--- rxvt-unicode/README.configure 2005/01/11 02:24:59 1.20 +++ rxvt-unicode/README.configure 2005/02/20 19:45:30 1.26 @@ -62,14 +62,16 @@ 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 +156,10 @@ 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 @@ -169,6 +175,22 @@ 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 + EWMH-hints (pid, utf8 names) and protocols (ping) + seperate underline colour + settable border widths and borderless switch + settable extra linespacing + 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 + -embed and -pty-fd options + --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 @@ -214,13 +236,13 @@ 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