TIP: Remote access using rxvt-unicode

Gentoo May 10th, 2006

rxvt-unicode is a descent terminal emulator, and it is the probably the most lightweight terminal that supports unicode. However, this application is overlooked, and most Unix platforms lack the terminfo about it, and just complain:

Cannot find terminfo entry for ‘rxvt-unicode’

To address this problem, just add one line in ~/.Xdefaults:

URxvt*termName: rxvt

Thus, the urxvt take the hat of rxvt in the remote host without compromise.

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10 Comments to “TIP: Remote access using rxvt-unicode”

  1. Refactor the Life » Blog Archive » Refactoring TODO List | May 10th, 2006 at 10:59 am

    [...] Fix urxvt “Cannot find terminfo entry for ‘rxvt-unicode’” in remote machine [...]

  2. someguy | June 12th, 2006 at 12:54 pm

    Ahh, this helped me alot. Thanks :)

  3. penguin | June 25th, 2007 at 9:58 am

    thx also from me this help me now at the same problem google just take me to you ;) ?

  4. dude | August 22nd, 2007 at 4:33 am

    kudos to u. appreciate this tip ;)

  5. anotherguy | October 31st, 2007 at 2:57 am

    thanks man ;)

  6. bobby | April 4th, 2009 at 4:23 pm

    alternatively:
    infocmp -C rxvt-unicode > urxvt.tic

    and then remote: tic urxvt.tic

    this fixes this problem the right way.

  7. george | June 2nd, 2009 at 3:01 am

    thanks, bobby for infocmp and tic

  8. Alan | August 4th, 2009 at 11:33 pm

    Bobby’s tip seems to be more “legit” :) Thanks, both of you.

  9. istealmyideasfromgoogle | May 1st, 2010 at 8:30 am

    Stolen from http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Rxvt-Unicode

    infocmp rxvt-unicode | ssh USER@REMOTE_IP “mkdir -p .terminfo && cat >/tmp/ti && tic /tmp/ti”

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