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1CONFIGURE OPTIONS
2 General hint: if you get compile errors, then likely your configuration
3 hasn't been tested well. Either try with "--enable-everything" or use
4 the default configuration (i.e. no "--enable-xxx" or "--disable-xxx"
5 switches). Of course, you should always report when a combination
6 doesn't work, so it can be fixed. Marc Lehmann <rxvt@schmorp.de>.
7
8 All
9
1--enable-everything 10 --enable-everything
2 add support for all enable options marked with an asterisk listed 11 Add (or remove) support for all non-multichoice options listed in
3 in "./configure --help". Note that unlike other enable options this 12 "./configure --help", except for "--enable-assert" and
4 is order dependant. You can specify this and then disable options 13 "--enable-256-color".
5 which this enables by _following_ this with the appropriate 14
6 commands. 15 You can specify this and then disable options you do not like by
7--enable-xft 16 *following* this with the appropriate "--disable-..." arguments, or
17 you can start with a minimal configuration by specifying
18 "--disable-everything" and than adding just the "--enable-..."
19 arguments you want.
20
21 --enable-xft (default: on)
8 add support for xft (anti-aliases, among others) fonts. xft fonts are 22 Add support for Xft (anti-aliased, among others) fonts. Xft fonts
9 slower and require lots of memory, but as long as you don't use them, 23 are slower and require lots of memory, but as long as you don't use
10 you don't pay for them. 24 them, you don't pay for them.
11--with-codesets=NAME,... 25
26 --enable-font-styles (default: on)
27 Add support for bold, *italic* and *bold italic* font styles. The
28 fonts can be set manually or automatically.
29
30 --with-codesets=CS,... (default: all)
12 compile in support for additional codeset groups: 31 Compile in support for additional codeset (encoding) groups ("eu",
13 jp common japanese encodings 32 "vn" are always compiled in, which includes most 8-bit character
33 sets). These codeset tables are used for driving X11 core fonts,
34 they are not required for Xft fonts, although having them compiled
35 in lets rxvt-unicode choose replacement fonts more intelligently.
36 Compiling them in will make your binary bigger (all of together cost
37 about 700kB), but it doesn't increase memory usage unless you use a
38 font requiring one of these encodings.
39
40 all all available codeset groups
41 zh common chinese encodings
42 zh_ext rarely used but very big chinese encodings
43 jp common japanese encodings
14 jp_ext rarely used but big japanese encodings 44 jp_ext rarely used but big japanese encodings
15 kr korean encodings 45 kr korean encodings
16 cn common chinese encodings 46 --enable-xim (default: on)
17 cn_ext rarely used but very big chinese encodigs 47 Add support for XIM (X Input Method) protocol. This allows using
18 vn vietnamese (not well-supported, though) 48 alternative input methods (e.g. kinput2) and will also correctly set
19 all all of the above. 49 up the input for people using dead keys or compose keys.
20--enable-unicode3 50
21 enable support for unicode codepoints above 65535 (the basic 51 --enable-unicode3 (default: off)
52 Recommended to stay off unless you really need non-BMP characters.
53
54 Enable direct support for displaying unicode codepoints above 65535
22 multilingual page). This increases storage requirements per character 55 (the basic multilingual page). This increases storage requirements
23 from 2 to 4 bytes and is not too useful as font support in X11 and Xft 56 per character from 2 to 4 bytes. X11 fonts do not yet support these
24 is largely missing, although cut & paste will work correctly, as will 57 extra characters, but Xft does.
25 displaying, if you have the right font(s). 58
26--enable-utmp 59 Please note that rxvt-unicode can store unicode code points >65535
60 even without this flag, but the number of such characters is limited
61 to a few thousand (shared with combining characters, see next
62 switch), and right now rxvt-unicode cannot display them
63 (input/output and cut&paste still work, though).
64
65 --enable-combining (default: on)
66 Enable automatic composition of combining characters into composite
67 characters. This is required for proper viewing of text where
68 accents are encoded as separate unicode characters. This is done by
69 using precomposed characters when available or creating new
70 pseudo-characters when no precomposed form exists.
71
72 Without --enable-unicode3, the number of additional precomposed
73 characters is somewhat limited (the 6400 private use characters will
74 be (ab-)used). With --enable-unicode3, no practical limit exists.
75
76 This option will also enable storage (but not display) of characters
77 beyond plane 0 (>65535) when --enable-unicode3 was not specified.
78
79 The combining table also contains entries for arabic presentation
80 forms, but these are not currently used. Bug me if you want these to
81 be used (and tell me how these are to be used...).
82
83 --enable-fallback[=CLASS] (default: Rxvt)
84 When reading resource settings, also read settings for class CLASS.
85 To disable resource fallback use --disable-fallback.
86
87 --with-res-name=NAME (default: urxvt)
88 Use the given name as default application name when reading
89 resources. Specify --with-res-name=rxvt to replace rxvt.
90
91 --with-res-class=CLASS (default: URxvt)
92 Use the given class as default application class when reading
93 resources. Specify --with-res-class=Rxvt to replace rxvt.
94
95 --enable-utmp (default: on)
27 write user and tty to utmp file (used by programs like ``w'') at 96 Write user and tty to utmp file (used by programs like w) at start
28 start of rxvt execution and delete information when rxvt exits. 97 of rxvt execution and delete information when rxvt exits.
29--enable-wtmp 98
99 --enable-wtmp (default: on)
30 write user and tty to wtmp file (used by programs like ``last'') at 100 Write user and tty to wtmp file (used by programs like last) at
31 start of rxvt execution and write logout when rxvt exits. This 101 start of rxvt execution and write logout when rxvt exits. This
32 option requires --enable-utmp to also be specified. 102 option requires --enable-utmp to also be specified.
33--enable-lastlog 103
104 --enable-lastlog (default: on)
34 write user and tty to lastlog file (used by programs like 105 Write user and tty to lastlog file (used by programs like lastlogin)
35 ``lastlogin'') at start of rxvt execution. This option requires 106 at start of rxvt execution. This option requires --enable-utmp to
36 --enable-utmp to also be specified. 107 also be specified.
37--enable-xpm-background 108
38 add support for XPM background pixmaps 109 --enable-afterimage (default: off)
39--enable-transparency 110 Add support for libAfterImage to be used for background images. It
40 add support for inheriting parent backgrounds thus giving a fake 111 adds support for many file formats including JPG, PNG, SVG, TIFF,
41 transparency to the term 112 GIF, XPM, BMP, ICO, XCF, TGA and AfterStep image XML
42--enable-menubar 113 (<http://www.afterstep.org/visualdoc.php?show=asimagexml>).
43 add support for our menu bar system 114
44--enable-rxvt-scroll 115 Note that with this option enabled, rxvt's memory footprint might
116 increase by a few megabytes even if no extra features are used
117 (mostly due to third-party libraries used by libAI). Memory
118 footprint may somewhat be lowered if libAfterImage is configured
119 without support for SVG.
120
121 --enable-pixbuf (default: on)
122 Add support for GDK-PixBuf to be used for background images. It adds
123 support for many file formats including JPG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, XPM,
124 BMP, ICO and TGA.
125
126 --enable-startup-notification (default: on)
127 Add support for freedesktop startup notifications. This allows
128 window managers to display some kind of progress indicator during
129 startup.
130
131 --enable-transparency (default: on)
132 Add support for using the root pixmap as background to simulate
133 transparency. Note that blur and blend effects depend on
134 libAfterImage or on libXrender and on the availability of the RENDER
135 extension in the X server.
136
137 --enable-fading (default: on)
138 Add support for fading the text when focus is lost.
139
140 --enable-rxvt-scroll (default: on)
45 add support for the original rxvt scrollbar 141 Add support for the original rxvt scrollbar.
46--enable-next-scroll 142
143 --enable-next-scroll (default: on)
47 add support for a NeXT-like scrollbar 144 Add support for a NeXT-like scrollbar.
48--enable-xterm-scroll 145
146 --enable-xterm-scroll (default: on)
49 add support for an Xterm-like scrollbar 147 Add support for an Xterm-like scrollbar.
50--enable-plain-scroll 148
51 add support for a very plain-looking scrollbar that I used for many years
52--enable-half-shadow
53 make shadows on the scrollbar only half the normal width & height.
54 only applicable to rxvt scrollbars
55--enable-xim
56 add support for XIM (X Input Method) protocol. This allows using
57 alternative input methods (e.g. kinput2) and will also correctly
58 set up the input for people using dead keys or compose keys.
59--enable-ttygid
60 change tty device setting to group "tty" - only use this if
61 your system uses this type of security
62--disable-backspace-key 149 --disable-backspace-key
63 disable any handling of the backspace key by us - let the X server 150 Removes any handling of the backspace key by us - let the X server
64 do it 151 do it.
152
65--disable-delete-key 153 --disable-delete-key
66 disable any handling of the delete key by us - let the X server 154 Removes any handling of the delete key by us - let the X server do
67 do it 155 it.
156
68--disable-resources 157 --disable-resources
69 remove all resources checking 158 Removes any support for resource checking.
70--enable-xgetdefault 159
71 make resources checking via XGetDefault() instead of our small
72 version which only checks ~/.Xdefaults, or if that doesn't exist
73 then ~/.Xresources
74--enable-strings
75 add support for our possibly faster memset() function and other
76 various routines, overriding your system's versions which may
77 have been hand-crafted in assembly or may require extra libraries
78 to link in. (This has header problems on some Linux systems).
79--disable-swapscreen 160 --disable-swapscreen
80 remove support for swap screen 161 Remove support for secondary/swap screen.
81--enable-frills 162
82 add support for some lesser used features 163 --enable-frills (default: on)
83--enable-linespace 164 Add support for many small features that are not essential but nice
84 add support to provide user specified line spacing between text rows 165 to have. Normally you want this, but for very small binaries you may
85--enable-keepscrolling 166 want to disable this.
167
168 A non-exhaustive list of features enabled by "--enable-frills"
169 (possibly in combination with other switches) is:
170
171 MWM-hints
172 EWMH-hints (pid, utf8 names) and protocols (ping)
173 urgency hint
174 separate underline colour (-underlineColor)
175 settable border widths and borderless switch (-w, -b, -bl)
176 visual depth selection (-depth)
177 settable extra linespacing (-lsp)
178 iso-14755 5.1 (basic) support
179 tripleclickwords (-tcw)
180 settable insecure mode (-insecure)
181 keysym remapping support
182 cursor blinking and underline cursor (-bc, -uc)
183 XEmbed support (-embed)
184 user-pty (-pty-fd)
185 hold on exit (-hold)
186 compile in built-in block graphics
187 skip builtin block graphics (-sbg)
188 separate highlight colour (-highlightColor, -highlightTextColor)
189 extended mouse reporting modes (1005 and 1015).
190
191 It also enables some non-essential features otherwise disabled, such
192 as:
193
194 some round-trip time optimisations
195 nearest colour allocation on pseudocolor screens
196 UTF8_STRING support for selection
197 sgr modes 90..97 and 100..107
198 backindex and forwardindex escape sequences
199 view change/zero scrollback escape sequences
200 locale switching escape sequence
201 window op and some xterm/OSC escape sequences
202 rectangular selections
203 trailing space removal for selections
204 verbose X error handling
205
206 --enable-iso14755 (default: on)
207 Enable extended ISO 14755 support (see rxvt(1)). Basic support
208 (section 5.1) is enabled by "--enable-frills", while support for
209 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4 is enabled with this switch.
210
211 --enable-keepscrolling (default: on)
86 add support for continual scrolling of the display when you hold 212 Add support for continual scrolling of the display when you hold the
87 the mouse button down on a scrollbar arrow 213 mouse button down on a scrollbar arrow.
88--enable-mousewheel 214
215 --enable-selectionscrolling (default: on)
216 Add support for scrolling when the selection moves to the top or
217 bottom of the screen.
218
219 --enable-mousewheel (default: on)
89 add support for scrolling via mouse wheel or buttons 4 & 5 220 Add support for scrolling via mouse wheel or buttons 4 & 5.
90--enable-slipwheeling 221
222 --enable-slipwheeling (default: on)
91 add support for continual scrolling (using the mouse wheel as an 223 Add support for continual scrolling (using the mouse wheel as an
92 accelerator) while the control key is held down. This option 224 accelerator) while the control key is held down. This option
93 requires --enable-mousewheel to also be specified. 225 requires --enable-mousewheel to also be specified.
94--enable-old-selection 226
95 remove support for reverting the mouse selection style to that 227 --enable-smart-resize (default: off)
96 of v2.20 (and prior) 228 Add smart growth/shrink behaviour when resizing. This should keep
97--disable-new-selection
98 remove support for mouse selection style like that of xterm
99--enable-dmalloc
100 use Gray Watson's malloc - which is good for debugging
101 See http://www.letters.com/dmalloc/ for details
102 If you use either this or the next option, you may need to
103 edit src/Makefile after compiling to point DINCLUDE and DLIB to
104 the right places.
105 You can only use either this option and the following (should
106 you use either)
107--enable-dlmalloc
108 use Doug Lea's malloc - which is good for a production version
109 See http://g.oswego.edu/dl/html/malloc.html for details
110--enable-smart-resize
111 add smart growth/shrink behaviour when changing font size
112 via from hot keys. This should keep in a fixed position the
113 rxvt corner which is closest to a corner of the screen 229 the window corner which is closest to a corner of the screen in a
114--enable-256-color 230 fixed position.
115 add support for 256 colours rather than the base 16 colours 231
116--enable-cursor-blink 232 --enable-text-blink (default: on)
117 add support for a blinking cursor 233 Add support for blinking text.
118--enable-pointer-blank 234
235 --enable-pointer-blank (default: on)
119 add support to have the pointer disappear when typing or inactive 236 Add support to have the pointer disappear when typing or inactive.
120--with-term=NAME 237
238 --enable-perl (default: on)
239 Enable an embedded perl interpreter. See the rxvtperl(3) manpage for
240 more info on this feature, or the files in src/perl/ for the
241 extensions that are installed by default. The perl interpreter that
242 is used can be specified via the "PERL" environment variable when
243 running configure. Even when compiled in, perl will *not* be
244 initialised when all extensions have been disabled "-pe ""
245 --perl-ext-common """, so it should be safe to enable from a
246 resource standpoint.
247
248 --enable-assert (default: off)
249 Enables the assertions in the code, normally disabled. This switch
250 is only useful when developing rxvt-unicode.
251
252 --enable-256-color (default: off)
253 Force use of so-called 256 colour mode, to work around buggy
254 applications that do not support termcap/terminfo, or simply improve
255 support for applications hardcoding the xterm 256 colour table.
256
257 This switch breaks termcap/terminfo compatibility to
258 "TERM=rxvt-unicode", and consequently sets "TERM" to
259 "rxvt-unicode-256color" by default (doc/etc/ contains
260 termcap/terminfo definitions for both).
261
262 It also results in higher memory usage and can slow down rxvt
263 dramatically when more than six fonts are in use by a terminal
264 instance.
265
266 --with-afterimage-config=DIR
267 Look for the libAfterImage config script in DIR.
268
269 --with-name=NAME (default: urxvt)
270 Set the basename for the installed binaries, resulting in "urxvt",
271 "urxvtd" etc.). Specify "--with-name=rxvt" to replace with "rxvt".
272
273 --with-term=NAME (default: rxvt-unicode)
121 change the environmental variable for the terminal to NAME 274 Change the environmental variable for the terminal to NAME.
122 (default "rxvt") 275
123--with-terminfo=PATH 276 --with-terminfo=PATH
124 change the environmental variable for the path to the terminfo 277 Change the environmental variable for the path to the terminfo tree
125 tree to PATH 278 to PATH.
279
126--with-x 280 --with-x
127 use the X Window System (pretty much default, eh?) 281 Use the X Window System (pretty much default, eh?).
128--with-xpm-includes=DIR 282
129 look for the XPM includes in DIR
130--with-xpm-library=DIR
131 look for the XPM library in DIR
132--with-xpm
133 not needed - define via --enable-xpm-background

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