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Two things that I miss in urxvt from xterm are:

  1. How do you scroll up and down with the keyboard? In xterm I used Shift + Page Up (or Down), but that doesn't work.

  2. A cool xterm feature is that when you type, the mouser pointer gets invisible. Anyway to get that in urxvt?

Emanuel Berg
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  • Not specifically while typing in a terminal, but you can hide your mouse pointer whenever you're not using the mouse, with `unclutter` (specific to Xorg, I think). – Gauthier Feb 10 '21 at 10:41

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  1. Shift+PageUp (and PageDown) works here, without any special settings...

  2. Have a look at man urxvt:

    pointerBlank: boolean
   True: blank the pointer when a key is pressed or after a set number
   of seconds of inactivity. False: the pointer is always visible
   [default].

[...]
pointerBlankDelay: number
   Specifies number of seconds before blanking the pointer [default
   2]. Use a large number (e.g. 987654321) to effectively disable the
   timeout.

    This could be what you're looking for. (The man page also explains where to set these Xresource directives.)

sr_
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    Second answer works great. Scrolling still doesn't work for me. Shift-PageDown gives me a dollar sign ($)! (I'll mark as correct. If it works for you, I got something wrong somewhere.) – Emanuel Berg Jun 04 '12 at 10:35
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    Scrolling works with `URxvt.saveLines: 8192` in `.Xresources`. – Emanuel Berg Jun 05 '12 at 18:46