--- rxvt-unicode/README.configure 2010/03/16 00:54:46 1.65 +++ rxvt-unicode/README.configure 2011/12/18 02:27:24 1.74 @@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ --enable-everything Add (or remove) support for all non-multichoice options listed in - "./configure --help", except for "--enable-assert". + "./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 @@ -17,8 +18,8 @@ "--disable-everything" and than adding just the "--enable-..." arguments you want. - --enable-xft (default: enabled) - Add support for Xft (anti-aliases, among others) fonts. Xft fonts + --enable-xft (default: on) + 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. @@ -26,7 +27,7 @@ Add support for bold, *italic* and *bold italic* font styles. The fonts can be set manually or automatically. - --with-codesets=NAME,... (default: all) + --with-codesets=CS,... (default: all) 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, @@ -65,7 +66,7 @@ Enable automatic composition of combining characters into composite characters. This is required for proper viewing of text where accents are encoded as separate unicode characters. This is done by - using precomposited characters when available or creating new + using precomposed characters when available or creating new pseudo-characters when no precomposed form exists. Without --enable-unicode3, the number of additional precomposed @@ -79,7 +80,7 @@ forms, but these are not currently used. Bug me if you want these to be used (and tell me how these are to be used...). - --enable-fallback(=CLASS) (default: Rxvt) + --enable-fallback[=CLASS] (default: Rxvt) When reading resource settings, also read settings for class CLASS. To disable resource fallback use --disable-fallback. @@ -105,26 +106,33 @@ at start of rxvt execution. This option requires --enable-utmp to 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 + --enable-afterimage (default: off) + 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: on) + 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-startup-notification (default: on) + Add support for freedesktop startup notifications. This allows + window managers to display some kind of progress indicator during + startup. + --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. @@ -166,7 +174,7 @@ 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) @@ -177,13 +185,14 @@ 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 @@ -240,6 +249,20 @@ 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.