[SOLVED] Hide cursor in urxvt - this is possible!

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razze · Post by **razze** » Wed May 27, 2009 7:51 pm

I am using urxvt with borderless and transparency to get certain log files to appear to be directly on the desktop. However I cannot find the correct setting to hide the cursor in these non-input terminals. Can anyone help me with this?

avx · Post by **avx** » Wed May 27, 2009 9:44 pm

What about adjusting it's color to be the same as the background? Or do you have some fancy backdrop making that impossible?

livibetter · Post by **livibetter** » Thu May 28, 2009 12:51 am

Try to run before tail (I suppose):

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#Hide cursor
echo -ne "\033[?25l"
#Show cursor
#echo -ne "\033[?25h

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code

Or set the following in ~/.Xdefaults

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URxvt.cursorColor:      #rrggbb

Or just run

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urxvt -cr rgb:rr/gg/bb

References: man urxvt, man 7 urxvt

razze · Post by **razze** » Thu May 28, 2009 5:54 am

Thanks for the tips.

I am using a multi-colored image as background so setting the cursor color to the same as the background does not work for me.

The escape code works if I enter it as a separate command in the terminal window, but I would like to start the log "window" with just one command so I would like to get a way to enter it on the command line. Trying to execute the escape sequence after an -e did not work for me, so is there a way to sent it directly to urxvt.

my current command:

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 /usr/bin/urxvt +bc -fn 6x13 -fg grey -bl +sb -sh 100 -g 160x10+2+860 -e tail -f $1

livibetter · Post by **livibetter** » Thu May 28, 2009 6:17 am

razze wrote:

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 /usr/bin/urxvt +bc -fn 6x13 -fg grey -bl +sb -sh 100 -g 160x10+2+860 -e tail -f $1

If you don't want to create a script, then you can do

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/usr/bin/urxvt +bc -fn 6x13 -fg grey -bl +sb -sh 100 -g 160x10+2+860 -e sh -c 'echo -ne "\033[?25l" ; exec tail -f $1'

razze · Post by **razze** » Thu May 28, 2009 8:58 am

Hi!

Thanks for the tip!! The $1 does not work if I run this (actually a one-line script file), but if I give the log file directly on the command line then it works as I want to - and thats fine with me.

ppurka · Post by **ppurka** » Thu May 28, 2009 2:55 pm

razze wrote:Hi!

Thanks for the tip!! The $1 does not work if I run this (actually a one-line script file), but if I give the log file directly on the command line then it works as I want to - and thats fine with me.

The $1 will work if you interchange the order of the quotes:

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"echo -ne '\033[?25l' ; exec tail -f $1"

@livibetter: thanks for the tip

razze · Post by **razze** » Thu May 28, 2009 5:34 pm

ppurka: that did the trick, thanks!

ppurka · Post by **ppurka** » Thu May 28, 2009 6:58 pm

By the way, I almost forgot. You do know about conky, don't you?