.poptermrc

# These are the defaults that you're likely to want to change.  They can be set
# in your environment as well.  It's just shell, so you can do arbitrary things
# here if you want.
ptfontsize=16
ptdim=158x20
ptfg='#FFEDB3'
ptbg='#262C42'
ptbindkey=F23

popterm

#!/bin/sh
# Executive summary:  guake/tilda/kuake-like terminal using urxvt, wrapped by
# this script.
#
# It's not exactly clean, but it is useful.  Basically, it is a wrapper for
# urxvt's kuake Perl script that allows you to have a terminal that pops on and
# off the screen on a keypress.  It is somewhat me-specific, but it will
# recognize some environment variables, will try to source ~/.poptermrc, and
# should be easy to modify to make it you-specific (or more general).
# 
# There are a small number of pop-down terminals available; I've never been able
# to get most of them to compile, and the one that does work for me, tilda,
# segfaults from time to time, some of the features don't work, and it's a lot
# slower than urxvt.  (On the other hand, urxvt sometimes fails to render some
# unicode characters; I don't know which fonts support them, thus the
# add-sundry-fonts loop.)
# 
# The reason I wanted this script to begin with is that I like the popdown
# terminal to take up the upper quarter or third of the screen, to take up the
# entire width except that taken up by gkrellm, to have a larger font, and to be
# visually distinct from the other terminals on my screen (which are #fff8e0 on
# #000008).  The reason for ~/.poptermrc is that I want to be able to tweak it
# on individual machines.  And, lastly, the reason I used tilda for so long is
# that I didn't know this functionality shipped with rxvt-unicode.  (Read the
# script that they use to implement it.  It's, like, 30 lines or so.  I love
# urxvt.)

unset STY

if [ -f "$HOME/.poptermrc" ]; then
	source "$HOME/.poptermrc"
fi

bindkey=$ptbindkey
if [ -z "$ptbindkey" ]; then
	bindkey=F23
fi

dim=$ptdim
if [ -z "$ptdim" ]; then
	dim=158x20
fi

boldweight="$ptboldweight"
if [ -z "$boldweight" ]; then
	boldweight="$ptboldweight"
fi

CMD="$@"
if [ -z "$@" ]; then
	CMD="screen -D -RR tilda"
fi

fontsize="$ptfontsize"
if [ -z "$ptfontsize" ]; then
	fontsize=20
fi
boldsize=`echo "$fontsize 2 + p" | dc`

boldweight="$ptboldweight"
if [ -z "$ptboldweight" ]; then
	boldweight=280
fi

if [ -z "$ptfg" ]; then
	ptfg='#FFEDB3'
fi
if [ -z "$ptbg" ]; then
	ptbg='#262C42'
fi

fnstr="xft:Luxi Mono:pixelsize=$fontsize"
fbstr="xft:Luxi Mono:pixelsize=$boldsize:weight=$boldweight"

for fn in 'Liberation Mono' 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono' 'Monospace' 'Terminal' \
	  'Fixed' 'Andale Mono' 'Terminus' 'DejaVu Sans Mono'; do
	fnstr="$fnstr,xft:$fn:pixelsize=$fontsize"
	fbstr="$fbstr,xft:$fn:pixelsize=$boldsize:weight=$boldweight"
done

exec urxvt \
	-pe "kuake<$bindkey>" -b 0 -w 0 -bl \
	-geometry "$dim"+0+0 \
	-fg "$ptfg" -bg "$ptbg" \
	-lsp -1 -letsp -1 \
	-title kuake \
	-fn "$fnstr" -fb "$fbstr" \
	-e $CMD