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     This tries to create a new terminal, and if fails with exit status 2,
     meaning it couldn't connect to the daemon, it will start the daemon and
     re-run the command. Subsequent invocations of the script will re-use the
     existing daemon.
-   How do I distinguish whether I'm running rxvt-unicode or a regular xterm? I need this to decide about setting colors etc.
+   How do I distinguish whether I'm running rxvt-unicode or a regular
+xterm? I need this to decide about setting colours etc.
     The original rxvt and rxvt-unicode always export the variable
     "COLORTERM", so you can check and see if that is set. Note that several
     programs, JED, slrn, Midnight Commander automatically check this
-    variable to decide whether or not to use color.
+    variable to decide whether or not to use colour.
    How do I set the correct, full IP address for the DISPLAY variable?
     If you've compiled rxvt-unicode with DISPLAY_IS_IP and have enabled
     insecure mode then it is possible to use the following shell script
     snippets to correctly set the display. If your version of rxvt-unicode
     No large bloated libraries (of course, none were linked in statically),
     except maybe libX11 :)
   Rendering, Font & Look and Feel Issues
    I can't get transparency working, what am I doing wrong?
-    First of all, please address all transparency related issues to Sasha
+    First of all, transparency isn't officially supported in rxvt-unicode,
-    Vasko at sasha@aftercode.net and do not bug the author about it. Also,
+    so you are mostly on your own. Do not bug the author about it (but you
-    if you can't get it working consider it a rite of passage: ... and you
+    may bug everybody else). Also, if you can't get it working consider it a
-    failed.
+    rite of passage: ... and you failed.
     Here are four ways to get transparency. Do read the manpage and option
     descriptions for the programs mentioned and rxvt-unicode. Really, do it!
     1. Use transparent mode:
     your picture with gimp or any other tool:
        convert wallpaper.jpg -blur 20x20 -modulate 30 background.jpg
        urxvt -pixmap "background.jpg;:root"
-    That works. If you think it doesn't, you lack AfterImage support, or you
+    That works. If you think it doesn't, you lack libAfterImage or
-    are unable to read.
+    GDK-PixBuf support, or you are unable to read.
     3. Use an ARGB visual:
        urxvt -depth 32 -fg grey90 -bg rgba:0000/0000/4444/cccc
     For the standard background colour, blinking will actually make the text
     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.
+    foreground/background colours.
-    color0-7 are the low-intensity colors.
+    color0-7 are the low-intensity colours.
-    color8-15 are the corresponding high-intensity colors.
+    color8-15 are the corresponding high-intensity colours.
-   I don't like the screen colors.  How do I change them?
+   I don't like the screen colours.  How do I change them?
-    You can change the screen colors at run-time using ~/.Xdefaults
+    You can change the screen colours at run-time using ~/.Xdefaults
     resources (or as long-options).
     Here are values that are supposed to resemble a VGA screen, including
     the murky brown that passes for low-intensity yellow:
        URxvt.color12:  #0000FF
        URxvt.color13:  #FF00FF
        URxvt.color14:  #00FFFF
        URxvt.color15:  #FFFFFF
-    And here is a more complete set of non-standard colors.
+    And here is a more complete set of non-standard colours.
        URxvt.cursorColor:  #dc74d1
        URxvt.pointerColor: #dc74d1
        URxvt.background:   #0e0e0e
        URxvt.foreground:   #4ad5e1
     will continue without an input method.
     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
     advantage, typing <Ctrl-Shift-0> to get a ASCII NUL. This works for
     other codes, too, such as "Ctrl-Shift-1-d" to type the default telnet
     Historically, either value is correct, but rxvt-unicode adopts the
     debian policy of using "^?" when unsure, because it's the one and only
     correct choice :).
-    Rxvt-unicode tries to inherit the current stty settings and uses the
+    It is possible to toggle between "^H" and "^?" with the DECBKM private
-    value of `erase' to guess the value for backspace. If rxvt-unicode
+    mode:
-    wasn't started from a terminal (say, from a menu or by remote shell),
-    then the system value of `erase', which corresponds to CERASE in
-    <termios.h>, will be used (which may not be the same as your stty
-    setting).
-    For starting a new rxvt-unicode:
        # use Backspace = ^H
        $ stty erase ^H
-       $ urxvt
+       $ echo -n "^[[?67h"
        # use Backspace = ^?
        $ stty erase ^?
-       $ urxvt
-    Toggle with "ESC [ 36 h" / "ESC [ 36 l".
-    For an existing rxvt-unicode:
-       # use Backspace = ^H
-       $ stty erase ^H
-       $ echo -n "^[[36h"
-       # use Backspace = ^?
-       $ stty erase ^?
-       $ echo -n "^[[36l"
+       $ echo -n "^[[?67l"
     This helps satisfy some of the Backspace discrepancies that occur, but
     if you use Backspace = "^H", make sure that the termcap/terminfo value
     properly reflects that.
     develop for myself mostly, so I actually use most of the extensions I
     write.
     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
     As the documentation says: plain is the preferred scrollbar for the
     my purposes, it works, and gives a different look, as my normal
     (Non-bold) font is already bold, and I want to see a difference between
     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:
        IRC*title:              IRC
        IRC*geometry:           87x12+535+542
        IRC*boldFont:           suxuseuro
        IRC*colorBD:            white
        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.
     The above is all in my ".Xdefaults" (I don't use ".Xresources" nor
     "xrdb"). I also have some resources in a separate ".Xdefaults-hostname"
-    file for different hosts, for example, on ym main desktop, I use:
+    file for different hosts, for example, on my main desktop, I use:
        URxvt.keysym.C-M-q: command:\033[3;5;5t
        URxvt.keysym.C-M-y: command:\033[3;5;606t
        URxvt.keysym.C-M-e: command:\033[3;1605;5t
        URxvt.keysym.C-M-c: command:\033[3;1605;606t
     The terminal description used by rxvt-unicode is not as widely available
     as that for xterm, or even rxvt (for which the same problem often
     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
+    can be done by simply installing rxvt-unicode on the remote system as
-    admin):
+    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.
     If you cannot or do not want to do this, then you can simply set
        URxvt.termName: rxvt
     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.
     runtime-switchable, too, so there is usually no drawback to enabling
     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
+    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
     perl interpreter disabled until the user enables it.

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