--- rxvt-unicode/README.configure 2008/01/29 11:00:49 1.62 +++ rxvt-unicode/README.configure 2010/12/13 16:47:27 1.70 @@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ --enable-everything Add (or remove) support for all non-multichoice options listed in - "./configure --help". + "./configure --help", except for "--enable-assert" and + "--enable-256-color". You can specify this and then disable options you do not like by *following* this with the appropriate "--disable-..." arguments, or @@ -18,7 +19,7 @@ arguments you want. --enable-xft (default: enabled) - Add support for Xft (anti-aliases, among others) fonts. Xft fonts + Add support for Xft (anti-aliased, 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. @@ -64,7 +65,7 @@ --enable-combining (default: on) 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 + accents are encoded as separate unicode characters. This is done by using precomposited characters when available or creating new pseudo-characters when no precomposed form exists. @@ -106,25 +107,27 @@ also be specified. --enable-afterimage (default: on) - Add support for libAfterImage to be used for transparency and - background images. It adds support for many file formats including - JPG, PNG, SVG, TIFF, GIF, XPM, BMP, ICO, XCF, TGA and AfterStep - image XML + Add support for libAfterImage to be used for background images. It + adds support for many file formats including JPG, PNG, SVG, TIFF, + GIF, XPM, BMP, ICO, XCF, TGA and AfterStep image XML (). - This option also adds such eye candy as blending an image over the - root background, as well as dynamic scaling and bluring of - background images. - Note that with this option enabled, rxvt's memory footprint might increase by a few megabytes even if no extra features are used (mostly due to third-party libraries used by libAI). Memory footprint may somewhat be lowered if libAfterImage is configured without support for SVG. + --enable-pixbuf (default: off) + Add support for GDK-PixBuf to be used for background images. It adds + support for many file formats including JPG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, XPM, + BMP, ICO and TGA. + --enable-transparency (default: on) - Add support for backgrounds, creating illusion of transparency in - the term. + Add support for using the root pixmap as background to simulate + transparency. Note that blur and blend effects depend on + libAfterImage or on libXrender and on the availability of the RENDER + extension in the X server. --enable-fading (default: on) Add support for fading the text when focus is lost. @@ -163,27 +166,28 @@ MWM-hints EWMH-hints (pid, utf8 names) and protocols (ping) urgency hint - seperate underline colour (-underlineColor) + separate underline colour (-underlineColor) settable border widths and borderless switch (-w, -b, -bl) visual depth selection (-depth) - settable extra linespacing /-lsp) + settable extra linespacing (-lsp) iso-14755 5.1 (basic) support tripleclickwords (-tcw) settable insecure mode (-insecure) keysym remapping support - cursor blinking and underline cursor (-cb, -uc) + cursor blinking and underline cursor (-bc, -uc) XEmbed support (-embed) user-pty (-pty-fd) hold on exit (-hold) compile in built-in block graphics skip builtin block graphics (-sbg) - separate highlightcolor support (-hc) + separate highlight colour (-highlightColor, -highlightTextColor) + extended mouse reporting modes (1005 and 1015). It also enables some non-essential features otherwise disabled, such as: some round-trip time optimisations - nearest color allocation on pseudocolor screens + nearest colour allocation on pseudocolor screens UTF8_STRING support for selection sgr modes 90..97 and 100..107 backindex and forwardindex escape sequences @@ -195,9 +199,9 @@ verbose X error handling --enable-iso14755 (default: on) - 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 extended ISO 14755 support (see rxvt(1)). 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 (default: on) Add support for continual scrolling of the display when you hold the @@ -227,14 +231,32 @@ Add support to have the pointer disappear when typing or inactive. --enable-perl (default: on) - Enable an embedded perl interpreter. See the rxvtperl(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. Even when compiled in, - perl will *not* be initialised when all extensions have been - disabled "-pe "" --perl-ext-common """, so it should be safe to - enable from a resource standpoint. + Enable an embedded perl interpreter. See the rxvtperl(3) manpage for + more info on this feature, or the files in src/perl/ 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. Even when compiled in, perl will *not* be + initialised when all extensions have been disabled "-pe "" + --perl-ext-common """, so it should be safe to enable from a + resource standpoint. + + --enable-assert (default: off) + Enables the assertions in the code, normally disabled. This switch + is only useful when developing rxvt-unicode. + + --enable-256-color (default: off) + Force use of so-called 256 colour mode, to work around buggy + applications that do not support termcap/terminfo, or simply improve + support for applications hardcoding the xterm 256 colour table. + + This switch breaks termcap/terminfo compatibility to + "TERM=rxvt-unicode", and consequently sets "TERM" to + "rxvt-unicode-256color" by default (doc/etc/ contains + termcap/terminfo definitions for both). + + It also results in higher memory usage and can slow down rxvt + dramatically when more than six fonts are in use by a terminal + instance. --with-afterimage-config=DIR Look for the libAfterImage config script in DIR.