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3TODO: harmonize --disable-options into position-dependent options. 3TODO: xcopyarea pass broken, fix and improve
4TODO: after requesting the selection and getting a timeout, no further requests will be sent. 4TODO: event mechanism that replaces on_keyboard_command with something more scalable.
5TODO: slipwheeling needs a keyboard grab to get key release events.
6TODO: overlays collide with the way the out-of-focus cursor is being drawn
5TODO: "slow" rendering mode for bidi and scripts 7TODO: "slow" rendering mode for bidi and scripts, pango!
6TODO: read property sequence is broken with respect to utf-8 etc. 8TODO: read property sequence is broken with respect to utf-8 etc.
9TODO: slow drag selection on remote display - other things seem fast (rxvt illness, motion hints?)
10TODO: investigate -pe tabbed -g 80x25 being 23 not 24 or 25 lines
11 => when setting the constraints, the wm might (correctly)
12 resize the outer window, which might result in a smaller window overall.
13 or something like that. guys, send me a patch.
14TODO: zeroing scorllback buffer should free memory
15WISH: skipscroll option
16WISH: selection-color-pair instead of reverse video
17WISH: load system-wide config file even if we don't have one
18WISH: look into XAddConnectionWatch, does anybody need that?
19WISH: anyevent mouse notification / manage MotionMask better.
7TODO: http://www120.pair.com/mccarthy/nextstep/intro.htmld/Workspace.html is the correct nextstep look. 20WISH: http://www120.pair.com/mccarthy/nextstep/intro.htmld/Workspace.html is the correct nextstep scrollbar look.
8WISH: OnTheSpot editing, or maybe switch to miiiiiiif 21WISH: kick out xpm.C, replace by pixbuf
9WISH: just for fun, do shade and tint with XRender.
10WISH: support tex fonts 22DUMB: support tex fonts
11 23
12TODO: document transient_for, vt 24TODO: fix crash because strwidth returning -1 in selection-popup in LC_ALL=C
25 - give proper diagnostic when RXVT_SOCKET is too long instead of
26 corrupting the stack (patch by exg).
13 27
14 - perl: implement additional hook: line_update, add_lines. 287.9 Mon Aug 7 18:16:07 CEST 2006
29 - fix the crashing bug people encountered with 7.8 + urxvtd + perl
30 + transparency. Ought to fix debian bug #380348.
31 - fix urxvtc.1.pod: it actually claimed -pty-fd would not work. But
32 it does! :->
33 - rxvt_fatal() in case the locale string is too long for our static buffer.
34 - fixed many, many, typos in the manpages (patch supplied by ves).
35
367.8 Mon Jul 17 21:00:46 CEST 2006
37 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: this version will always read ~/.Xdefaults,
38 earlier versions only read it if display-resources (usually from
39 .Xresources) are not set. This avoids the #1 FAQ ("why isn't my
40 resource used") and seems to be logical behaviour, too. .Xdefaults
41 resources have a lower priority than display-specific resources.
42 - add "kuake" perl extension that does a similar thing to the kuake
43 terminal emulator (see man urxtvperl).
44 - use less "correct" color scaling that is compatible with libX11 and
45 Xft (avoids off-by-one colors resulting in striped backgrounds).
46 - the "depth" resource is now respected.
47 - preset the searchable-scrollback pattern with "(?i)" to default search
48 to case-insensitivity. Will automatically be cleared when typing an
49 uppercase character.
50 - add FORCE_UNBUFFERED_XFT define to features.h.
51 - re-enabled highlightcolor support with --enable-frills, based on
52 a patch by Martin Stubenschrott.
53 - double-buffered xft drawing did suffer from pixel offset issues
54 when pixmap transparency was enabled.
55 - strategically add # to the url-match regexes, as we really want to
56 match common URIs not common URLs. Reported by Aaron Griffin.
57 - moved on_osc_seq to on_osc_seq_perl and added a more
58 generic osc_seq.
59 - fix a bug causing double callback invocations when perl hooks
60 were invoked recursively.
61 - the automove-background extension now properly works when the
62 pixmap gets reset with an osc sequence (sqweek).
63 - selection-pastebin did not work properly with non-latin1-characters.
64 - apply colorUL only when the text colour is the default fg
65 (patch by Wu Fengguang).
66 - removed rxvtlib.h from the tarball, it had no reason to be there
67 (spotted by Decklin Foster).
68 - fix compiling with TRANSPARENT but !XPM_BACKGROUND, as reported
69 by omatunto_.
70 - slap in a using namespace std, might help on platforms that don't
71 follow C++ closely enough.
72 - fix mailto url regex, spotted within milliseconds by Jost Krieger.
73 - applied fade_color_update_func.patch by WU Fengguang.
74 - fix a bug where (due to an optimisation in av_delete), hiding the
75 bottom-most overlay would hide two overlays.
76
777.7 Tue Feb 21 12:32:49 CET 2006
78 - use double-buffered drawing (xft fonts only). On many driver/hardware
79 combination this actually increases xft drawing speed, at the expense
80 of more network bandwidth and slight nausea on the side of the author.
81 - readline perl extension now requires shift-click instead of a normal
82 click, and eats the click.
83 - tabbed perl extension now supports -e.
84 - disabled graphics-exposures on the main drawing GC, report any
85 refresh bugs please.
86 - improve property handling for -pe tabbed: avoid unnecessary property
87 changes (for kde's benefit) at the expense of extra round-trips,
88 improve size hint setting.
89 - modified XIM according to a patch sent by Takano Akio that sets
90 the preedit rectangle for OverTheSpot, which helps some input methods
91 to correctly position their preedit window.
92 - un-optimise the line clearing on newly scrolled-in lines a bit: the
93 former reasoning was that any fg colour on default bg looks the same
94 in empty spaces, but thats not true when reversing (e.g. selection),
95 so also check for matching fg colours. This fixes the problem where
96 selecting newly scrolled-in lines would exhibit wrong colours.
97 - fix a bug in the perl interface causing focus in events to generate
98 focus out perl events, causing bad focus effects with -pe tabbed.
99 - fix a race resulting in a crash on exiting.
100 - fix a with --disable-xft that caused xfreecolors to be called on
101 colors never allocated, resulting in aborts (reported by Paco-Paco).
102 - resources on non-initial screens weren't refetched correctly
103 (reported by Paco-Paco).
104 - fix a bug in xcopyarea pass and _disable_ it, as it seems not to be
105 working in either rxvt-unicode nor in the original rxvt.
106 - removed undocumented -exec alias for the -e option.
107
1087.6 Fri Feb 10 08:52:36 CET 2006
109 - changed interpretation of [alpha] colour prefix.
110 - +option now really sets the option to default, instead of using the
111 resource value.
112 - options that require an argument now really _require_ an argument.
113 - the tabbed extension now forwards focus and keys events to th
114 relevant tab window.
115 - tab colours are now configurable and have sensible defaults
116 (initial patch by hednod).
117 - option menu is extendable, readline, selection and
118 selection-autotransform can now be disabled/enabled at runtime.
119 - forcing a configure event to tabbed subwindows with -pe tabbed, for
120 the benefit of automove-background.
121 - the automove-background extension added a wrong constant offset.
122 - force refresh of XA_RESOURCE_STRING on virtual reconnect.
123 - return exit status 2 in urxvtc when urxvtd couldn't be contacted.
124 - the linux yield hack is back, now using usleep, and enabled only on
125 __linux__.
126 - further round trip eliminations in the !XFT case by remembering
127 the colour components.
128 - plain scrollbar works better with -sr.
129 - fixed half-shadow scrollbar look.
130 - more colour rtt optimisations.
131 - properly(?) free colours on window close.
132 - reorganised the FAQ into multiple sections.
133 - add ISO646.1991-IRV to the list of supported codesets.
134 - minor libptytty update.
135
1367.5 Tue Jan 31 15:15:43 CET 2006
137 - further improvements to the careful mode detection, and font width
138 detection:
139 - fully double-wide fonts will now be correctly treated,
140 - overlap detection was improved.
141 - detect totally broken fonts (usually synthesized by xft).
142 - careful mode forced refresh sometimes clashed with blinking,
143 causing unnecessary screen redraws.
144 - better handling of XFT combining characters.
145 - enable antialiasing for some replacement fonts, as they
146 might get used for other encodings which really need it, later.
147 - remove spacing=100 from all default fonts, as this creates totally
148 weird spacing (5 times normal) with xft.
149 - removed iso10646 fallback, as xorgs iso10646 encoded fonts are mostly
150 broken.
151 - removed gnu unifont fallback, all combining characters are broken.
152 - replace named colours by xorg's rgb.txt equivalents, to
153 reduce round trip time on startup, and short-cut allocation
154 of rgb:rr/gg/bb for xft.
155 - short-cut allocation of rgb values in the xlib case
156 (patch by Paco-Paco).
157 - overhauled color management: smaller codesize, alpha support.
158 - support "rgba:rrrr/gggg/bbbb/aaaa" color specifications and
159 an "[alpha]" prefix.
160 - try to work around Xft and Xrender forcing everything to be 100%
161 transparent. Long Live Xft!
162 - do not include X11/Intrinsic.h anymore, directly use
163 Xlib/Xutil/Xresource directly.
164 - try to find a nearest matching color when color allocation fails
165 on a pseudocolor screen.
166 - SYNCCVS: compared to rxvt-cvs 2006-01-28, no relevant changes.
167 - fix version report (DA) (which was unfortunately broken).
168 - changed version number report again, now to emulate xterm closer.
169 - added the OSC sequence 702 to detect the urxvt version number.
170 - small configure updates.
171 - further RTT optimisations.
172 - backported clean-up patches for makefiles and documentation from
173 the debian package.
174 - updated doc/rxvt-unicode.spec file. It's still not maintained here,
175 but much newer than the old one.
176
1777.4 Sat Jan 28 15:26:27 CET 2006
178 - screen background wasn't always erased properly when scrolling,
179 - re-enabled clearing optimisation disabled in 7.4pre.
180 - small configure updates for libptytty.
181 - fixed version options: line output.
182 - removed stoopid debugging message left in the code.
183
1847.3 Wed Jan 25 22:47:35 CET 2006
185 - don't let iso14755 or mouse reporting get into the way of perl
186 (could lead to global grabs never being cleared).
187 - experimental OnTheSpot editing support (-pe xim-onthespot).
188 - moved Shift-Button2 paste combination to Meta-Button2.
189 - the cutchars resource will now be respected and used by the
190 selection extension.
191 - added the "remote-clipboard" extension which just runs external
192 commands to fetch and store the selection data.
193 - added -depth switch that tries to get a different visual depth
194 than the default (replaces the old PREFER_24_BIT logic).
195 - removed (unused) arabic presentation form composing sequences.
196 - be more strict when deciding that a core font glyph is too wide and
197 needs the careful rendering mode.
198 - allow more leeway for italic fonts when deciding that a character is
199 too wide and needs careful mode.
200 - redraw even more characters around characters using careful mode.
201 - made selection-pastebin fully asynchronous.
202 - reduced number of server turnarounds at startup by allocating
203 atoms only once per display.
204 - renamed on_keyboard_command to on_user_command.
205 - changed version sos (ESC [ > c) response to be more compatible with
206 xterm.
207
2087.2 Sun Jan 22 21:58:16 CET 2006
209 - bugfix: urxvt (not urxvtd) did not correctly handle multiple
210 environments necessary, which resulted in segfaults within
211 getenv (reproducable: urxvt -fn 9x15, open a menu once,
212 ctrl-shift-672c).
213 - bugfix: the selection speedup in in 7.1 unfortunately caused
214 non-ascii characters to enlarge/move the selection.
215 - bugfix: resizing sometimes leaked lines from the secondary to
216 the primary screen.
217 - bugfix: reducing window size while large amounts of text were output
218 could lead to an assertion failure.
219 - added "tabbed" extension that provides a crude tabbed terminal.
220 - added "readline" extension that allows cursor positioning
221 via mouse clicks.
222 - now it is possible to insert the value of the CLIPBOARD selection
223 with shift - mouse button 2.
224 - fixed the automove-background extension to ignore coordinates
225 in non-synthetic events.
226 - created a separate libpty for portable and secure
227 pty/tty/utmp/wtmp/lastlog handling, and include it in rxvt-unicode.
228 - the non-terminfo visual bell now works asynchronously, so
229 continuous ASCI BELs in one terminal do no longer monopolise the
230 whole urxvt[d] process.
231 - support some *BSD makes (for the time being, gnu make is a safe bet).
232 - work around bugs in FreeBSD's gcc.
233 - implemented some *BSD fixes in configure.
234 - removed support for obsolete offix dnd protocol.
235
2367.1 Thu Jan 19 20:25:34 CET 2006
237 - setuid/setgid operation is now _encouraged_: security has been
238 improved by moving privileged operations into a separate process
239 and permanently dropping privileges within the terminal. This
240 makes it possible to remove security checks from the perl code
241 and gives a much safer feeling when urxvt needs to run with
242 special privileges.
243 - perl taint checking disabled, as urxvt no longer runs setuid/setgid
244 itself.
245 - new perl extension automove-background that can be used to get
246 the same effect as pseudo-transparency with any pixmap.
247 - new perl extension example: perl/selection-pastebin, can be used to
248 e.g. upload the selection to a webserver and generate a url, or
249 similar stuff.
250 - use the scrollback buffer even when the scroll region doesn't
251 span the whole screen, as long as it starts at row 0. Helps
252 for programs displaying a status line at the bottom.
253 - selection popup now shows selection in dec/hex/oct.
254 - perl/selection: matching on unicode characters in the selection
255 code was O(n²), which equals infinity in some degenerate cases
256 :-> Matching is now done on UTF-8, which makes it almost instant.
257 - perl/selection, perl/selection-autotransform: regexes are now
258 being interpreted in the locale urxvt was started.
259 - implemented override-redirect option and enabled it on menus,
260 as kwin puts our windows behind the terminal (what a shoddy wm).
261 - fixed struct utmp check in configure for OpenBSD.
262 - complete overhaul of the pty/utmp management stuff and configure
263 (Emanuele Giaquinta).
264 - add tsl/fsl and related capabilities to the terminfo description,
265 to set the window title.
266 - swap the environment in some more cases. This hopefully fixes
267 some segfaults that might be caused by xft asking for env variables
268 at the wrong time.
269 - removed src/strings.C and src/menubar.C. No menubar support
270 anymore.
271 - removed all traces of SMOOTH_REFRESH.
272 - nuked QNX support.
273 - made some fixes to xpm offset and scaling code.
274 - perl-overlays and refresh hooks were not applied in correct order.
275 - changed coordinate-system of view_start/nsaved to be top to bottom.
276 - iom extended to support listening for child exits.
277
2787.0 Fri Jan 13 14:02:18 CET 2006
279 - added sections for DISTRIBUTION MAINTAINERS and about
280 SETUID/SETGID to the FAQ.
281 - selection, searchable-scrollback, selection-popup and
282 option-popup extensions enabled by default.
283 - increased xft drawing speed for problematic fonts. The effect
284 will likely be small as 99% of the xft slowness is server-related.
285 - perl: much increased functionality, better overlays, popup support
286 and much much more.
15 - perl: urxvt::line now can set via ->t and ->r. 287 - perl: urxvt::line now can set via ->t and ->r.
288 - perl: changed interpretation of --perl-ext-common and -pe.
289 - perl: finally implemented --perl-eval.
290 - perl: non-blocking anyevent support.
291 - perl: run tainted and ignore perl-eval/perl-lib if started
292 setuid/setgid.
293 - free the resource database: this plugs a massive memory leak. As a
294 side effect, it also gets rid of XGetDefault calls.
295 - free one of the cursors, fixes a small memory leak.
296 - built-in (as opposed to terminfos) visual bell was broken/too fast.
297 - applied minor cleanups by Ladislav Michnovic.
298 - applied pty handling cleanups and improvements (Emanuele Giaquinta).
299 - mark-urls launch-on-click by jepler.
300 - removed "small" resource parsing function, as it wasn't really
301 compatible, and not really small either.
302 - removed PATH_ENV and PATH file search support.
303 - removed support for locale-specific app-defaults file.
304 - fixed a bug where out-of-bounds colour sequences could lead
305 to crashes.
306 - limit colour changing to the standard 88 palette instead of all
307 colours.
308 - XTerm_Color01 sequence returned wrong results in query mode.
309 - iom.C now checks against destructed io_manager when unregistering.
16 310
176.3 Wed Jan 4 22:37:10 CET 2006 3116.3 Wed Jan 4 22:37:10 CET 2006
18 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were 312 - SECURITY FIX: on systems using openpty, permissions were
19 not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as 313 not correctly updated on the tty device and were left as
20 world-readable and world-writable (likely in original rxvt, 314 world-readable and world-writable (likely in original rxvt,
709 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when 1003 - implement continuation lines in xresource parsing when
710 --disable-xgetdefault. 1004 --disable-xgetdefault.
711 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701. 1005 - changed locale-setting esc-sequence from code 9 to code 701.
712 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific 1006 also added 702 that returns the font selected for a specific
713 unicode character. 1007 unicode character.
714 - no longer set XA_CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL 1008 - no longer set CUT_BUFFER0. this is confusing and clients WILL
715 get it wrong. 1009 get it wrong.
716 - don't use XTextStyle for XA_TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle. 1010 - don't use XTextStyle for TEXT, instead use XStdICCTextStyle.
717 1011
7182.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004 10122.1 Wed Mar 3 21:48:39 CET 2004
719 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in 1013 - NOTE: the name of the binary and resources were changed in
720 this version, see README.configure if you want the old 1014 this version, see README.configure if you want the old
721 settings. 1015 settings.
772 - many other minor bugfixes. 1066 - many other minor bugfixes.
773 1067
7741.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004 10681.8 Mon Feb 2 20:09:18 CET 2004
775 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing 1069 - almost total conversion to C++. Except for introducing
776 new bugs, this should not change much. 1070 new bugs, this should not change much.
777 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support. 1071 - fix and re-enable background pixmap and inherit pixmap support.
778 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support. 1072 - re-enabled multiple scrollbar support.
779 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar. 1073 - added plain scrollbar style and restored xterm scrollbar.
780 - blinking and selections work slightly better now. 1074 - blinking and selections work slightly better now.
781 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful 1075 - fix an error condition when rxvt receives more than one screenful
782 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely. 1076 of output. should occur with original rxvt, too, but very rarely.
783 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...) 1077 (I guess the code contains more surprises of this sort...)
784 1078

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