searchable-scrollback – incremental scrollback search (enabled by default) DescriptionAdds regex search functionality to the scrollback buffer, triggered by the "searchable-scrollback:start" action (bound to "M-s" by default). While in search mode, normal terminal input/output is suspended and a regex is displayed at the bottom of the screen. Inputting characters appends them to the regex and continues…
remote-clipboard – manage a shared and possibly remote clipboard DescriptionSomewhat of a misnomer, this extension adds two menu entries to the selection popup that allows one to run external commands to store the selection somewhere and fetch it again. We use it to implement a “distributed selection mechanism”, which just means that one command uploads…
readline – improve readline editing (enabled by default) DescriptionA support package that tries to make editing with readline easier. At the moment, it reacts to clicking shift-left mouse button by trying to move the text cursor to this position. It does so by generating as many cursor-left or cursor-right keypresses as required (this only works…
overlay-osc – implement OSC to manage overlays DescriptionThis extension implements some OSC commands to display timed popups on the screen – useful for status displays from within scripts. You have to read the sources for more info.
option-popup – option menu (enabled by default) DescriptionBinds a popup menu to Ctrl-Button2 that lets you toggle (some) options at runtime. Other extensions can extend this popup menu by pushing a code reference onto "@{ $term->{option_popup_hook} }", which gets called whenever the popup is being displayed. Its sole argument is the popup menu, which can…
matcher – match strings in terminal output and change their rendition DescriptionUses per-line display filtering ("on_line_update") to underline text matching a certain pattern and make it clickable. When clicked with the mouse button specified in the "matcher.button" resource (default 2, or middle), the program specified in the "matcher.launcher" resource (default, the "url-launcher" resource, "sensible-browser") will…
kuake – kuake-like hotkey terminal Examples @@RXVT_NAME@@ -kuake-hotkey F10 URxvt.kuake.hotkey: F10DescriptionA very primitive quake-console-like extension. It was inspired by a description of how the programs "kuake" and "yakuake" work: Whenever the user presses a global accelerator key (by default "F10"), the terminal will show or hide itself. Another press of the accelerator key will hide…
keysym-list – implement the "list" keysym expansion. Synopsis urxvt -pe keysym-listDescriptionThe “list” keysym expansion was formerly part of the rxvt-unicode core, and has been moved into this extension for backwards compatibility. You shouldn’t use this extension except for compatibility with old configurations.
urxvt-extensions – briefly list urxvt perl extensions Synopsis urxvt -pe extension-nameDescriptionThis manpage briefly lists the rxvt-unicode extensions available in this version of rxvt-unicode. For information on how to write urxvt extensions, see the urxvt-extensions manpage. Extensions that use resources for configuration are loaded automatically when their resources are specified as command-line switches. Any extension can…
example-refresh-hooks – example of how to use refresh hooks DescriptionDisplays a very simple digital clock in the upper right corner of the window. Illustrates overwriting the refresh callbacks to create your own overlays or changes.
eval – evaluate arbitrary perl code using actions Examples URxvt.keysym.M-c: eval:selection_to_clipboard URxvt.keysym.M-v: eval:paste_clipboard URxvt.keysym.M-V: eval:paste_primary URxvt.keysym.M-Up: eval:scroll_up 1 URxvt.keysym.M-Down: eval:scroll_down 1 URxvt.keysym.M-Home: eval:scroll_to_top URxvt.keysym.M-End: eval:scroll_to_bottomDescriptionAdd support for evaluating arbitrary perl code using actions in keysym resources. If a keysym action takes the form "eval:STRING", the specified STRING is evaluated as a Perl expression. While the…
digital-clock – display a digital clock overlay DescriptionDisplays a digital clock using the built-in overlay.
confirm-paste – ask for confirmation before pasting multiline text DescriptionDisplays a confirmation dialog when a paste containing at least a full line is detected.
clipboard-osc – implement the clipboard operating system command sequence Synopsis urxvt -pe clipboard-oscDescriptionThis extension implements the clipboard;copy Perl OSC.
block-graphics-to-ascii – map block graphics to ascii characters DescriptionA not very useful example of filtering all text output to the terminal by replacing all line-drawing characters (U+2500 .. U+259F) by a similar-looking ascii character.
bell-command – execute a command when the bell rings DescriptionRuns the command specified by the "URxvt.bell-command" resource when a bell event occurs. For example, the following pops up a notification bubble with the text “Beep, Beep” using notify-send: URxvt.bell-command: notify-send "Beep, Beep"
background – manage terminal background Synopsis urxvt –background-expr ‘background expression’ –background-border –background-interval secondsQuick And Dirty Cheat SheetJust load a random jpeg image and tile the background with it without scaling or anything else: load "/path/to/img.jpg"The same, but use mirroring/reflection instead of tiling: mirror load "/path/to/img.jpg"Load an image and scale it to exactly fill the terminal…
matcher – match strings in terminal output and change their rendition DescriptionUses per-line display filtering ("on_line_update") to underline text matching a certain pattern and make it clickable. When clicked with the mouse button specified in the "matcher.button" resource (default 2, or middle), the program specified in the "matcher.launcher" resource (default, the "url-launcher" resource, "sensible-browser") will…
kuake – kuake-like hotkey terminal Examples @@RXVT_NAME@@ -kuake-hotkey F10 URxvt.kuake.hotkey: F10DescriptionA very primitive quake-console-like extension. It was inspired by a description of how the programs "kuake" and "yakuake" work: Whenever the user presses a global accelerator key (by default "F10"), the terminal will show or hide itself. Another press of the accelerator key will hide…
keysym-list – implement the "list" keysym expansion. Synopsis urxvt -pe keysym-listDescriptionThe “list” keysym expansion was formerly part of the rxvt-unicode core, and has been moved into this extension for backwards compatibility. You shouldn’t use this extension except for compatibility with old configurations.