rxvt-unicode, version 4.8, is a colour vt102 terminal +
rxvt-unicode, version 7.7, is a colour vt102 terminal emulator intended as an xterm(1) replacement for users who do not require features such as Tektronix 4014 emulation and toolkit-style configurability. As a result, rxvt-unicode uses much less swap space -- @@ -58,8 +64,10 @@
See rxvt(7) (try man 7 rxvt) for a list of frequently
-asked questions and answer to them and some common problems.
See rxvt(7) (try man 7 rxvt) for a list of
+frequently asked questions and answer to them and some common
+problems. That document is also accessible on the World-Wide-Web at
+http://cvs.schmorp.de/browse/*checkout*/rxvt-unicode/doc/rxvt.7.html.
The following options are available:
Print out a message describing available options.
Attempt to open a window on the named X display (-d still respected). In the absence of this option, the display specified by the -DISPLAY environment variable is used. +DISPLAY environment variable is used.
+Compile xft: Attempt to find a visual with the given bit depth; +resource depth.
+Window geometry (-g still respected); resource geometry.
+Turn on/off simulated reverse video; resource reverseVideo.
+Turn on/off jump scrolling; resource jumpScroll.
Turn on/off inheriting parent window's pixmap. Alternative form is +-tr; resource inheritPixmap.
Please note that transparency of any kind if completely unsupported by +the author. Don't bug him with installation questions!
Fade the text by the given percentage when focus is lost. Small values +fade a little only, 100 completely replaces all colours by the fade +colour; resource fading.
Fade to this colour when fading is used (see -fade). The default colour +is opaque black. resource fadeColor.
Tint the transparent background pixmap with the given colour when +transparency is enabled with -tr or -ip. This only works for +non-tiled backgrounds, currently. See also the -sh option that can be +used to brighten or darken the image in addition to tinting it; resource +tintColor. Example:
+ rxvt -tr -tint blue -sh 40
number Darken (0 .. 100) or lighten (-1 .. -100) the transparent
background image in addition to tinting it (i.e. -tint must be
-specified, too, e.g. -tint white).
+specified, too, e.g. -tint white).
Window background colour; resource background.
Window foreground colour; resource foreground.
Compile XPM: Specify XPM file for the background and also optionally
+specify its scaling with a geometry string. Note you may need to
+add quotes to avoid special shell interpretation of the ; in the
+command-line; resource backgroundPixmap.
The cursor colour; resource cursorColor.
The mouse pointer foreground colour; resource pointerColor.
The mouse pointer background colour; resource pointerColor2.
The colour of the border around the text area and between the scrollbar and the text; +resource borderColor.
Select the fonts to be used. This is a comma separated list of font names +that are checked in order when trying to find glyphs for characters. The first font defines the cell size for characters; other fonts might be smaller, but not (in general) larger. A (hopefully) reasonable default -font list is always appended to it. See resource font for more details. +font list is always appended to it. See resource font for more details.
In short, to specify an X11 core font, just specify it's name or prefix it @@ -249,318 +282,463 @@
See also the question ``How does rxvt-unicode choose fonts?'' in the FAQ section of rxvt(7).
Compile font-styles: The bold font list to use when bold characters +are to be printed. See resource boldFont for details.
+Compile font-styles: The italic font list to use when italic +characters are to be printed. See resource italicFont for details.
Compile font-styles: The bold italic font list to use when bold +italic > characters are to be printed. See resource boldItalicFont +for details.
Compile font-styles: Bold/Italic font styles imply high intensity +foreground/background (default). See resource intensityStyles for +details.
Specify the application name under which resources are to be obtained, rather than the default executable file name. Name should not contain -`.' or `*' characters. Also sets the icon and title name. +`.' or `*' characters. Also sets the icon and title name.
Start as a login-shell/sub-shell; resource loginShell.
Compile utmp: Inhibit/enable writing a utmp entry; resource +utmpInhibit.
Turn on/off visual bell on receipt of a bell character; resource +visualBell.
Turn on/off scrollbar; resource scrollBar.
Turn on/off scroll-to-bottom on TTY output inhibit; resource +scrollTtyOutput has opposite effect.
Turn on/off scroll-to-bottom on keypress; resource +scrollTtyKeypress.
Turn on/off scrolling with the scrollback buffer as new lines appear. This only takes effect if -si is also given; resource -scrollWithBuffer. +scrollWithBuffer.
Put scrollbar on right/left; resource scrollBar_right.
Display rxvt (non XTerm/NeXT) scrollbar without/with a trough; +resource scrollBar_floating.
If enabled (default), ``Horizontal Tab'' characters are being stored as actual wide characters in the screen buffer, which makes it possible to select and paste them. Since a horizontal tab is a cursor movement and not an actual glyph, this can sometimes be visually annoying as the cursor -on a tab character is displayed as a wide cursor; resource pastableTabs. +on a tab character is displayed as a wide cursor; resource pastableTabs.
Blink the cursor; resource cursorBlink.
Start iconified, if the window manager supports that option. +Alternative form is -ic.
Save number lines in the scrollback buffer. See resource entry for +limits; resource saveLines.
Compile frills: Internal border of number pixels. See resource +entry for limits; resource internalBorder.
Compile frills: External border of number pixels. Also, -bw and -borderwidth. See resource entry for limits; resource -externalBorder. +externalBorder.
Compile frills: Set MWM hints to request a borderless window, i.e. if honoured by the WM, the rxvt-unicode window will not have window -decorations; resource borderLess. +decorations; resource borderLess.
+Compile frills: Sets override-redirect on the window; resource +override-redirect.
+Compile frills: Disable the usage of the built-in block graphics/line +drawing characters and just rely on what the specified fonts provide. Use +this if you have a good font and want to use its block graphic glyphs; +resource skipBuiltinGlyphs.
Compile frills: Lines (pixel height) to insert between each row of the display. Useful to work around font rendering problems; resource -linespace. +linespace.
This option specifies the name of the terminal type to be set in the TERM environment variable. This terminal type must exist in the termcap(5) database and should have li# and co# entries; -resource termName. +resource termName.
Run the command with its command-line arguments in the rxvt window; also sets the window title and icon name to be the basename of the program being executed if neither -title (-T) nor -n are given on the command line. If this option is used, it must be the last on the command-line. If there is no -e option then the default is to run the program specified by the SHELL environment variable or, -failing that, sh(1). +failing that, sh(1).
+Please note that you must specify a program with arguments. If you want to +run shell commands, you have to specify the shell, like this:
+ rxvt -e sh -c "shell commands"+
Window title (-T still respected); the default title is the basename of the program specified after the -e option, if any, otherwise the -application name; resource title. +application name; resource title.
Icon name; the default name is the basename of the program specified after the -e option, if any, otherwise the application name; -resource iconName. +resource iconName.
+Capture system console messages.
Compile XIM: input style for input method; OverTheSpot, +OffTheSpot, Root; resource preeditType.
Compile XIM: input method name. resource inputMethod.
+The locale to use for opening the IM. You can use an LC_CTYPE of e.g.
+de_DE.UTF-8 for normal text processing but ja_JP.EUC-JP for the
+input extension to be able to input japanese characters while staying in
+another locale. resource imLocale.
Set the font set to use for the X Input Method, see resource imFont +for more info.
Change the meaning of triple-click selection with the left mouse +button. Instead of selecting a full line it will extend the selection the +end of the logical line only. resource tripleclickwords.
Enable ``insecure'' mode, which currently enables most of the escape sequences that echo strings. See the resource insecure for more -info. +info.
Override detection of Meta modifier with specified key: alt, meta, hyper, super, mod1, mod2, mod3, mod4, -mod5; resource modifier. +mod5; resource modifier.
Turn on/off secondary screen (default enabled); resource +secondaryScreen.
Turn on/off secondary screen scroll (default enabled); resource +secondaryScroll.
Turn on/off hold window after exit support. If enabled, rxvt +will not immediately destroy its window when the program executed within +it exits. Instead, it will wait till it is being killed or closed by the +user; resource hold.
Remap a key symbol. See resource keysym.
+Tells rxvt to embed it's windows into an already-existing window, +which enables applications to easily embed a terminal.
+Right now, rxvt will first unmap/map the specified window, so it +shouldn't be a top-level window. rxvt will also reconfigure it +quite a bit, so don't expect it to keep some specific state. It's best to +create an extra subwindow for rxvt and leave it alone.
+The window will not be destroyed when rxvt exits.
+It might be useful to know that rxvt will not close file
+descriptors passed to it (except for stdin/out/err, of course), so you
+can use file descriptors to communicate with the programs within the
+terminal. This works regardless of wether the -embed option was used or
+not.
Here is a short Gtk2-perl snippet that illustrates how this option can be +used (a longer example is in doc/embed):
+
+ my $rxvt = new Gtk2::Socket;
+ $rxvt->signal_connect_after (realize => sub {
+ my $xid = $_[0]->window->get_xid;
+ system "rxvt -embed $xid &";
+ });
+Tells rxvt NOT to execute any commands or create a new pty/tty +pair but instead use the given filehandle as the tty master. This is +useful if you want to drive rxvt as a generic terminal emulator +without having to run a program within it.
+If this switch is given, rxvt will not create any utmp/wtmp +entries and will not tinker with pty/tty permissions - you have to do that +yourself if you want that.
+As an extremely special case, specifying -1 will completely suppress
+pty/tty operations.
Here is a example in perl that illustrates how this option can be used (a +longer example is in doc/pty-fd):
++ use IO::Pty; + use Fcntl;+
+ my $pty = new IO::Pty; + fcntl $pty, F_SETFD, 0; # clear close-on-exec + system "rxvt -pty-fd " . (fileno $pty) . "&"; + close $pty;+
+ # now communicate with rxvt
+ my $slave = $pty->slave;
+ while (<$slave>) { print $slave "got <$_>\n" }
+Comma-separated list of perl extension scripts to use (or not to use) in +this terminal instance. See resource perl-ext for details.
+
Note: `rxvt --help' gives a list of all resources (long options) compiled into your version.
-There are two different methods that rxvt can use to get the -Xresource data: using the X libraries (Xrm*-functions) or internal -Xresources reader (~/.Xdefaults). For the first method (ie. -rxvt -h lists XGetDefaults), you can set and change the -resources using X11 tools like xset. Many distribution do also load -settings from the ~/.Xresources file when X starts.
-If compiled with internal Xresources support (i.e. rxvt -h -lists .Xdefaults) then rxvt accepts application defaults -set in XAPPLOADDIR/URxvt (compile-time defined: usually -/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/URxvt) and resources set in -~/.Xdefaults, or ~/.Xresources if ~/.Xdefaults does not exist. -Note that when reading X resources, rxvt recognizes two -class names: XTerm and URxvt. The class name Rxvt allows -resources common to both rxvt and the original rxvt to be -easily configured, while the class name URxvt allows resources -unique to rxvt, notably colours and key-handling, to be -shared between different rxvt configurations. If no -resources are specified, suitable defaults will be used. Command-line -arguments can be used to override resource settings. The following -resources are allowed:
+You can set and change the resources using X11 tools like xrdb. Many +distribution do also load settings from the ~/.Xresources file when X +starts. rxvt will consult the following files/resources in order, +with later settings overwriting earlier ones:
++ 1. system-wide app-defaults file, either locale-dependent OR global + 2. app-defaults file in $XAPPLRESDIR + 3. RESOURCE_MANAGER property on root-window OR $HOME/.Xdefaults + 4. SCREEN_RESOURCES for the current screen + 5. $XENVIRONMENT file OR $HOME/.Xdefaults-<nodename>+
Note that when reading X resources, rxvt recognizes two class
+names: Rxvt and URxvt. The class name Rxvt allows resources
+common to both rxvt and the original rxvt to be easily
+configured, while the class name URxvt allows resources unique to
+rxvt, to be shared between different rxvt
+configurations. If no resources are specified, suitable defaults will
+be used. Command-line arguments can be used to override resource
+settings. The following resources are supported (you might want to
+check the rxvtperl(3) manpage for additional settings by perl
+extensions not documented here):
Compile xft: Attempt to find a visual with the given bit depth; +option -depth.
+Create the window with the specified X window geometry [default 80x24]; +option -geometry.
Use the specified colour as the window's background colour [default +White]; option -bg.
Use the specified colour as the window's foreground colour [default +Black]; option -fg.
Use the specified colour for the colour value n, where 0-7 corresponds to low-intensity (normal) colours and 8-15 corresponds to high-intensity (bold = bright foreground, blink = bright background) colours. The canonical names are as follows: 0=black, 1=red, 2=green, 3=yellow, 4=blue, 5=magenta, 6=cyan, 7=white, but the actual colour -names used are listed in the COLORS AND GRAPHICS section. +names used are listed in the COLORS AND GRAPHICS section.
Colours higher than 15 cannot be set using resources (yet), but can be @@ -570,120 +748,132 @@
Colours 16-79 form a standard 4x4x4 colour cube (the same as xterm with 88 colour support). Colours 80-87 are evenly spaces grey steps.
Use the specified colour to display bold or italic characters when the foreground colour is the default. If font styles are not available -(Compile styles) and this option is unset, reverse video is used instead. +(Compile styles) and this option is unset, reverse video is used instead.
Use the specified colour to display underlined characters when the +foreground colour is the default.
Use the specified colour as the background for reverse video +characters.
If set, use the specified colour as the colour for the underline +itself. If unset, use the foreground colour.
Use the specified colour for the cursor. The default is to use the +foreground colour; option -cr.
Use the specified colour for the colour of the cursor text. For this to take effect, cursorColor must also be specified. The default is to -use the background colour. +use the background colour.
True: simulate reverse video by foreground and background colours; option -rv. False: regular screen colours [default]; option -+rv. See note in COLORS AND GRAPHICS section. ++rv. See note in COLORS AND GRAPHICS section.
True: specify that jump scrolling should be used. When scrolling quickly, fewer screen updates are performed [default]; option -j. -False: specify that smooth scrolling should be used; option +j. +False: specify that smooth scrolling should be used; option +j.
True: make the background inherit the parent windows' pixmap, giving artificial transparency. False: do not inherit the parent windows' -pixmap. +pixmap.
Please note that transparency of any kind if completely unsupported by +the author. Don't bug him with installation questions!
Fade the text by the given percentage when focus is lost; option -fade.
+Fade to this colour, when fading is used (see fading:). The default +colour is black; option -fadecolor.
+Tint the transparent background pixmap with the given colour; option +-tint.
Darken (0 .. 100) or lighten (-1 .. -100) the transparent background +image in addition to tinting it.
Use the specified colour for the scrollbar [default #B2B2B2].
Use the specified colour for the scrollbar's trough area [default +#969696]. Only relevant for rxvt (non XTerm/NeXT) scrollbar.
The colour of the border around the text area and between the scrollbar +and the text.
Use the specified XPM file (note the `.xpm' extension is optional) for the background and also optionally specify its scaling with a geometry string WxH+X+Y, in which ``W'' / ``H'' specify the horizontal/vertical scale (percent) and ``X'' / ``Y'' locate the image @@ -691,37 +881,27 @@ of 1 displays the image without any scaling. A scale of 2 to 9 specifies an integer number of images in that direction. No image will be magnified beyond 10 times its original size. The maximum permitted -scale is 1000. [default 0x0+50+50] +scale is 1000. [default 0x0+50+50]
+Specify the colon-delimited search path for finding XPM files.
Select the fonts to be used. This is a comma separated list of font names +that are checked in order when trying to find glyphs for characters. The +first font defines the cell size for characters; other fonts might be +smaller, but not (in general) larger. A (hopefully) reasonable default +font list is always appended to it; option -fn.
Each font can either be a standard X11 core font (XLFD) name, with
-optional prefix x: or a Xft font (Compile xft), prefixed with xft:.
x: or a Xft font (Compile xft), prefixed with xft:.
In addition, each font can be prefixed with additional hints and @@ -734,7 +914,7 @@
- URxvt*font: 9x15bold,\
+ URxvt.font: 9x15bold,\
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso10646-1,\
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso10646-1, \
[codeset=JISX0208]xft:Kochi Gothic:antialias=false, \
@@ -761,16 +941,16 @@
The last font is a useful catch-all font that supplies most of the
remaining unicode characters.
The font list to use for displaying bold, italic or bold +italic > characters, respectively.
If specified and non-empty, then the syntax is the same as for the @@ -787,332 +967,613 @@
If set, but empty, then this specific style is disabled and the normal text font will being used for the given style.
When font styles are not enabled, or this option is enabled (True, +option -is, the default), bold and italic font styles imply high +intensity foreground/backround colours. Disabling this option (False, +option +is) disables this behaviour, the high intensity colours are not +reachable.
+Set mouse selection style to old which is 2.20, oldword which is xterm style with 2.20 old word selection, or anything else which gives -xterm style selection. +xterm style selection.
Set scrollbar style to rxvt, plain, next or xterm. plain is +the author's favourite.
Set window title string, the default title is the command-line specified after the -e option, if any, otherwise the application -name; option -title. +name; option -title.
Set the name used to label the window's icon or displayed in an icon manager window, it also sets the window's title unless it is explicitly -set; option -n. +set; option -n.
True: de-iconify (map) on receipt of a bell character. False: no +de-iconify (map) on receipt of a bell character [default].
True: use visual bell on receipt of a bell character; option -vb. +False: no visual bell [default]; option +vb.
True: start as a login shell by prepending a `-' to argv[0] of the shell; option -ls. False: start as a normal sub-shell -[default]; option +ls. +[default]; option +ls.
True: inhibit writing record into the system log file utmp; option -ut. False: write record into the system log file utmp -[default]; option +ut. +[default]; option +ut.
Specify a command pipe for vt100 printer [default lpr(1)]. Use Print to initiate a screen dump to the printer and Ctrl-Print or -Shift-Print to include the scrollback as well. +Shift-Print to include the scrollback as well.
The string will be interpreted as if typed into the shell as-is.
Example:
+ URxvt.print-pipe: cat > $(TMPDIR=$HOME mktemp urxvt.XXXXXX)+
This creates a new file in your home directory with the screen contents
+everytime you hit Print.
True: enable the scrollbar [default]; option -sb. False: +disable the scrollbar; option +sb.
+True: place the scrollbar on the right of the window; option -sr. +False: place the scrollbar on the left of the window; option +sr.
+True: display an rxvt scrollbar without a trough; option -st. +False: display an rxvt scrollbar with a trough; option +st.
+Align the top, bottom or centre [default] of the scrollbar +thumb with the pointer on middle button press/drag.
True: scroll to bottom when tty receives output; option -si. False: do not scroll to bottom when tty receives output; option -+si. ++si.
True: scroll with scrollback buffer when tty receives new lines (and +scrollTtyOutput is False); option -sw. False: do not scroll +with scrollback buffer when tty recieves new lines; option +sw.
True: scroll to bottom when a non-special key is pressed. Special keys are those which are intercepted by rxvt-unicode for special handling and are not passed onto the shell; option -sk. False: do not scroll to -bottom when a non-special key is pressed; option +sk. +bottom when a non-special key is pressed; option +sk.
+Save number lines in the scrollback buffer [default 64]. This +resource is limited on most machines to 65535; option -sl.
Internal border of number pixels. This resource is limited to 100; +option -b.
External border of number pixels. This resource is limited to 100; +option -w, -bw, -borderwidth.
Set MWM hints to request a borderless window, i.e. if honoured by the +WM, the rxvt-unicode window will not have window decorations; option -bl.
Compile frills: Disable the usage of the built-in block graphics/line +drawing characters and just rely on what the specified fonts provide. Use +this if you have a good font and want to use its block graphic glyphs; +option -sbg.
Specifies the terminal type name to be set in the TERM environment +variable; option -tn.
Specifies number of lines (pixel height) to insert between each row of +the display [default 0]; option -lsp.
True: handle Meta (Alt) + keypress to set the 8th bit. False: +handle Meta (Alt) + keypress as an escape prefix [default].
True: the mouse wheel scrolls a page full. False: the mouse wheel +scrolls five lines [default].
-ptab.
+True: store tabs as wide characters. False: interpret tabs as cursor
+movement only; option -ptab.
True: blink the cursor. False: do not blink the cursor [default]; +option -bc.
True: blank the pointer when a key is pressed or after a set number of seconds of inactivity. False: the pointer is always visible -[default]. +[default].
Mouse pointer foreground colour.
Mouse pointer background colour.
Specifies number of seconds before blanking the pointer [default 2]. Use a
+large number (e.g. 987654321) to effectively disable the timeout.
The string to send when the backspace key is pressed. If set to DEC or unset it will send Delete (code 127) or, if shifted, Backspace (code 8) - which can be reversed with the appropriate DEC private mode -escape sequence. +escape sequence.
The string to send when the delete key (not the keypad delete key) is pressed. If unset it will send the sequence traditionally associated -with the Execute key. +with the Execute key.
+The characters used as delimiters for double-click word selection +(whitespace delimiting is added automatically if resource is given).
+When the selection extension is in use (the default if compiled in, see
+the rxvtperl(3) manpage), a suitable regex using these characters
+will be created (if the resource exists, otherwise, no regex will be
+created). In this mode, characters outside ISO-8859-1 can be used.
When the selection extension is not used, only ISO-8859-1 characters can +be used. If not specified, the built-in default is used:
BACKSLASH ```'&()*,;<=?@[]{|} >>
OverTheSpot, OffTheSpot, Root; option -pt.
+name of inputMethod to use; option -im.
+The locale to use for opening the IM. You can use an LC_CTYPE of e.g.
+de_DE.UTF-8 for normal text processing but ja_JP.EUC-JP for the
+input extension to be able to input japanese characters while staying in
+another locale; option -imlocale.
Specify the font-set used for XIM styles OverTheSpot or
+OffTheSpot. It must be a standard X font set (XLFD patterns separated
+by commas), i.e. it's not in the same format as the other font lists used
+in rxvt. The default will be set-up to chose *any* suitable found
+found, preferably one or two pixels differing in size to the base font.
+option -imfont.
Change the meaning of triple-click selection with the left mouse +button. Instead of selecting a full line it will extend the selection to +the end of the logical line only; option -tcw.
Enables ``insecure'' mode. Rxvt-unicode offers some escape sequences that echo arbitrary strings like the icon name or the locale. This could be abused if somebody gets 8-bit-clean access to your display, whether -throuh a mail client displaying mail bodies unfiltered or though -write(1). Therefore, these sequences are disabled by default. (Note -that other terminals, including xterm, have these sequences -enabled by default). You can enable them by setting this boolean -resource or specifying -insecure as an option. At the moment, this -enabled display-answer, locale, findfont, icon label and window title -requests as well as dynamic menubar dispatch. -
write(1) or any other means. Therefore, these sequences are disabled by
+default. (Note that many other terminals, including xterm, have these
+sequences enabled by default, which doesn't make it safer, though).
+
You can enable them by setting this boolean resource or specifying +-insecure as an option. At the moment, this enables display-answer, +locale, findfont, icon label and window title requests.
+Set the key to be interpreted as the Meta key to: alt, meta, hyper, super, mod1, mod2, mod3, mod4, mod5; option --mod. +-mod.
Specify the reply rxvt-unicode sends to the shell when an ENQ (control-E) character is passed through. It may contain escape values as described -in the entry on keysym following. +in the entry on keysym following.
Turn on/off secondary screen (default enabled).
Turn on/off secondary screen scroll (default enabled). If the this option is enabled, scrolls on the secondary screen will change the scrollback buffer and switching to/from the secondary screen will -instead scroll the screen up. +instead scroll the screen up.
+Turn on/off hold window after exit support. If enabled, rxvt +will not immediately destroy its window when the program executed within +it exits. Instead, it will wait till it is being killed or closed by the +user.
+Compile frills: Associate string with keysym sym. The +intervening resource name keysym. cannot be omitted.
+The format of sym is ``(modifiers-)key'', where modifiers can be +any combination of ISOLevel3, AppKeypad, Control, NumLock, +Shift, Meta, Lock, Mod1, Mod2, Mod3, Mod4, Mod5, +and the abbreviated I, K, C, N, S, M, A, L, 1, +2, 3, 4, 5.
+The NumLock, Meta and ISOLevel3 modifiers are usually aliased to +whatever modifier the NumLock key, Meta/Alt keys or ISO Level3 Shift/AltGr +keys are being mapped. AppKeypad is a synthetic modifier mapped to the +current application keymap mode state.
+The spellings of key can be obtained by using xev(1) command or +searching keysym macros from /usr/X11R6/include/X11/keysymdef.h and +omitting the prefix XK_. Alternatively you can specify key by its hex +keysym value (0x0000 - 0xFFFF). Note that the lookup of syms is not +performed in an exact manner; however, the closest match is assured.
+string may contain escape values (\a: bell, \b: backspace,
+\e, \E: escape, \n: newline, \r: carriage return, \t: tab,
+\000: octal number) or verbatim control characters (^?: delete,
+^@: null, ^A ...) and may be enclosed with double quotes so that it
+can start or end with whitespace.
Please note that you need to double the \ in resource files, as
+Xlib itself does it's own de-escaping (you can use \033 instead of
+\e (and so on), which will work with both Xt and rxvt's own
+processing).
You can define a range of keysyms in one shot by providing a string +with pattern list/PREFIX/MIDDLE/SUFFIX, where the delimeter `/' +should be a character not used by the strings.
+Its usage can be demonstrated by an example:
++ URxvt.keysym.M-C-0x61: list|\033<M-C-|abc|>+
The above line is equivalent to the following three lines:
++ URxvt.keysym.Meta-Control-0x61: \033<M-C-a> + URxvt.keysym.Meta-Control-0x62: \033<M-C-b> + URxvt.keysym.Meta-Control-0x63: \033<M-C-c>+
If string takes the form of command:STRING, the specified STRING
+is interpreted and executed as rxvt's control sequence. For
+example the following means ``change the current locale to zh_CN.GBK
+when Control-Meta-c is being pressed'':
+ URxvt.keysym.M-C-c: command:\033]701;zh_CN.GBK\007+
If string takes the form perl:STRING, then the specified STRING
+is passed to the on_keyboard_command perl handler. See the rxvtperl(3)
+manpage. For example, the selection extension (activated via
+rxvt -pe selection) listens for selection:rot13 events:
+ URxvt.keysym.M-C-c: perl:selection:rot13+
Due the the large number of modifier combinations, a defined key mapping
+will match if at at least the specified identifiers are being set, and
+no other key mappings with those and more bits are being defined. That
+means that defining a key map for a will automatically provide
+definitions for Meta-a, Shift-a and so on, unless some of those are defined
+mappings themselves.
Unfortunately, this will override built-in key mappings. For example
+if you overwrite the Insert key you will disable rxvt's
+Shift-Insert mapping. To re-enable that, you can poke ``holes'' into the
+user-defined keymap using the builtin: replacement:
+ URxvt.keysym.Insert: <my insert key sequence> + URxvt.keysym.S-Insert: builtin:+
The first line defines a mapping for Insert and any combination
+of modifiers. The second line re-establishes the default mapping for
+Shift-Insert.
The following example will map Control-Meta-1 and Control-Meta-2 to
+the fonts suxuseuro and 9x15bold, so you can have some limited
+font-switching at runtime:
+ URxvt.keysym.M-C-1: command:\033]50;suxuseuro\007 + URxvt.keysym.M-C-2: command:\033]50;9x15bold\007+
Other things are possible, e.g. resizing (see rxvt(7) for more
+info):
+ URxvt.keysym.M-C-3: command:\033[8;25;80t + URxvt.keysym.M-C-4: command:\033[8;48;110t+
Comma-separated list(s) of perl extension scripts (default: default) to
+use in this terminal instance; option -pe.
Extension names can be prefixed with a - sign to prohibit using
+them. This can be useful to selectively disable some extensions loaded
+by default, or specified via the perl-ext-common resource. For
+example, default,-selection will use all the default extension except
+selection.
Extension names can also be followed by an argument in angle brackets
+(e.g. searchable-scrollback<M-s>, which binds the hotkey for
+searchable scorllback to Alt/Meta-s). Mentioning the same extension
+multiple times with different arguments will pass multiple arguments to
+the extension.
Each extension is looked up in the library directories, loaded if +necessary, and bound to the current terminal instance.
If both of these resources are the empty string, then the perl +interpreter will not be initialized. The idea behind two options is that +perl-ext-common will be used for extensions that should be available to +all instances, while perl-ext is used for specific instances.
+Perl code to be evaluated when all extensions have been registered. See
+the rxvtperl(3) manpage. Due to security reasons, this resource
+will be ignored when running setuid/setgid.
Colon-separated list of additional directories that hold extension
+scripts. When looking for extensions specified by the perl resource,
+rxvt will first look in these directories and then in
+/opt/rxvt/lib/urxvt/perl/. Due to security reasons, this resource
+will be ignored when running setuid/setgid.
See the rxvtperl(3) manpage.
Additional selection patterns, see the rxvtperl(3) manpage for
+details.
Selection auto-transform patterns, see the rxvtperl(3) manpage
+for details.
Sets the hotkey that starts the incremental scrollback buffer search
+(default: M-s).
Specifies the program to be started with a URL argument. Used by the
+selection-popup and mark-urls perl extensions.
Compile frills: Sets the WM_TRANSIENT_FOR property to the given window id.
+Compile frills: Sets override-redirect for the terminal window, making +it almost invisible to window managers; option -override-redirect.
+
If mouse reporting mode is active, the normal scrollbar actions are disabled -- on the assumption that we are using a fullscreen -application. Instead, pressing Button1 and Button3 sends ESC[6~ -(Next) and ESC[5~ (Prior), respectively. Similarly, clicking on the -up and down arrows sends ESC[A (Up) and ESC[B (Down), +application. Instead, pressing Button1 and Button3 sends ESC [ 6 ~ +(Next) and ESC [ 5 ~ (Prior), respectively. Similarly, clicking on the +up and down arrows sends ESC [ A (Up) and ESC [ B (Down), respectively.
@@ -1145,38 +1606,49 @@
The behaviour of text selection and insertion mechanism is similar to xterm(1).
Left click at the beginning of the region, drag to the end of the region +and release; Right click to extend the marked region; Left double-click +to select a word; Left triple-click to select the entire logical line +(which can span multiple screen lines), unless modified by resource +tripleclickwords.
Starting a selection while pressing the Meta key (or Meta+Ctrl keys) -(Compile: frills) will create a rectangular selection instead of a normal -one.
+(Compile: frills) will create a rectangular selection instead of a +normal one. In this mode, every selected row becomes its own line in the +selection, and trailing whitespace is visually underlined and removed from +the selection.Pressing and releasing the Middle mouse button in an rxvt +window causes the value of the PRIMARY selection (or CLIPBOARD with the +Meta modifier) to be inserted as if it had been typed on the keyboard.
+Pressing Shift-Insert causes the value of the PRIMARY selection to be +inserted too.
Changing fonts (or font sizes, respectively) via the keypad is not yet supported in rxvt-unicode. Bug me if you need this.
-You can, however, switch fonts at runtime using escape sequences (and -therefore using the menubar), e.g.:
+You can, however, switch fonts at runtime using escape sequences, e.g.:
- printf '\e]701;%s\007' "9x15bold,xft:Kochi Gothic"+ printf '\e]710;%s\007' "9x15bold,xft:Kochi Gothic" +
You can use keyboard shortcuts, too:
++ URxvt.keysym.M-C-1: command:\033]710;suxuseuro\007\033]711;suxuseuro\007 + URxvt.keysym.M-C-2: command:\033]710;9x15bold\007\033]711;9x15bold\007
rxvt-unicode will automatically re-apply these fonts to the output so far.
@@ -1187,10 +1659,10 @@ first part is available rxvt-unicode has been compiled with
--enable-frills, the rest is available when rxvt-unicode was compiled
with --enable-iso14755.
-This allows you to enter unicode characters using their hexcode.
Start by pressing and holding both Control and Shift, then enter
hex-digits (between one and six). Releasing Control and Shift will
commit the character as if it were typed directly. While holding down
@@ -1202,11 +1674,11 @@
address printed as hexcodes, e.g. 671d 65e5. You can enter this easily
by pressing Control and Shift, followed by 6-7-1-D-SPACE-6-5-E-5,
followed by releasing the modifier keys.
This mode lets you input characters representing the keycap symbols of +your keyboard, if representable in the current locale encoding.
Start by pressing Control and Shift together, then releasing
them. The next special key (cursor keys, home etc.) you enter will not
invoke it's usual function but instead will insert the corresponding
@@ -1214,16 +1686,16 @@
released, otherwise pressing e.g. Shift would enter the symbol for
ISO Level 2 Switch, although your intention might have been to enter a
reverse tab (Shift-Tab).
While this is implemented already (it's basically the selection +mechanism), it could be extended by displaying a unicode character map.
This method lets you display the unicode character code associated with +characters already displayed.
You enter this mode by holding down Control and Shift together, then
pressing and holding the left mouse button and moving around. The unicode
hex code(s) (it might be a combining character) of the character under the
@@ -1232,17 +1704,18 @@
character - due to implementation reasons, characters combined with
combining characters, line drawing characters and unknown characters will
always be drawn using the built-in support font.
With respect to conformance, rxvt-unicode is supposed to be compliant to both scenario A and B of ISO 14755, including part 5.2.
rxvt tries to write an entry into the utmp(5) file so -that it can be seen via the who(1) command, and can accept messages. -To allow this feature, rxvt must be installed setuid root on -some systems.
+rxvt tries to write an entry into the utmp(5) file so that +it can be seen via the who(1) command, and can accept messages. To +allow this feature, rxvt may need to be installed setuid root +on some systems or setgid to root or to some other group on others.
In addition to the default foreground and background colours, rxvt can display up to 16 colours (8 ANSI colours plus high-intensity bold/blink versions of the same). Here is a list of the -colours with their rgb.txt names.
+colours with their names.| color0 | (black) | = Black |
| color1 | (red) | = Red3 |