rxvt-unicode, version 7.9, is a colour vt102 terminal +
rxvt-unicode, version 8.2, 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 -- @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
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.
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).
-tint white); resource shading.
Change the meaning of triple-click selection with the left mouse -button. Instead of selecting a full line it will extend the selection the +button. Only effective when the original (non-perl) selection code is +in-use. Instead of selecting a full line it will extend the selection the end of the logical line only. resource tripleclickwords.
Use the specified colour as the background for reverse video -characters.
+Use the specified colour as the background for reverse video characters +when OPTION_HC is disabled (--disable-frills).
Darken (0 .. 100) or lighten (-1 .. -100) the transparent background -image in addition to tinting it.
+Darken (0 .. 100) or lighten (-1 .. -100) the transparent background image +in addition to tinting it; option -sh.
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.
+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. Only effective when the original (non-perl) +selection code is in use.
True: set the urgency hint for the wm on receipt of a bell character. +False: do not set the urgency hint [default].
+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 perl 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 @@ -1340,7 +1349,7 @@
Turn on/off secondary screen scroll (default enabled). If the this +
Turn on/off secondary screen scroll (default enabled). If 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.
@@ -1386,7 +1395,8 @@\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.
+can start or end with whitespace. This feature is deprecated and will
+be removed.
Please note that you need to double the \ in resource files, as
@@ -1558,7 +1568,7 @@
Specifies the program to be started with a URL argument. Used by the
-selection-popup and mark-urls perl extensions.
selection-popup and matcher perl extensions.
The behaviour of text selection and insertion mechanism is similar to -xterm(1).
+The behaviour of text selection and insertion/pasting mechanism is similar +to xterm(1).
Left click at the beginning of the region, drag to the end of the region @@ -1624,12 +1634,12 @@ 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.
+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
@@ -1776,15 +1786,17 @@
(recommended, but MUST have 4 digits/component) colour specifications,
in addition to the ones provided by X, where the additional A component
specifies opacity (alpha) values. The minimum value of 0 is completely
-transparent). You can also prefix any color with [a], where a is on
-to four hex digits specifiying the opacity value.
[percent], where
+percent is a decimal percentage (0-100) that specifies the opacity of
+the color, where 0 is completely transparent and 100 is completelxy
+opaque.
You probably need to specify ``-depth 32'', too, and have the luck that your X-server uses ARGB pixel layout, as X is far from just supporting ARGB visuals out of the box, and rxvt-unicode just fudges around.
For example, the following selects an almost completely transparent red background, and an almost opaque pink foreground:
- rxvt -depth 32 -bg rgba:0000/0000/0000/2222 -fg "[e]pink"+ rxvt -depth 32 -bg rgba:0000/0000/0000/aaaa -fg "[80]pink"
Please note that transparency of any kind if completely unsupported by the author. Don't bug him with installation questions!