Terminal emulators

= xterm and urxvt = All configuration options, unless said otherwise, should be put in your ~/.Xresources. When you want to see your changes you must reload those changes into X with xrdb -load ~/.Xresources.

Most if not all configuration options in this section should work for both xterm and urxvt unless said otherwise.

How to disable bold fonts
There is a bug in xterm so you can't disable bold fonts. What you can do is to set the same font for bold and normal fonts.

xterm*font: fixed xterm*boldFont: fixed

= How to see the currently set colors in your terminal =

Install the xtermcontrol program, it exists in the standard Ubuntu repositories. Type: xtermcontrol --get-color And you'll get an HEX-code for your color.

I like this color scheme, which I think is the default i xterm, but not in urxvt:

! Normal ! color0   black ! color1   red ! color2   green ! color3   yellow ! color4   blue ! color5   purple ! color6   cyan ! color7   white urxvt*color0:   #000000 urxvt*color1:   #cd0000 urxvt*color2:   #00cd00 urxvt*color3:   #cdcd00 urxvt*color4:   #0000ee urxvt*color5:   #cd00cd urxvt*color6:   #00cdcd urxvt*color7:   #e5e5e5 ! Light ! color8   black ! color9   red ! color10   green ! color11   yellow ! color12   blue ! color13   purple ! color14   cyan ! color15   white urxvt*color8:   #7f7f7f urxvt*color9:   #ff0000 urxvt*color10:   #00ff00 urxvt*color11:   #ffff00 urxvt*color12:   #5c5cff urxvt*color13:   #ff00ff urxvt*color14:   #00ffff urxvt*color15:   #ffffff