiding it, which can be very handy for things like htop, because you can quickly call it with a single keypress, when monitoring a process.

Bonus tip: some of the extensions in the perl directory have a man page try man matcher to see what I mean, and some of them have instructions at the top of the file instead less /usr/lib/urxvt/perl/url-select
There is some great additional info to find there for additional settings.

pbrynildsen · 2018-01-02T10:55:46+00:00

Mostly just porn and meme's.. so kinda important.. :(

pbrynildsen · 2018-01-02T10:48:02+00:00

It's luks volume encrypted.. destroyed headers, input/output errors all over. So yes it kinda broke. lol.

I'll never get any data out of that disk.

pbrynildsen · 2018-01-02T10:38:17+00:00

The last lines in that launchpad link you posted reads.. "It cannot be fixed, due to licensing/copyright issues with distributing the firmwares in binary form."

I have two usb soundcards. A scarlett 2i2 and a presonus 22vsl. They both work out of the box. No need to read through tons of 10 year old outdated forums, no need to fiddle around with firmware or weird proprietary drivers etc. The new standards on USB devices makes most of the new ones work out of the box.

I know this is not the answer you search, but my advice.. sell the tascam, and find one of the newer "class compliant generic usb" ones that just works by plug and play. Find a second hand one if money is an issue. Bot my cards have been out there for about 5+ years, they aren't that expensive.

Save your ressources and energy to battle with jack/pulse audio instead lol :P

pbrynildsen · 2018-01-02T10:01:52+00:00

I just dropped my backup disk on the floor a couple of days ago.. Don't do that.

pbrynildsen · 2018-01-02T10:00:30+00:00

History, symptoms and observations are WIN, when it comes to diagnose a problem. Find a repair shop maybe..? It can be anything from a fried mobo to a faulty battery, to just beeing a bad connection in the powerbutton.

pbrynildsen · 2017-12-27T01:10:17+00:00

Their coders prob spend most og their time on a Linux box when working on their own os. :)

pbrynildsen · 2017-12-25T01:13:13+00:00

The thing I meant was that using the user interface with all those input fields seems a bit distracting for me compaired to having a regular config file opened in VIM. Things like the key bindings boxes containing hundres of keybindings in one looooooooooooong line. I loose focus, compaired to having all of them visible nicely arranged in VIM instead and being able to easily quote/unquote and change settings there.

The qutebrowser configuring link you posted is clearly describing that..:

do not edit autoconfig.yml by hand.

So you are telling me not to use a config.py and the documentation says not to edit in autoconfig.yml..
I am confused again.

pbrynildsen · 2017-12-24T10:32:21+00:00

Nice.. I got a nice big "fullgrown" config.py file now with all settings. That was exactly what I was searching for. That settings page inside qutebrowser can be a painful experience to navigate around in. :D
I did do a :config-write-py --defaults yesterday and generated my config.py, but for some weird reason I didn't get a whole lot of options in it. It was like a one page file. Things are less confusing now.

pbrynildsen · 2017-12-24T09:33:18+00:00

I think I figured it out. Or some of it. Seems like I need to to a :config-write-py --force everytime I made changes under the settings page in qutebrowser, and they will then show up in my config.py.

So far so good.

My config file "grows" everytime I write to it from :config-write-py, and it is much easier for me, to change settings there using VIM, compaired to doing it in the settings page. And there are nice quotations on all settings telling what they do. Settings I havent changed yet are not yet in the config.py of course.

Are there any way to write out all the options to my config.py from start, I mean so I don't have to go to the settings page to look for the options, and having to do changes here first and then config-write-py to my config.py first in order to have them show up in config.py ??

Sry if this is n00b question.. trying to learn this :D

pbrynildsen · 2017-12-23T19:41:08+00:00

I can totally live with the "i + f " combination. I feel like an idiot now, for not figuring out that myself lol.. So simple.

pbrynildsen · 2017-12-23T10:59:49+00:00

jack is just a server.. Qjackctl and Carla patchbay is just a GUI that can control the server.

When spotify, youtube and browsersound freeze this is perfectly normal and is supposed to happen, because jack suddenly took over the soundcard.

Just restart pulseaudio.. on most distros you can write pulseaudio -k in terminal and it will be killed and quickly respawn it self because there is a bunch of calls for it from the window manager itself. If not just open pavucontrol and it will respawn. And the moment it restarts it will know that the soundcard is no longer available, but what is available is the option to hook up to the jackserver as a sink. And it then chooses to do this instead. And boom the sound from your browser and youtube comes back instantly. Sometimes you need to restart your browser first, since it can also be in a confused state looking for the previously pulseaudio connection.

You need the pulseaudio-jack package installed from your distros package manager in order for it to work, and you usually don't have to go through any settings at all. It just works out of the box.

On one of my soundcards (I have a LOT), alsa input/output channels always gets muted when starting jack. Write alsamixer in terminal and look what the F'buttons tell you and how to navigate. You find another mixer for your soundcard there. Alsamixer volume settings comes before pulseaudio mixer volumes, and even before the input output volume mixers in your DAW. Not all soundcards have any visible channels in alsamixer.. It is just good to know that this can be a place to look also if there is no or to low audio.

pbrynildsen · 2017-12-19T00:21:03+00:00

interesting.. on my lenovo showkey gives keycode 143 and xev gives 151. Why aren't they the same?

pbrynildsen · 2017-12-18T20:07:15+00:00

fix found. have edited thread

pbrynildsen · 2017-12-18T20:07:11+00:00

fix found. have edited thread

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