urxvt: Jump Start (1/2)

In this screencast you'll learn how to get up and running with the popular terminal Unix terminal emulator, rxvt-unicode (also called called Urxvt for short). Whilst this tool isn't always intuitive to set up, it's actually pretty easy once you know how.
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[@branpurn]

Since you made this tutorial, some maintainer of ArchWiki was like "woah, this is too convenient let's remove most of these config examples" 😂 --great guide BTW

[@imnotfuckingusingthisaccou2574]

I was banned from the arch forums even though I never posted there. That may tell you a bit about the maintainers

[@jaycejadiel7722]

Instablaster

[@daldi5211]

Did they really do that?

[@alejodelosreyes6277]

You know, I see other videos with maybe half ot this info, all mixed up, and some fancy equipment on behind, and 200k views. This is by far the best tutorial I could find about URxvt. I can't understand why it has so many views. But thank you so mucho for the time you took and for clarifying stuff. Really useful!

[@Liquiddeath100]

I wasn't expecting this to be as good as it was! As a first timer to your channel, thanks for the excellent introduction to urxvt. I look forward to more urxvt videos and other linux content. Thanks

[@bookercodes]

+Liquiddeath100 Well, I put a lot of effort into it (more than I probably should haha). I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[@beelzebubbalicious]

Just installed rxvt and didn’t know what to do until I found this tutorial. Thanks so much for doing this. It was very helpful.

[@TF2Cheff]

I'm new to ricing/configuring and Linux in general, and your videos have been the most helpful thing by far. Keep up with the quality content!

[@bookercodes]

I'm glad you found them useful, Niels 😄

[@micheledesimoni6428]

I did see you on reddit. Please keep on doing these great videos.

[@bookercodes]

+Michele De Simoni Will do. Thanks for the encouragement ^_^!

[@kyubre]

First naive impressions of urxvt leave a lot to be desired. Thanks again for the insight into another very cool tool that I had for far too long overlooked for lack of time spent exploring it. Well done!

[@bookercodes]

+John Suykerbuyk You're welcome, John. There are so many terminal windows out there. I'm still trying to find my favourite!

[@xGOKOPx]

*scrollBar: boolean* Nothing really stands out as an option to disable this scroll bar 🤔

[@TheGuardianSteel]

lmao

[@Microphunktv-jb3kj]

:) + i don't trust anyone who uses Atom as their ide

[@imnotfuckingusingthisaccou2574]

Thought exactly the same thing, however I think the catch is that many people don't know what a boolean is

[@xGOKOPx]

@Quincy Kaleb Gtfo anyone who wishes to hack their friends' accounts on anything is disgusting.

[@mazxn]

Awesome video, I would definitely like to see more.

[@bookercodes]

Thanks m8 😀

[@kardeslerim-turkishdramaen2279]

This is super-cool.. please upload more videos.... I just installed arch this Sunday .. and I am super-excited....

[@kokoloism]

This is insane. I love this videos. I am using urxvt for years. I like the fact that you can configure line spacing. Urxvt is so customazible. In fact vim + tmux + urxvt is the most powerful and productive programmer's environment that I have ever used.

[@PhilipIsaacs]

Hmm, i'm not sure what the benefit of using RXVT is yet, but I love your videos. It definitely inspires me to learn more. Thank you

[@crypterskm1372]

I have watched your "switching to ubuntu gnome" videos and I liked that so much.. It helped me a lot.. You explain things very nicely and cleanly.. I respect your work... And this video is as good as rest.. I love to see your post.. Keep posting this type of videos I love it man.. And big thanks for sharing with us... You are very (It seems), the way you talk..

[@bookercodes]

+Crypter skm I'm really glad you appreciate my stuff, Crypter. Thanks a lot for taking the time to comment -- comments like these motivate me to make more!

[@andy1855]

Your videos are great, good content and no rambling. Keep it up

[@bookercodes]

+andy1855 Thanks mate, I try.

[@zr6542]

Alex you make the best Linux videos on KZbin in my opinion. Please make more videos!

[@bookercodes]

+Zachary Rohrbach That's so nice of you to say so. And will do ;)!

[@LeonardJackson]

omg, that's you? I use that base16 script for my terminals and vim. Thanks for that, I love it

[@bookercodes]

+Leonard Jackson Well, yes and no. You are probably familiar with the original Ruby-based base16-builder project by Chris Kempson. I am building a new version from the ground-up because the Ruby-based tool isn't actively maintained at this time.

[@LeonardJackson]

Oh ya, you're right. I use it with the material theme for vim. What's the difference between yours and his? And I hope you make more rxvt and linux videos. You have a good manner when explaining stuff.

[@devon660]

"man urxvt" contains explanations to the config options. Use "/font" to search for font and press "n" to go to the next search result. urxvt is also really good at displaying images through w3m in the terminal! Pretty useful if you use the file manager ranger. 8:12 monospace is not a font name. It’s more like a variable to define your standard mono font. For me the preset was DejaVuSansMono.

[@leonk6950]

Monospace is a font. Monospaced is the adjective describing fonts with consistent letter width

[@xGOKOPx]

@@leonk6950 No. When you see a generic font name like just "monospace" or just "sans serif", that's in fact not any particular font. These are meant to depict your default font of that kind and they're set somewhere in your system to some actual font, like DejaVu Sans Mono or something else. It's important because it means that "monospace" on one system may not be the same as "monospace" on another system.

[@bad63r31]

I like your tutorials. Short, clean and on point. Btw for future reference, mb you should update your link because there is not .Xresources on yout github account ;)

[@Mrgurin]

Why you dont make videos..? you ara the one of the best guy who can teach.. 👍👍👍

[@minhajshovon9789]

This is a good video. This guy deserves more subscribers.

[@ShahabazBagwan]

as +infinitelygalactic is gone I was looking for a good linux channel and voila I found this one. I appreciate your videos please continue this stuff.

[@bookercodes]

+Shahabaz Bagwan It's too bad IG isn't making videos anymore. He is definitely an inspiration to me!

[@ShahabazBagwan]

yes, indeed. I can understand it takes time to make videos and he has some stuff to do. I hope you will fill for him in Linux community of KZbin :)

[@bookercodes]

+Shahabaz Bagwan Those are some big shoes to fill!

[@ShahabazBagwan]

Code Cast best of luck for that :)

[@jurajpetrik77]

Great video Alex! Looking forward for the second part

[@bookercodes]

+your mom It'll be out soon!

[@michaels4832]

Thank you for making this, never stop making videos! :P

[@bookercodes]

+Michael S Aw, thanks for the kind words ☺

[@arno2572]

Great refrence and introduction! Well done.

[@bookercodes]

Thank you 😀

[@RobertGrimm]

You can also copy and paste the old X way with the mouse. Select text to automatically copy it. Middle click to paste. This uses the same clipboard as other methods, so you can copy text however you usually do it in another program and middle click to paste. Most programs support this method of pasting.

[@victoreremita7980]

Awesome video! I would very much like to see part 2.

[@bookercodes]

+Victor Eremita Coming soon!

[@cristianbailey8407]

Man, you are awesome let me tell you that. I learn a lot from you video, and much more from the coments. Im going for i3wm series, seems great!! keep it going fella

[@bookercodes]

Thanks, Cristian :)

[@savantshuia]

Just switched from st to rxvt-unicode, because it is more minimal than st but still comes with scroll support. st claims to be suckless but not having scroll support by default and also crashes when you paste emojis which is a bug. dwm + rxvt-unicode + dmenu+ranger+pcmanfm is my go to basic Arch setup. I have just one gripe with your video, if you look at the Gentoo wiki they recommend creating /home//config/urxvt and calling it in .Xresources with #include "/home//.config/urxvt" That is probably because this video is 6 years old though😛, with the Arch Wiki and the Gentoo Wiki you can fix practically any problem

[@JosephEmmanuelSaintJamesKUAZAR]

Very good video. Would like to see more on urxvt, please... enjoyed I3WM tuts also. Looking for a good one on vpn's.... "Code Cast" name fits perfectly. Very concise, easy to understand and detailed videos... Too many out there garbage... Kudos!

[@plxiznogoud3328]

like your approach in your videos: "give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime" :)

[@arjonnyp]

Your voice and and your accent are like satin. Thanks for the extremely informative and helpful video!!

[@ReconTek]

Awesome introduction. I'd love to see more thus series in the future.

[@bookercodes]

+ReconTek I'm glad you liked it. Thanks for taking the time to comment.

[@boonkerz]

do you not use i3 anymore?

[@ZweiSpeedruns]

+Thomas Peterson You can use i3 over another WM, and that seems to be what he is doing here. The workspace system looks alot like i3

[@Minkiu]

It looks like gnome3 + Plank to me, someone correct me if I'm wrong.

[@lilp4p1]

im on gnome and i have i3 wtf?!

[@joesengch1352]

i3 still doesn't work with VirtualBox so I guess that's why

[@Egzvorg]

joe, I'm using it right now

[@GarethEonPC]

Would definitely like to see more of these

[@bookercodes]

+Gareth Ellis I have committed to do a part 2 based on comments like this! Thanks.

[@mark571961]

Looking forward to more videos in this set.

[@bookercodes]

+Mark Nichols It's online now!

[@anupkodlekere8604]

Couldn't find your .Xresources file in your dotfiles. Could you upload it again please?

[@anderskristoffersen5431]

I personally have not switched over to Linux 100% YET. I love your videos, you make it so much more fun, and really makes me want to change completely as soon as possible! And you have made the best videos on Gnome ever :-D And really hope you will make a lot of videos about Linux, since you have an amazing, friendly and clear approach to it! Can you tell me what it is for an dock you use? I am quite crazy about it! Love from Denmark

[@bookercodes]

+Anders Kristoffersen Thank you for taking the time to write such a positive and encouraging comment -- I really appreciate it. As for the dock, it's called _Dash to Dock_ and you can get it from extensions.gnome.org/

[@anderskristoffersen5431]

+Code Cast Your welcome. You have earned the praise! thank you!

[@SajjadRizvi77]

Excellent video. There's a lot of similar videos but not as well done. So yes, do more on urxvt including on its plugins and other terminal apps.

[@bookercodes]

+Sajjad H. Rizvi I really appreciate the kind words.

[@gbarkhatov]

For sure make lots of videos like this :) Dive into advanced topics!

[@bookercodes]

+Govard Barkhatov Will do. Are you still using Fedora and GNOME?

[@gbarkhatov]

+Code Cast Nope, switched to Arch long time ago and don't regret. It's funny that it 'breaks' or make something weird a lot less (well, actually more like never. thanks to wiki) than Ubuntu or Mint. Even with all that "hey, it's rolling release, don't update it till it works". As for Gnome. I used i3wm for 2 months, but feel like stacked wm suits my needs more. So I switched to xfce and don't regret. It's light, fast, mature and I don't imagine lot's of things to implement in the next version. Maybe that's why it has somewhat long release cycle? I wish GNOME was a little bit faster and has a default 'split a window to quarter' function. At the time I installed GNOME3, no plugin from extensions site could do that. More configurable via "settings button", just like XFCE. Bad thing that KDE is so fucked up and buggy. Like jeez there are SO MANY bugs. Even on arch with the latest KDE5. Hope to see in 2-3 years less bugy version of KDE5 (fingers crossed they won't make KDE6 soon), faster and more flexible GNOME3, wayland version of XFCE on GTK3. But yea. I've found my place on Arch and XFCE combo, it works like a charm. Want to thank you for the .dotfiles idea. Which I've seen before, but implemented only after your i3wm videos.

[@bookercodes]

+Govard Barkhatov You have motivated me to try out KDE5 now :)

[@gbarkhatov]

+Code Cast Hope you try it for a few weeks and we get a new series of vids from you. By the way - do you use any web dev technologies? Any videos about html/css (and all that sass/less, jade, handlebars, etc.), javascript, angular, and libraries, node.js (express, etc.), gulp/grunt, bower etc. etc.?

[@peacemekka]

How does it compare to xterm? I've configured xterm to my taste but am having problems loading up unicode fonts so was thinking of making the switch.

[@mfdebian]

quick question, i tried using dotfiles i found somewhere else to use my scroll wheel for scrolling, but i get the "perl extension 'vtwheel' not found in perl library search path", same with the clipboard extension (or would you recommend a clipboard manager?), do i need to install something before using this perl extensions? i didn't catch that up on the video.

[@bookercodes]

+alpiholagg In part 2 I'll talk more about extensions.

[@ubik2040]

Man you are amazing. Kudos to you. A video on tmux will be awesome. For anyone interested I suggest to you " Tmux: productive mouse-free development" by Brian P. Hogan . It is a very light yet extremely useful reading on Tmux and many of its uses/configuration.

[@bookercodes]

+Ubik I recently became enamoured with tmux, so you'll no doubt see some videos about it in the near future! Thanks for the book recommendation - I, for one, will be checking it out!

[@samzorn]

I can only agree here... Best book about Tmux!

[@deabru]

Nice and easy, this is a well done video.

[@bookercodes]

+deabru Thank you for saying so.

[@teiturgudmundarson4991]

The 'Scrollbar' section on ArchWiki has been removed. Are they trying to make things more difficult?

[@kenshi1985br]

nice video!!! I am already familiar with urxvt and I did copied others .Xresources, but I did not know that people saved dotfiles on github... thanks...

[@gakukid991]

Men your channel is awesome . Thanks for the good work :)

[@superspectator123]

Great video. Thank you.

[@n3of1x51]

heck yeah I would like to see more, this series would go well since I'm looking to install i3 and was wondering why you didn't mention terminal emulators

[@n3of1x51]

*would go well with your i3 series

[@bookercodes]

+n3of1x I love your enthusiasm haha. Thanks 😄!

[@AlqGo]

Seems unusual that urxvt prints to standard error. Is it really common to print out help to stderr?

[@mbigras]

Would love to see more videos like this Alex! Especially interested in watch you explore and configure terminal emulators, text editors and window managers. Also please please make a video about tmux and how you work with the system clipboard/tmux/vim for copy/paste functionality. Cheers!

[@RobinGrays]

Truly helpful indeed.

[@xxRudnickxx]

Hey could you tell me more about the shell theme which is highlighting the current path? How can I add it too?

[@Tristan97122]

Look up zsh, oh-my-zsh and the agnoster or powerline themes ;-)

[@teiturgudmundarson4991]

You don't have your .Xresources dotfiles on your github anymore. Why tho?

[@holysenpai]

Hi Alex, I can see that you have a zsh configuration as well. May I ask, what are, in your opinion the biggest differences between zsh and urxvt? Resources are out of the question as I have a decently powerful machine.

[@bookercodes]

+Alexandru Popa Good question. You can use both because urxvt and zsh *aren't* mutually exclusive. You see, urxvt is the terminal window/emulator and ZSH is the Unix shell. If that sounds at all confusing, check out this clip of mine: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l4SspZ6Xqb-kZrsm40s

[@jaki99k10]

Sorry but what top bar theme did you use?

[@KacinMason]

Hi Code Cast, great video, I only have one problem at the end of all this. I used your urxvt settings from your github .Xresources file and tweaked a few things from there, however , now every time I reboot, the settings go back to stock settings. How do I fix it? I'm running Arch Linux i3wm if that helps any! Thanks in advance

[@bookercodes]

+KacinMason If the settings apply when you run *xrdb* but not when the system loads, it means your system cannot find *~/.Xresources*. It's case sensitive and lives in *~/*. If the file exists at the correct location, it's possible that your system isn't even trying to load it at startup due to a misconfiguration.

[@memesincorporated]

are you speeding up the video when the typing changes pitch or do you type that fast?

[@bookercodes]

+memes inc. Yes I am ;)

[@wayneferguson14]

I still love st terminal

[@kuroneko6494]

Is there a difference between uxterm and urxvt? Is one more customizable than the other?

[@bookercodes]

I had honestly never heard of _uxterm_ before reading this comment. A quick Google search later and there _does_ appear to be a difference, yes.

[@rootKLM]

I'm glad you're making these videos, I'm only just discovering what rxvt is capable of! any plans to do a vid on customizing either vim or emacs? I'm trying to switch from visual studio to the linux tool chain, and the editor features are pretty overwhelming!

[@bookercodes]

+Kevin Polsky I am an avid Vim user and plan to make a similar series of videos about it and Tmux in the future. Hopefully I can help you out because I, too, transitioned from Windows and Visual Studio to Linux and Vim!

[@hlayke]

Code Cast Hey there. Just trying to make you remember this comment of yours! This topic is really really interesting to me and to a lot of people I think. Now that I'm used to your videos, I don't know if I could stand other people's tutorials or learning in other ways, Haha. You really are a great "teacher", and you make true quality content. Thanks for all you've done, I hope you'll come back from this long pause! Best wishes.

[@nightwish6145]

subbed for ur voice haha, nice video bro , keep it up :)

[@bookercodes]

Thanks ha 😜

[@dig8195]

this I agree!

[@MichaelSoulier32Pens]

Honestly, I have never had so many problems just getting a terminal to work the way I want it to as urxvt. Maybe I'm old but xterm just works, every time. I cannot understand why I should struggle with urxvt. Trying to get one config working portably across Debian and Arch is a nightmare for me.

[@redgek]

Thank you so much!

[@bookercodes]

+Dima Kalchenko (RedPanda) You're welcome, Dima!

[@beddj1]

Is there a name for the color scheme you use on your urxvt? I tried it and it looks great

[@Ehatari]

What is your themes and gnome shell themes ? What is your icons theme ?

[@de_stroyedcsgo4930]

What's that shell theme? Also what is that dock at the bottom?

[@bookercodes]

+De_stroyed CS:GO Shell theme is _Agnoster_. Dock is _Dash to Dock_.

[@Cwankhede]

+Code Cast Thanks!

[@Flat1998]

Thank you! Very nice video, good explained and visualized. Could you please name me the type of desktop youre using? Sorry I'm new to Linux I have no clue.

[@bookercodes]

Yes, it's a desktop environment called GNOME.

[@exzibit7]

Do you mind telling how you highlighted the folder path at 2:03 using shell theme?

[@Ch197007h]

+exzibit7 It is an zsh (oh-my-zsh) theme called agnoster.

[@bookercodes]

+exzibit7 Yep. Here's a link: github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/wiki/themes#agnoster

[@user-jj8lr6yc5z]

I've never heard about this, so I prefer terminator. Maybe, because I use tabs in my terminal like tabs in my browser. :D

[@bookercodes]

+Алексей Бондаренко I admit, urxvt isn't for everyone. It does support tabs, though: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/rxvt-unicode#Simple_tabs

[@imeawsome]

i've done you i3 setup and it's awesome, and i'm doing this but the on i got riced is always gnome-terminal and i want rxvt. I don't know how is that even possible considering i copied your dotfiles :D Got any idea what has gone wrong? Thanks and keep it up, you're awesome!

[@MartinKempMartiUK]

Hey, awesome video, thanks for using cmder!

[@bookercodes]

+Martin Kemp (MartiUK) I just looked-up your GitHub and can see that you've made some significant contributions to cmder. Thank _you_!

[@MartinKempMartiUK]

I'm the maintainer! haha!

[@bookercodes]

+Martin Kemp (MartiUK) Well, that is even more awesome. I followed you on GitHub.

[@mazxn]

How do you paste from system in neovim? :/ I've been using it for a while and struggled to do that. Also it'd be awesome if you did a video on neovim.

[@bookercodes]

+Mazen Amr Hi, Mazen. I press Shift + Insert. And thanks for the suggestion -- I *will* be producing some screencasts about Vi/Vim/Nvim screencasts in the (hopefully near) future.

[@peterbrynildsen1485]

Scrollbar settings and examples like "URxvt.scrollBar: false" has been removed from the Arch Wiki. ?? wtf ??

[@devon660]

Usually they remove examples which are already covered in the man page.

[@gluschtigschindli6089]

nice video

[@bookercodes]

+Allerlei Thanks :D

[@digiw0rx]

Love your channel, just recently started with i3 have installed urxvt as the default terminal, when is the next video in this series coming ? :D

[@bookercodes]

+digiw0rx Very soon :)

[@stefanosmandalas6599]

thanks for the tips!

[@MohammedBabur]

excited for this series! can you make one for tmux as well?

[@bookercodes]

+Mohammed Babur Yeah, absolutely. At the moment I am enamoured with Vim and Tmux (especially Tmux). I plan to make a series similar to my i3wm ones about Tmux.

[@MohammedBabur]

+Code Cast that's awesome. your i3 one is great

[@AppA]

More like this.... MORE LIKE THIIIIS!!! please :3

[@bookercodes]

+AppA Second part came out yesterday!

[@AppA]

Code Cast That is awesome, thank you very much!

[@gbcbooks]

did you change your name on github.com ? your dotfiles of .Xresource can not be found

[@ChungNguyen-xp9ie]

it's in another branch now

[@joshuaruggles356]

Alex nice Tut! Have you removed your ~/.Xresources from your GitHub DotFiles repository?

[@rodriguin4]

Can I ask you what operating system you are using in this video, it looks awesome!

[@kacpermalinovsky5471]

i think it's Ubuntu with XFCE

[@micheledesimoni6428]

I suppose that you prefer urxvt over termite (or other very minimal terminal). May I ask you why?

[@bookercodes]

+Michele De Simoni I haven't used Termite so I can't comment, but yes, I do favour minimal terminal emulators.

[@micheledesimoni6428]

Thanks for the reply! Well termite is very similar to urxvt. It has all its perks plus a more polished and modern look / configuration process. However it is also modal with vim like commands and keybindings. After seeing your i3 series I thought you may be interested in it since it fits perfectly into tiling wm and vim muscle memory.

[@bookercodes]

+Michele De Simoni I'm curious to check it out. The thing is, I use a terminal multiplexer called tmux which, in a nutshell, enables me to do those things already.

[@mmakaba]

+Code Cast Maybe netxt time you can introduce tmux for us (noobs :D ) Good work!

[@bookercodes]

+Wes Bluemarine That is definitely coming...

[@kim15742]

How does one get the path/branch highlighting shown at 2:03?

[@xGOKOPx]

It's a theme for zsh

[@swgohreal-talk5790]

Does this support multi term like terminator?And thanks for the share man your like the jedi of terminals .

[@bookercodes]

+336 Sec You can open multiple terminals within a single window via *tabs* but there is no plugin to attain *panes*. You can still use a terminal multiplexer like _tmux_, though.

[@hpp6116]

Great video! Please, could you do a similar video on how to configure and customize XTerm?

[@edupazz]

Thanks!

[@_aakashpandey]

Great video! Came here finishing the i3 series, btw how to get that cool highlighting ?!

[@sanjayshr1921]

Thank you Alex , like to see more videos on urxvt //////( arch user here :P )\\\\\\\\\

[@bookercodes]

+Sanjay Shr Thanks for letting me know. Arch ftw!

[@ivantavarez535]

Alex I miss you, and I can't believe you reverted from i3 to the disgusting gnome + unity bloat..

[@bookercodes]

+Ivan Tavarez *1,* I haven't gone anywhere, *2,* you shouldn't care what system I like to use -- It's a very subjective thing.

[@ivantavarez535]

Are you still planning on using i3 in the future, or you completely reverted back to gnome? Also is there a way to support you bro, your guides made me look smart at my college :')

[@bookercodes]

+Ivan Tavarez i3 takes a long time to setup. A while ago I did a clean install and didn't have the time to rice i3. I still don't have the time. Furthermore, now I use tmux it's almost as though I have a tiling window manager within my terminal emulator, so I get the best of both worlds. By commenting on my videos, you're already supporting me. Aside from that, shares on Twitter etc. help me a lot. Thanks.

[@ivantavarez535]

Will do, just hope everything is good, I've been following you since the day you first posted the i3 guide in reddit. Just letting you know since people get pretty demotivated easily, you're doing godswork fam.

[@bookercodes]

+Ivan Tavarez I appreciate your support, matey!

[@SpenserFL]

+Code Cast So do you recommend using Zsh or Fish? In one of your previous videos you go through using Fish, but in this one I believe you're using Zsh.

[@bookercodes]

+SpenserFL Well, I prefer Zsh but think you should try both to see which YOU prefer

[@SpenserFL]

+Code Cast Good point, I'll try them out myself. I was also wondering, do you plan on continuing this series? Your videos have been a great help to me, so thank you!

[@bookercodes]

+SpenserFL You're welcome :)

[@bookercodes]

+SpenserFL The second and final part is on my channel now!

[@Pinsl]

what's the name of the dock you are using?

[@bookercodes]

+Pinsl It's called _Dash to dock_.

[@tetedanco]

great video , but I cant find your Xresources files in github , its still there?

[@fabiankalweit7534]

nice video :) would like to see more

[@bookercodes]

+Fabian Kalweit Thanks. Part 2 will be coming when I have time.

[@SB-hs4yn]

You make really nice videos! You should upload more often ;p

[@PookAir]

What is the host os? looks beautiful

[@AlexNiebla]

What is that 2>&1 at 9:43 for?

[@bookercodes]

+Alex Niebla Good question. urxvt writes its help to *stderr* instead of *stdout*. Grep does not read *stderr*, essentially. In order to Grep urxvt's help I have to write *2>&1* to redirect (*>*) stderr (*2*) to the same output (*&*) as stdout (*1*).

[@AlejandroArcade]

+Code Cast thanks. Good videos you are making.

[@galihpa]

+Code Cast Thanks for the explanation but I'm still confused, as I know *&* is used to put a process to background, what do you mean by *to the same output* ? What will happen if I only write *2>1* ?

[@xGOKOPx]

@@bookercodes Why does rxvt print help to stderr? That's retarded. stderr is meant for error messages

[@thanhnguyentat4230]

Can I ask you what kind of icon theme you are using in this video, it looks elegant!

[@bookercodes]

snwh.org/paper/icons

[@thanhnguyentat4230]

Thank you :D

[@leolindhorst6396]

What Desktop Environment/Window Manager are you using in this Tutorial? It looks really nice!

[@bookercodes]

+Dev Wurm GNOME

[@jonasgilje1645]

Awesome video, what is that gnome dock? Thanks.

[@bookercodes]

+Jonas Gilje It is called _Dash to Dock_. It's a GNOME extension.

[@ttavyy]

What Linux distro are you currently using and why?

[@bookercodes]

+Kirk Hammett Arch Linux because of the AUR.