========= 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 represents its *class*. Without any configuration only default shell *class* 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 under ``Shift+UP``, then type some text and press ``RETURN`` for accept or ``ESC`` 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. 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. 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**, which in case of this very plugin would be always ``tabbedalt``. * **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