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60 accents are encoded as seperate unicode characters. This is done by 60 accents are encoded as seperate unicode characters. This is done by
61 using precomposited characters when available or creating new 61 using precomposited characters when available or creating new
62 pseudo-characters when no precomposed form exists. 62 pseudo-characters when no precomposed form exists.
63 63
64 Without --enable-unicode3, the number of additional precomposed 64 Without --enable-unicode3, the number of additional precomposed
65 characters is rather limited (2048, if this is full, rxvt will use 65 characters is rather limited (2048, if this is full, rxvt-unicode
66 the private use area, extending the number of combinations to 8448). 66 will use the private use area, extending the number of combinations
67 With --enable-unicode3, no practical limit exists. This will also 67 to 8448). With --enable-unicode3, no practical limit exists.
68 enable storage of characters >65535. 68
69 This option will also enable storage (but not display) of characters
70 beyond plane 0 (>65535) when --enable-unicode3 was not specified.
69 71
70 The combining table also contains entries for arabic presentation 72 The combining table also contains entries for arabic presentation
71 forms, but these are not currently used. Bug me if you want these to 73 forms, but these are not currently used. Bug me if you want these to
72 be used. 74 be used (and tell me how these are to be used...).
73 75
74 --enable-fallback(=CLASS) 76 --enable-fallback(=CLASS)
75 When reading resource settings, also read settings for class CLASS 77 When reading resource settings, also read settings for class CLASS
76 (default: Rxvt). To disable resource fallback use 78 (default: Rxvt). To disable resource fallback use
77 --disable-fallback. 79 --disable-fallback.
151 153
152 --enable-xgetdefault 154 --enable-xgetdefault
153 Make resources checking via XGetDefault() instead of our small 155 Make resources checking via XGetDefault() instead of our small
154 version which only checks ~/.Xdefaults, or if that doesn't exist 156 version which only checks ~/.Xdefaults, or if that doesn't exist
155 then ~/.Xresources. 157 then ~/.Xresources.
158
159 Please note that nowadays, things like XIM will automatically pull
160 in and use the full X resource manager, so the overhead of using it
161 might be very small, if nonexistant.
156 162
157 --enable-strings 163 --enable-strings
158 Add support for our possibly faster memset() function and other 164 Add support for our possibly faster memset() function and other
159 various routines, overriding your system's versions which may have 165 various routines, overriding your system's versions which may have
160 been hand-crafted in assembly or may require extra libraries to link 166 been hand-crafted in assembly or may require extra libraries to link
167 --enable-frills 173 --enable-frills
168 Add support for many small features that are not essential but nice 174 Add support for many small features that are not essential but nice
169 to have. Normally you want this, but for very small binaries you may 175 to have. Normally you want this, but for very small binaries you may
170 want to disable this. 176 want to disable this.
171 177
178 A non-exhaustive list of features enabled by "--enable-frills"
179 (possibly in combination with other switches) is:
180
181 MWM-hints
182 EWMH-hints (pid, utf8 names) and protocols (ping)
183 seperate underline colour
184 settable border widths and borderless switch
185 settable extra linespacing
186 iso-14755-2 and -3, and visual feedback
187 backindex and forwardindex escape sequence
188 window op and locale change escape sequences
189 tripleclickwords
190 settable insecure mode
191 keysym remapping support
192 -embed and -pty-fd options
193
172 --enable-iso14755 194 --enable-iso14755
173 Enable extended ISO 14755 support (see rxvt(1), or doc/rxvt.1.txt). 195 Enable extended ISO 14755 support (see rxvt(1), or doc/rxvt.1.txt).
174 Basic support (section 5.1) is enabled by "--enable-frills", while 196 Basic support (section 5.1) is enabled by "--enable-frills", while
175 support for 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4 is enabled with this switch. 197 support for 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4 is enabled with this switch.
176 198
212 234
213 --enable-pointer-blank 235 --enable-pointer-blank
214 Add support to have the pointer disappear when typing or inactive. 236 Add support to have the pointer disappear when typing or inactive.
215 237
216 --with-name=NAME 238 --with-name=NAME
217 Set the basename for the installed binaries (default: urxvt, 239 Set the basename for the installed binaries (default: "urxvt",
218 resulting in urxvt, urxvtd etc.). Specify --with-name=rxvt to 240 resulting in "urxvt", "urxvtd" etc.). Specify "--with-name=rxvt" to
219 replace rxvt. 241 replace with "rxvt".
220 242
221 --with-term=NAME 243 --with-term=NAME
222 Change the environmental variable for the terminal to NAME (default 244 Change the environmental variable for the terminal to NAME (default
223 "rxvt") 245 "rxvt-unicode")
224 246
225 --with-terminfo=PATH 247 --with-terminfo=PATH
226 Change the environmental variable for the path to the terminfo tree 248 Change the environmental variable for the path to the terminfo tree
227 to PATH. 249 to PATH.
228 250

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