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zoqaeski

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From: /earth/australia/.

Registered: 2009-09-30

Posts: 133

I feel like an Electric Monk (or, colour issues with urxvt)

I did a look around and apparently people have been having similar issues with colours in urxvt, and now it's my turn. I installed urxvt, to see what the hype about it is about, and (probably) due to some bug in my ~/.Xdefaults it has become a uniform shade of pink =/ . Other forum posts mentioned spaces in the wrong places in the various config files, or colours being in the wrong style, or something; Googling turned up heaps of examples of what the problem is, but few, if any, hints on how to fix it.

~/.Xdefaults:

!! Colours
#include "/home/robbie/.config/xorg/Xdefaults.d/colours"
*foreground:  COLOUR_THEME_FG
*background:  COLOUR_THEME_BG
*color0:  COLOUR_THEME_BLACK
*color1:  COLOUR_THEME_DARK_RED
*color2:  COLOUR_THEME_DARK_GREEN
*color3:  COLOUR_THEME_DARK_YELLOW
*color4:  COLOUR_THEME_DARK_BLUE
*color5:  COLOUR_THEME_DARK_MAGENTA
*color6:  COLOUR_THEME_DARK_CYAN
*color7:  COLOUR_THEME_LIGHT_GREY
*color8:  COLOUR_THEME_DARK_GREY
*color9:  COLOUR_THEME_LIGHT_RED
*color10: COLOUR_THEME_LIGHT_GREEN
*color11: COLOUR_THEME_LIGHT_YELLOW
*color12: COLOUR_THEME_LIGHT_BLUE
*color13: COLOUR_THEME_LIGHT_MAGENTA
*color14: COLOUR_THEME_LIGHT_CYAN
*color15: COLOUR_THEME_WHITE

URxvt.buffered: true
URxvt.font: xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:pixelsize=14:antialias=true
URxvt.boldFont: xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:bold:pixelsize=14:antialias=true
URxvt.italicFont: xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:italic:pixelsize=14:antialias=true
URxvt.boldItalicFont: xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:bold:italic:pixelsize=14:antialias=true

Current colour scheme:

#define COLOUR_THEME_FG             #202426
#define COLOUR_THEME_BG             #C2C0C2

#define COLOUR_THEME_BLACK          #202426
#define COLOUR_THEME_DARK_RED       #B80000
#define COLOUR_THEME_DARK_GREEN     #046624
#define COLOUR_THEME_DARK_YELLOW    #804400
#define COLOUR_THEME_DARK_BLUE      #193B6B
#define COLOUR_THEME_DARK_MAGENTA   #5C3F61
#define COLOUR_THEME_DARK_CYAN      #036466
#define COLOUR_THEME_LIGHT_GREY     #D7D4D7

#define COLOUR_THEME_DARK_GREY      #555753
#define COLOUR_THEME_LIGHT_RED      #E62727
#define COLOUR_THEME_LIGHT_GREEN    #23994A
#define COLOUR_THEME_LIGHT_YELLOW   #D77200
#define COLOUR_THEME_LIGHT_BLUE     #547599
#define COLOUR_THEME_LIGHT_MAGENTA  #946D90
#define COLOUR_THEME_LIGHT_CYAN     #059799
#define COLOUR_THEME_WHITE          #EBE8EB

As far as I can tell there don't seem to be any errors.

** and yes, the post title is a reference to Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

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I should add that I'm not using Arch Linux at the moment, but instead setting up my present Ubuntu machine to perform as close to how I expect my next computer to behave with Arch; mainly so I can get a lot of my settings (with the exception of those for pacman and those preconfigured with Ubuntu) working properly to ease in my transition when I do upgrade my hardware.

SamC

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From: Calgary

Registered: 2008-05-13

Posts: 611

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Re: I feel like an Electric Monk (or, colour issues with urxvt)

Great post title. Run 'xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults' and it should work.

zoqaeski

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From: /earth/australia/.

Registered: 2009-09-30

Posts: 133

Re: I feel like an Electric Monk (or, colour issues with urxvt)

That appears to have done the trick.