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works with parcellite very well

Last edited by klanger (2009-10-15 18:12:18)

might be the reason why I like it so much then...

HANNA (without "h" in the end) likes green and #!
Also know as ultraturquoise online / #! last.fm / #! DeviantART / U / Q

I'm a big fan of urxvt.  I'm using it paired with screen as a lightweight "quake console".  It's amazingly versatile.

i would be very surprised if it didnt use '#' , i cant think of any other config file that uses anything else.
i suppose you could use #! to be on the safe side, plus its fitting

well thats a bit stupid, what else uses '!' for the config files?

the /* */ is used by several programming languages...I've never seen ! used for comments though

I've been playing around with Urxvt for a while and one of the things I didn't like about it was that it didn't have real transparency, only pseudo transparency. The problem was that when you drag the Urxvt window around it holds your desktop image beneath it and then adjusts when you release it. After digging around for a bit I found a way of getting proper transparency, I found this in the Arch forums:

URxvt*depth: 32
URxvt*buffered: true
URxvt*foreground: #909090
URxvt*background: rgba:0000/0000/0000/dddd
URxvt*transparent:false
URxvt*fading: 2%
URxvt*fadeColor: grey
URxvt*shading:75

Which gives a nice effect. Having got this sorted I'm quite liking Urxvt especially the tabs and Klanger's font is quite an attractive alternative to my usual Monospace.

Is there a way of getting another icon to show in tint besides the plain white box ? Which I think is the default when no icon is present.

I found nice terminal colour link http://phraktured.net/terminal-colors/ (it's from the arch wiki page... arch wiki is fabulous )

HANNA (without "h" in the end) likes green and #!
Also know as ultraturquoise online / #! last.fm / #! DeviantART / U / Q

i know, my point is the standard for comments in config files is # not !, and its not exactly a new standard drempt up after X was was invented.
you shouldn't have to post a question on a forum, or read through the man pages to check what the comment character is.

Quite true, but unfortunately this isn't the only kind of comment there is. The php config file, php.ini, uses a semicolon to start a comment line, html uses <!-- (comment here) -->, and so on... It's just our good luck that most of the time it's a #, not really a "standard".

Last edited by johnraff (2009-10-17 17:03:19)

it is a standard, just an informal one, i know many programming langauges have other comments '/**/'- C '//'- C++, ';'- lisp, interrestingly fortran uses '!' as a comment (read into that what you will), the thing is you are likely to spend more than 5 minutes with any one of these, so the effort of learning what the comment is, is insignificant compared to the rest of the language, plus there isn't really a standard in programming languages (except perhaps loosely '#' for some scripting languages and '<!---->' for html like markup languages), so you expect to have to find out what the comment syntax is.

with a config file on the other hand you are unlikely to spend more than 5 minutes editing it, so its less acceptable to spend time learning the syntax.
i imagine the X people had grand plans for having .xdefaults as one centralised file for all defaults for graphical apps, i suppose in that context it may be more acceptable to introduce new syntax, but in its present state its a config file for a few terminal emulators, default x apps and not much else, and just introduces uncertainty when editing other files.