--- rxvt-unicode/README.FAQ 2005/12/24 12:55:17 1.20 +++ rxvt-unicode/README.FAQ 2006/01/11 19:55:33 1.24 @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ this still fares rather well. And compared to some monsters like gnome-terminal (21152k + extra 4204k in separate processes) or konsole (22200k + extra 43180k in daemons that stay around after - exit, plus half aminute of startup time, including the hundreds of + exit, plus half a minute of startup time, including the hundreds of warnings it spits out), it fares extremely well *g*. Why C++, isn't that unportable/bloated/uncool? @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ How do I know which rxvt-unicode version I'm using? The version number is displayed with the usage (-h). Also the escape sequence "ESC [ 8 n" sets the window title to the version number. - When using the urxvtc client, the version displayed is that of the + When using the rxvtc client, the version displayed is that of the daemon. I am using Debian GNU/Linux and have a problem... @@ -103,6 +103,49 @@ also a bug in the Debian version and it serves as a reminder for other users that might encounter the same issue. + I am maintaining rxvt-unicode for distribution/OS XXX, any + recommendation? + You should build one binary with the default options. configure now + enables most useful options, and the trend goes to making them + runtime-switchable, too, so there is usually no drawback to enbaling + them, except higher disk and possibly memory usage. The perl + interpreter 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 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 perl interpreter disabled until the user enables + it. + + If you can/want build more binaries, I recommend building a minimal + one with "--disable-everything" (very useful) and a maximal one with + "--enable-everything" (less useful, it will be very big due to a lot + of encodings built-in that increase download times and are rarely + used). + + I need to make it setuid/setgid to support utmp/ptys on my OS, is this + safe? + Likely not. While I honestly try to make it secure, and am probably + not bad at it, I think it is simply unreasonable to expect all of + freetype + fontconfig + xft + xlib + perl + ... + rxvt-unicode + itself to all be secure. Also, rxvt-unicode disables some options + when it detects that it runs setuid or setgid, which is not nice. + Besides, with the embedded perl interpreter the possibility for + security problems easily multiplies. + + Elevated privileges are only required for utmp and pty operations on + some systems (for example, GNU/Linux doesn't need any extra + privileges for ptys, but some need it for utmp support). It is + planned to mvoe this into a forked handler process, but this is not + yet done. + + So, while setuid/setgid operation is supported and not a problem on + your typical single-user-no-other-logins unix desktop, always + remember that its an awful lot of code, most of which isn't checked + for security issues regularly. + When I log-in to another system it tells me about missing terminfo data? The terminal description used by rxvt-unicode is not as widely available as that for xterm, or even rxvt (for which the same @@ -136,7 +179,7 @@ Most likely it's the empty definition for "enacs=". Just replace it by "enacs=\E[0@" and try again. - "bash"'s readline does not work correctly under urxvt. + "bash"'s readline does not work correctly under rxvt. I need a termcap file entry. One reason you might want this is that some distributions or operating systems still compile some programs using the @@ -257,7 +300,7 @@ In that case, select a font of your taste and add it to the font list, e.g.: - urxvt -fn basefont,font2,font3... + rxvt -fn basefont,font2,font3... When rxvt-unicode sees a character, it will first look at the base font. If the base font does not contain the character, it will go to @@ -552,7 +595,7 @@ some editors prematurely may leave the mouse in mouse report mode. I've heard that tcsh may use mouse reporting unless it otherwise specified. A quick check is to see if cut/paste works when the Alt - or Shift keys are depressed. See urxvt(7) + or Shift keys are depressed. See rxvt(7) What's with this bold/blink stuff? If no bold colour is set via "colorBD:", bold will invert text using @@ -617,9 +660,9 @@ URxvt.color7: #e1dddd URxvt.color15: #e1dddd - How can I start urxvtd in a race-free way? - Try "urxvtd -f -o", which tells urxvtd to open the display, create - the listening socket and then fork. + How can I start rxvtd in a race-free way? + Try "rxvtd -f -o", which tells rxvtd to open the display, create the + listening socket and then fork. What's with the strange Backspace/Delete key behaviour? Assuming that the physical Backspace key corresponds to the @@ -642,13 +685,13 @@ # use Backspace = ^H $ stty erase ^H - $ urxvt + $ rxvt # use Backspace = ^? $ stty erase ^? - $ urxvt + $ rxvt - Toggle with "ESC [ 36 h" / "ESC [ 36 l" as documented in urxvt(7). + Toggle with "ESC [ 36 h" / "ESC [ 36 l" as documented in rxvt(7). For an existing rxvt-unicode: @@ -684,7 +727,7 @@ option you can use the `keysym' resource to alter the keystrings associated with keysyms. - Here's an example for a URxvt session started using "urxvt -name + Here's an example for a URxvt session started using "rxvt -name URxvt" URxvt.keysym.Home: \033[1~