rxvt-unicode/README.configure

CONFIGURE OPTIONS
    General hint: if you get compile errors, then likely your configuration
    hasn't been tested well. Either try with --enable-everything or use the
    ./reconf script as a base for experiments. ./reconf is used by myself,
    so it should generally be a working config. Of course, you should always
    report when a combination doesn't work, so it can be fixed. Marc Lehmann
    <rxvt@schmorp.de>.

    --enable-everything
        Add support for all non-multichoice options listed in "./configure
        --help". Note that unlike other enable options this is order
        dependant. You can specify this and then disable options which this
        enables by *following* this with the appropriate commands.

    --enable-xft
        Add support for Xft (anti-aliases, among others) fonts. Xft fonts
        are slower and require lots of memory, but as long as you don't use
        them, you don't pay for them.

    --enable-font-styles
        Add support for bold, *italic* and *bold italic* font styles. The
        fonts can be set manually or automatically.

    --with-codesets=NAME,...
        Compile in support for additional codeset (encoding) groups (eu, vn
        are always compiled in, which includes most 8-bit character sets).
        These codeset tables are currently only used for driving X11 core
        fonts, they are not required for Xft fonts. Compiling them in will
        make your binary bigger (together about 700kB), but it doesn't
        increase memory usage unless you use an X11 font requiring one of
        these encodings.

           all             all available codeset groups 
           zh              common chinese encodings 
           zh_ext          rarely used but very big chinese encodigs 
           jp              common japanese encodings 
           jp_ext          rarely used but big japanese encodings 
           kr              korean encodings 

    --enable-xim
        Add support for XIM (X Input Method) protocol. This allows using
        alternative input methods (e.g. kinput2) and will also correctly set
        up the input for people using dead keys or compose keys.

    --enable-unicode3
        Enable direct support for displaying unicode codepoints above 65535
        (the basic multilingual page). This increases storage requirements
        per character from 2 to 4 bytes. X11 fonts do not yet support these
        extra characters, but Xft does.

        Please note that rxvt-unicode can store unicode code points >65535
        even without this flag, but the number of such characters is limited
        to a view thousand (shared with combining characters, see next
        switch), and right now rxvt-unicode cannot display them
        (input/output and cut&paste still work, though).

    --enable-combining
        Enable automatic composition of combining characters into composite
        characters. This is required for proper viewing of text where
        accents are encoded as seperate unicode characters. This is done by
        using precomposited characters when available or creating new
        pseudo-characters when no precomposed form exists.

        Without --enable-unicode3, the number of additional precomposed
        characters is rather limited (2048, if this is full, rxvt will use
        the private use area, extending the number of combinations to 8448).
        With --enable-unicode3, no practical limit exists. This will also
        enable storage of characters >65535.

        The combining table also contains entries for arabic presentation
        forms, but these are not currently used. Bug me if you want these to
        be used.

    --enable-fallback(=CLASS)
        When reading resource settings, also read settings for class CLASS
        (default: Rxvt). To disable resource fallback use
        --disable-fallback.

    --with-res-name=NAME
        Use the given name (default: urxvt) as default application name when
        reading resources. Specify --with-res-name=rxvt to replace rxvt.

    --with-res-class=CLASS
        Use the given class (default: URxvt) as default application class
        when reading resources. Specify --with-res-class=Rxvt to replace
        rxvt.

    --enable-utmp
        Write user and tty to utmp file (used by programs like w) at start
        of rxvt execution and delete information when rxvt exits.

    --enable-wtmp
        Write user and tty to wtmp file (used by programs like last) at
        start of rxvt execution and write logout when rxvt exits. This
        option requires --enable-utmp to also be specified.

    --enable-lastlog
        Write user and tty to lastlog file (used by programs like lastlogin)
        at start of rxvt execution. This option requires --enable-utmp to
        also be specified.

    --enable-xpm-background
        Add support for XPM background pixmaps.

    --enable-transparency
        Add support for inheriting parent backgrounds thus giving a fake
        transparency to the term.

    --enable-fading
        Add support for fading the text when focus is lost.

    --enable-tinting
        Add support for tinting of transparent backgrounds.

    --enable-menubar
        Add support for our menu bar system (this interacts badly with
        dynamic locale switching currently).

    --enable-rxvt-scroll
        Add support for the original rxvt scrollbar.

    --enable-next-scroll
        Add support for a NeXT-like scrollbar.

    --enable-xterm-scroll
        Add support for an Xterm-like scrollbar.

    --enable-plain-scroll
        Add support for a very unobtrusive, plain-looking scrollbar that is
        the favourite of the rxvt-unicode author, having used it for many
        years.

    --enable-half-shadow
        Make shadows on the scrollbar only half the normal width & height.
        only applicable to rxvt scrollbars.

    --enable-ttygid
        Change tty device setting to group "tty" - only use this if your
        system uses this type of security.

    --disable-backspace-key
        Disable any handling of the backspace key by us - let the X server
        do it.

    --disable-delete-key
        Disable any handling of the delete key by us - let the X server do
        it.

    --disable-resources
        Remove all resources checking.

    --enable-xgetdefault
        Make resources checking via XGetDefault() instead of our small
        version which only checks ~/.Xdefaults, or if that doesn't exist
        then ~/.Xresources.

        Please note that nowadays, things like XIM will automatically pull
        in and use the full X resource manager, so the overhead of using it
        might be very small, if nonexistant.

    --enable-strings
        Add support for our possibly faster memset() function and other
        various routines, overriding your system's versions which may have
        been hand-crafted in assembly or may require extra libraries to link
        in. (this breaks ANSI-C rules and has problems on many GNU/Linux
        systems).

    --disable-swapscreen
        Remove support for swap screen.

    --enable-frills
        Add support for many small features that are not essential but nice
        to have. Normally you want this, but for very small binaries you may
        want to disable this.

        A non-exhaustive list of features enabled by "--enable-frills"
        (possibly in combination with other switches) is:

          MWM-hints
          seperate underline colour
          settable border widths and borderless switch
          settable extra linespacing
          extra window properties (e.g. UTF-8 window names and PID)
          iso-14755-2 and -3, and visual feedback
          backindex and forwardindex escape sequence
          window op and locale change escape sequences
          tripleclickwords
          settable insecure mode
          keysym remapping support

    --enable-iso14755
        Enable extended ISO 14755 support (see rxvt(1), or doc/rxvt.1.txt).
        Basic support (section 5.1) is enabled by "--enable-frills", while
        support for 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4 is enabled with this switch.

    --enable-keepscrolling
        Add support for continual scrolling of the display when you hold the
        mouse button down on a scrollbar arrow.

    --enable-mousewheel
        Add support for scrolling via mouse wheel or buttons 4 & 5.

    --enable-slipwheeling
        Add support for continual scrolling (using the mouse wheel as an
        accelerator) while the control key is held down. This option
        requires --enable-mousewheel to also be specified.

    --disable-new-selection
        Remove support for mouse selection style like that of xterm.

    --enable-dmalloc
        Use Gray Watson's malloc - which is good for debugging See
        http://www.letters.com/dmalloc/ for details If you use either this
        or the next option, you may need to edit src/Makefile after
        compiling to point DINCLUDE and DLIB to the right places.

        You can only use either this option and the following (should you
        use either) .

    --enable-dlmalloc
        Use Doug Lea's malloc - which is good for a production version See
        <http://g.oswego.edu/dl/html/malloc.html> for details.

    --enable-smart-resize
        Add smart growth/shrink behaviour when changing font size via from
        hot keys. This should keep in a fixed position the rxvt corner which
        is closest to a corner of the screen.

    --enable-cursor-blink
        Add support for a blinking cursor.

    --enable-pointer-blank
        Add support to have the pointer disappear when typing or inactive.

    --with-name=NAME
        Set the basename for the installed binaries (default: "urxvt",
        resulting in "urxvt", "urxvtd" etc.). Specify "--with-name=rxvt" to
        replace with "rxvt".

    --with-term=NAME
        Change the environmental variable for the terminal to NAME (default
        "rxvt-unicode")

    --with-terminfo=PATH
        Change the environmental variable for the path to the terminfo tree
        to PATH.

    --with-x
        Use the X Window System (pretty much default, eh?).

    --with-xpm-includes=DIR
        Look for the XPM includes in DIR.

    --with-xpm-library=DIR
        Look for the XPM library in DIR.

    --with-xpm
        Not needed - define via --enable-xpm-background.

Revision:	1.23
Committed:	Fri Feb 4 12:04:31 2005 UTC (19 years, 4 months ago) by root
Branch:	MAIN
CVS Tags:	rel-5_0
Changes since 1.22:	+5 -0 lines
Log Message:	* empty log message *
#	User	Rev	Content
1	root	1.16	CONFIGURE OPTIONS
2			General hint: if you get compile errors, then likely your configuration
3			hasn't been tested well. Either try with --enable-everything or use the
4			./reconf script as a base for experiments. ./reconf is used by myself,
5			so it should generally be a working config. Of course, you should always
6			report when a combination doesn't work, so it can be fixed. Marc Lehmann
7			<rxvt@schmorp.de>.
8
9			--enable-everything
10			Add support for all non-multichoice options listed in "./configure
11			--help". Note that unlike other enable options this is order
12			dependant. You can specify this and then disable options which this
13			enables by following this with the appropriate commands.
14
15			--enable-xft
16			Add support for Xft (anti-aliases, among others) fonts. Xft fonts
17			are slower and require lots of memory, but as long as you don't use
18			them, you don't pay for them.
19
20	root	1.20	--enable-font-styles
21			Add support for bold, italic and bold italic font styles. The
22			fonts can be set manually or automatically.
23
24	root	1.16	--with-codesets=NAME,...
25	root	1.20	Compile in support for additional codeset (encoding) groups (eu, vn
26			are always compiled in, which includes most 8-bit character sets).
27			These codeset tables are currently only used for driving X11 core
28			fonts, they are not required for Xft fonts. Compiling them in will
29			make your binary bigger (together about 700kB), but it doesn't
30			increase memory usage unless you use an X11 font requiring one of
31			these encodings.
32	root	1.16
33	root	1.18	all all available codeset groups
34	root	1.20	zh common chinese encodings
35			zh_ext rarely used but very big chinese encodigs
36	root	1.16	jp common japanese encodings
37			jp_ext rarely used but big japanese encodings
38			kr korean encodings
39
40			--enable-xim
41			Add support for XIM (X Input Method) protocol. This allows using
42			alternative input methods (e.g. kinput2) and will also correctly set
43			up the input for people using dead keys or compose keys.
44
45			--enable-unicode3
46			Enable direct support for displaying unicode codepoints above 65535
47			(the basic multilingual page). This increases storage requirements
48			per character from 2 to 4 bytes. X11 fonts do not yet support these
49	pcg	1.10	extra characters, but Xft does.
50	root	1.16
51			Please note that rxvt-unicode can store unicode code points >65535
52			even without this flag, but the number of such characters is limited
53			to a view thousand (shared with combining characters, see next
54			switch), and right now rxvt-unicode cannot display them
55			(input/output and cut&paste still work, though).
56
57			--enable-combining
58			Enable automatic composition of combining characters into composite
59			characters. This is required for proper viewing of text where
60			accents are encoded as seperate unicode characters. This is done by
61			using precomposited characters when available or creating new
62			pseudo-characters when no precomposed form exists.
63
64			Without --enable-unicode3, the number of additional precomposed
65			characters is rather limited (2048, if this is full, rxvt will use
66			the private use area, extending the number of combinations to 8448).
67			With --enable-unicode3, no practical limit exists. This will also
68			enable storage of characters >65535.
69
70	pcg	1.10	The combining table also contains entries for arabic presentation
71	root	1.16	forms, but these are not currently used. Bug me if you want these to
72			be used.
73
74			--enable-fallback(=CLASS)
75			When reading resource settings, also read settings for class CLASS
76			(default: Rxvt). To disable resource fallback use
77			--disable-fallback.
78
79			--with-res-name=NAME
80			Use the given name (default: urxvt) as default application name when
81			reading resources. Specify --with-res-name=rxvt to replace rxvt.
82
83			--with-res-class=CLASS
84			Use the given class (default: URxvt) as default application class
85			when reading resources. Specify --with-res-class=Rxvt to replace
86	pcg	1.8	rxvt.
87	root	1.16
88			--enable-utmp
89			Write user and tty to utmp file (used by programs like w) at start
90			of rxvt execution and delete information when rxvt exits.
91
92			--enable-wtmp
93			Write user and tty to wtmp file (used by programs like last) at
94			start of rxvt execution and write logout when rxvt exits. This
95			option requires --enable-utmp to also be specified.
96
97			--enable-lastlog
98			Write user and tty to lastlog file (used by programs like lastlogin)
99			at start of rxvt execution. This option requires --enable-utmp to
100			also be specified.
101
102			--enable-xpm-background
103			Add support for XPM background pixmaps.
104
105			--enable-transparency
106			Add support for inheriting parent backgrounds thus giving a fake
107			transparency to the term.
108
109			--enable-fading
110			Add support for fading the text when focus is lost.
111
112			--enable-tinting
113			Add support for tinting of transparent backgrounds.
114
115			--enable-menubar
116			Add support for our menu bar system (this interacts badly with
117			dynamic locale switching currently).
118
119			--enable-rxvt-scroll
120			Add support for the original rxvt scrollbar.
121
122			--enable-next-scroll
123			Add support for a NeXT-like scrollbar.
124
125			--enable-xterm-scroll
126			Add support for an Xterm-like scrollbar.
127
128			--enable-plain-scroll
129			Add support for a very unobtrusive, plain-looking scrollbar that is
130			the favourite of the rxvt-unicode author, having used it for many
131			years.
132
133			--enable-half-shadow
134			Make shadows on the scrollbar only half the normal width & height.
135			only applicable to rxvt scrollbars.
136
137			--enable-ttygid
138			Change tty device setting to group "tty" - only use this if your
139			system uses this type of security.
140
141			--disable-backspace-key
142			Disable any handling of the backspace key by us - let the X server
143			do it.
144
145			--disable-delete-key
146			Disable any handling of the delete key by us - let the X server do
147			it.
148
149			--disable-resources
150			Remove all resources checking.
151
152			--enable-xgetdefault
153			Make resources checking via XGetDefault() instead of our small
154			version which only checks ~/.Xdefaults, or if that doesn't exist
155			then ~/.Xresources.
156
157	root	1.23	Please note that nowadays, things like XIM will automatically pull
158			in and use the full X resource manager, so the overhead of using it
159			might be very small, if nonexistant.
160
161	root	1.16	--enable-strings
162			Add support for our possibly faster memset() function and other
163			various routines, overriding your system's versions which may have
164			been hand-crafted in assembly or may require extra libraries to link
165			in. (this breaks ANSI-C rules and has problems on many GNU/Linux
166			systems).
167
168			--disable-swapscreen
169			Remove support for swap screen.
170
171			--enable-frills
172			Add support for many small features that are not essential but nice
173			to have. Normally you want this, but for very small binaries you may
174			want to disable this.
175
176	root	1.21	A non-exhaustive list of features enabled by "--enable-frills"
177			(possibly in combination with other switches) is:
178
179			MWM-hints
180			seperate underline colour
181			settable border widths and borderless switch
182			settable extra linespacing
183			extra window properties (e.g. UTF-8 window names and PID)
184			iso-14755-2 and -3, and visual feedback
185			backindex and forwardindex escape sequence
186			window op and locale change escape sequences
187			tripleclickwords
188			settable insecure mode
189	root	1.23	keysym remapping support
190	root	1.21
191	root	1.17	--enable-iso14755
192			Enable extended ISO 14755 support (see rxvt(1), or doc/rxvt.1.txt).
193			Basic support (section 5.1) is enabled by "--enable-frills", while
194			support for 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4 is enabled with this switch.
195
196	root	1.16	--enable-keepscrolling
197			Add support for continual scrolling of the display when you hold the
198			mouse button down on a scrollbar arrow.
199
200			--enable-mousewheel
201			Add support for scrolling via mouse wheel or buttons 4 & 5.
202
203			--enable-slipwheeling
204			Add support for continual scrolling (using the mouse wheel as an
205			accelerator) while the control key is held down. This option
206			requires --enable-mousewheel to also be specified.
207
208			--disable-new-selection
209			Remove support for mouse selection style like that of xterm.
210
211			--enable-dmalloc
212			Use Gray Watson's malloc - which is good for debugging See
213			http://www.letters.com/dmalloc/ for details If you use either this
214			or the next option, you may need to edit src/Makefile after
215			compiling to point DINCLUDE and DLIB to the right places.
216
217			You can only use either this option and the following (should you
218			use either) .
219
220			--enable-dlmalloc
221			Use Doug Lea's malloc - which is good for a production version See
222			<http://g.oswego.edu/dl/html/malloc.html> for details.
223
224			--enable-smart-resize
225			Add smart growth/shrink behaviour when changing font size via from
226			hot keys. This should keep in a fixed position the rxvt corner which
227			is closest to a corner of the screen.
228
229			--enable-cursor-blink
230			Add support for a blinking cursor.
231
232			--enable-pointer-blank
233			Add support to have the pointer disappear when typing or inactive.
234
235			--with-name=NAME
236	root	1.22	Set the basename for the installed binaries (default: "urxvt",
237			resulting in "urxvt", "urxvtd" etc.). Specify "--with-name=rxvt" to
238			replace with "rxvt".
239	root	1.16
240			--with-term=NAME
241			Change the environmental variable for the terminal to NAME (default
242	root	1.22	"rxvt-unicode")
243	root	1.16
244			--with-terminfo=PATH
245			Change the environmental variable for the path to the terminfo tree
246			to PATH.
247
248			--with-x
249			Use the X Window System (pretty much default, eh?).
250
251			--with-xpm-includes=DIR
252			Look for the XPM includes in DIR.
253
254			--with-xpm-library=DIR
255			Look for the XPM library in DIR.
256
257			--with-xpm
258			Not needed - define via --enable-xpm-background.
259	pcg	1.7