is based on rxvt(1) version 2.7.11 CVS, and features most of functionality of rxvt, with a few major enhancements (namely multiple tabs, and transparency). Like rxvt, aims to be light, fast, flexible and desktop independent, thus KDE or GNOME are not required.

The primary features of include (but are not limited to) multiple tabs, dynamically changeable tab titles, customisable multiple tabs, dynamically changeable tab titles, customisable command for each tab, input broadcasting, true translucent window, fast pseudo transparency with tinting, user supplied background images (XPM, JPEG, PNG), off-focus fading, text shadow, multiple style (NeXT, Rxvt, Xterm, SGI, Plain) scrollbars, XIM, multi-language support (Chinese, Korean, Japanese), freetype font and logging.

The default behaviour can be set using the resource configuration file ~/.mrxvtrc For backward compatibility, if ~/.mrxvtrc is not found, tries to load configuration settings from the files ~/.Xdefaults or ~/.Xresources Alternately, you can specify which config file to load using the -cf command line option.

mrxvt -tr -shade 85 +trt

is the same as

mrxvt --transparent --shading 85 ++transparentTabbar

which is the same as putting the lines

Mrxvt.transparent:              True
Mrxvt.shading:                  85
Mrxvt.transaprentTabbar:        False

in your ~/.mrxvtrc

All options are case sensitive. Some options are similar to those of other terminals, so if you find the explanation given here insufficient, we strongly recommend you look in the rxvt(1) and xterm(1) manpages.

-display | -d displayname

X display name, the X server to contact

-geometry | -g geometry

geometry at startup [geometry ]

-ic file [; geometry ]

application icon file. [appIcon]

-iconic | +iconic

start iconic [iconic ]

-in name

Icon name for window [iconName ]

-name name

Client instance, icon, and title strings [clientName ]

Client instance, icon, and title strings [clientName ]

-title string

-title string

title name of the window [title ]

title name of the window [title ]

-tn termname

The type of terminal should emulate. The value of the TERM environment variable is set to this value for all child processes launched by . Note that rxvt and most rxvt clones including , have slightly different terminal capabilities than those of xterm(1). Thus will not always work properly with the terminal set to xterm and we recommend setting this value to rxvt instead. However some systems have incorrect (or even missing) terminfo(1) or termcap(1) entries for the terminal rxvt If you experience problems with this, the ideal solution would be to correct your systems termcap and terminfo entries. If you are unable to do that, then you can try setting your terminal to xterm and hope everything works properly. [termName ]

-o %d

Translucent window (true transparent) background opacity degree. %d is an integer between 0 and 100. This option needs translucent support by the X server, e.g., Xorg 6.8, and overrides the pseudo-transparency. [opacity ]

-od %d

Translucent window opacity degree increase/decrease interval. %d is an integer between 0 and 100 [opacityDegree ]

-tr | +tr

Enable / disable background pseudo-transparency. To use this feature you must set your desktop wallpaper using an Esetroot compatible program ( i.e. a program that publishes the wallpaper using the _XROOTPMAP_ID atom). Some programs that will do this are Esetroot(1), feh(1), fvwm-root1 with the `--retain-pixmap ' option, or KDE. Note: To use your precious backgroundFade , tinting or shading options, you MUST set the desktop wallpaper in an Esetroot way. [transparent ]

-trf | +trf

If you choose NOT to set the background in an Esetroot compatible way, then you can still have transparency using this option. (You must also enable the transparent option). Background changes made by FvwmBacker, xsetbg (xli) or Esetroot compatible programs, will be automatically detected. However changes made by xv(1), xsetroot(1) or other non-Esetroot compatible programs will not be detected. If you're hell bent on non-Esetroot compatible programs to set your background, then do something like

xsetroot -solid "#202040" && fvwm-root -d

Note: To use your precious backgroundFade , tinting or shading options, you MUST set the desktop wallpaper in an Esetroot way. [transparentForce ]

-trm | +trm

Enable / disable pseudo-transparent menubar. Pseudo-transparency must be turned on. [transparentMenubar ]

-trs | +trs

Enable / disable pseudo-transparent scrollbar. Pseudo-transparency must be turned on. [transparentScrollbar ]

-trt | +trt

Enable / disable pseudo-transparent tabbar. Pseudo-transparency must be turned on. [transparentTabbar ]

-mbpixmap file [; geometry ]

Menubar background image. Pseudo-transparency must be turned off. [menubarPixmap ]

-pixmap file [; geometry ]

Background image for all terminals if not set individually. Pseudo-transparency must be turned off. [Pixmap ]

-sbpixmap file [; geometry ]

Scrollbar background image. Pseudo transparency must be turned off. [scrollbarPixmap ]

-tbpixmap file [; geometry ]

Tabbar background image. Pseudo transparency must be turned off. [tabbarPixmap ]

-tupixmap | +tupixmap

Apply tabbar background image to tabs. [tabUsePixmap ]

pixmap file [; geometry ]

Background image for the terminal window. Pseudo-transparency must be turned off. [Pixmap ]

-j | +j

Enable / disable jump scrolling. Normally, text is scrolled one line at a time; this option allows to move multiple lines at a time so that it does not fall as far behind. Its use is strongly recommended since it makes much faster when scanning through large amounts of text. [jumpScroll ]

-mp | +mp

scroll one page when press mouse wheel button [mouseWheelScrollPage ]

-sa mode

Scrollbar alignment ( top | bottom [scrollbarAlign ]

-sb | +sb

Hide / show scrollbar [scrollBar ]

-sbt width

Scrollbar thickness/width [scrollbarThickness ]

-si | +si

Inhibit scrolling on tty output. [scrollTtyOutputInhibit ]

-sk | +sk

scroll-on-keypress [scrollTtyKeypress ]

-sl n

The number of scrolled lines to save (for all tabs) if not set individually. The maximal number of saved lines is 65535. [saveLines ]

-sr | +sr

Scrollbar on right [scrollbarRight ]

-ss mode

Scrollbar style. mode should be one of plain , xterm , rxvt , next or sgi [scrollbarStyle ]

-st | +st

Draw floating scrollbar (i.e. without a trough). [scrollbarFloating ]

-sw | +sw

Scroll synchronusly with buffer. Normally does not keep the screen completely up to date while scrolling. This allows to run faster when network latencies are very high and is typically useful when running across a very large internet or many gateways. [scrollWithBuffer ]

sl n

Number of lines to save in the scroll back buffer. Max 65535. [saveLines]

-bg color

Background color [background ]

-bd color

Border color [borderColor ]

-bgfade %d

(Obsolete) Make colors %d darker for background image or pseudo-transparent background. %d is an integer between 0 and 100. This is like tinting the background with black. This option is obsolete, and you should use the tint and shade options instead. [backgroundFade ]

-bgtype type

Transformation type for background pixmap (not implemented yet)

-cr color

color of cursor [cursorColor ]

-fade %d

Make colors %d darker when mrxvt looses focus. %d is an integer between 0 and 100 [fading ]

-fg color

Foreground color. [foreground ]

-itabbg color

Background color of inactive tabs and tabbar. [itabBackground ]

-itabfg color

Foreground color of inactive tabs. [itabForeground ]

-pr color

color of pointer [pointerColor ]

-shade %d

Shade background to %d degree when tinting the background. %d is an integer between 0 and 100. You must also define a color using the tint option. When compiled with XRender support, the tabbar, menubar and scroll bar are tinted with their respective background colors for pseudo-transparent terminals. [shading ]

-tabbg color

background color of active tab. [tabBackground ]

-tabfg color

Foreground color of tabbar [tabForeground ]

-tint color

Color tinted on background image or pseudo-transparent background. This works differently depending on the tint type: With XRender (when compiled with --enable-xrender), color is the color you want to tint your background to. The brighter the color, the less transparent it will be (regardless of the shade degree specified by -shade ) For example, if you want your background tinted black, set color to `#000000' however if you want a white tinted transparent background, set color to some level of grey (e.g. `#808080' but NOT to `#ffffff'

When compiled without XRender support, color works like a color mask. Thus if you want a black tinted background, set color to `#ffffff'

The shade degree (using -shade must be defined as well. [tintColor ]

-tinttype type

Function applied for background tinting (not implemented yet).

-ts color

color of text shadow [textShadow ]

-tsm mode

Text shadow mode, specify shadow position of text: left | right | top | bottom | topleft | topright | botleft | botright | none [textShadowMode ]

-txttype type

Function applied for text drawing (not implemented yet)

-ufbg color

Default background color when the terminal window looses focus. [ufBackground ]

-fb fontname

bold text X11 font name [boldFont ]

-fm fontname

multichar text X11 font name [mfont ]

-fn fontname

normal text X11 font name [font ]

-xft | +xft

Use freetype font instead of X11 font. This option controls all other freetype font related options. [xft ]

-xftaa | +xftaa

Enable / disable antialiasing of freetype font. This makes font look much nicer, but significantly slows down the rendering speed. The -xft option must be enabled. [xftAntialias ]

-xftah | +xftah

Enable / disable autohint of freetype font. The -xft option must be enabled [xftAutoHint ]

-xftfm fontname

Multichar text freetype font family. The -xft option must be enabled [xftmFont ]

-xftfn fontname

Normal text freetype font family. The -xft option must be enabled [xftFont ]

-xftga | +xftga

Enable / disable global advance of freetype font. The -xft option must be enabled [xftGlobalAdvance ]

-xftht | +xftht

Enable / disable hinting of freetype font. The -xft option must be enabled [xftHinting ]

-xftmsz size

Freetype multichar font size in pixels. The -xft option must be enabled. [xftmSize ]

-xftnfm | +xftnfm

Do not load freetype mfont, but use freetype font instead. This can avoid a large line space if the size of font and mfont are very different. The -xft option must be enabled [xftNomFont ]

-xftpfn font

Specify a proportionally spaced font to use for drawing tab-titles. If set, the tab bar behaves like Firefox's tab-bar: All tab-titles. If set, the tab bar behaves like Firefox's tab-bar: All tabs have the same width, and the widths are shrunk / expanded to keep the number of tabs specified by minVisibleTabs visible. The active tab title is drawn in a bold font. (Your colors are The active tab title is drawn in a bold font. (Your colors are still used). [xftPFont ]

-xftrgb style

Freetype font sub-pixel order: rgb | bgr | vrgb | vbgr | none The -xft option must be enabled. [xftRGBA ]

-xftslow | +xftslow

Display freetype multichar string in slow mode for better display effect. The xft option must be enabled. [xftSlowOutput ]

-xftst style

Freetype font slant: roman | italic | oblique The -xft option must be enabled. [xftSlant ]

-xftsz number

Freetype font size in pixel. The -xft option must be enabled [xftSize ]

-xftwd style

Freetype font width: ultracondensed | condensed | normal | expanded | ultraexpanded The -xft option must be enabled. [xftWidth ]

-xftwt style

Freetype font weight: light | medium | bold The -xft option must be enabled. [xftWeight ]

-aht

Automatically hide or show the tab bar depending on the number of tabs. On startup, the tabbar is shown only if there are more than one tabs present. If there is only one tab, and a new one is created, then the tabbar is shown. If there are two tabs and one is closed, then the tabbar is hidden. A keyboard shortcut used at any time to hide / show the tabbar. [autohideTabbar ]

-at | +at

Run command specified with -e on all tabs (by default the command specified by -e is only used for the first tab opened). This causes the profile option command to be ignored. However a command specified via the NewTab macro is honored. [cmdAllTabs ]

-bt | +bt

Show tabbar at bottom. [bottomTabbar ]

-e [arguments ... ]

Specifies the program (and its command line arguments) to be run in the window. By default this command is only run initially, and all tabs created after startup will run the default shell (or program supplied by -profile %d ). This behaviour can be overridden with the -at option. [command ]

-hb | +hb

Hide buttons in the tabbar. [hideButtons ]

-het string

Message to display on tab title when a terminal is held open

Message to display on tab title when a terminal is held open after the child process exits. [holdExitText ]

-hold | +hold

hold the terminal when the child process in it exits [holdExit ]

-ht | +ht

Hide tabbar on initialization [hideTabbar ]

-htb | +htb

Highlight inactive tabs only when bell sounds. Default is to highlight inactive tabs whenever they produce output. [highlightTabOnBell ]

-ip profiles

profiles is a comma separated list of profiles numbers. On startup opens each of these profiles in a tab. [initProfileList ]

-ls | +ls

Indicates that the shell that is started in the window will be a login shell (i.e., the first character of argv[0] will be a dash, indicating to the shell that it should read the user's .login or .profile). [loginShell ]

-mtw width

The maximum width (in characters) of the displayed tabs. This can not be larger than 40. If you use Xft, then you might want to use the Cp minVisibleTabs option instead. [maxTabWidth ]

-mvt n

When using xftPFont to display tabs, keep at least n tabs visible. [minVisibleTabs ]

-profile N . option value

Set option to value in profile N When a new tab is created with profile N it uses all options that are set for this profile. Currently the only options that can be set per profile are Pixmap , background , command , foreground , saveLines , tabTitle and workingDirectory Then all the settings from that profile number are used.

N can be any integer between 0 and the compiled in maximum (default 5). The profile number 0 is special, and contains default settings which are used for all profiles where this option is not set (e.g. -profile0.tt mrxvt sets the tab title to mrxvt for all profiles where the tab title has not title to mrxvt for all profiles where the tab title has not been set). In this case the -profile0. can be omitted entirely (i.e. -profile0.tt is equivalent to -tt )

This option is intended to replace the -vt %d .xx options from version 0.5.0. The old -vt %d .xx would set options for the %d th tab. This causes inconsistent behaviour when the user moves / closes tabs. The behaviour of the -profile option is to set options for a particular profile, and then these settings can be associated (on demand) to newly created tabs. [profile N . option ]

-ps | +ps

Protect tab from being closed if it is using the secondary screen, for example, when the user is running vim(1) or mutt(1), this can prevent the terminal from being accidentally closed. [protectSecondary ]

-sti | +sti

Synchronize icon name with tab title when switch to a new tab

Synchronize icon name with tab title when switch to a new tab or the title of the active tab changes. [syncTabIcon ] or the title of the active tab changes. [syncTabIcon ]

-stt | +stt

Synchronize terminal title with tab title when switch to a new

Synchronize terminal title with tab title when switch to a new tab or the title of the active tab changes. [syncTabTitle ] tab or the title of the active tab changes. [syncTabTitle ]

-tnum N

OBSOLETE. Opens N tabs on startup. For backward compatibility, the tabs are opened with profile 0, 1, ... N -1 [initTermNumber ]

-tt string

Title of the tab [tabTitle ]

-ut | +ut

Utmp inhibit. [utmpInhibit ]

-vbf | +vbf

Show colored text with bold font. [veryBoldFont ]

-wd

Working directory of the child process. If non-empty, then the child process is started in this directory. If set to `.' then the child process is run in the working directory of the current tab if possible. On Linux, this is the default. (NOTE: It is not always possible to find the working directory of the current tab. This works fine on Linux, but causes problems on other systems [e.g. OpenBSD], which is why it is only enabled by default on Linux). [workingDirectory ]

-mcc | +mcc

Multichar cursor movement [multibyte_cursor ]

-km mode

multichar encoding mode [multichar_encoding ]

-im name

name of X Input Method (XIM) [inputMethod ]

-pt mode

XIM input style: OverTheSpot | OffTheSpot | Root [preeditType ]

-thai | +thai

Thai support [thai ]

-grk mode

Greek keyboard mapping: iso | ibm [greek_keyboard ]

-menu filename [; tag ]

Menubar definition file. [menu ]

-showmenu | +showmenu

show menubar [showMenu ]

-b number

internal border width [internalBorder ]

-bc | +bc

Display a blinking cursor. [cursorBlink ]

-bcst | +bcst

Enable / disable broadcasting input to all terminals [broadcast ]

-bci number

Cursor blink interval (ms) [cursorBlinkInterval ]

-bl | +bl

Use a borderless window. [borderLess ]

-blc string

bell command instead of beeping [bellCommand ]

-bw | -w number

external border width [externalBorder ]

-desktop number

Desktop to place the window (for gnome compatible window manager). The number starts from 0, NOT 1! [desktop ]

-dm | +dm

Enable / disable all keyboard macros. This functionality can be toggled at runtime via a pop-up menu, or the ToggleMacros keyboard shortcut. NOTE: When keyboard macros are disabled, the ToggleMacros keyboard macro will still work. Thus you can re-enable your keyboard macros via the keyboard using this function. [disableMacros ]

-fs | +fs

Startup fullscreen. Use in conjunction with [smoothResize] to really make it full screen. Requires an EWMH compatible window manager. [fullscreen ]

-lk | +lk

Enable Linux console style Home/End keys [linuxHomeEndKey ]

-mod mode

Meta modifier: alt | meta | hyper | super | mod1 | ... | mod5 [modifier ]

-lsp number

Line space between rows [lineSpace ]

-m | +m

Start maximized (requires an EWMH compatible window manager). [maximized ]

-m8 | +m8

Enable / disable meta8 [meta8 ]

-nsc | +nsc

Enable / disable reading the system wide configuration file. Only the default keyboard macros are defined in this file, so this option can effectively disable all default keyboard shortcuts. [noSysConfig ]

-or | +or

Override redirect [overrideRedirect ]

-pb | +pb

Pointer blank (see also pointerBlankDelay [pointerBlank ]

-rv | +rv

reverse video [reverseVideo ]

-tcw | +tcw

Triple click word selection [tripleclickwords ]

-vb | +vb

Visual bell [visualBell ]

-C

Intercept console messages

-cf filename

X resource configuration file

-cfs filename

X resource configuration file to save the current configuration [confFileSave ]

-path path

Colon delimited list of directories to search for background images and menu files. first searches for the file in the current directory, then in the directories specified by path then in the directories specified by the environment variable PATH_ENV and finally tries in the user configuration directory ~/.mrxvt and the (compiled in) system wide configuration directory /etc/mrxvt [path ]

-sid string

Client identity of mrxvt for X session management [smClientID ]

-sm | +sm

enable X session management [sessionMgt ]

answerBackString string

Specify the reply 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.

backspaceKey string

The string to send when the backspace key is pressed. If set to DEC or unset it will send Delete (code 127) or, if shifted, Backspace (code 8) - which can be reversed with the appropriate DEC private mode escape sequence.

bgRefreshInterval delay

Specify the delay (ms) to wait before refreshing the background in pseudo-transparency. Generally tinting and refreshing the background is slow (especially with XRender), and causes lags while dragging the window. This delay causes enables the window to be dragged smoothly. If you have a fast system, you can reduce or disable this (by setting it to 0). The default value is 100ms.

boldFont N font

Specifies bold font to use along with fontset N

color N color

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 colours.

colorBD color

Color to use to display bold text. If unspecified, the text will be displayed using a bold font / overstrike.

colorRV color

Color to use to display reverse video text. If unspecified, the text will be displayed as reverse video.

colorUL color

Color to use to display underlined text. If unspecified, the text will be displayed as underlined.

cursorColor2 color

Second color of cursor.

cutChars string

String containing all characters to be treated as one word for double click selection. If you want double clicks to select URL's, then set this to a string containing all letters (both upper and lower case), digits and punctuation you find in urls.

deleteKey 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.

font N font

Specify the alternative font n . n can be 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5.

greektoggle_key keysym

Key to toggle into greek keyboard mapping. See README.greek for details.

highlightColor color

Color to use for selection. If not specified, reverse video is used. (Note blinking text is also displayed with this color).

mapAlert True | False

If true, de-iconifies the window when a bell is received.

mfont n font

Specify alternative multiple character font n

pointerBlankDelay delay

Delay (ms) to blank pointer after.

printPipe cmd

Specify a command pipe for vt100 printer.

scrollColor color

Color of scrollbar (see also troughColor )

selectStyle mode

Set mouse selection style to old which is 2.20, oldword which is xterm style with 2.20 old word selection, or anything else which gives xterm style selection.

smartResize True | False

Enable / disable smart resize. When the tabbar is shown, or font size is increased, the resize terminal window could be partially off screen. If smartResize is enabled, then tries to move the terminal window to stay on screen.

smoothResize True | False

Enable / disable smooth resize. If enabled, then the window is resized in pixel increments (instead of character increments). This is useful if you want a full screen / maximized window that covers the entire screen (without leaving an annoying few pixel wide strip uncovered).

troughColor

Color of scrollbar trough (see also scrollColor )

ClassName.OptionName:   Value

Blank lines, and lines beginning with `# ' are ignored (comments).

The ClassName is the name specified via the -name option (by default `mrxvt ' When starts up, it ONLY reads options with ClassName `Mrxvt ' `XTerm ' or the class specified via the -name option. See /etc/mrxvt/mrxvtrc.sample for how this feature can be used.

The OptionName is the long name of the option you want to set. It can be any long option (listed under the Sx Long Options sub section), or is specified in brackets as [option_name ] alongside regular options in this man page. Finally Value is the value of this option.

Mrxvt.vt0.tabTitle:         term1
Mrxvt.vt1.tabTitle:         term2
Mrxvt.vt2.tabTitle:         term3
Mrxvt.vt0.saveLines:        600
Mrxvt.vt1.saveLines:        600
Mrxvt.vt2.saveLines:        600
# Mrxvt.vt0.Pixmap:         /home/images/vt0bg.xpm
# Mrxvt.vt1.Pixmap:         /home/images/vt1bg.xpm
# Mrxvt.vt2.Pixmap:         /home/images/vt2bg.xpm
Mrxvt.scrollbarStyle:       next
Mrxvt.initTermNumber:       3
Mrxvt.transparent:          True
Mrxvt.transparentScrollbar: True
Mrxvt.transparentTabbar:    False
Mrxvt.transparentMenubar:   False
Mrxvt.tintColor:            #ffffff
Mrxvt.shading:              85
Mrxvt.foreground:           white
Mrxvt.background:           black

The menus can use a proportionally spaced font under Xft (

-xftpfn which is significantly less ugly than a mono-spaced font.

supports pop-up menus. If you create a menu named PopupButton N (where N is 1, 2, or 3) then that menu is popped up when you control click (with the appropriate mouse button) on the terminal window. Additionally if you right click on the Tab bar, then the menu PopupButton1 is popped up.

To create a menu containing a list of all open tabs, create an empty menu called

PopupButton N (which will be popped on control click's as described above). To include a list of all open tabs as a sub menu, create a sub-menu called `Switch to tab'

Menu actions are completely different in

than the original implementation in rxvt(1). The menu actions are exactly the same as macro actions, and are described in the section Sx Defining custom shortcuts .

On startup

reads the file default.menu which contains the default menu definitions. The file is searched for in your search path (specified by option -path )

Gnome-terminal style shortcuts:

Ctrl+Shift+t

create a new tab

Ctrl+Shift+q

Close all tabs and exit

Ctrl+Shift+w

close active tab

Ctrl+PgUp activate left tab

Ctrl+PgDn activate right tab

Meta+1

activate 1st tab

...

Meta+0

activate 10th tab

Ctrl+equal

increase font size (next font)

Ctrl+Shift+plus

increase font size by 2

Ctrl+minus

decrease font size (previous font)

Ctrl+Shift+underscore

decrease font size by 2

Konsole style default shortcuts:

Ctrl+Shift+Left

move active tab to left

Ctrl+Shift+Right:

active tab to right

Shift+Left

Activate left tab (Primary only)

Shift+Right

Activate right tab (Primary only)

Ctrl+Shift+n

Create a new tab

Vi style default shortcuts:

Ctrl+Shift+h

activate left tab

Ctrl+Shift+l

activate right tab

Screen style default shortcuts:

Ctrl+Shift+p

activate previous active tab

Mrxvt default shortcuts:

Ctrl+Shift+1

Move tab to 1st position

...

Ctrl+Shift+0

Move tab to 10th position

Ctrl+Tab

activate previous active tab

Ctrl+Shift+less_than

Move active tab left

Ctrl+Shift+greater_than

Move active tab right

Ctrl+Shift+o

Change opacity of terminal to make it more transparent.

Ctrl+Shift+u

Change opacity of terminal to make it less transparent.

Ctrl+Shift+j

Change shading of terminal to make it more transparent.

Ctrl+Shift+k

Change shading of terminal to make it less transparent.

Ctrl+Shift+r

Toggle psdudo-transparency

Ctrl+Shift+i

Hide/show tabbar

Ctrl+Shift+s

Hide/show scrollbar

Ctrl+Shift+m

Hide/show menubar

Ctrl+Shift+a

Hide/show tabbar buttons

Ctrl+Shift+b

Toggle very bold font

Ctrl+Shift+d

Toggle input broadcasting (unbound by default)

Ctrl+Shift+e

Toggle holding exited tab

Ctrl+Shift+f

Toggle full screen mode

Ctrl+Shift+x

Save current configuration

Shift+Del

Set title of active tab to selection.

Set title of active tab to selection.

Shift+Insert

Paste X selection into active tab.

Ctrl+Shift+v

Paste X selection into active tab.

Shift+Up Scroll up one line (Primary screen only)

Shift+Dn scroll down one line (Primary screen only)

Shift+PgUp scroll up one page (Primary screen only)

Shift+PgDn scroll down one page (Primary screen only)

Shift+Home

Scroll to beginning of scroll-back buffer (Primary screen only)

Shift+End

Scroll to end of scroll-back buffer (Primary screen only)

Shift+KeypadPlus

Increase font size

Shift+KeypadMinus

Decrease font size

Shift+Enter

Clear the scroll back buffer, and send "Ctrl+M" to the child process. When running a shell, this clears the scroll back buffer and executes the current command. (Primary screen only).

Ctrl+Shift+F1

Open man page in a new tab.

Ctrl+Shift+F12

Enable / disable all keyboard macros (except this one of course).

You can define your own keyboard shortcuts in your configuration file by using the following syntax:

Mrxvt.macro.[modifiers+]keyname:         action

Here `modifiers' is a `+' separated list of modifiers `Ctrl ' `Alt ' `Meta ' `Shift ' `Primary ' and `Add ' The first four refer to the respective modifier keys. `Primary ' tells to make the macro available ONLY when the primary screen is displayed (e.g. `Primary ' macros will not be effective when you are running vim(1), but will be effective when you are at the shell prompt). Finally `Add ' tells to add the macro action to any previous action associated to that particular key. For instance

Mrxvt.macro.Primary+Shift+Return:       Esc \ec
Mrxvt.macro.Primary+Add+Shift+Return:   Str ^M

will define the macro `Shift+Return' to first send the escape sequence `\ec' to (which has the effect of clearing the scroll back buffer) and then send `Ctrl-M' to the child process, but ONLY in the primary screen. If you're running a shell, then this effectively clears the scroll back buffer and executes the command.

If the `Add ' modifier is not specified, then the macro action replaces any previous action (if any) associated to the specified key. It is an error to add a macro to a non-existing macro. Currently one key can have at most 16 actions associated to it (this might be reduced to 8 in future).

`keyname' is the name of the key you want to bind to the specified macro. Non alpha numeric keys (e.g. punctuation, or cursor/keypad keys) are specified by using their keyname, which you can find by xev(1), or looking directly in the system header file /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h

In case you want to unbind a default keyboard macro, just bind the appropriate key to the function `Dummy ' For example

Mrxvt.macro.Ctrl+Shift+t:       Dummy

will disable the default keyboard shortcut `Ctrl+Shift+t' If you want to disable all keyboard macros, use the option `-dm ' (which can also be accessed via a pop-up menu). The default keyboard macros are defined in the system configuration file /etc/mrxvt/mrxvtrc so if you only want to disable all default shortcuts keys, don't read the system configuration file by using the -nsc option.

Notice that keyboard shortcuts definitions are incompatible with X Windows own resource parsing API, i.e., XGetDefaults. So, to enable the keyboard shortcuts, you will need to enable resources but disable xgetdefault when you configure

Finally `action' is the action you want bound to the specified macro key. The available actions you can bind to macros are:

Dummy

Clear an existing keyboard shortcut

Esc str

Send the escape sequence str to . The following escape sequences are interpolated into the argument string:

\a

Bell

\b

Backspace

\E, \e

Escape

\n

Newline

\r

Carriage return

\t

Tab

\ ddd

Char with octal ASCII code ddd

^@, ^A .. ^Z .. ^_, ^?

Control-@, Control-A ...

Str str

Send the string str to the child process. The string str is backslash escaped as above.

NewTab [-N [title [[! command ] ] ]

NewTab [-N [title [[! command ] ] ] ]

Open a new tab. N specifies the profile number. If omitted, profile 0 is used. If only `-' (with no number) is specified, then the profile of the current active tab is used (i.e. this can be used to duplicate the current tab). title is this can be used to duplicate the current tab). title is specified (needs to be double quoted), use that for the tab title. specified (needs to be double quoted), use that for the tab title. If command is specified, execute that command in the new tab (instead of the one specified by the resource file, or the shell). If command begins with an So ! Sc then run a shell first, and execute the command in the shell.

Close [N ]

Close a tab. If no argument is specified, close all tabs and exit. If N is 0, close the active tab. Otherwise close the N th tab

GotoTab [N ]

Goto tab. If N is ommited or 0, then goto the previous active tab. Otherwise goto the N th tab. If N begins with a `+' or `-' then N is relative to the current tab.

MoveTab N

Move active tab to position N If N begins with a `+' or `-' then N is relative to the current tab.

Scroll amount

Scroll the active tab by amount lines (negative values mean scroll backward). If amount ends with `p' then scroll amount pages instead of lines.

Copy

Copy selection into clipboard (not implemented).

Paste

Pasete selection into active tab.

ToggleSubwin [[+ | - [b | m | s | t ] ] ]

Toggle visibility of sub-windows. If the argument begins with a `+' the subwindow is shown. If it begins with a `-' the subwindow is hidden. Otherwise it is toggled. The letters `b ' `m ' `s ' and `t ' represent the tabbar buttons, menubar, scrollbar and tabbar respectively. NOTE: Currently you can only toggle one subwindow at a time.

ResizeFont [+ | - N ]

Resize the font. With Xft, N represents the size increment of the xft font. Without Xft, N represents the index of the X11 fonts specified by the font N resources.

ToggleVeryBold

Toggle use of bold font for colored text.

ToggleTransparency

Toggle pseudo transparency.

ToggleBroadcast

Toggle broadcasting of input to all tabs.

ToggleHold

Toggle holding of exited tabs.

ToggleFullscreen

Toggle between full screen and regular mode. Also enable --smoothResize to get true full screen. This will only work if you are running an EWMH compatible window manager (e.g. Fvwm / OpenBox / KDE / Gnome).

SetTitle

Set title of active tab to selection. (The selection must be

Set title of active tab to selection. (The selection must be owned by )

PrintScreen [-ps [command ] ]

Dump screen to printer. If the -p option is specified, then the output is pretty printed (i.e. escape sequences are used to get the same color in the output as on your screen). If the -s option is specified, then the entire scroll back is printed (instead of just the current screen). Finally, if command is specified it is used as the printer pipe (if not the value of printPipe or the compiled in default is used).

SaveConfig [filename ]

Save config to file. If no filename is specified, save to ~/.mrxvtrc.save

ToggleMacros

Toggle the use of keyboard shortcuts. When macros are disabled (either by using this macro, or by the -dm option), then this is the only keyboard shortcut that will work. Thus you can re-enable your keyboard shortcuts via the keyboard using this function.

Changing tab titles

Changing tab titles

This mouse shortcut can be used to dynamically change the tab title as follows: Select text in the terminal window. Then middle title as follows: Select text in the terminal window. Then middle click on a tab to change the tab's title. If you middle click on click on a tab to change the tab's title. If you middle click on the tabbar background, then the title of the active tab is changed. the tabbar background, then the title of the active tab is changed.

Tab list menu

By default, if you right click on the tab bar, or control-left-click on the terminal window, a popup menu with a list of currently open tabs pops up. The actual menu popped up can be customized as described under the section Sx MENUS .

Popup menus

If you Control-click on the terminal window (with any mouse button), it pops up a menu. The actual menu popped up can be customized as described under the section Sx MENUS .

Moving tabs

Click and drag a tab to some other location on the tab-bar to move it.

For omissions in the documentation, and a more complete reference to escape sequences you should look at the file ctlseqs.txt that comes with the xterm package, console_codes4 and the original rxvt documentation in the file rxvtRef.txt

For basic interaction with (e.g. changing the tab title etc.)

For basic interaction with (e.g. changing the tab title etc.) you should also look at the programs share/scripts/settitle.c and you should also look at the programs share/scripts/settitle.c and share/scripts/mrxvtset.pl that are supplied with the distribution.

COLORFGBG

Set to the terminal foreground and background colors.

COLORTERM

Sets to the terminal sub-name that indicates its color.

DISPLAY

Used (and set) to the X display bieng used.

PATH_ENV

Path to look for menu / background files (see -path option).

TERM

Set to the terminal name in the window you have created.

MRXVT_TABTITLE

Set to the initial tab title of each terminal. Notice that its

Set to the initial tab title of each terminal. Notice that its value will not be altered if the user uses a shortcut or escape sequence to change the tab title. The user must modify it manually sequence to change the tab title. The user must modify it manually after doing that.

WINDOWID

Set to the X window id number of the mrxvt window.

default.menu

The default menu file loaded at startup (searched for in your -path )

~/mrxvt

Directory in which to look for user menu and image files.

~/.mrxvtrc

This is the default configuration file (since 0.3.9). If present, resources read from this file override existing resources.

~/.Xdefaults

(OBSOLETE) This was the default configuration file (before 0.3.9). If present, resources read from this file override existing resources.

~/.Xresources

(OBSOLETE) If both .mrxvtrc and .Xdefaults are not found, try this one.

/etc/mrxvt

System wide directory in which to look for user menu and image files.

/etc/mrxvt/default.menu

Default menu file read on startup.

/etc/mrxvt/mrxvtrc

System wide configuration file. (By default this file only defines the default keyboard macros)

/etc/utmp

System file for login records.

/usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt

Color names.

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm

(OBSOLETE) If enable xgetdefaults at compiled time, this is the first configuration file read.

Alternately you can send your bug report to the mrxvt developer mailing list at

Mt materm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net

Be sure you give us enough details to reproduce the bug ourselves, and check to see if your bug still exists in the current CVS version.