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Extended tabbed plugin for rxvt-unicode (urxvt)
========= Tabbedalt
This is modified, alternative tabbed extension for well known urxvt-unicode
_
terminal emulator
Features
-
Possibility to add named tabs, through the X resources, which run specified command or another shell (zsh/fish/ash/csh/ksh…). Without any configuration only default shell is available under default (
Shift+Down
) shortcut... image:: /screens/tabbed.png :alt: Named tabs
-
Fast navigation to first ten tabs (if available) with shortcut
Ctrl+[num]
, where num can be 0 to 9.CTRL+0
will switch to tenth tab. -
Numbers in tabs can be switched off in by setting resource:
URxvt.tabbedalt.tab-numbers: false
-
Integrated
activity indicator
_ with additional features like colors and different characters instead of simply asterisk depending on time... image:: /screens/tabbed.gif :alt: Indicator activity
-
Integrated tab renaming from
stepb
_. Default underShift+UP
, then type some text and pressRETURN
for accept orESC
for cancel. -
Added ability to configure own shortcuts using standard
keysym
urxvt option. See below for examples. -
Autohide tab when there is only one tab at the moment.
-
Ability to assign hotkey to jump to last tab.
-
Configurable confirm dialog for closing urxvt window, when there is more than one tab opened or there is an process still running.
Installation
Copy tabbedalt into ~/.urxvt/ext
directory.
Add these to your ~/.Xdefaults
::
! Perl extension config
URxvt.perl-ext: tabbedalt
And that's it. On some systems, there might be a need to reload X resources:
.. code:: shell-session
$ xrdb ~/.Xdefaults
For quickinstall and run urxvt, tabbedalt can be installed using following command:
.. code:: shell-session
$ curl --create-dirs https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gryf/tabbedalt/master/tabbedalt -o ~/.urxvt/ext/tabbedalt $ urxvt -pe tabbedalt
or even without "installing" at all:
.. code:: shell-session
$ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gryf/tabbedalt/master/tabbedalt -o /tmp/tabbedalt $ URXVT_PERL_LIB=/tmp urxvt -pe tabbedalt
Configure
There are several additional things you can set contrary to the original tabbed extension.
New button
You can disable ``[NEW]`` button, just to save the space. Just add following
line to yours ``~/.Xdefaults`` file::
URxvt.tabbedalt.new-button: false
Colors
~~~~~~
You can change all of the colors regarding tabs appearance. Here are defaults::
URxvt.tabbedalt.tabbar-fg: 15
URxvt.tabbedalt.tabbar-bg: 8
URxvt.tabbedalt.tab-fg: 8
URxvt.tabbedalt.tab-bg: 0
URxvt.tabbedalt.active-fg: 1
URxvt.tabbedalt.actives-fg: 5
URxvt.tabbedalt.actived-fg: 4
Tab activity
Tabs can change colors depending on the activity of terminal under certain tab. Colors can be defined as described in section above. You can change the time for either group of activity::
URxvt.tabbedalt.tabbar-timeouts: 16:.:8:::4:+
The value can should be read as colon separated fields. In this case it would be read as:
- 16 with symbol
.
- 8 with symbol
:
- 4 with symbol
+
Numeric values means amount of seconds, on which three group of activity will be triggered. Those group are:
- Inactive for at least 16 seconds
- Inactive for at least 8 seconds
- Inactive for at least 4 seconds
Activity of the tab is always represented by asterisk sign (*
).
You can change those values but bear in mind, that first group should have timeout in seconds set higher, than middle one. You can also change symbols for those groups.
Flickering
If you happen to see fonts flickering on the terminal, you might want to set
this resource to true::
URxvt.tabbedalt.stop-flickering: true
It is false by default, and it will affect how refreshing of the tabs and
windows is done. I was experienced it mostly on Intel graphics, with bitmap
fonts, but your mileage may vary.
Tab numbers
You can turn off tab numbers and leave only name of the tab. Handy to save the space::
URxvt.tabbedalt.tab-numbers: false
Autohide
By default tab bar would be visible even with only one tab. To hide tab bar,
when there is a single tab, the following resource need to be set to true::
URxvt.tabbedalt.autohide: true
Actions
~~~~~~~
There are several actions, which tabbedalt supports:
* ``new_tab`` - for tab creation
* ``rename_tab`` - for tab title renaming
* ``prev_tab`` - for jumping to previous tab
* ``next_tab`` - for jumping to next tab
* ``move_tab_left`` - for moving tab to the left
* ``move_tab_right`` - for moving tab to the right
* ``jump_to_tab`` - for quickly jump into specific tab
See next sections for examples. This feature was adapted from `tabbedex`_.
Disable default keystrokes
By setting::
URxvt.tabbedalt.disable-default-keys: true
you can completely remove default keystrokes for creating and navigating tabs. In fact, if this resource is set to false (default), than tabbedalt will create several keysyms mapped to the actions:
-
Shift-Down
:new_tab
- create tab -
Shift-Up
:rename_tab
- for tab title renaming -
Shift-Left
:prev_tab
- for jumping to previous tab -
Shift-Right
:next_tab
- for jumping to next tab -
Shift-Left
:move_tab_left
- for moving tab to the left -
Control-Right
:move_tab_right
- for moving tab to the right -
Control-1..0
:jump_to_tab
- for quickly jumping into first tenth tabs
It might be wise to define own shortcuts before disabling default keys.
#. new_tab
This action can have up to two arguments separated by colon, in a form::
URxvt.keysym.desired-keys: tabbedalt:new_tab:tab-title:tab-command
In this case for desired-keys
shortcut there would be new tab created
with title set to tab-title
, and command which tab run as
tab-command
, for example::
URxvt.keysym.Control-t: tabbedalt:new_tab:htop:htop
where pressing control+t it will run new tab with title htop
and command
htop
.
Both title and command may be omitted. If so, default title shell
will
be used in absence of title, and default shell will be run on missing
command.
#. jump_to_tab
In this action, there is only one argument expected - number of the tab, i.e.::
URxvt.keysym.Control-1: tabbedalt:jump_to_tab:1
URxvt.keysym.Control-2: tabbedalt:jump_to_tab:2
…
URxvt.keysym.Control-0: tabbedalt:jump_to_tab:0
Note, that tabs are indexed from 1, and tab 10th is numbered as 0.
#. The rest
Al the rest of the actions (moving, jumping and renaming) are without argument. For example renaming will look like this::
URxvt.keysym.Control-r: tabbedalt:rename_tab
Jump to last tab
There is a possibility to tell tabbedalt to use ``jump_to_tab`` action to jump
to the last (rightmost) tab, instead of 10th. It can be done by setting
resource::
URxvt.tabbedalt.zero-jump-last: true
so whatever keysym is assigned to ``tabbedalt:jump_to_tab:0`` will select last
tab, regardless if current number of tabs is more or less than 10. There is
still a way for selecting 10th tab, i.e.::
URxvt.tabbedalt.zero-jump-last: true
URxvt.keysym.Control-F1: tabbedalt:jump_to_tab:1
URxvt.keysym.Control-F2: tabbedalt:jump_to_tab:2
…
URxvt.keysym.Control-F10: tabbedalt:jump_to_tab:10
URxvt.keysym.Control-F11: tabbedalt:jump_to_tab:11
URxvt.keysym.Control-F12: tabbedalt:jump_to_tab:12
URxvt.keysym.Control-0: tabbedalt:jump_to_tab:0
In the example above, there are mapping for jump to tabs 1 - 12 using function
keys, and `Control+0` to jump whatever last tab is.
Confirm closing window
When working with tabs, sometimes user accidentally could close the window, and loose all the applications run on the tabs. There might be multiple tabs open, or just one with running process on it (i.e. some editor), where closing window by accident could result in data loss. To prevent this, there are two additional resources that can be set. First one, disabled by default is::
URxvt.tabbedalt.confirm-quit: false
When set to true
it will either execute a message program or will display
an urxvt overlay with the dialog directly on current tab. Note that overlay
dialog will expect the user to either press:
-
y
orenter
key to close the window -
n
orescape
key to deny closing it
Second one is to provide X dialog program::
URxvt.tabbedalt.confirm-program:
It might be whatever X program, which can accept text as an argument, and can provide dialog which:
- have two buttons (i.e. yes/no, ok/cancel) where first will exit dialog with 0 exit code and the latter will exit with whatever other number,
- destroying the dialog also emit exit code higher than 0.
So, for example standard xmessage
_ can be used::
URxvt.tabbedalt.confirm-program: xmessage -buttons ok:0,cancel:1
or zenity
_::
URxvt.tabbedalt.confirm-program: zenity --question --title 'Close window' --text
or kdialog
_::
URxvt.tabbedalt.confirm-program: kdialog --title 'Close window' --yesno
or… any other dialog programs which fulfill the above criteria.
Creating specific commands/shells
Let's assume, that one want to add three kind of custom shells:
- simple one (default shell in the system),
- midnight commander,
- root (namely - su command)
A way to do this is to associate keystroke for it in .Xdefaults
using
urxvts keysym
option, and the actions described above::
URxvt.keysym.Control-Shift-N: tabbedalt:new_tab:shell
URxvt.keysym.Control-Shift-R: tabbedalt:new_tab:root:su -
URxvt.keysym.Control-Shift-M: tabbedalt:new_tab:mc:mc
Resource values are colon separated values, which are in order:
-
plugin name:command, which in this case of creating new tab will be
tabbedalt:new_tab
. - title of the tab, it could be anything but the colon.
- optional command. If omitted, default shell will be launched.
Renaming tabs
On runtime, tabs can be renamed using (by default) Shift+Up
- now you can
type name for the tab. Return
accept change, ESC
cancels it. This
feature was taken from stepb
_ tabbedx repository.
.. _urxvt-unicode: http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode.html .. _activity indicator: http://mina86.com/2009/05/16/tabbed-urxvt-extension/ .. _stepb: http://github.com/stepb/urxvt-tabbedex .. _tabbedex: https://github.com/mina86/urxvt-tabbedex .. _xmessage: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xmessage .. _zenity: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Zenity .. _kdialog: https://develop.kde.org/docs/administration/kdialog