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 non-tiled backgrounds, currently. See also the B<-sh> option that can be
 used to brighten or darken the image in addition to tinting it.
 Please note that certain tint colours can be applied on the server-side,
 thus yielding performance gain of two orders of magnitude. These colours are:
 blue, red, green, cyan, magenta, yellow, and those close to them. Also
-pure black and pure white colors essentially mean no tinting; resource
+pure black and pure white colours essentially mean no tinting; resource
 I<tintColor>. Example:
    @@RXVT_NAME@@ -tr -tint blue -sh 40
 =item B<-sh> I<number>
 =item B<-blt> I<string>
 Specify background blending type. If background pixmap is specified
 at the same time as transparency - such pixmap will be blended over
 transparency image, using method specified. Supported values are :
-B<add>, B<alphablend>, B<allanon> - color values averaging, B<colorize>,
+B<add>, B<alphablend>, B<allanon> - colour values averaging, B<colorize>,
 B<darken>, B<diff>, B<dissipate>, B<hue>, B<lighten>, B<overlay>,
 B<saturate>, B<screen>, B<sub>, B<tint>, B<value>. The default is
 alpha-blending. Compile I<afterimage>; resource I<blendType>.
 =item B<-blr> I<HxV>
 horizontal radii are considered to be the same. Setting one of the
 radii to 1 and another to a large number creates interesting effects
 on some backgrounds. Maximum radius value is 128. Compile I<afterimage>;
 resource I<blurRadius>.
+=item B<-icon> I<file>
+Compile I<afterimage>: Use the specified image as application icon. This
+is used by many window managers, taskbars and pagers to represent the
+application window; resource I<iconFile>.
 =item B<-bg> I<colour>
 Window background colour; resource B<background>.
 =item B<-fg> I<colour>
 =item B<-bc>|B<+bc>
 Blink the cursor; resource B<cursorBlink>.
+=item B<-uc>|B<+uc>
+Make the cursor underlined; resource B<cursorUnderline>.
 =item B<-iconic>
 Start iconified, if the window manager supports that option.
 Alternative form is B<-ic>.
 =item B<-bl>
 Compile I<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 B<borderLess>.
+decorations; resource B<borderLess>. If the window manager does not
+support MWM hints (e.g. kwin), enables override-redirect mode.
 =item B<-override-redirect>
 Compile I<frills>: Sets override-redirect on the window; resource
 B<override-redirect>.
 =item B<-lsp> I<number>
 Compile I<frills>: Lines (pixel height) to insert between each row of
 the display. Useful to work around font rendering problems; resource
 B<lineSpace>.
+=item B<-letsp> I<number>
+Compile I<frills>: Amount to adjust the computed character width by
+to control overall letter spacing. Negative values will tighten up the
+letter spacing, positive values will space letters out more. Useful to
+work around odd font metrics; resource B<letterSpace>.
 =item B<-tn> I<termname>
 This option specifies the name of the terminal type to be set in the
 B<TERM> environment variable. This terminal type must exist in the
 Use the specified colour for the colour value I<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 B<COLORS AND GRAPHICS> section.
+names used are listed in the B<COLOURS AND GRAPHICS> section.
 Colours higher than 15 cannot be set using resources (yet), but can be
 changed using an escape command (see @@RXVT_NAME@@(7)).
 Colours 16-79 form a standard 4x4x4 colour cube (the same as xterm with
 =item B<colorUL:> I<colour>
 Use the specified colour to display underlined characters when the
 foreground colour is the default.
-=item B<colorRV:> I<colour>
-Use the specified colour as the background for reverse video characters
-when OPTION_HC is disabled (--disable-frills).
 =item B<underlineColor:> I<colour>
 If set, use the specified colour as the colour for the underline
 itself. If unset, use the foreground colour.
+=item B<highlightColor:> I<colour>
+If set, use the specified colour as the background for highlighted
+characters. If unset, use reverse video.
+=item B<highlightTextColor:> I<colour>
+If set and highlightColor is set, use the specified colour as the
+foreground for highlighted characters.
 =item B<cursorColor:> I<colour>
 Use the specified colour for the cursor. The default is to use the
 foreground colour; option B<-cr>.
 =item B<reverseVideo:> I<boolean>
 B<True>: simulate reverse video by foreground and background colours;
 option B<-rv>. B<False>: regular screen colours [default]; option
-B<+rv>. See note in B<COLORS AND GRAPHICS> section.
+B<+rv>. See note in B<COLOURS AND GRAPHICS> section.
 =item B<jumpScroll:> I<boolean>
 B<True>: specify that jump scrolling should be used. When receiving lots
 of lines, @@RXVT_NAME@@ will only scroll once a whole screen height of lines
 Specify background blending type; option B<-blt>.
 =item B<blurRadius:> I<number>
-Apply Gaussian Blurr with the specified radius to the transparent
+Apply gaussian blur with the specified radius to the transparent
 background image; option B<-blr>.
+=item B<iconFile:> I<file>
+Set the application icon pixmap; option B<-icon>.
 =item B<scrollColor:> I<colour>
 Use the specified colour for the scrollbar [default #B2B2B2].
 it is named first) and thus defines the character cell grid to be 9 pixels
 wide and 15 pixels high.
 The second font is just used to add additional unicode characters not in
 the base font, likewise the third, which is unfortunately non-bold, but
-the bold version of the font does contain less characters, so this is a
+the bold version of the font does contain fewer characters, so this is a
 useful supplement.
 The third font is an Xft font with aliasing turned off, and the characters
 are limited to the B<JIS 0208> codeset (i.e. japanese kanji). The font
 contains other characters, but we are not interested in them.
 =item B<urgentOnBell:> I<boolean>
 B<True>: set the urgency hint for the wm on receipt of a bell character.
 B<False>: do not set the urgency hint [default].
+@@RXVT_NAME@@ resets the urgency hint on every focus change.
 =item B<visualBell:> I<boolean>
 B<True>: use visual bell on receipt of a bell character; option B<-vb>.
 B<False>: no visual bell [default]; option B<+vb>.
 =item B<cursorBlink:> I<boolean>
 B<True>: blink the cursor. B<False>: do not blink the cursor [default];
 option B<-bc>.
+=item B<cursorUnderline:> I<boolean>
+B<True>: Make the cursor underlined. B<False>: Make the cursor a box [default];
+option B<-uc>.
 =item B<pointerBlank:> I<boolean>
 B<True>: blank the pointer when a key is pressed or after a set number
 of seconds of inactivity. B<False>: the pointer is always visible
 [default].
 large number (e.g. C<987654321>) to effectively disable the timeout.
 =item B<backspacekey:> I<string>
 The string to send when the backspace key is pressed. If set to B<DEC>
-or unset it will send B<Delete> (code 127) or, if shifted, B<Backspace>
+or unset it will send B<Delete> (code 127) or, with control, B<Backspace>
 (code 8) - which can be reversed with the appropriate DEC private mode
 escape sequence.
 =item B<deletekey:> I<string>
 when Control-Meta-c is being pressed":
   URxvt.keysym.M-C-c: command:\033]701;zh_CN.GBK\007
 If I<string> takes the form C<perl:STRING>, then the specified B<STRING>
-is passed to the C<on_keyboard_command> perl handler. See the @@RXVT_NAME@@perl(3)
+is passed to the C<on_user_command> perl handler. See the @@RXVT_NAME@@perl(3)
 manpage. For example, the F<selection> extension (activated via
 C<@@RXVT_NAME@@ -pe selection>) listens for C<selection:rot13> events:
   URxvt.keysym.M-C-c: perl:selection:rot13
 all instances, while B<perl-ext> is used for specific instances.
 =item B<perl-eval>: I<string>
 Perl code to be evaluated when all extensions have been registered. See
-the @@RXVT_NAME@@perl(3) manpage. Due to security reasons, this resource
+the @@RXVT_NAME@@perl(3) manpage.
-will be ignored when running setuid/setgid.
 =item B<perl-lib>: I<path>
 Colon-separated list of additional directories that hold extension
 scripts. When looking for extensions specified by the C<perl> resource,
 @@RXVT_NAME@@ will first look in these directories and then in
-F<@@RXVT_LIBDIR@@/urxvt/perl/>. Due to security reasons, this resource
+F<@@RXVT_LIBDIR@@/urxvt/perl/>.
-will be ignored when running setuid/setgid.
 See the @@RXVT_NAME@@perl(3) manpage.
 =item B<< selection.pattern-I<idx> >>: I<perl-regex>
 =item B<override-redirect>: I<boolean>
 Compile I<frills>: Sets override-redirect for the terminal window, making
 it almost invisible to window managers; option B<-override-redirect>.
+=item B<iso14755:> I<boolean>
+Turn on/off ISO 14755 (default enabled).
 =item B<iso14755_52:> I<boolean>
 Turn on/off ISO 14755 5.2 mode (default enabled).
 B<@@RXVT_NAME@@> tries to write an entry into the I<utmp>(5) file so that
 it can be seen via the I<who(1)> command, and can accept messages.  To
 allow this feature, B<@@RXVT_NAME@@> may need to be installed setuid root
 on some systems or setgid to root or to some other group on others.
-=head1 COLORS AND GRAPHICS
+=head1 COLOURS AND GRAPHICS
 In addition to the default foreground and background colours,
-B<@@RXVT_NAME@@> can display up to 16 colours (8 ANSI colours plus
+B<@@RXVT_NAME@@> can display up to 88/256 colours: 8 ANSI colours plus
-high-intensity bold/blink versions of the same). Here is a list of the
+high-intensity (potentially bold/blink) versions of the same, and 72 (or
-colours with their names.
+240 in 256 colour mode) colours arranged in an 4x4x4 (or 6x6x6) colour RGB
+cube plus a 8 (24) colour greyscale ramp.
+Here is a list of the ANSI colours with their names.
 =begin table
 	B<color0>	(black)	= Black
 	B<color1>	(red)	= Red3
 It is also possible to specify the colour values of B<foreground>,
 B<background>, B<cursorColor>, B<cursorColor2>, B<colorBD>, B<colorUL> as
 a number 0-15, as a convenient shorthand to reference the colour name of
 color0-color15.
-In addition to the colours defined above, @@RXVT_NAME@@ offers an
+The following text gives values for the standard 88 colour mode (and
-additional 72 colours. The first 64 of those (with indices 16 to 79)
+values for the 256 colour mode in parentheses).
-consist of a 4*4*4 RGB colour cube (i.e. I<index = r * 16 + g * 4 + b +
-16>), followed by 8 additional shades of gray (with indices 80 to 87).
+The RGB cube uses indices 16..79 (16..231) using the following formulas:
+   index_88  = (r *  4 + g) *  4 + b + 16   # r, g, b = 0..3
+   index_256 = (r * 16 + g) * 16 + b + 16   # r, g, b = 0..15
+The grayscale ramp uses indices 80..87 (232..239), from 10% to 90% in 10%
+steps (1/26 to 25/26 in 1/26 steps) - black and white are already part of
+the RGB cube.
-Together, all those colours implement the 88 colour xterm colours. Only
+Together, all those colours implement the 88 (256) colour xterm
-the first 16 can be changed using resources currently, the rest can only
+colours. Only the first 16 can be changed using resources currently, the
-be changed via command sequences ("escape codes").
+rest can only be changed via command sequences ("escape codes").
+Applications are advised to use terminfo or command sequences to discover
+number and RGB values of all colours (yes, you can query this...).
 Note that B<-rv> (B<"reverseVideo: True">) simulates reverse video by
 always swapping the foreground/background colours. This is in contrast to
 I<xterm>(1) where the colours are only swapped if they have not otherwise
 been specified. For example,
-=over 4
-=item B<@@RXVT_NAME@@ -fg Black -bg White -rv>
+   @@RXVT_NAME@@ -fg Black -bg White -rv
-would yield White on Black, while on I<xterm>(1) it would yield Black
+would yield White on Black, while on I<xterm>(1) it would yield Black on
-on White.
+White.
-=back
 =head2 ALPHA CHANNEL SUPPORT
 If Xft support has been compiled in and as long as Xft/Xrender/X don't get
 their act together, rxvt-unicode will do it's own alpha channel management:
-You can prefix any color with an opaquenes percentage enclosed in
+You can prefix any colour with an opaqueness percentage enclosed in
 brackets, i.e. C<[percent]>, where C<percent> is a decimal percentage
-(0-100) that specifies the opacity of the color, where C<0> is completely
+(0-100) that specifies the opacity of the colour, where C<0> is completely
 transparent and C<100> is completely opaque. For example, C<[50]red> is a
 half-transparent red, while C<[95]#00ff00> is an almost opaque green. This
 is the recommended format to specify transparency values, and works with
 all ways to specify a colour.
 =over 4
 =item B</usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt>
-Color names.
+Colour names.
 =back
 =head1 SEE ALSO

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