--- rxvt-unicode/README.configure 2006/01/02 15:11:05 1.34 +++ rxvt-unicode/README.configure 2006/07/17 19:20:29 1.49 @@ -37,19 +37,20 @@ 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 - zh_ext rarely used but very big chinese encodigs - jp common japanese encodings - jp_ext rarely used but big japanese encodings - kr korean 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 (default: on) 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 (default: off) + Recommended to stay off unless you really need non-BMP characters. + 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 @@ -69,9 +70,8 @@ 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-unicode - will use the private use area, extending the number of combinations - to 8448). With --enable-unicode3, no practical limit exists. + characters is somewhat limited (the 6400 private use characters will + be (ab-)used). 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. @@ -106,10 +106,10 @@ at start of rxvt execution. This option requires --enable-utmp to also be specified. - --enable-xpm-background (default: off) + --enable-xpm-background (default: on) Add support for XPM background pixmaps. - --enable-transparency (default: off) + --enable-transparency (default: on) Add support for inheriting parent backgrounds thus giving a fake transparency to the term. @@ -121,10 +121,6 @@ Add support for tinting of transparent backgrounds (requires "--enable-transparency"). - --enable-menubar (default: off) - Add support for our menu bar system (this interacts badly with - dynamic locale switching currently). - --enable-rxvt-scroll (default: on) Add support for the original rxvt scrollbar. @@ -139,10 +135,6 @@ the favourite of the rxvt-unicode author, having used it for many years. - --enable-half-shadow (default: off) - Make shadows on the scrollbar only half the normal width & height. - only applicable to rxvt scrollbars. - --enable-ttygid (default: off) Change tty device setting to group "tty" - only use this if your system uses this type of security. @@ -158,22 +150,6 @@ --disable-resources Removes any support for resource 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 (default: off) - 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 secondary/swap screen. @@ -187,20 +163,38 @@ MWM-hints EWMH-hints (pid, utf8 names) and protocols (ping) - seperate underline colour - settable border widths and borderless switch - settable extra linespacing + seperate underline colour (-underlineColor) + settable border widths and borderless switch (-w, -b, -bl) + visual depth selection (-depth) + settable extra linespacing /-lsp) iso-14755-2 and -3, and visual feedback - backindex and forwardindex escape sequence - window op and some xterm/OSC escape sequences - tripleclickwords - settable insecure mode + tripleclickwords (-tcw) + settable insecure mode (-insecure) keysym remapping support - cursor blinking and underline cursor - -embed, -pty-fd and -hold options + cursor blinking and underline cursor (-cb, -uc) + XEmbed support (-embed) + user-pty (-pty-fd) + hold on exit (-hold) + skip builtin block graphics (-sbg) + separate highlightcolor support (-hc) + + It also enables some non-essential features otherwise disabled, such + as: + + some round-trip time optimisations + nearest color allocation on pseudocolor screens + UTF8_STRING supporr for selection + sgr modes 90..97 and 100..107 + backindex and forwardindex escape sequences + view change/zero scorllback esacpe sequences + locale switching escape sequence + window op and some xterm/OSC escape sequences + rectangular selections + trailing space removal for selections + verbose X error handling --enable-iso14755 (default: on) - Enable extended ISO 14755 support (see rxvt(1), or doc/rxvt.1.txt). + Enable extended ISO 14755 support (see urxvt(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. @@ -221,7 +215,7 @@ --enable-dmalloc (default: off) Use Gray Watson's malloc - which is good for debugging See - http://www.letters.com/dmalloc/ for details If you use either this + 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. @@ -240,6 +234,13 @@ --enable-pointer-blank (default: on) Add support to have the pointer disappear when typing or inactive. + --enable-perl (default: on) + Enable an embedded perl interpreter. See the urxvtperl(3) manpage + (doc/rxvtperl.txt) for more info on this feature, or the files in + src/perl-ext/ for the extensions that are installed by default. The + perl interpreter that is used can be specified via the "PERL" + environment variable when running configure. + --with-name=NAME (default: urxvt) Set the basename for the installed binaries, resulting in "urxvt", "urxvtd" etc.). Specify "--with-name=rxvt" to replace with "rxvt".