--- rxvt-unicode/README.FAQ 2007/11/19 12:02:35 1.51 +++ rxvt-unicode/README.FAQ 2010/03/16 00:54:46 1.58 @@ -5,6 +5,17 @@ "#rxvt-unicode" has some rxvt-unicode enthusiasts that might be interested in learning about new and exciting problems (but not FAQs :). + I use Gentoo, and I have a problem... + There are three big problems with Gentoo Linux: first of all, most if + not all Gentoo systems are completely broken (missing or mismatched + header files, broken compiler etc. are just the tip of the iceberg); + secondly, the Gentoo maintainer thinks it is a good idea to add broken + patches to the code; and lastly, it should be called Gentoo GNU/Linux. + + For these reasons, it is impossible to support rxvt-unicode on Gentoo. + Problems appearing on Gentoo systems will usually simply be ignored + unless they can be reproduced on non-Gentoo systems. + Does it support tabs, can I have a tabbed rxvt-unicode? Beginning with version 7.3, there is a perl extension that implements a simple tabbed terminal. It is installed by default, so any of these @@ -299,8 +310,8 @@ standard foreground colour. For the standard background colour, blinking will actually make the text - blink when compiled with "--enable-blinking". with standard colours. - Without "--enable-blinking", the blink attribute will be ignored. + blink when compiled with "--enable-text-blink". Without + "--enable-text-blink", the blink attribute will be ignored. On ANSI colours, bold/blink attributes are used to set high-intensity foreground/background colors. @@ -432,7 +443,7 @@ URxvt.selection.pattern-0: ([^"&'()*,;<=>?@[\\\\]^`{|})]+) - Please also note that the *LeftClick Shift-LeftClik* combination also + Please also note that the *LeftClick Shift-LeftClick* combination also selects words like the old code. I don't like the new selection/popups/hotkeys/perl, how do I change/disable it? @@ -489,6 +500,10 @@ In this case either do not specify a preeditStyle or specify more than one pre-edit style, such as OverTheSpot,Root,None. + If it still doesn't work, then maybe your input method doesn't support + compose sequences - to fall back to the built-in one, make sure you + don't specify an input method via "-im" or "XMODIFIERS". + I cannot type "Ctrl-Shift-2" to get an ASCII NUL character due to ISO 14755 Either try "Ctrl-2" alone (it often is mapped to ASCII NUL even on international keyboards) or simply use ISO 14755 support to your @@ -637,7 +652,7 @@ The selection stuff mainly makes the selection perl-error-message aware and tells it to convert perl error messages into vi-commands to load the - relevant file and go tot he error line number. + relevant file and go to the error line number. URxvt.scrollstyle: plain URxvt.secondaryScroll: true @@ -720,7 +735,7 @@ bold and normal fonts. Please note that I used the "urxvt" instance name and not the "URxvt" - class name. Thats because I use different configs for different + class name. That is because I use different configs for different purposes, for example, my IRC window is started with "-name IRC", and uses these defaults: @@ -734,7 +749,7 @@ IRC*keysym.M-C-1: command:\033]710;suxuseuro\007\033]711;suxuseuro\007 IRC*keysym.M-C-2: command:\033]710;9x15bold\007\033]711;9x15bold\007 - "Alt-Shift-1" and "Alt-Shift-2" switch between two different font sizes. + "Alt-Ctrl-1" and "Alt-Ctrl-2" switch between two different font sizes. "suxuseuro" allows me to keep an eye (and actually read) stuff while keeping a very small window. If somebody pastes something complicated (e.g. japanese), I temporarily switch to a larger font. @@ -780,14 +795,14 @@ arises). The correct solution for this problem is to install the terminfo, this - can be done like this (with ncurses' infocmp and works as user and - admin): + can be done by simply installing rxvt-unicode on the remote system as + well (in case you have a nice package manager ready), or you can install + the terminfo database manually like this (with ncurses infocmp. works as + user and root): REMOTE=remotesystem.domain infocmp rxvt-unicode | ssh $REMOTE "mkdir -p .terminfo && cat >/tmp/ti && tic /tmp/ti" - ... or by installing rxvt-unicode normally on the remote system, - One some systems you might need to set $TERMINFO to the full path of $HOME/.terminfo for this to work. @@ -806,6 +821,11 @@ If you don't plan to use rxvt (quite common...) you could also replace the rxvt terminfo file with the rxvt-unicode one and use "TERM=rxvt". + nano fails with "Error opening terminal: rxvt-unicode" + This exceptionally confusing and useless error message is printed by + nano when it can't find the terminfo database. Nothing is wrong with + your terminal, read the previous answer for a solution. + "tic" outputs some error when compiling the terminfo entry. Most likely it's the empty definition for "enacs=". Just replace it by "enacs=\E[0@" and try again. @@ -825,28 +845,8 @@ infocmp -C rxvt-unicode - Or you could use this termcap entry, generated by the command above: - - rxvt-unicode|rxvt-unicode terminal (X Window System):\ - :am:bw:eo:km:mi:ms:xn:xo:\ - :co#80:it#8:li#24:lm#0:\ - :AL=\E[%dL:DC=\E[%dP:DL=\E[%dM:DO=\E[%dB:IC=\E[%d@:\ - :K1=\EOw:K2=\EOu:K3=\EOy:K4=\EOq:K5=\EOs:LE=\E[%dD:\ - :RI=\E[%dC:SF=\E[%dS:SR=\E[%dT:UP=\E[%dA:ae=\E(B:al=\E[L:\ - :as=\E(0:bl=^G:cd=\E[J:ce=\E[K:cl=\E[H\E[2J:\ - :cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:cr=^M:cs=\E[%i%d;%dr:ct=\E[3g:dc=\E[P:\ - :dl=\E[M:do=^J:ec=\E[%dX:ei=\E[4l:ho=\E[H:\ - :i1=\E[?47l\E=\E[?1l:ic=\E[@:im=\E[4h:\ - :is=\E[r\E[m\E[2J\E[H\E[?7h\E[?1;3;4;6l\E[4l:\ - :k1=\E[11~:k2=\E[12~:k3=\E[13~:k4=\E[14~:k5=\E[15~:\ - :k6=\E[17~:k7=\E[18~:k8=\E[19~:k9=\E[20~:kD=\E[3~:\ - :kI=\E[2~:kN=\E[6~:kP=\E[5~:kb=\177:kd=\EOB:ke=\E[?1l\E>:\ - :kh=\E[7~:kl=\EOD:kr=\EOC:ks=\E[?1h\E=:ku=\EOA:le=^H:\ - :mb=\E[5m:md=\E[1m:me=\E[m\017:mr=\E[7m:nd=\E[C:rc=\E8:\ - :sc=\E7:se=\E[27m:sf=^J:so=\E[7m:sr=\EM:st=\EH:ta=^I:\ - :te=\E[r\E[?1049l:ti=\E[?1049h:ue=\E[24m:up=\E[A:\ - :us=\E[4m:vb=\E[?5h\E[?5l:ve=\E[?25h:vi=\E[?25l:\ - :vs=\E[?25h: + Or you could use the termcap entry in doc/etc/rxvt-unicode.termcap, + generated by the command above. Why does "ls" no longer have coloured output? The "ls" in the GNU coreutils unfortunately doesn't use terminfo to @@ -993,7 +993,7 @@ xprop -root XIM_SERVERS - * + My input method wants but I want UTF-8, what can I do? You can specify separate locales for the input method and the rest of @@ -1040,7 +1040,7 @@ should be enabled, as important functionality (menus, selection, likely more in the future) depends on it. - You should not overwrite the "perl-ext-common" snd "perl-ext" resources + You should not overwrite the "perl-ext-common" and "perl-ext" resources system-wide (except maybe with "defaults"). This will result in useful behaviour. If your distribution aims at low memory, add an empty "perl-ext-common" resource to the app-defaults file. This will keep the @@ -1078,7 +1078,7 @@ wchar_t. This is, of course, completely fine with respect to standards. However, that means rxvt-unicode only works in "POSIX", "ISO-8859-1" and - "UTF-8" locales under FreeBSD (which all use Unicode as wchar_t. + "UTF-8" locales under FreeBSD (which all use Unicode as wchar_t). "__STDC_ISO_10646__" is the only sane way to support multi-language apps in an OS, as using a locale-dependent (and non-standardized) @@ -1122,3 +1122,8 @@ http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/wcwidth.c + I want 256 colors + Are you sure you need 256 colors? 88 colors should be enough for most + purposes. If you really need more, there is an unsupported patch for it + in the doc directory, but please do not ask for it to be applied. +