Bug 381333 – x11-terms/rxvt-unicode feature request (disable underline and cursor behaviour)

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Description ac.serbanescu 2011-08-31 17:17:48 UTC]

Would somebody consider adding these 3 features to rxvt-unicode through a patch?
1. disable the underline if underlined text is set to be displayed as coloured;
2. making the cursor use reverse video instead of the default foreground/background;
3. making the cursor behave like under focus even when the terminal window is not focused.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2011-09-03 16:49:55 UTC]

Where is the patch? :)

Do the resources colorUL, underlineColor help you at all?

[Comment 2 ac.serbanescu 2012-02-26 14:30:42 UTC]

Created attachment 303343 [details, diff]
Patch to not draw the underline if underlined text is displayed in colour.

[Comment 3 ac.serbanescu 2012-02-26 18:39:51 UTC]

Created attachment 303405 [details, diff]
Don't draw underline if colorUL is set

This one is better. It still disables the underline cursor if colorUL is set, but it had poor visibility anyway.

[Comment 4 Ari Malinen 2014-06-28 12:20:08 UTC]

(In reply to ac.serbanescu from comment #3)
> Created attachment 303405 [details, diff] [details, diff]
> Don't draw underline if colorUL is set
> 
> This one is better. It still disables the underline cursor if colorUL is
> set, but it had poor visibility anyway.

Why dont you just do the following:
Put patch to: /etc/portage/patches/x11-terms/rxvt-unicode/nameof.patch

This step is only needed if rxvt-unicode ebuild doesnt call epatch_user() by default.
Configure portage bashrc to call epatch_user() for all ebuilds:
/etc/portage/bashrc
post_src_unpack() {
        if type epatch_user &> /dev/null ; then
                if [[ -d ${S} ]]; then
                        pushd "${S}" 2>/dev/null
                        epatch_user
                        popd 2>/dev/null
                else
                        epatch_user
                fi
        fi
}

emerge rxvt-unicode

[Comment 5 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2014-06-28 13:19:05 UTC]

(Apparently we had some `use vanilla && epatch_user' logic in there. I might even have put it there myself. I have changed the ebuild so that epatch_user is /always/ called and no one needs to work around USE=vanilla.)

[Comment 6 Marek Szuba 2020-12-07 17:12:11 UTC]

Closing due to years of inactivity.