--- rxvt-unicode/README.configure 2005/01/16 15:59:45 1.21 +++ rxvt-unicode/README.configure 2005/04/17 22:36:13 1.28 @@ -22,13 +22,14 @@ 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. + 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 used for driving X11 core fonts, + they are not required for Xft fonts, although having them compiled + in lets rxvt-unicode choose replacement fonts more intelligently. + Compiling them in will make your binary bigger (all of together cost + about 700kB), but it doesn't increase memory usage unless you use a + font requiring one of these encodings. all all available codeset groups zh common chinese encodings @@ -62,14 +63,16 @@ 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. + characters is rather limited (2048, if this is full, rxvt-unicode + will use the private use area, extending the number of combinations + to 8448). With --enable-unicode3, no practical limit exists. + + This option will also enable storage (but not display) of characters + beyond plane 0 (>65535) when --enable-unicode3 was not specified. 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. + be used (and tell me how these are to be used...). --enable-fallback(=CLASS) When reading resource settings, also read settings for class CLASS @@ -154,6 +157,10 @@ 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 @@ -173,15 +180,18 @@ (possibly in combination with other switches) is: MWM-hints + EWMH-hints (pid, utf8 names) and protocols (ping) 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 + window op and some xterm/OSC escape sequences tripleclickwords settable insecure mode + keysym remapping support + cursor blinking and underline cursor + -embed and -pty-fd options --enable-iso14755 Enable extended ISO 14755 support (see rxvt(1), or doc/rxvt.1.txt). @@ -221,20 +231,17 @@ 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 rxvt. + 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") + "rxvt-unicode") --with-terminfo=PATH Change the environmental variable for the path to the terminfo tree