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1	FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS	1	FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
2	Isn't rxvt supposed to be small? Don't all those features bloat?	2	Meta, Features & Commandline Issues
3	I often get asked about this, and I think, no, they didn't cause	3	My question isn't answered here, can I ask a human?
4	extra bloat. If you compare a minimal rxvt and a minimal urxvt, you	4	Before sending me mail, you could go to IRC: "irc.freenode.net", channel
5	can see that the urxvt binary is larger (due to some encoding tables	5	"#rxvt-unicode" has some rxvt-unicode enthusiasts that might be
6	always being compiled in), but it actually uses less memory (RSS)	6	interested in learning about new and exciting problems (but not FAQs :).
7	after startup. Even with "--disable-everything", this comparison is
8	a bit unfair, as many features unique to urxvt (locale, encoding
9	conversion, iso14755 etc.) are already in use in this mode.
10		7
11	text data bss drs rss filename
12	98398 1664 24 15695 1824 rxvt --disable-everything
13	188985 9048 66616 18222 1788 urxvt --disable-everything
14
15	When you "--enable-everything" (which _is_ unfair, as this involves
16	xft and full locale/XIM support which are quite bloaty inside libX11
17	and my libc), the two diverge, but not unreasnobaly so.
18
19	text data bss drs rss filename
20	163431 2152 24 20123 2060 rxvt --enable-everything
21	1035683 49680 66648 29096 3680 urxvt --enable-everything
22
23	The very large size of the text section is explained by the
24	east-asian encoding tables, which, if unused, take up disk space but
25	nothing else and can be compiled out unless you rely on X11 core
26	fonts that use those encodings. The BSS size comes from the 64k
27	emergency buffer that my c++ compiler allocates (but of course
28	doesn't use unless you are out of memory). Also, using an xft font
29	instead of a core font immediately adds a few megabytes of RSS. Xft
30	indeed is responsible for a lot of RSS even when not used.
31
32	Of course, due to every character using two or four bytes instead of
33	one, a large scrollback buffer will ultimately make rxvt-unicode use
34	more memory.
35
36	Compared to e.g. Eterm (5112k), aterm (3132k) and xterm (4680k),
37	this still fares rather well. And compared to some monsters like
38	gnome-terminal (21152k + extra 4204k in separate processes) or
39	konsole (22200k + extra 43180k in daemons that stay around after
40	exit, plus half aminute of startup time, including the hundreds of
41	warnings it spits out), it fares extremely well *g*.
42
43	Why C++, isn't that unportable/bloated/uncool?
44	Is this a question? :) It comes up very often. The simple answer is:
45	I had to write it, and C++ allowed me to write and maintain it in a
46	fraction of the time and effort (which is a scarce resource for me).
47	Put even shorter: It simply wouldn't exist without C++.
48
49	My personal stance on this is that C++ is less portable than C, but
50	in the case of rxvt-unicode this hardly matters, as its portability
51	limits are defined by things like X11, pseudo terminals, locale
52	support and unix domain sockets, which are all less portable than
53	C++ itself.
54
55	Regarding the bloat, see the above question: It's easy to write
56	programs in C that use gobs of memory, an certainly possible to
57	write programs in C++ that don't. C++ also often comes with large
58	libraries, but this is not necessarily the case with GCC. Here is
59	what rxvt links against on my system with a minimal config:
60
61	libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x00002aaaaabc3000)
62	libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00002aaaaadde000)
63	libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00002aaaab01d000)
64	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00002aaaaaaab000)
65
66	And here is rxvt-unicode:
67
68	libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x00002aaaaabc3000)
69	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00002aaaaada2000)
70	libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00002aaaaaeb0000)
71	libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00002aaaab0ee000)
72	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00002aaaaaaab000)
73
74	No large bloated libraries (of course, none were linked in
75	statically), except maybe libX11 :)
76
77	Does it support tabs, can I have a tabbed rxvt-unicode?	8	Does it support tabs, can I have a tabbed rxvt-unicode?
78	rxvt-unicode does not directly support tabs. It will work fine with	9	Beginning with version 7.3, there is a perl extension that implements a
79	tabbing functionality of many window managers or similar tabbing	10	simple tabbed terminal. It is installed by default, so any of these
80	programs, and its embedding-features allow it to be embedded into	11	should give you tabs:
81	other programs, as witnessed by doc/rxvt-tabbed or the upcoming	12
		13	urxvt -pe tabbed
		14
		15	URxvt.perl-ext-common: default,tabbed
		16
		17	It will also work fine with tabbing functionality of many window
		18	managers or similar tabbing programs, and its embedding-features allow
		19	it to be embedded into other programs, as witnessed by doc/rxvt-tabbed
82	"Gtk2::URxvt" perl module, which features a tabbed urxvt (murxvt)	20	or the upcoming "Gtk2::URxvt" perl module, which features a tabbed urxvt
83	terminal as an example embedding application.	21	(murxvt) terminal as an example embedding application.
84		22
85	How do I know which rxvt-unicode version I'm using?	23	How do I know which rxvt-unicode version I'm using?
86	The version number is displayed with the usage (-h). Also the escape	24	The version number is displayed with the usage (-h). Also the escape
87	sequence "ESC [ 8 n" sets the window title to the version number.	25	sequence "ESC [ 8 n" sets the window title to the version number. When
88	When using the rxvtc client, the version displayed is that of the	26	using the urxvtc client, the version displayed is that of the daemon.
89	daemon.
90		27
91	I am using Debian GNU/Linux and have a problem...	28	Rxvt-unicode uses gobs of memory, how can I reduce that?
92	The Debian GNU/Linux package of rxvt-unicode in sarge contains large	29	Rxvt-unicode tries to obey the rule of not charging you for something
93	patches that considerably change the behaviour of rxvt-unicode.	30	you don't use. One thing you should try is to configure out all settings
94	Before reporting a bug to the original rxvt-unicode author please	31	that you don't need, for example, Xft support is a resource hog by
95	download and install the genuine version	32	design, when used. Compiling it out ensures that no Xft font will be
96	(<http://software.schmorp.de#rxvt-unicode>) and try to reproduce the	33	loaded accidentally when rxvt-unicode tries to find a font for your
97	problem. If you cannot, chances are that the problems are specific	34	characters.
98	to Debian GNU/Linux, in which case it should be reported via the
99	Debian Bug Tracking System (use "reportbug" to report the bug).
100		35
101	For other problems that also affect the Debian package, you can and	36	Also, many people (me included) like large windows and even larger
102	probably should use the Debian BTS, too, because, after all, it's	37	scrollback buffers: Without "--enable-unicode3", rxvt-unicode will use 6
103	also a bug in the Debian version and it serves as a reminder for	38	bytes per screen cell. For a 160x?? window this amounts to almost a
104	other users that might encounter the same issue.	39	kilobyte per line. A scrollback buffer of 10000 lines will then (if
		40	full) use 10 Megabytes of memory. With "--enable-unicode3" it gets
		41	worse, as rxvt-unicode then uses 8 bytes per screen cell.
105		42
106	I am maintaining rxvt-unicode for distribution/OS XXX, any	43	How can I start urxvtd in a race-free way?
107	recommendation?	44	Try "urxvtd -f -o", which tells urxvtd to open the display, create the
108	You should build one binary with the default options. configure now	45	listening socket and then fork.
109	enables most useful options, and the trend goes to making them
110	runtime-switchable, too, so there is usually no drawback to enbaling
111	them, except higher disk and possibly memory usage. The perl
112	interpreter should be enabled, as important functionality (menus,
113	selection, likely more in the future) depends on it.
114		46
115	You should not overwrite the "perl-ext-common" snd "perl-ext"	47	How do I distinguish wether I'm running rxvt-unicode or a regular xterm? I need this to decide about setting colors etc.
116	resources system-wide (except maybe with "defaults"). This will	48	rxvt and rxvt-unicode always export the variable "COLORTERM", so you can
117	result in useful behaviour. If your distribution aims at low memory,	49	check and see if that is set. Note that several programs, JED, slrn,
118	add an empty "perl-ext-common" resource to the app-defaults file.	50	Midnight Commander automatically check this variable to decide whether
119	This will keep the perl interpreter disabled until the user enables	51	or not to use color.
		52
		53	How do I set the correct, full IP address for the DISPLAY variable?
		54	If you've compiled rxvt-unicode with DISPLAY_IS_IP and have enabled
		55	insecure mode then it is possible to use the following shell script
		56	snippets to correctly set the display. If your version of rxvt-unicode
		57	wasn't also compiled with ESCZ_ANSWER (as assumed in these snippets)
		58	then the COLORTERM variable can be used to distinguish rxvt-unicode from
		59	a regular xterm.
		60
		61	Courtesy of Chuck Blake <cblake@BBN.COM> with the following shell script
		62	snippets:
		63
		64	# Bourne/Korn/POSIX family of shells:
		65	[ ${TERM:-foo} = foo ] && TERM=xterm # assume an xterm if we don't know
		66	if [ ${TERM:-foo} = xterm ]; then
		67	stty -icanon -echo min 0 time 15 # see if enhanced rxvt or not
		68	echo -n '^[Z'
		69	read term_id
		70	stty icanon echo
		71	if [ ""${term_id} = '^[[?1;2C' -a ${DISPLAY:-foo} = foo ]; then
		72	echo -n '^[[7n' # query the rxvt we are in for the DISPLAY string
		73	read DISPLAY # set it in our local shell
		74	fi
120	it.	75	fi
121		76
122	If you can/want build more binaries, I recommend building a minimal	77	How do I compile the manual pages on my own?
123	one with "--disable-everything" (very useful) and a maximal one with	78	You need to have a recent version of perl installed as /usr/bin/perl,
124	"--enable-everything" (less useful, it will be very big due to a lot	79	one that comes with pod2man, pod2text and pod2html. Then go to the doc
125	of encodings built-in that increase download times and are rarely	80	subdirectory and enter "make alldoc".
126	used).
127		81
128	I need to make it setuid/setgid to support utmp/ptys on my OS, is this	82	Isn't rxvt-unicode supposed to be small? Don't all those features bloat?
129	safe?	83	I often get asked about this, and I think, no, they didn't cause extra
130	Likely not. While I honestly try to make it secure, and am probably	84	bloat. If you compare a minimal rxvt and a minimal urxvt, you can see
131	not bad at it, I think it is simply unreasonable to expect all of	85	that the urxvt binary is larger (due to some encoding tables always
132	freetype + fontconfig + xft + xlib + ... + rxvt-unicode itself to	86	being compiled in), but it actually uses less memory (RSS) after
133	all be secure. Also, rxvt-unicode disables some options when it	87	startup. Even with "--disable-everything", this comparison is a bit
134	detects that it runs setuid or setgid, which is not nice.	88	unfair, as many features unique to urxvt (locale, encoding conversion,
		89	iso14755 etc.) are already in use in this mode.
135		90
136	Elevated privileges are only required for utmp and pty operations on	91	text data bss drs rss filename
137	some systems (for example, GNU/Linux doesn't need any extra	92	98398 1664 24 15695 1824 rxvt --disable-everything
138	privileges for ptys, but some need it for utmp support). If	93	188985 9048 66616 18222 1788 urxvt --disable-everything
139	rxvt-unicode doesn't support the library/setuid helper that your OS
140	needs I'll be happy to assist you in implementing support for it.
141		94
142	So, while setuid/setgid operation is supported and not a problem on	95	When you "--enable-everything" (which _is_ unfair, as this involves xft
143	your typical single-user-no-other-logins unix desktop, always	96	and full locale/XIM support which are quite bloaty inside libX11 and my
144	remember that its an awful lot of code, most of which isn't checked	97	libc), the two diverge, but not unreasnobaly so.
145	for security issues regularly.
146		98
		99	text data bss drs rss filename
		100	163431 2152 24 20123 2060 rxvt --enable-everything
		101	1035683 49680 66648 29096 3680 urxvt --enable-everything
		102
		103	The very large size of the text section is explained by the east-asian
		104	encoding tables, which, if unused, take up disk space but nothing else
		105	and can be compiled out unless you rely on X11 core fonts that use those
		106	encodings. The BSS size comes from the 64k emergency buffer that my c++
		107	compiler allocates (but of course doesn't use unless you are out of
		108	memory). Also, using an xft font instead of a core font immediately adds
		109	a few megabytes of RSS. Xft indeed is responsible for a lot of RSS even
		110	when not used.
		111
		112	Of course, due to every character using two or four bytes instead of
		113	one, a large scrollback buffer will ultimately make rxvt-unicode use
		114	more memory.
		115
		116	Compared to e.g. Eterm (5112k), aterm (3132k) and xterm (4680k), this
		117	still fares rather well. And compared to some monsters like
		118	gnome-terminal (21152k + extra 4204k in separate processes) or konsole
		119	(22200k + extra 43180k in daemons that stay around after exit, plus half
		120	a minute of startup time, including the hundreds of warnings it spits
		121	out), it fares extremely well *g*.
		122
		123	Why C++, isn't that unportable/bloated/uncool?
		124	Is this a question? :) It comes up very often. The simple answer is: I
		125	had to write it, and C++ allowed me to write and maintain it in a
		126	fraction of the time and effort (which is a scarce resource for me). Put
		127	even shorter: It simply wouldn't exist without C++.
		128
		129	My personal stance on this is that C++ is less portable than C, but in
		130	the case of rxvt-unicode this hardly matters, as its portability limits
		131	are defined by things like X11, pseudo terminals, locale support and
		132	unix domain sockets, which are all less portable than C++ itself.
		133
		134	Regarding the bloat, see the above question: It's easy to write programs
		135	in C that use gobs of memory, an certainly possible to write programs in
		136	C++ that don't. C++ also often comes with large libraries, but this is
		137	not necessarily the case with GCC. Here is what rxvt links against on my
		138	system with a minimal config:
		139
		140	libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x00002aaaaabc3000)
		141	libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00002aaaaadde000)
		142	libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00002aaaab01d000)
		143	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00002aaaaaaab000)
		144
		145	And here is rxvt-unicode:
		146
		147	libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x00002aaaaabc3000)
		148	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00002aaaaada2000)
		149	libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00002aaaaaeb0000)
		150	libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00002aaaab0ee000)
		151	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00002aaaaaaab000)
		152
		153	No large bloated libraries (of course, none were linked in statically),
		154	except maybe libX11 :)
		155
		156	Rendering, Font & Look and Feel Issues
		157	I can't get transparency working, what am I doing wrong?
		158	First of all, transparency isn't officially supported in rxvt-unicode,
		159	so you are mostly on your own. Do not bug the author about it (but you
		160	may bug everybody else). Also, if you can't get it working consider it a
		161	rite of passage: ... and you failed.
		162
		163	Here are four ways to get transparency. Do read the manpage and option
		164	descriptions for the programs mentioned and rxvt-unicode. Really, do it!
		165
		166	1. Use inheritPixmap:
		167
		168	Esetroot wallpaper.jpg
		169	urxvt -ip -tint red -sh 40
		170
		171	That works. If you think it doesn't, you lack transparency and tinting
		172	support, or you are unable to read.
		173
		174	2. Use a simple pixmap and emulate pseudo-transparency. This enables you
		175	to use effects other than tinting and shading: Just shade/tint/whatever
		176	your picture with gimp or any other tool:
		177
		178	convert wallpaper.jpg -blur 20x20 -modulate 30 background.xpm
		179	urxvt -pixmap background.xpm -pe automove-background
		180
		181	That works. If you think it doesn't, you lack XPM and Perl support, or
		182	you are unable to read.
		183
		184	3. Use an ARGB visual:
		185
		186	urxvt -depth 32 -fg grey90 -bg rgba:0000/0000/4444/cccc
		187
		188	This requires XFT support, and the support of your X-server. If that
		189	doesn't work for you, blame Xorg and Keith Packard. ARGB visuals aren't
		190	there yet, no matter what they claim. Rxvt-Unicode contains the
		191	neccessary bugfixes and workarounds for Xft and Xlib to make it work,
		192	but that doesn't mean that your WM has the required kludges in place.
		193
		194	4. Use xcompmgr and let it do the job:
		195
		196	xprop -frame -f _NET_WM_WINDOW_OPACITY 32c \
		197	-set _NET_WM_WINDOW_OPACITY 0xc0000000
		198
		199	Then click on a window you want to make transparent. Replace 0xc0000000
		200	by other values to change the degree of opacity. If it doesn't work and
		201	your server crashes, you got to keep the pieces.
		202
		203	Why do some chinese characters look so different than others?
		204	This is because there is a difference between script and language --
		205	rxvt-unicode does not know which language the text that is output is, as
		206	it only knows the unicode character codes. If rxvt-unicode first sees a
		207	japanese/chinese character, it might choose a japanese font for display.
		208	Subsequent japanese characters will use that font. Now, many chinese
		209	characters aren't represented in japanese fonts, so when the first
		210	non-japanese character comes up, rxvt-unicode will look for a chinese
		211	font -- unfortunately at this point, it will still use the japanese font
		212	for chinese characters that are also in the japanese font.
		213
		214	The workaround is easy: just tag a chinese font at the end of your font
		215	list (see the previous question). The key is to view the font list as a
		216	preference list: If you expect more japanese, list a japanese font
		217	first. If you expect more chinese, put a chinese font first.
		218
		219	In the future it might be possible to switch language preferences at
		220	runtime (the internal data structure has no problem with using different
		221	fonts for the same character at the same time, but no interface for this
		222	has been designed yet).
		223
		224	Until then, you might get away with switching fonts at runtime (see "Can
		225	I switch the fonts at runtime?" later in this document).
		226
		227	Why does rxvt-unicode sometimes leave pixel droppings?
		228	Most fonts were not designed for terminal use, which means that
		229	character size varies a lot. A font that is otherwise fine for terminal
		230	use might contain some characters that are simply too wide. Rxvt-unicode
		231	will avoid these characters. For characters that are just "a bit" too
		232	wide a special "careful" rendering mode is used that redraws adjacent
		233	characters.
		234
		235	All of this requires that fonts do not lie about character sizes,
		236	however: Xft fonts often draw glyphs larger than their acclaimed
		237	bounding box, and rxvt-unicode has no way of detecting this (the correct
		238	way is to ask for the character bounding box, which unfortunately is
		239	wrong in these cases).
		240
		241	It's not clear (to me at least), wether this is a bug in Xft, freetype,
		242	or the respective font. If you encounter this problem you might try
		243	using the "-lsp" option to give the font more height. If that doesn't
		244	work, you might be forced to use a different font.
		245
		246	All of this is not a problem when using X11 core fonts, as their
		247	bounding box data is correct.
		248
		249	How can I keep rxvt-unicode from using reverse video so much?
		250	First of all, make sure you are running with the right terminal settings
		251	("TERM=rxvt-unicode"), which will get rid of most of these effects. Then
		252	make sure you have specified colours for italic and bold, as otherwise
		253	rxvt-unicode might use reverse video to simulate the effect:
		254
		255	URxvt.colorBD: white
		256	URxvt.colorIT: green
		257
		258	Some programs assume totally weird colours (red instead of blue), how can I fix that?
		259	For some unexplainable reason, some rare programs assume a very weird
		260	colour palette when confronted with a terminal with more than the
		261	standard 8 colours (rxvt-unicode supports 88). The right fix is, of
		262	course, to fix these programs not to assume non-ISO colours without very
		263	good reasons.
		264
		265	In the meantime, you can either edit your "rxvt-unicode" terminfo
		266	definition to only claim 8 colour support or use "TERM=rxvt", which will
		267	fix colours but keep you from using other rxvt-unicode features.
		268
		269	Can I switch the fonts at runtime?
		270	Yes, using an escape sequence. Try something like this, which has the
		271	same effect as using the "-fn" switch, and takes effect immediately:
		272
		273	printf '\e]50;%s\007' "9x15bold,xft:Kochi Gothic"
		274
		275	This is useful if you e.g. work primarily with japanese (and prefer a
		276	japanese font), but you have to switch to chinese temporarily, where
		277	japanese fonts would only be in your way.
		278
		279	You can think of this as a kind of manual ISO-2022 switching.
		280
		281	Why do italic characters look as if clipped?
		282	Many fonts have difficulties with italic characters and hinting. For
		283	example, the otherwise very nicely hinted font "xft:Bitstream Vera Sans
		284	Mono" completely fails in it's italic face. A workaround might be to
		285	enable freetype autohinting, i.e. like this:
		286
		287	URxvt.italicFont: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:italic:autohint=true
		288	URxvt.boldItalicFont: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:bold:italic:autohint=true
		289
		290	Can I speed up Xft rendering somehow?
		291	Yes, the most obvious way to speed it up is to avoid Xft entirely, as it
		292	is simply slow. If you still want Xft fonts you might try to disable
		293	antialiasing (by appending ":antialias=false"), which saves lots of
		294	memory and also speeds up rendering considerably.
		295
		296	Rxvt-unicode doesn't seem to anti-alias its fonts, what is wrong?
		297	Rxvt-unicode will use whatever you specify as a font. If it needs to
		298	fall back to it's default font search list it will prefer X11 core
		299	fonts, because they are small and fast, and then use Xft fonts. It has
		300	antialiasing disabled for most of them, because the author thinks they
		301	look best that way.
		302
		303	If you want antialiasing, you have to specify the fonts manually.
		304
		305	What's with this bold/blink stuff?
		306	If no bold colour is set via "colorBD:", bold will invert text using the
		307	standard foreground colour.
		308
		309	For the standard background colour, blinking will actually make the text
		310	blink when compiled with "--enable-blinking". with standard colours.
		311	Without "--enable-blinking", the blink attribute will be ignored.
		312
		313	On ANSI colours, bold/blink attributes are used to set high-intensity
		314	foreground/background colors.
		315
		316	color0-7 are the low-intensity colors.
		317
		318	color8-15 are the corresponding high-intensity colors.
		319
		320	I don't like the screen colors. How do I change them?
		321	You can change the screen colors at run-time using ~/.Xdefaults
		322	resources (or as long-options).
		323
		324	Here are values that are supposed to resemble a VGA screen, including
		325	the murky brown that passes for low-intensity yellow:
		326
		327	URxvt.color0: #000000
		328	URxvt.color1: #A80000
		329	URxvt.color2: #00A800
		330	URxvt.color3: #A8A800
		331	URxvt.color4: #0000A8
		332	URxvt.color5: #A800A8
		333	URxvt.color6: #00A8A8
		334	URxvt.color7: #A8A8A8
		335
		336	URxvt.color8: #000054
		337	URxvt.color9: #FF0054
		338	URxvt.color10: #00FF54
		339	URxvt.color11: #FFFF54
		340	URxvt.color12: #0000FF
		341	URxvt.color13: #FF00FF
		342	URxvt.color14: #00FFFF
		343	URxvt.color15: #FFFFFF
		344
		345	And here is a more complete set of non-standard colors described (not by
		346	me) as "pretty girly".
		347
		348	URxvt.cursorColor: #dc74d1
		349	URxvt.pointerColor: #dc74d1
		350	URxvt.background: #0e0e0e
		351	URxvt.foreground: #4ad5e1
		352	URxvt.color0: #000000
		353	URxvt.color8: #8b8f93
		354	URxvt.color1: #dc74d1
		355	URxvt.color9: #dc74d1
		356	URxvt.color2: #0eb8c7
		357	URxvt.color10: #0eb8c7
		358	URxvt.color3: #dfe37e
		359	URxvt.color11: #dfe37e
		360	URxvt.color5: #9e88f0
		361	URxvt.color13: #9e88f0
		362	URxvt.color6: #73f7ff
		363	URxvt.color14: #73f7ff
		364	URxvt.color7: #e1dddd
		365	URxvt.color15: #e1dddd
		366
		367	Why do some characters look so much different than others?
		368	See next entry.
		369
		370	How does rxvt-unicode choose fonts?
		371	Most fonts do not contain the full range of Unicode, which is fine.
		372	Chances are that the font you (or the admin/package maintainer of your
		373	system/os) have specified does not cover all the characters you want to
		374	display.
		375
		376	rxvt-unicode makes a best-effort try at finding a replacement font.
		377	Often the result is fine, but sometimes the chosen font looks
		378	bad/ugly/wrong. Some fonts have totally strange characters that don't
		379	resemble the correct glyph at all, and rxvt-unicode lacks the artificial
		380	intelligence to detect that a specific glyph is wrong: it has to believe
		381	the font that the characters it claims to contain indeed look correct.
		382
		383	In that case, select a font of your taste and add it to the font list,
		384	e.g.:
		385
		386	urxvt -fn basefont,font2,font3...
		387
		388	When rxvt-unicode sees a character, it will first look at the base font.
		389	If the base font does not contain the character, it will go to the next
		390	font, and so on. Specifying your own fonts will also speed up this
		391	search and use less resources within rxvt-unicode and the X-server.
		392
		393	The only limitation is that none of the fonts may be larger than the
		394	base font, as the base font defines the terminal character cell size,
		395	which must be the same due to the way terminals work.
		396
		397	Keyboard, Mouse & User Interaction
		398	The new selection selects pieces that are too big, how can I select single words?
		399	If you want to select e.g. alphanumeric words, you can use the following
		400	setting:
		401
		402	URxvt.selection.pattern-0: ([[:word:]]+)
		403
		404	If you click more than twice, the selection will be extended more and
		405	more.
		406
		407	To get a selection that is very similar to the old code, try this
		408	pattern:
		409
		410	URxvt.selection.pattern-0: ([^"&'()*,;<=>?@[\\\\]^`{|})]+)
		411
		412	Please also note that the *LeftClick Shift-LeftClik* combination also
		413	selects words like the old code.
		414
		415	I don't like the new selection/popups/hotkeys/perl, how do I change/disable it?
		416	You can disable the perl extension completely by setting the
		417	perl-ext-common resource to the empty string, which also keeps
		418	rxvt-unicode from initialising perl, saving memory.
		419
		420	If you only want to disable specific features, you first have to
		421	identify which perl extension is responsible. For this, read the section
		422	PREPACKAGED EXTENSIONS in the urxvtperl(3) manpage. For example, to
		423	disable the selection-popup and option-popup, specify this
		424	perl-ext-common resource:
		425
		426	URxvt.perl-ext-common: default,-selection-popup,-option-popup
		427
		428	This will keep the default extensions, but disable the two popup
		429	extensions. Some extensions can also be configured, for example,
		430	scrollback search mode is triggered by M-s. You can move it to any other
		431	combination either by setting the searchable-scrollback resource:
		432
		433	URxvt.searchable-scrollback: CM-s
		434
		435	The cursor moves when selecting text in the current input line, how do I switch this off?
		436	See next entry.
		437
		438	During rlogin/ssh/telnet/etc. sessions, clicking near the cursor outputs strange escape sequences, how do I fix this?
		439	These are caused by the "readline" perl extension. Under normal
		440	circumstances, it will move your cursor around when you click into the
		441	line that contains it. It tries hard not to do this at the wrong moment,
		442	but when running a program that doesn't parse cursor movements or in
		443	some cases during rlogin sessions, it fails to detect this properly.
		444
		445	You can permamently switch this feature off by disabling the "readline"
		446	extension:
		447
		448	URxvt.perl-ext-common: default,-readline
		449
		450	My numerical keypad acts weird and generates differing output?
		451	Some Debian GNUL/Linux users seem to have this problem, although no
		452	specific details were reported so far. It is possible that this is
		453	caused by the wrong "TERM" setting, although the details of wether and
		454	how this can happen are unknown, as "TERM=rxvt" should offer a
		455	compatible keymap. See the answer to the previous question, and please
		456	report if that helped.
		457
		458	My Compose (Multi_key) key is no longer working.
		459	The most common causes for this are that either your locale is not set
		460	correctly, or you specified a preeditStyle that is not supported by your
		461	input method. For example, if you specified OverTheSpot and your input
		462	method (e.g. the default input method handling Compose keys) does not
		463	support this (for instance because it is not visual), then rxvt-unicode
		464	will continue without an input method.
		465
		466	In this case either do not specify a preeditStyle or specify more than
		467	one pre-edit style, such as OverTheSpot,Root,None.
		468
		469	I cannot type "Ctrl-Shift-2" to get an ASCII NUL character due to ISO 14755
		470	Either try "Ctrl-2" alone (it often is mapped to ASCII NUL even on
		471	international keyboards) or simply use ISO 14755 support to your
		472	advantage, typing <Ctrl-Shift-0> to get a ASCII NUL. This works for
		473	other codes, too, such as "Ctrl-Shift-1-d" to type the default telnet
		474	escape character and so on.
		475
		476	Mouse cut/paste suddenly no longer works.
		477	Make sure that mouse reporting is actually turned off since killing some
		478	editors prematurely may leave the mouse in mouse report mode. I've heard
		479	that tcsh may use mouse reporting unless it otherwise specified. A quick
		480	check is to see if cut/paste works when the Alt or Shift keys are
		481	depressed.
		482
		483	What's with the strange Backspace/Delete key behaviour?
		484	Assuming that the physical Backspace key corresponds to the BackSpace
		485	keysym (not likely for Linux ... see the following question) there are
		486	two standard values that can be used for Backspace: "^H" and "^?".
		487
		488	Historically, either value is correct, but rxvt-unicode adopts the
		489	debian policy of using "^?" when unsure, because it's the one only only
		490	correct choice :).
		491
		492	Rxvt-unicode tries to inherit the current stty settings and uses the
		493	value of `erase' to guess the value for backspace. If rxvt-unicode
		494	wasn't started from a terminal (say, from a menu or by remote shell),
		495	then the system value of `erase', which corresponds to CERASE in
		496	<termios.h>, will be used (which may not be the same as your stty
		497	setting).
		498
		499	For starting a new rxvt-unicode:
		500
		501	# use Backspace = ^H
		502	$ stty erase ^H
		503	$ urxvt
		504
		505	# use Backspace = ^?
		506	$ stty erase ^?
		507	$ urxvt
		508
		509	Toggle with "ESC [ 36 h" / "ESC [ 36 l".
		510
		511	For an existing rxvt-unicode:
		512
		513	# use Backspace = ^H
		514	$ stty erase ^H
		515	$ echo -n "^[[36h"
		516
		517	# use Backspace = ^?
		518	$ stty erase ^?
		519	$ echo -n "^[[36l"
		520
		521	This helps satisfy some of the Backspace discrepancies that occur, but
		522	if you use Backspace = "^H", make sure that the termcap/terminfo value
		523	properly reflects that.
		524
		525	The Delete key is a another casualty of the ill-defined Backspace
		526	problem. To avoid confusion between the Backspace and Delete keys, the
		527	Delete key has been assigned an escape sequence to match the vt100 for
		528	Execute ("ESC [ 3 ~") and is in the supplied termcap/terminfo.
		529
		530	Some other Backspace problems:
		531
		532	some editors use termcap/terminfo, some editors (vim I'm told) expect
		533	Backspace = ^H, GNU Emacs (and Emacs-like editors) use ^H for help.
		534
		535	Perhaps someday this will all be resolved in a consistent manner.
		536
		537	I don't like the key-bindings. How do I change them?
		538	There are some compile-time selections available via configure. Unless
		539	you have run "configure" with the "--disable-resources" option you can
		540	use the `keysym' resource to alter the keystrings associated with
		541	keysyms.
		542
		543	Here's an example for a URxvt session started using "urxvt -name URxvt"
		544
		545	URxvt.keysym.Home: \033[1~
		546	URxvt.keysym.End: \033[4~
		547	URxvt.keysym.C-apostrophe: \033<C-'>
		548	URxvt.keysym.C-slash: \033<C-/>
		549	URxvt.keysym.C-semicolon: \033<C-;>
		550	URxvt.keysym.C-grave: \033<C-`>
		551	URxvt.keysym.C-comma: \033<C-,>
		552	URxvt.keysym.C-period: \033<C-.>
		553	URxvt.keysym.C-0x60: \033<C-`>
		554	URxvt.keysym.C-Tab: \033<C-Tab>
		555	URxvt.keysym.C-Return: \033<C-Return>
		556	URxvt.keysym.S-Return: \033<S-Return>
		557	URxvt.keysym.S-space: \033<S-Space>
		558	URxvt.keysym.M-Up: \033<M-Up>
		559	URxvt.keysym.M-Down: \033<M-Down>
		560	URxvt.keysym.M-Left: \033<M-Left>
		561	URxvt.keysym.M-Right: \033<M-Right>
		562	URxvt.keysym.M-C-0: list \033<M-C- 0123456789 >
		563	URxvt.keysym.M-C-a: list \033<M-C- abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz >
		564	URxvt.keysym.F12: command:\033]701;zh_CN.GBK\007
		565
		566	See some more examples in the documentation for the keysym resource.
		567
		568	I'm using keyboard model XXX that has extra Prior/Next/Insert keys. How do I make use of them? For example, the Sun Keyboard type 4 has the following map
		569	KP_Insert == Insert
		570	F22 == Print
		571	F27 == Home
		572	F29 == Prior
		573	F33 == End
		574	F35 == Next
		575
		576	Rather than have rxvt-unicode try to accommodate all the various
		577	possible keyboard mappings, it is better to use `xmodmap' to remap the
		578	keys as required for your particular machine.
		579
		580	Terminal Configuration
		581	Why doesn't rxvt-unicode read my resources?
		582	Well, why, indeed? It does, in a way very similar to other X
		583	applications. Most importantly, this means that if you or your OS loads
		584	resources into the X display (the right way to do it), rxvt-unicode will
		585	ignore any resource files in your home directory. It will only read
		586	$HOME/.Xdefaults when no resources are attached to the display.
		587
		588	If you have or use an $HOME/.Xresources file, chances are that resources
		589	are loaded into your X-server. In this case, you have to re-login after
		590	every change (or run xrdb -merge $HOME/.Xresources).
		591
		592	Also consider the form resources have to use:
		593
		594	URxvt.resource: value
		595
		596	If you want to use another form (there are lots of different ways of
		597	specifying resources), make sure you understand wether and why it works.
		598	If unsure, use the form above.
		599
147	When I log-in to another system it tells me about missing terminfo data?	600	When I log-in to another system it tells me about missing terminfo data?
148	The terminal description used by rxvt-unicode is not as widely	601	The terminal description used by rxvt-unicode is not as widely available
149	available as that for xterm, or even rxvt (for which the same	602	as that for xterm, or even rxvt (for which the same problem often
150	problem often arises).	603	arises).
151		604
152	The correct solution for this problem is to install the terminfo,	605	The correct solution for this problem is to install the terminfo, this
153	this can be done like this (with ncurses' infocmp):	606	can be done like this (with ncurses' infocmp):
154		607
155	REMOTE=remotesystem.domain	608	REMOTE=remotesystem.domain
156	infocmp rxvt-unicode | ssh $REMOTE "cat >/tmp/ti && tic /tmp/ti"	609	infocmp rxvt-unicode | ssh $REMOTE "cat >/tmp/ti && tic /tmp/ti"
157		610
158	... or by installing rxvt-unicode normally on the remote system,	611	... or by installing rxvt-unicode normally on the remote system,
159		612
160	If you cannot or do not want to do this, then you can simply set	613	If you cannot or do not want to do this, then you can simply set
161	"TERM=rxvt" or even "TERM=xterm", and live with the small number of	614	"TERM=rxvt" or even "TERM=xterm", and live with the small number of
162	problems arising, which includes wrong keymapping, less and	615	problems arising, which includes wrong keymapping, less and different
163	different colours and some refresh errors in fullscreen	616	colours and some refresh errors in fullscreen applications. It's a nice
164	applications. It's a nice quick-and-dirty workaround for rare cases,	617	quick-and-dirty workaround for rare cases, though.
165	though.
166		618
167	If you always want to do this (and are fine with the consequences)	619	If you always want to do this (and are fine with the consequences) you
168	you can either recompile rxvt-unicode with the desired TERM value or	620	can either recompile rxvt-unicode with the desired TERM value or use a
169	use a resource to set it:	621	resource to set it:
170		622
171	URxvt.termName: rxvt	623	URxvt.termName: rxvt
172		624
173	If you don't plan to use rxvt (quite common...) you could also	625	If you don't plan to use rxvt (quite common...) you could also replace
174	replace the rxvt terminfo file with the rxvt-unicode one.	626	the rxvt terminfo file with the rxvt-unicode one.
175		627
176	"tic" outputs some error when compiling the terminfo entry.	628	"tic" outputs some error when compiling the terminfo entry.
177	Most likely it's the empty definition for "enacs=". Just replace it	629	Most likely it's the empty definition for "enacs=". Just replace it by
178	by "enacs=\E[0@" and try again.	630	"enacs=\E[0@" and try again.
179		631
180	"bash"'s readline does not work correctly under rxvt.	632	"bash"'s readline does not work correctly under urxvt.
		633	See next entry.
		634
181	I need a termcap file entry.	635	I need a termcap file entry.
182	One reason you might want this is that some distributions or	636	One reason you might want this is that some distributions or operating
183	operating systems still compile some programs using the	637	systems still compile some programs using the long-obsoleted termcap
184	long-obsoleted termcap library (Fedora Core's bash is one example)	638	library (Fedora Core's bash is one example) and rely on a termcap entry
185	and rely on a termcap entry for "rxvt-unicode".	639	for "rxvt-unicode".
186		640
187	You could use rxvt's termcap entry with resonable results in many	641	You could use rxvt's termcap entry with resonable results in many cases.
188	cases. You can also create a termcap entry by using terminfo's	642	You can also create a termcap entry by using terminfo's infocmp program
189	infocmp program like this:	643	like this:
190		644
191	infocmp -C rxvt-unicode	645	infocmp -C rxvt-unicode
192		646
193	Or you could use this termcap entry, generated by the command above:	647	Or you could use this termcap entry, generated by the command above:
194		648
195	rxvt-unicode|rxvt-unicode terminal (X Window System):\	649	rxvt-unicode|rxvt-unicode terminal (X Window System):\
196	:am:bw:eo:km:mi:ms:xn:xo:\	650	:am:bw:eo:km:mi:ms:xn:xo:\
197	:co#80:it#8:li#24:lm#0:\	651	:co#80:it#8:li#24:lm#0:\
198	:AL=\E[%dL:DC=\E[%dP:DL=\E[%dM:DO=\E[%dB:IC=\E[%d@:\	652	:AL=\E[%dL:DC=\E[%dP:DL=\E[%dM:DO=\E[%dB:IC=\E[%d@:\
199	:K1=\EOw:K2=\EOu:K3=\EOy:K4=\EOq:K5=\EOs:LE=\E[%dD:\	653	:K1=\EOw:K2=\EOu:K3=\EOy:K4=\EOq:K5=\EOs:LE=\E[%dD:\
200	:RI=\E[%dC:SF=\E[%dS:SR=\E[%dT:UP=\E[%dA:ae=\E(B:al=\E[L:\	654	:RI=\E[%dC:SF=\E[%dS:SR=\E[%dT:UP=\E[%dA:ae=\E(B:al=\E[L:\
201	:as=\E(0:bl=^G:cd=\E[J:ce=\E[K:cl=\E[H\E[2J:\	655	:as=\E(0:bl=^G:cd=\E[J:ce=\E[K:cl=\E[H\E[2J:\
202	:cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:cr=^M:cs=\E[%i%d;%dr:ct=\E[3g:dc=\E[P:\	656	:cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:cr=^M:cs=\E[%i%d;%dr:ct=\E[3g:dc=\E[P:\
203	:dl=\E[M:do=^J:ec=\E[%dX:ei=\E[4l:ho=\E[H:\	657	:dl=\E[M:do=^J:ec=\E[%dX:ei=\E[4l:ho=\E[H:\
204	:i1=\E[?47l\E=\E[?1l:ic=\E[@:im=\E[4h:\	658	:i1=\E[?47l\E=\E[?1l:ic=\E[@:im=\E[4h:\
205	:is=\E[r\E[m\E[2J\E[H\E[?7h\E[?1;3;4;6l\E[4l:\	659	:is=\E[r\E[m\E[2J\E[H\E[?7h\E[?1;3;4;6l\E[4l:\
206	:k1=\E[11~:k2=\E[12~:k3=\E[13~:k4=\E[14~:k5=\E[15~:\	660	:k1=\E[11~:k2=\E[12~:k3=\E[13~:k4=\E[14~:k5=\E[15~:\
207	:k6=\E[17~:k7=\E[18~:k8=\E[19~:k9=\E[20~:kD=\E[3~:\	661	:k6=\E[17~:k7=\E[18~:k8=\E[19~:k9=\E[20~:kD=\E[3~:\
208	:kI=\E[2~:kN=\E[6~:kP=\E[5~:kb=\177:kd=\EOB:ke=\E[?1l\E>:\	662	:kI=\E[2~:kN=\E[6~:kP=\E[5~:kb=\177:kd=\EOB:ke=\E[?1l\E>:\
209	:kh=\E[7~:kl=\EOD:kr=\EOC:ks=\E[?1h\E=:ku=\EOA:le=^H:\	663	:kh=\E[7~:kl=\EOD:kr=\EOC:ks=\E[?1h\E=:ku=\EOA:le=^H:\
210	:mb=\E[5m:md=\E[1m:me=\E[m\017:mr=\E[7m:nd=\E[C:rc=\E8:\	664	:mb=\E[5m:md=\E[1m:me=\E[m\017:mr=\E[7m:nd=\E[C:rc=\E8:\
211	:sc=\E7:se=\E[27m:sf=^J:so=\E[7m:sr=\EM:st=\EH:ta=^I:\	665	:sc=\E7:se=\E[27m:sf=^J:so=\E[7m:sr=\EM:st=\EH:ta=^I:\
212	:te=\E[r\E[?1049l:ti=\E[?1049h:ue=\E[24m:up=\E[A:\	666	:te=\E[r\E[?1049l:ti=\E[?1049h:ue=\E[24m:up=\E[A:\
213	:us=\E[4m:vb=\E[?5h\E[?5l:ve=\E[?25h:vi=\E[?25l:\	667	:us=\E[4m:vb=\E[?5h\E[?5l:ve=\E[?25h:vi=\E[?25l:\
214	:vs=\E[?25h:	668	:vs=\E[?25h:
215		669
216	Why does "ls" no longer have coloured output?	670	Why does "ls" no longer have coloured output?
217	The "ls" in the GNU coreutils unfortunately doesn't use terminfo to	671	The "ls" in the GNU coreutils unfortunately doesn't use terminfo to
218	decide wether a terminal has colour, but uses it's own configuration	672	decide wether a terminal has colour, but uses it's own configuration
219	file. Needless to say, "rxvt-unicode" is not in it's default file	673	file. Needless to say, "rxvt-unicode" is not in it's default file (among
220	(among with most other terminals supporting colour). Either add:	674	with most other terminals supporting colour). Either add:
221		675
222	TERM rxvt-unicode	676	TERM rxvt-unicode
223		677
224	to "/etc/DIR_COLORS" or simply add:	678	to "/etc/DIR_COLORS" or simply add:
225		679
226	alias ls='ls --color=auto'	680	alias ls='ls --color=auto'
227		681
228	to your ".profile" or ".bashrc".	682	to your ".profile" or ".bashrc".
229		683
230	Why doesn't vim/emacs etc. use the 88 colour mode?	684	Why doesn't vim/emacs etc. use the 88 colour mode?
		685	See next entry.
		686
231	Why doesn't vim/emacs etc. make use of italic?	687	Why doesn't vim/emacs etc. make use of italic?
		688	See next entry.
		689
232	Why are the secondary screen-related options not working properly?	690	Why are the secondary screen-related options not working properly?
233	Make sure you are using "TERM=rxvt-unicode". Some pre-packaged	691	Make sure you are using "TERM=rxvt-unicode". Some pre-packaged
234	distributions (most notably Debian GNU/Linux) break rxvt-unicode by	692	distributions (most notably Debian GNU/Linux) break rxvt-unicode by
235	setting "TERM" to "rxvt", which doesn't have these extra features.	693	setting "TERM" to "rxvt", which doesn't have these extra features.
236	Unfortunately, some of these (most notably, again, Debian GNU/Linux)	694	Unfortunately, some of these (most notably, again, Debian GNU/Linux)
237	furthermore fail to even install the "rxvt-unicode" terminfo file,	695	furthermore fail to even install the "rxvt-unicode" terminfo file, so
238	so you will need to install it on your own (See the question When I	696	you will need to install it on your own (See the question When I log-in
239	log-in to another system it tells me about missing terminfo data? on	697	to another system it tells me about missing terminfo data? on how to do
240	how to do this).	698	this).
241		699
242	My numerical keypad acts weird and generates differing output?	700	Encoding / Locale / Input Method Issues
243	Some Debian GNUL/Linux users seem to have this problem, although no
244	specific details were reported so far. It is possible that this is
245	caused by the wrong "TERM" setting, although the details of wether
246	and how this can happen are unknown, as "TERM=rxvt" should offer a
247	compatible keymap. See the answer to the previous question, and
248	please report if that helped.
249
250	Rxvt-unicode does not seem to understand the selected encoding?	701	Rxvt-unicode does not seem to understand the selected encoding?
		702	See next entry.
		703
251	Unicode does not seem to work?	704	Unicode does not seem to work?
252	If you encounter strange problems like typing an accented character	705	If you encounter strange problems like typing an accented character but
253	but getting two unrelated other characters or similar, or if program	706	getting two unrelated other characters or similar, or if program output
254	output is subtly garbled, then you should check your locale	707	is subtly garbled, then you should check your locale settings.
255	settings.
256		708
257	Rxvt-unicode must be started with the same "LC_CTYPE" setting as the	709	Rxvt-unicode must be started with the same "LC_CTYPE" setting as the
258	programs. Often rxvt-unicode is started in the "C" locale, while the	710	programs. Often rxvt-unicode is started in the "C" locale, while the
259	login script running within the rxvt-unicode window changes the	711	login script running within the rxvt-unicode window changes the locale
260	locale to something else, e.g. "en_GB.UTF-8". Needless to say, this	712	to something else, e.g. "en_GB.UTF-8". Needless to say, this is not
261	is not going to work.	713	going to work.
262		714
263	The best thing is to fix your startup environment, as you will	715	The best thing is to fix your startup environment, as you will likely
264	likely run into other problems. If nothing works you can try this in	716	run into other problems. If nothing works you can try this in your
265	your .profile.	717	.profile.
266		718
267	printf '\e]701;%s\007' "$LC_CTYPE"	719	printf '\e]701;%s\007' "$LC_CTYPE"
268		720
269	If this doesn't work, then maybe you use a "LC_CTYPE" specification	721	If this doesn't work, then maybe you use a "LC_CTYPE" specification not
270	not supported on your systems. Some systems have a "locale" command	722	supported on your systems. Some systems have a "locale" command which
271	which displays this (also, "perl -e0" can be used to check locale	723	displays this (also, "perl -e0" can be used to check locale settings, as
272	settings, as it will complain loudly if it cannot set the locale).	724	it will complain loudly if it cannot set the locale). If it displays
273	If it displays something like:	725	something like:
274		726
275	locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: ...	727	locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: ...
276		728
277	Then the locale you specified is not supported on your system.	729	Then the locale you specified is not supported on your system.
278		730
279	If nothing works and you are sure that everything is set correctly	731	If nothing works and you are sure that everything is set correctly then
280	then you will need to remember a little known fact: Some programs	732	you will need to remember a little known fact: Some programs just don't
281	just don't support locales :(	733	support locales :(
282		734
283	Why do some characters look so much different than others?
284	How does rxvt-unicode choose fonts?
285	Most fonts do not contain the full range of Unicode, which is fine.
286	Chances are that the font you (or the admin/package maintainer of
287	your system/os) have specified does not cover all the characters you
288	want to display.
289
290	rxvt-unicode makes a best-effort try at finding a replacement font.
291	Often the result is fine, but sometimes the chosen font looks
292	bad/ugly/wrong. Some fonts have totally strange characters that
293	don't resemble the correct glyph at all, and rxvt-unicode lacks the
294	artificial intelligence to detect that a specific glyph is wrong: it
295	has to believe the font that the characters it claims to contain
296	indeed look correct.
297
298	In that case, select a font of your taste and add it to the font
299	list, e.g.:
300
301	rxvt -fn basefont,font2,font3...
302
303	When rxvt-unicode sees a character, it will first look at the base
304	font. If the base font does not contain the character, it will go to
305	the next font, and so on. Specifying your own fonts will also speed
306	up this search and use less resources within rxvt-unicode and the
307	X-server.
308
309	The only limitation is that none of the fonts may be larger than the
310	base font, as the base font defines the terminal character cell
311	size, which must be the same due to the way terminals work.
312
313	Why do some chinese characters look so different than others?
314	This is because there is a difference between script and language --
315	rxvt-unicode does not know which language the text that is output
316	is, as it only knows the unicode character codes. If rxvt-unicode
317	first sees a japanese/chinese character, it might choose a japanese
318	font for display. Subsequent japanese characters will use that font.
319	Now, many chinese characters aren't represented in japanese fonts,
320	so when the first non-japanese character comes up, rxvt-unicode will
321	look for a chinese font -- unfortunately at this point, it will
322	still use the japanese font for chinese characters that are also in
323	the japanese font.
324
325	The workaround is easy: just tag a chinese font at the end of your
326	font list (see the previous question). The key is to view the font
327	list as a preference list: If you expect more japanese, list a
328	japanese font first. If you expect more chinese, put a chinese font
329	first.
330
331	In the future it might be possible to switch language preferences at
332	runtime (the internal data structure has no problem with using
333	different fonts for the same character at the same time, but no
334	interface for this has been designed yet).
335
336	Until then, you might get away with switching fonts at runtime (see
337	"Can I switch the fonts at runtime?" later in this document).
338
339	Why does rxvt-unicode sometimes leave pixel droppings?
340	Most fonts were not designed for terminal use, which means that
341	character size varies a lot. A font that is otherwise fine for
342	terminal use might contain some characters that are simply too wide.
343	Rxvt-unicode will avoid these characters. For characters that are
344	just "a bit" too wide a special "careful" rendering mode is used
345	that redraws adjacent characters.
346
347	All of this requires that fonts do not lie about character sizes,
348	however: Xft fonts often draw glyphs larger than their acclaimed
349	bounding box, and rxvt-unicode has no way of detecting this (the
350	correct way is to ask for the character bounding box, which
351	unfortunately is wrong in these cases).
352
353	It's not clear (to me at least), wether this is a bug in Xft,
354	freetype, or the respective font. If you encounter this problem you
355	might try using the "-lsp" option to give the font more height. If
356	that doesn't work, you might be forced to use a different font.
357
358	All of this is not a problem when using X11 core fonts, as their
359	bounding box data is correct.
360
361	On Solaris 9, many line-drawing characters are too wide.
362	Seems to be a known bug, read
363	<http://nixdoc.net/files/forum/about34198.html>. Some people use the
364	following ugly workaround to get non-double-wide-characters working:
365
366	#define wcwidth(x) wcwidth(x) > 1 ? 1 : wcwidth(x)
367
368	My Compose (Multi_key) key is no longer working.
369	The most common causes for this are that either your locale is not
370	set correctly, or you specified a preeditStyle that is not supported
371	by your input method. For example, if you specified OverTheSpot and
372	your input method (e.g. the default input method handling Compose
373	keys) does not support this (for instance because it is not visual),
374	then rxvt-unicode will continue without an input method.
375
376	In this case either do not specify a preeditStyle or specify more
377	than one pre-edit style, such as OverTheSpot,Root,None.
378
379	I cannot type "Ctrl-Shift-2" to get an ASCII NUL character due to ISO
380	14755
381	Either try "Ctrl-2" alone (it often is mapped to ASCII NUL even on
382	international keyboards) or simply use ISO 14755 support to your
383	advantage, typing <Ctrl-Shift-0> to get a ASCII NUL. This works for
384	other codes, too, such as "Ctrl-Shift-1-d" to type the default
385	telnet escape character and so on.
386
387	How can I keep rxvt-unicode from using reverse video so much?
388	First of all, make sure you are running with the right terminal
389	settings ("TERM=rxvt-unicode"), which will get rid of most of these
390	effects. Then make sure you have specified colours for italic and
391	bold, as otherwise rxvt-unicode might use reverse video to simulate
392	the effect:
393
394	URxvt.colorBD: white
395	URxvt.colorIT: green
396
397	Some programs assume totally weird colours (red instead of blue), how
398	can I fix that?
399	For some unexplainable reason, some rare programs assume a very
400	weird colour palette when confronted with a terminal with more than
401	the standard 8 colours (rxvt-unicode supports 88). The right fix is,
402	of course, to fix these programs not to assume non-ISO colours
403	without very good reasons.
404
405	In the meantime, you can either edit your "rxvt-unicode" terminfo
406	definition to only claim 8 colour support or use "TERM=rxvt", which
407	will fix colours but keep you from using other rxvt-unicode
408	features.
409
410	I am on FreeBSD and rxvt-unicode does not seem to work at all.
411	Rxvt-unicode requires the symbol "__STDC_ISO_10646__" to be defined
412	in your compile environment, or an implementation that implements
413	it, wether it defines the symbol or not. "__STDC_ISO_10646__"
414	requires that wchar_t is represented as unicode.
415
416	As you might have guessed, FreeBSD does neither define this symobl
417	nor does it support it. Instead, it uses it's own internal
418	representation of wchar_t. This is, of course, completely fine with
419	respect to standards.
420
421	However, that means rxvt-unicode only works in "POSIX", "ISO-8859-1"
422	and "UTF-8" locales under FreeBSD (which all use Unicode as wchar_t.
423
424	"__STDC_ISO_10646__" is the only sane way to support multi-language
425	apps in an OS, as using a locale-dependent (and non-standardized)
426	representation of wchar_t makes it impossible to convert between
427	wchar_t (as used by X11 and your applications) and any other
428	encoding without implementing OS-specific-wrappers for each and
429	every locale. There simply are no APIs to convert wchar_t into
430	anything except the current locale encoding.
431
432	Some applications (such as the formidable mlterm) work around this
433	by carrying their own replacement functions for character set
434	handling with them, and either implementing OS-dependent hacks or
435	doing multiple conversions (which is slow and unreliable in case the
436	OS implements encodings slightly different than the terminal
437	emulator).
438
439	The rxvt-unicode author insists that the right way to fix this is in
440	the system libraries once and for all, instead of forcing every app
441	to carry complete replacements for them :)
442
443	I use Solaris 9 and it doesn't compile/work/etc.
444	Try the diff in doc/solaris9.patch as a base. It fixes the worst
445	problems with "wcwidth" and a compile problem.
446
447	How can I use rxvt-unicode under cygwin?
448	rxvt-unicode should compile and run out of the box on cygwin, using
449	the X11 libraries that come with cygwin. libW11 emulation is no
450	longer supported (and makes no sense, either, as it only supported a
451	single font). I recommend starting the X-server in "-multiwindow" or
452	"-rootless" mode instead, which will result in similar look&feel as
453	the old libW11 emulation.
454
455	At the time of this writing, cygwin didn't seem to support any
456	multi-byte encodings (you might try "LC_CTYPE=C-UTF-8"), so you are
457	likely limited to 8-bit encodings.
458
459	How does rxvt-unicode determine the encoding to use?	735	How does rxvt-unicode determine the encoding to use?
		736	See next entry.
		737
460	Is there an option to switch encodings?	738	Is there an option to switch encodings?
461	Unlike some other terminals, rxvt-unicode has no encoding switch,	739	Unlike some other terminals, rxvt-unicode has no encoding switch, and no
462	and no specific "utf-8" mode, such as xterm. In fact, it doesn't	740	specific "utf-8" mode, such as xterm. In fact, it doesn't even know
463	even know about UTF-8 or any other encodings with respect to	741	about UTF-8 or any other encodings with respect to terminal I/O.
464	terminal I/O.
465		742
466	The reasons is that there exists a perfectly fine mechanism for	743	The reasons is that there exists a perfectly fine mechanism for
467	selecting the encoding, doing I/O and (most important) communicating	744	selecting the encoding, doing I/O and (most important) communicating
468	this to all applications so everybody agrees on character properties	745	this to all applications so everybody agrees on character properties
469	such as width and code number. This mechanism is the *locale*.	746	such as width and code number. This mechanism is the *locale*.
470	Applications not using that info will have problems (for example,	747	Applications not using that info will have problems (for example,
471	"xterm" gets the width of characters wrong as it uses it's own,	748	"xterm" gets the width of characters wrong as it uses it's own,
472	locale-independent table under all locales).	749	locale-independent table under all locales).
473		750
474	Rxvt-unicode uses the "LC_CTYPE" locale category to select encoding.	751	Rxvt-unicode uses the "LC_CTYPE" locale category to select encoding. All
475	All programs doing the same (that is, most) will automatically agree	752	programs doing the same (that is, most) will automatically agree in the
476	in the interpretation of characters.	753	interpretation of characters.
477		754
478	Unfortunately, there is no system-independent way to select locales,	755	Unfortunately, there is no system-independent way to select locales, nor
479	nor is there a standard on how locale specifiers will look like.	756	is there a standard on how locale specifiers will look like.
480		757
481	On most systems, the content of the "LC_CTYPE" environment variable	758	On most systems, the content of the "LC_CTYPE" environment variable
482	contains an arbitrary string which corresponds to an	759	contains an arbitrary string which corresponds to an already-installed
483	already-installed locale. Common names for locales are	760	locale. Common names for locales are "en_US.UTF-8", "de_DE.ISO-8859-15",
484	"en_US.UTF-8", "de_DE.ISO-8859-15", "ja_JP.EUC-JP", i.e.	761	"ja_JP.EUC-JP", i.e. "language_country.encoding", but other forms (i.e.
485	"language_country.encoding", but other forms (i.e. "de" or "german")	762	"de" or "german") are also common.
486	are also common.
487		763
488	Rxvt-unicode ignores all other locale categories, and except for the	764	Rxvt-unicode ignores all other locale categories, and except for the
489	encoding, ignores country or language-specific settings, i.e.	765	encoding, ignores country or language-specific settings, i.e.
490	"de_DE.UTF-8" and "ja_JP.UTF-8" are the normally same to	766	"de_DE.UTF-8" and "ja_JP.UTF-8" are the normally same to rxvt-unicode.
491	rxvt-unicode.
492		767
493	If you want to use a specific encoding you have to make sure you	768	If you want to use a specific encoding you have to make sure you start
494	start rxvt-unicode with the correct "LC_CTYPE" category.	769	rxvt-unicode with the correct "LC_CTYPE" category.
495		770
496	Can I switch locales at runtime?	771	Can I switch locales at runtime?
497	Yes, using an escape sequence. Try something like this, which sets	772	Yes, using an escape sequence. Try something like this, which sets
498	rxvt-unicode's idea of "LC_CTYPE".	773	rxvt-unicode's idea of "LC_CTYPE".
499		774
		775	printf '\e]701;%s\007' ja_JP.SJIS
		776
		777	See also the previous answer.
		778
		779	Sometimes this capability is rather handy when you want to work in one
		780	locale (e.g. "de_DE.UTF-8") but some programs don't support it (e.g.
		781	UTF-8). For example, I use this script to start "xjdic", which first
		782	switches to a locale supported by xjdic and back later:
		783
500	printf '\e]701;%s\007' ja_JP.SJIS	784	printf '\e]701;%s\007' ja_JP.SJIS
501
502	See also the previous answer.
503
504	Sometimes this capability is rather handy when you want to work in
505	one locale (e.g. "de_DE.UTF-8") but some programs don't support it
506	(e.g. UTF-8). For example, I use this script to start "xjdic", which
507	first switches to a locale supported by xjdic and back later:
508
509	printf '\e]701;%s\007' ja_JP.SJIS
510	xjdic -js	785	xjdic -js
511	printf '\e]701;%s\007' de_DE.UTF-8	786	printf '\e]701;%s\007' de_DE.UTF-8
512		787
513	You can also use xterm's "luit" program, which usually works fine,	788	You can also use xterm's "luit" program, which usually works fine,
514	except for some locales where character width differs between	789	except for some locales where character width differs between program-
515	program- and rxvt-unicode-locales.	790	and rxvt-unicode-locales.
516		791
517	Can I switch the fonts at runtime?
518	Yes, using an escape sequence. Try something like this, which has
519	the same effect as using the "-fn" switch, and takes effect
520	immediately:
521
522	printf '\e]50;%s\007' "9x15bold,xft:Kochi Gothic"
523
524	This is useful if you e.g. work primarily with japanese (and prefer
525	a japanese font), but you have to switch to chinese temporarily,
526	where japanese fonts would only be in your way.
527
528	You can think of this as a kind of manual ISO-2022 switching.
529
530	Why do italic characters look as if clipped?
531	Many fonts have difficulties with italic characters and hinting. For
532	example, the otherwise very nicely hinted font "xft:Bitstream Vera
533	Sans Mono" completely fails in it's italic face. A workaround might
534	be to enable freetype autohinting, i.e. like this:
535
536	URxvt.italicFont: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:italic:autohint=true
537	URxvt.boldItalicFont: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:bold:italic:autohint=true
538
539	My input method wants <some encoding> but I want UTF-8, what can I do?	792	My input method wants <some encoding> but I want UTF-8, what can I do?
540	You can specify separate locales for the input method and the rest	793	You can specify separate locales for the input method and the rest of
541	of the terminal, using the resource "imlocale":	794	the terminal, using the resource "imlocale":
542		795
543	URxvt*imlocale: ja_JP.EUC-JP	796	URxvt.imlocale: ja_JP.EUC-JP
544		797
545	Now you can start your terminal with "LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8" and	798	Now you can start your terminal with "LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8" and still
546	still use your input method. Please note, however, that you will not	799	use your input method. Please note, however, that you will not be able
547	be able to input characters outside "EUC-JP" in a normal way then,	800	to input characters outside "EUC-JP" in a normal way then, as your input
548	as your input method limits you.	801	method limits you.
549		802
550	Rxvt-unicode crashes when the X Input Method changes or exits.	803	Rxvt-unicode crashes when the X Input Method changes or exits.
551	Unfortunately, this is unavoidable, as the XIM protocol is racy by	804	Unfortunately, this is unavoidable, as the XIM protocol is racy by
552	design. Applications can avoid some crashes at the expense of memory	805	design. Applications can avoid some crashes at the expense of memory
553	leaks, and Input Methods can avoid some crashes by careful ordering	806	leaks, and Input Methods can avoid some crashes by careful ordering at
554	at exit time. kinput2 (and derived input methods) generally	807	exit time. kinput2 (and derived input methods) generally succeeds, while
555	succeeds, while SCIM (or similar input methods) fails. In the end,	808	SCIM (or similar input methods) fails. In the end, however, crashes
556	however, crashes cannot be completely avoided even if both sides	809	cannot be completely avoided even if both sides cooperate.
557	cooperate.
558		810
559	So the only workaround is not to kill your Input Method Servers.	811	So the only workaround is not to kill your Input Method Servers.
560		812
561	Rxvt-unicode uses gobs of memory, how can I reduce that?	813	Operating Systems / Package Maintaining
562	Rxvt-unicode tries to obey the rule of not charging you for	814	I am using Debian GNU/Linux and have a problem...
563	something you don't use. One thing you should try is to configure	815	The Debian GNU/Linux package of rxvt-unicode in sarge contains large
564	out all settings that you don't need, for example, Xft support is a	816	patches that considerably change the behaviour of rxvt-unicode (but
565	resource hog by design, when used. Compiling it out ensures that no	817	unfortunately this notice has been removed). Before reporting a bug to
566	Xft font will be loaded accidentally when rxvt-unicode tries to find	818	the original rxvt-unicode author please download and install the genuine
567	a font for your characters.	819	version (<http://software.schmorp.de#rxvt-unicode>) and try to reproduce
		820	the problem. If you cannot, chances are that the problems are specific
		821	to Debian GNU/Linux, in which case it should be reported via the Debian
		822	Bug Tracking System (use "reportbug" to report the bug).
568		823
569	Also, many people (me included) like large windows and even larger	824	For other problems that also affect the Debian package, you can and
570	scrollback buffers: Without "--enable-unicode3", rxvt-unicode will	825	probably should use the Debian BTS, too, because, after all, it's also a
571	use 6 bytes per screen cell. For a 160x?? window this amounts to	826	bug in the Debian version and it serves as a reminder for other users
572	almost a kilobyte per line. A scrollback buffer of 10000 lines will	827	that might encounter the same issue.
573	then (if full) use 10 Megabytes of memory. With "--enable-unicode3"
574	it gets worse, as rxvt-unicode then uses 8 bytes per screen cell.
575		828
576	Can I speed up Xft rendering somehow?	829	I am maintaining rxvt-unicode for distribution/OS XXX, any recommendation?
577	Yes, the most obvious way to speed it up is to avoid Xft entirely,	830	You should build one binary with the default options. configure now
578	as it is simply slow. If you still want Xft fonts you might try to	831	enables most useful options, and the trend goes to making them
579	disable antialiasing (by appending ":antialias=false"), which saves	832	runtime-switchable, too, so there is usually no drawback to enbaling
580	lots of memory and also speeds up rendering considerably.	833	them, except higher disk and possibly memory usage. The perl interpreter
		834	should be enabled, as important functionality (menus, selection, likely
		835	more in the future) depends on it.
581		836
582	Rxvt-unicode doesn't seem to anti-alias its fonts, what is wrong?	837	You should not overwrite the "perl-ext-common" snd "perl-ext" resources
583	Rxvt-unicode will use whatever you specify as a font. If it needs to	838	system-wide (except maybe with "defaults"). This will result in useful
584	fall back to it's default font search list it will prefer X11 core	839	behaviour. If your distribution aims at low memory, add an empty
585	fonts, because they are small and fast, and then use Xft fonts. It	840	"perl-ext-common" resource to the app-defaults file. This will keep the
586	has antialiasing disabled for most of them, because the author	841	perl interpreter disabled until the user enables it.
587	thinks they look best that way.
588		842
589	If you want antialiasing, you have to specify the fonts manually.	843	If you can/want build more binaries, I recommend building a minimal one
		844	with "--disable-everything" (very useful) and a maximal one with
		845	"--enable-everything" (less useful, it will be very big due to a lot of
		846	encodings built-in that increase download times and are rarely used).
590		847
591	Mouse cut/paste suddenly no longer works.	848	I need to make it setuid/setgid to support utmp/ptys on my OS, is this safe?
592	Make sure that mouse reporting is actually turned off since killing	849	It should be, starting with release 7.1. You are encouraged to properly
593	some editors prematurely may leave the mouse in mouse report mode.	850	install urxvt with privileges necessary for your OS now.
594	I've heard that tcsh may use mouse reporting unless it otherwise
595	specified. A quick check is to see if cut/paste works when the Alt
596	or Shift keys are depressed. See rxvt(7)
597		851
598	What's with this bold/blink stuff?	852	When rxvt-unicode detects that it runs setuid or setgid, it will fork
599	If no bold colour is set via "colorBD:", bold will invert text using	853	into a helper process for privileged operations (pty handling on some
600	the standard foreground colour.	854	systems, utmp/wtmp/lastlog handling on others) and drop privileges
		855	immediately. This is much safer than most other terminals that keep
		856	privileges while running (but is more relevant to urxvt, as it contains
		857	things as perl interpreters, which might be "helpful" to attackers).
601		858
602	For the standard background colour, blinking will actually make the	859	This forking is done as the very first within main(), which is very
603	text blink when compiled with "--enable-blinking". with standard	860	early and reduces possible bugs to initialisation code run before
604	colours. Without "--enable-blinking", the blink attribute will be	861	main(), or things like the dynamic loader of your system, which should
605	ignored.	862	result in very little risk.
606		863
607	On ANSI colours, bold/blink attributes are used to set	864	On Solaris 9, many line-drawing characters are too wide.
608	high-intensity foreground/background colors.	865	Seems to be a known bug, read
		866	<http://nixdoc.net/files/forum/about34198.html>. Some people use the
		867	following ugly workaround to get non-double-wide-characters working:
609		868
610	color0-7 are the low-intensity colors.	869	#define wcwidth(x) wcwidth(x) > 1 ? 1 : wcwidth(x)
611		870
612	color8-15 are the corresponding high-intensity colors.	871	I am on FreeBSD and rxvt-unicode does not seem to work at all.
		872	Rxvt-unicode requires the symbol "__STDC_ISO_10646__" to be defined in
		873	your compile environment, or an implementation that implements it,
		874	wether it defines the symbol or not. "__STDC_ISO_10646__" requires that
		875	wchar_t is represented as unicode.
613		876
614	I don't like the screen colors. How do I change them?	877	As you might have guessed, FreeBSD does neither define this symobl nor
615	You can change the screen colors at run-time using ~/.Xdefaults	878	does it support it. Instead, it uses it's own internal representation of
616	resources (or as long-options).	879	wchar_t. This is, of course, completely fine with respect to standards.
617		880
618	Here are values that are supposed to resemble a VGA screen,	881	However, that means rxvt-unicode only works in "POSIX", "ISO-8859-1" and
619	including the murky brown that passes for low-intensity yellow:	882	"UTF-8" locales under FreeBSD (which all use Unicode as wchar_t.
620		883
621	URxvt.color0: #000000	884	"__STDC_ISO_10646__" is the only sane way to support multi-language apps
622	URxvt.color1: #A80000	885	in an OS, as using a locale-dependent (and non-standardized)
623	URxvt.color2: #00A800	886	representation of wchar_t makes it impossible to convert between wchar_t
624	URxvt.color3: #A8A800	887	(as used by X11 and your applications) and any other encoding without
625	URxvt.color4: #0000A8	888	implementing OS-specific-wrappers for each and every locale. There
626	URxvt.color5: #A800A8	889	simply are no APIs to convert wchar_t into anything except the current
627	URxvt.color6: #00A8A8	890	locale encoding.
628	URxvt.color7: #A8A8A8
629		891
630	URxvt.color8: #000054	892	Some applications (such as the formidable mlterm) work around this by
631	URxvt.color9: #FF0054	893	carrying their own replacement functions for character set handling with
632	URxvt.color10: #00FF54	894	them, and either implementing OS-dependent hacks or doing multiple
633	URxvt.color11: #FFFF54	895	conversions (which is slow and unreliable in case the OS implements
634	URxvt.color12: #0000FF	896	encodings slightly different than the terminal emulator).
635	URxvt.color13: #FF00FF
636	URxvt.color14: #00FFFF
637	URxvt.color15: #FFFFFF
638		897
639	And here is a more complete set of non-standard colors described	898	The rxvt-unicode author insists that the right way to fix this is in the
640	(not by me) as "pretty girly".	899	system libraries once and for all, instead of forcing every app to carry
		900	complete replacements for them :)
641		901
642	URxvt.cursorColor: #dc74d1	902	I use Solaris 9 and it doesn't compile/work/etc.
643	URxvt.pointerColor: #dc74d1	903	Try the diff in doc/solaris9.patch as a base. It fixes the worst
644	URxvt.background: #0e0e0e	904	problems with "wcwidth" and a compile problem.
645	URxvt.foreground: #4ad5e1
646	URxvt.color0: #000000
647	URxvt.color8: #8b8f93
648	URxvt.color1: #dc74d1
649	URxvt.color9: #dc74d1
650	URxvt.color2: #0eb8c7
651	URxvt.color10: #0eb8c7
652	URxvt.color3: #dfe37e
653	URxvt.color11: #dfe37e
654	URxvt.color5: #9e88f0
655	URxvt.color13: #9e88f0
656	URxvt.color6: #73f7ff
657	URxvt.color14: #73f7ff
658	URxvt.color7: #e1dddd
659	URxvt.color15: #e1dddd
660		905
661	How can I start rxvtd in a race-free way?	906	How can I use rxvt-unicode under cygwin?
662	Try "rxvtd -f -o", which tells rxvtd to open the display, create the	907	rxvt-unicode should compile and run out of the box on cygwin, using the
663	listening socket and then fork.	908	X11 libraries that come with cygwin. libW11 emulation is no longer
		909	supported (and makes no sense, either, as it only supported a single
		910	font). I recommend starting the X-server in "-multiwindow" or
		911	"-rootless" mode instead, which will result in similar look&feel as the
		912	old libW11 emulation.
664		913
665	What's with the strange Backspace/Delete key behaviour?	914	At the time of this writing, cygwin didn't seem to support any
666	Assuming that the physical Backspace key corresponds to the	915	multi-byte encodings (you might try "LC_CTYPE=C-UTF-8"), so you are
667	BackSpace keysym (not likely for Linux ... see the following	916	likely limited to 8-bit encodings.
668	question) there are two standard values that can be used for
669	Backspace: "^H" and "^?".
670		917
671	Historically, either value is correct, but rxvt-unicode adopts the
672	debian policy of using "^?" when unsure, because it's the one only
673	only correct choice :).
674
675	Rxvt-unicode tries to inherit the current stty settings and uses the
676	value of `erase' to guess the value for backspace. If rxvt-unicode
677	wasn't started from a terminal (say, from a menu or by remote
678	shell), then the system value of `erase', which corresponds to
679	CERASE in <termios.h>, will be used (which may not be the same as
680	your stty setting).
681
682	For starting a new rxvt-unicode:
683
684	# use Backspace = ^H
685	$ stty erase ^H
686	$ rxvt
687
688	# use Backspace = ^?
689	$ stty erase ^?
690	$ rxvt
691
692	Toggle with "ESC [ 36 h" / "ESC [ 36 l" as documented in rxvt(7).
693
694	For an existing rxvt-unicode:
695
696	# use Backspace = ^H
697	$ stty erase ^H
698	$ echo -n "^[[36h"
699
700	# use Backspace = ^?
701	$ stty erase ^?
702	$ echo -n "^[[36l"
703
704	This helps satisfy some of the Backspace discrepancies that occur,
705	but if you use Backspace = "^H", make sure that the termcap/terminfo
706	value properly reflects that.
707
708	The Delete key is a another casualty of the ill-defined Backspace
709	problem. To avoid confusion between the Backspace and Delete keys,
710	the Delete key has been assigned an escape sequence to match the
711	vt100 for Execute ("ESC [ 3 ~") and is in the supplied
712	termcap/terminfo.
713
714	Some other Backspace problems:
715
716	some editors use termcap/terminfo, some editors (vim I'm told)
717	expect Backspace = ^H, GNU Emacs (and Emacs-like editors) use ^H for
718	help.
719
720	Perhaps someday this will all be resolved in a consistent manner.
721
722	I don't like the key-bindings. How do I change them?
723	There are some compile-time selections available via configure.
724	Unless you have run "configure" with the "--disable-resources"
725	option you can use the `keysym' resource to alter the keystrings
726	associated with keysyms.
727
728	Here's an example for a URxvt session started using "rxvt -name
729	URxvt"
730
731	URxvt.keysym.Home: \033[1~
732	URxvt.keysym.End: \033[4~
733	URxvt.keysym.C-apostrophe: \033<C-'>
734	URxvt.keysym.C-slash: \033<C-/>
735	URxvt.keysym.C-semicolon: \033<C-;>
736	URxvt.keysym.C-grave: \033<C-`>
737	URxvt.keysym.C-comma: \033<C-,>
738	URxvt.keysym.C-period: \033<C-.>
739	URxvt.keysym.C-0x60: \033<C-`>
740	URxvt.keysym.C-Tab: \033<C-Tab>
741	URxvt.keysym.C-Return: \033<C-Return>
742	URxvt.keysym.S-Return: \033<S-Return>
743	URxvt.keysym.S-space: \033<S-Space>
744	URxvt.keysym.M-Up: \033<M-Up>
745	URxvt.keysym.M-Down: \033<M-Down>
746	URxvt.keysym.M-Left: \033<M-Left>
747	URxvt.keysym.M-Right: \033<M-Right>
748	URxvt.keysym.M-C-0: list \033<M-C- 0123456789 >
749	URxvt.keysym.M-C-a: list \033<M-C- abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz >
750	URxvt.keysym.F12: command:\033]701;zh_CN.GBK\007
751
752	See some more examples in the documentation for the keysym resource.
753
754	I'm using keyboard model XXX that has extra Prior/Next/Insert keys. How
755	do I make use of them? For example, the Sun Keyboard type 4 has the
756	following mappings that rxvt-unicode doesn't recognize.
757	KP_Insert == Insert
758	F22 == Print
759	F27 == Home
760	F29 == Prior
761	F33 == End
762	F35 == Next
763
764	Rather than have rxvt-unicode try to accommodate all the various
765	possible keyboard mappings, it is better to use `xmodmap' to remap
766	the keys as required for your particular machine.
767
768	How do I distinguish wether I'm running rxvt-unicode or a regular xterm?
769	I need this to decide about setting colors etc.
770	rxvt and rxvt-unicode always export the variable "COLORTERM", so you
771	can check and see if that is set. Note that several programs, JED,
772	slrn, Midnight Commander automatically check this variable to decide
773	whether or not to use color.
774
775	How do I set the correct, full IP address for the DISPLAY variable?
776	If you've compiled rxvt-unicode with DISPLAY_IS_IP and have enabled
777	insecure mode then it is possible to use the following shell script
778	snippets to correctly set the display. If your version of
779	rxvt-unicode wasn't also compiled with ESCZ_ANSWER (as assumed in
780	these snippets) then the COLORTERM variable can be used to
781	distinguish rxvt-unicode from a regular xterm.
782
783	Courtesy of Chuck Blake <cblake@BBN.COM> with the following shell
784	script snippets:
785
786	# Bourne/Korn/POSIX family of shells:
787	[ ${TERM:-foo} = foo ] && TERM=xterm # assume an xterm if we don't know
788	if [ ${TERM:-foo} = xterm ]; then
789	stty -icanon -echo min 0 time 15 # see if enhanced rxvt or not
790	echo -n '^[Z'
791	read term_id
792	stty icanon echo
793	if [ ""${term_id} = '^[[?1;2C' -a ${DISPLAY:-foo} = foo ]; then
794	echo -n '^[[7n' # query the rxvt we are in for the DISPLAY string
795	read DISPLAY # set it in our local shell
796	fi
797	fi
798
799	How do I compile the manual pages for myself?
800	You need to have a recent version of perl installed as
801	/usr/bin/perl, one that comes with pod2man, pod2text and pod2html.
802	Then go to the doc subdirectory and enter "make alldoc".
803
804	My question isn't answered here, can I ask a human?
805	Before sending me mail, you could go to IRC: "irc.freenode.net",
806	channel "#rxvt-unicode" has some rxvt-unicode enthusiasts that might
807	be interested in learning about new and exciting problems (but not
808	FAQs :).
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