Firstly, I don't know enough about making packages to know what changed, when looking at http://dist.schmorp.de/rxvt-unicode/Changes
Anyway, generally, I use dwm in tiling mode. When I open a urxvt terminal which will take up a full screen if it's the first thing I open after starting X, the PS1 prompt has always appeared at the top of the terminal, where I would expect it to be. However, after upgrading to urxvt (rxvt-unicode)-9.31, if I open a new terminal, the prompt appears in the lower third of the terminal. Testing with other terminals and renaming .Xdefaults indicate that it's specific to urxvt. Looking at the man page under FILES just shows /usr/local/lib/perl and says it's just for colours, though there are several files in /usr/local/lib/perl, but they seem like extensions.
If I use openbox, or dwm's floating mode, I don't have this issue. Even in dwm tiled mode, where I have the problem, doing ctl+l to clear the terminal puts the prompt back at the top where expected. Once I make a main window, taking up about half of the screen, any windows I create after that have the prompt in the right place. (As a tiling manager, dwm gives you one master window and new windows are tiled, being a smaller size). In tmux the prompt appears in the right place.
On my main FreeBSD workstation, I just went back to 9.30 which doesn't have the problem. Testing on VoidLinux, it seems to be an issue with 9.31, as I see the same issue when I run dwm in VoidLinux.
It's a very minor issue, instantaneously fixed by doing ctl+l but it's a bit annoying, I am wondering if anyone has any idea what file to edit to bring it back to its former behavior. I realize it will only show for people who have recently upgraded urxvt (I use latest, so it might not be in quarterly) and who use tiling window managers. (For all I know, it's only in dwm, as that's the only tiling manager I use, but I figure it might show up in any window manager that opens a termina full screen. I did that in openbox and found that the issue showed up there too, if i opened the terminal full screen.)
I freely admit it's a very minor complaint, but it does seem that there should be a way to change it back.
Anyway, generally, I use dwm in tiling mode. When I open a urxvt terminal which will take up a full screen if it's the first thing I open after starting X, the PS1 prompt has always appeared at the top of the terminal, where I would expect it to be. However, after upgrading to urxvt (rxvt-unicode)-9.31, if I open a new terminal, the prompt appears in the lower third of the terminal. Testing with other terminals and renaming .Xdefaults indicate that it's specific to urxvt. Looking at the man page under FILES just shows /usr/local/lib/perl and says it's just for colours, though there are several files in /usr/local/lib/perl, but they seem like extensions.
If I use openbox, or dwm's floating mode, I don't have this issue. Even in dwm tiled mode, where I have the problem, doing ctl+l to clear the terminal puts the prompt back at the top where expected. Once I make a main window, taking up about half of the screen, any windows I create after that have the prompt in the right place. (As a tiling manager, dwm gives you one master window and new windows are tiled, being a smaller size). In tmux the prompt appears in the right place.
On my main FreeBSD workstation, I just went back to 9.30 which doesn't have the problem. Testing on VoidLinux, it seems to be an issue with 9.31, as I see the same issue when I run dwm in VoidLinux.
It's a very minor issue, instantaneously fixed by doing ctl+l but it's a bit annoying, I am wondering if anyone has any idea what file to edit to bring it back to its former behavior. I realize it will only show for people who have recently upgraded urxvt (I use latest, so it might not be in quarterly) and who use tiling window managers. (For all I know, it's only in dwm, as that's the only tiling manager I use, but I figure it might show up in any window manager that opens a termina full screen. I did that in openbox and found that the issue showed up there too, if i opened the terminal full screen.)
I freely admit it's a very minor complaint, but it does seem that there should be a way to change it back.
