{"id":218,"date":"2006-09-21T16:59:20","date_gmt":"2006-09-21T13:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/?p=218"},"modified":"2006-09-21T17:02:17","modified_gmt":"2006-09-21T14:02:17","slug":"to-xft-or-not-to-xft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/2006\/09\/21\/to-xft-or-not-to-xft\/","title":{"rendered":"to xft or not to xft ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

My favorite terminal is mrxvt<\/a> (also refered to as materm). It has tab support, it’s pretty, and very configurable.
\nSince I am greek…I want to be able to both read and write greek on the terminal. Until recently I used the font:
\n*font:-*-lucida console-medium-r-*-*-0-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-7<\/code>
\nfor all my terminals. This font is pretty good looking but of course not as good as an xft font.<\/p>\n

I’ve now decided to use an xft font for my mrxvt. The problem is that I can’t find an xft font to display greek chars…so I had to keep xterm with the previous mentioned lucida-console font for greek viewing purposes. I chose “DejaVu Sans Mono” as my font of choice for mrxvt…and the results are just excellent. Output is a lot easier to read and less tiring for the eyes.<\/p>\n

Here my full .mrxvtrc:
\n
\n#
\n# ----------------------------- TAB-BAR OPTIONS ------------------------------ #
\n#
\nMrxvt.bottomTabbar: True
\n# Only show the tab bar if there is more than one tab.
\nMrxvt.autohideTabbar: False
\n# The number of tabs to attempt to keep visible. The width of tabs will shrink
\n# to keep at least these many tabs visible.
\nMrxvt.minVisibleTabs: 8
\n# Make the terminal title the same as the active tab title.
\nMrxvt.syncTabTitle: True
\nMrxvt.syncTabIcon: true
\n# Highlight inactive tabs only when they sound a bell (and not whenever they
\n# produce output).
\nMrxvt.highlightTabOnBell: True
\n# Tab bar colors
\nMrxvt.itabBackground: #101010
\nMrxvt.tabBackground: #000000
\nMrxvt.itabForeground: #909090
\nMrxvt.tabForeground: #9a9a9a
\n#mrxvt*tabForeground: white
\n#mrxvt*tabBackground: grey
\n#mrxvt*itabForeground: grey
\n#mrxvt*itabBackground: darkblue
\n#
\n# ---------------------- SCROLLING \/ SCROLLBAR OPTIONS ----------------------- #
\n#
\nMrxvt.scrollBar: true
\nMrxvt.scrollbarRight: true
\n#Mrxvt.scrollbarStyle: rxvt
\nmrxvt*scrollbarStyle: next
\n# Number of lines to save in the scroll back buffer for all tabs
\nmrxvt*saveLines: 32767
\n# Don't scroll to the bottom every time some output is produced.
\nMrxvt.scrollTtyOutputInhibit: true
\n# Scroll to the bottom when a key is pressed.
\nMrxvt.scrollTtyKeypress: true
\n# Scroll bar colors
\nMrxvt.scrollColor: #808080
\nMrxvt.troughColor: #202020
\n# Mrxvt.scrollbarPixmap: scrollbarbg.jpg
\n#
\n# ------------------------------- TRANSPARENCY ------------------------------- #
\n#
\n# True translucency (using Xorg's composite extension).
\n# Mrxvt.opacity: 75
\n# Mrxvt.opacityDegree: 5
\n# Pseudo transparency. As long as you set the background using an esetroot
\n# compatible program (e.g. feh), then the following will work. It is pretty
\n# resource friendly too :).
\nMrxvt.transparent: True
\nMrxvt.transparentScrollbar: True
\nMrxvt.transparentTabbar: True
\nMrxvt.transparentMenubar: False
\n# Color \/ degree to which the root background should be tinted.
\nMrxvt.tintColor: #000000
\nMrxvt.shading: 10
\n#Mrxvt.fading: 10
\n#
\n# ---------------------------------- FONTS ----------------------------------- #
\n#
\nmrxvt*font:-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-iso8859-7
\nMrxvt.xft: 1
\n#Mrxvt.xftFont: Bitstream Vera Sans Mono
\nMrxvt.xftFont: DejaVu Sans Mono
\nMrxvt.xftSize: 10
\nMrxvt.xftAntialias: 1
\n# The options below are better set using ~\/.fonts.config. Mrxvt will use the
\n# defaults passed to the fontconfig library.
\n#
\nMrxvt.xftHinting: 1
\nMrxvt.xftAutoHint: 1
\nMrxvt.xftGlobalAdvance: 1
\n# Mrxvt.xftRGBA: rgb
\n# Mrxvt.xftslow: 1
\n# Don't load a multi-char font. This will reduce the line space if your multi
\n# char font has different dimensions than the regular font. You might need to
\n# comment it out if you want to use XIM and non-english fonts.
\n#Mrxvt.xftNomFont: 1
\n# Font to use for tab bar \/ menus. This need not be mono-spaced ;).
\nMrxvt.xftPFont: Bitstream Vera Sans
\nMrxvt.xftPSize: 10
\n# Shadow text
\n# Mrxvt.textShadow: red
\n# Mrxvt.textShadowMode: botright
\n#
\n# XIM input \/ multi char support. To use this, you should also comment out the
\n# xftNomFont line above.
\n#
\n# Mrxvt.xftmFont: SimSun
\n# Mrxvt.multichar_encoding: GB
\n#mrxvt.preeditType: OverTheSpot
\n#Mrxvt.inputMethod: SCIM
\nmrxvt*greek_keyboard: iso
\nmrxvt.multichar_encoding: el_GR
\n#mrxvt*greektoggle_key: VoidSymbol
\nmrxvt.greektoggle_key: Mode_switch
\n#
\n# ---------------------------------- CURSOR ---------------------------------- #
\n#
\nMrxvt.cursorBlink: true
\nMrxvt.cursorColor: #00ff00
\nMrxvt.cursorColor2: #000000
\n#
\n# ---------------------------------- COLORS ---------------------------------- #
\n#
\n# Setup colors for a black background.
\nMrxvt.background: #000000
\nMrxvt.foreground: #9a9a9a
\nMrxvt.color0: #000000
\nMrxvt.color1: #af0000
\nMrxvt.color2: #00af00
\nMrxvt.color3: #afaf00
\nMrxvt.color4: #0000af
\nMrxvt.color5: #af00af
\nMrxvt.color6: #00afaf
\nMrxvt.color7: #9a9a9a
\nMrxvt.color8: #5f5f5f
\nMrxvt.color9: #d70000
\nMrxvt.color10: #00d700
\nMrxvt.color11: #d7d700
\nMrxvt.color12: #0000d7
\nMrxvt.color13: #d700d7
\nMrxvt.color14: #00d7d7
\nMrxvt.color15: #d7d7d7
\n# Display bold and underlined text in color, rather than using the terminal
\n# attributes. This makes reading man pages a little easier.
\nMrxvt.colorBD: #00afaf
\nMrxvt.colorUL: #00af00
\n# Mrxvt.colorRV: #000040
\n# Display the X selection as highlighted instead of using reverse video.
\nMrxvt.highlightColor: #303060
\n# Colors when terminal window looses focus. (Does not work well with Xft).
\n# Mrxvt.ufBackground: yellow
\nMrxvt.backgroundFade: 50
\n#
\n# ------------------------------- MISC OPTIONS ------------------------------- #
\n#
\nmrxvt*geometry: 120x45
\n# The value of the TERM environment variable. Default is rxvt. If you have
\n# trouble, try uncommenting the following line.
\nMrxvt.termName: rxvt
\n# Default title of each tab.
\n#Mrxvt.tabTitle: mrxvt
\nMrxvt.vt0.tabTitle: Term 1
\nMrxvt.vt1.tabTitle: Term 2
\nMrxvt.vt2.tabTitle: Term 3
\n# Border to leave around terminal text
\nMrxvt.internalBorder: 2
\n# Make double click select whole URL's
\nMrxvt.cutChars: :=\/~#@?%&_-.0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
\n# Blank the mouse pointer on keystrokes or after 10 seconds of inactivity.
\nMrxvt.pointerBlank: True
\nMrxvt.pointerBlankDelay: 10
\n# Don't close the tab if the secondary screen is displayed (e.g. when running
\n# vim).
\nMrxvt.protectSecondary: True
\n# Run as a login shell.
\nMrxvt.loginShell: True
\n# Enable session management
\n# Mrxvt.sessionMgt: true
\n#
\n# ---------------------------- KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS ---------------------------- #
\n#
\nMrxvt.macro.Shift+Left: GotoTab -1
\nMrxvt.macro.Shift+Right: GotoTab +1
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

And here’s how it looks like:
\n<\/a><\/p>\n

Well…It looks pretty nice to me…Here you can see 2 tabs (one running top at the background and the current one with a cat .mrtxvtrc output), how the highlighting works (instead of just reverse video), and that I am a zsh lover \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

And here comes the question<\/em> : Is there any xft compatible<\/strong>, Mono<\/strong> font that can display greek characters<\/strong> at terminals ? If so…WHICH ? <\/p>\n

Anyway…if you think you have a better .mrxvtrc that I might like…can you post it ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My favorite terminal is mrxvt (also refered to as materm). It has tab support, it’s pretty, and very configurable. Since I am greek…I want to be able to both read and write greek on the terminal. Until recently I used the font: *font:-*-lucida console-medium-r-*-*-0-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-7 for all my terminals. This font is pretty good looking but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t