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Sketchy overview of the details: |
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- gcc is probably required to compile this release, g++, too, as it has |
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been re-written in C++. |
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- the options used in the ./reconf script should work. everything else |
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might be broken. |
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- wchar_t MUST be UNICODE or ISO-10646-1 on your system, or various |
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things will break down. On GNU/Linux, this is true, on Solaris, |
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this is true only for "@ucs" locales, but you should have plenty of them. |
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- rxvt ALWAYS expects utf-8 input, regardless of the locale, currently. |
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so only start it in a utf-8-locale: "LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 rxvt" etc.. |
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- "-fn" commandline switch and *.font ressource accepts a comma |
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seperated list of fontnames: |
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x:9x15bold a x11 font |
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9x15bold the same |
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xft:Andale Mono a xft font |
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xft:Andale Mono:pixelsize=20 |
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- the _first_ font in the list selects the cell width/height. All other fonts |
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must be smaller or same sized, or they will be ignored or worse. xft fonts |
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will automatically be rescaled. |
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- the fonts will be tried in the order given when searching for a font |
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to display a specific character. if you are e.g. mainly interested in |
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japanese you might want to put a japanese font first to get the ascii |
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characters in it. If you are mainly interested in a text terminal and |
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only want to display other characters you should put a ascii/is8859 text |
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font first (e.g. "9x15bold") and let rxvt sort it out. |
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- xft fonts require gobs of memory and generally are slow |
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- src/defaultfont.C lists the fallback fonts that are tried when a character cannot |
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be displayed with the current list of fonts. |
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Marc <rxvt@plan9.de> |
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