--- rxvt-unicode/doc/rxvt.1.pod 2005/07/07 19:37:46 1.67 +++ rxvt-unicode/doc/rxvt.1.pod 2006/01/25 13:26:48 1.105 @@ -107,21 +107,31 @@ Turn on/off jump scrolling; resource B. -=item B<-ip>|B<+ip> +=item B<-ip>|B<+ip> | B<-tr>|B<+tr> Turn on/off inheriting parent window's pixmap. Alternative form is B<-tr>; resource B. =item B<-fade> I -Fade the text by the given percentage when focus is lost. resource B. +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 B. + +=item B<-fadecolor> I + +Fade to this colour when fading is used (see B<-fade>). The default colour +is black. resource B. =item B<-tint> I Tint the transparent background pixmap with the given colour when -transparency is enabled with B<-tr> or B<-ip>. See also the B<-sh> -option that can be used to brighten or darken the image in addition to -tinting it. +transparency is enabled with B<-tr> or B<-ip>. This only works for +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; resource +I. Example: + + @@RXVT_NAME@@ -tr -tint blue -sh 40 =item B<-sh> @@ -164,7 +174,7 @@ =item B<-fn> I Select the fonts to be used. This is a comma separated list of font names -that are used in turn when trying to display Unicode characters. The +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 B for more details. @@ -181,18 +191,25 @@ =item B<-fb> I -Compile font-styles: The bold font list to use when bold characters are to -be printed. See resource B for details. +Compile I: The bold font list to use when B characters +are to be printed. See resource B for details. =item B<-fi> I -Compile font-styles: The italic font list to use when bold characters are to -be printed. See resource B for details. +Compile I: The italic font list to use when I +characters are to be printed. See resource B for details. =item B<-fbi> I -Compile font-styles: The bold italic font list to use when bold characters are to -be printed. See resource B for details. +Compile I: The bold italic font list to use when B<< I >> characters are to be printed. See resource B +for details. + +=item B<-is>|B<+is> + +Compile I: Bold/Italic font styles imply high intensity +foreground/background (default). See resource B for +details. =item B<-name> I @@ -282,6 +299,18 @@ if honoured by the WM, the rxvt-unicode window will not have window decorations; resource B. +=item B<-override-redirect> + +Compile I: Sets override-redirect on the window; resource +B. + +=item B<-sbg> + +Compile I: 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 B. + =item B<-lsp> I Compile I: Lines (pixel height) to insert between each row of @@ -305,6 +334,11 @@ run the program specified by the B environment variable or, failing that, I. +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_NAME@@ -e sh -c "shell commands" + =item B<-title> I Window title (B<-T> still respected); the default title is the basename @@ -370,6 +404,13 @@ Turn on/off secondary screen scroll (default enabled); resource B. +=item B<-hold>|B<+hold> + +Turn on/off hold window after exit support. If enabled, @@RXVT_NAME@@ +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 B. + =item B<-keysym.>I I Remap a key symbol. See resource B. @@ -401,7 +442,7 @@ system "@@RXVT_NAME@@ -embed $xid &"; }); -=item B<-pty-fd> I +=item B<-pty-fd> I Tells @@RXVT_NAME@@ NOT to execute any commands or create a new pty/tty pair but instead use the given filehandle as the tty master. This is @@ -412,6 +453,9 @@ 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 C<-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 F): @@ -427,6 +471,11 @@ my $slave = $pty->slave; while (<$slave>) { print $slave "got <$_>\n" } +=item B<-pe> I + +Comma-separated list of perl extension scripts to use (or not to use) in +this terminal instance. See resource B for details. + =back =head1 RESOURCES (available also as long-options) @@ -434,14 +483,10 @@ Note: `@@RXVT_NAME@@ --help' gives a list of all resources (long options) compiled into your version. -There are two different methods that @@RXVT_NAME@@ can use to get the -Xresource data: using the X libraries (Xrm*-functions) or internal -Xresources reader (B<~/.Xdefaults>). For the first method (ie. -B<@@RXVT_NAME@@ -h> lists B), you can set and change the -resources using X11 tools like B. Many distribution do also load -settings from the B<~/.Xresources> file when X starts. @@RXVT_NAME@@ -will consult the following files/resources in order, with later settings -overwriting earlier ones: +You can set and change the resources using X11 tools like B. Many +distribution do also load settings from the B<~/.Xresources> file when X +starts. @@RXVT_NAME@@ 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 @@ -449,20 +494,16 @@ 4. SCREEN_RESOURCES for the current screen 5. $XENVIRONMENT file OR $HOME/.Xdefaults- -If compiled with internal Xresources support (i.e. B<@@RXVT_NAME@@ -h> -lists B<.Xdefaults>) then B<@@RXVT_NAME@@> accepts application defaults -set in XAPPLOADDIR/URxvt (compile-time defined: usually -B) and resources set in -B<~/.Xdefaults>, or B<~/.Xresources> if B<~/.Xdefaults> does not exist. -Note that when reading X resources, B<@@RXVT_NAME@@> recognizes two -class names: B and B. The class name B allows -resources common to both B<@@RXVT_NAME@@> and the original I to be -easily configured, while the class name B allows resources -unique to B<@@RXVT_NAME@@>, notably colours and key-handling, to be -shared between different B<@@RXVT_NAME@@> 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: +Note that when reading X resources, B<@@RXVT_NAME@@> recognizes two class +names: B and B. The class name B allows resources +common to both B<@@RXVT_NAME@@> and the original I to be easily +configured, while the class name B allows resources unique to +B<@@RXVT_NAME@@>, to be shared between different B<@@RXVT_NAME@@> +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 @@RXVT_NAME@@perl(3) manpage for additional settings by perl +extensions not documented here): =over 4 @@ -550,11 +591,17 @@ =item B I -Fade the text by the given percentage when focus is lost. +Fade the text by the given percentage when focus is lost; option B<-fade>. + +=item B I + +Fade to this colour, when fading is used (see B). The default +colour is black; option B<-fadecolor>. =item B I -Tint the transparent background pixmap with the given colour. +Tint the transparent background pixmap with the given colour; option +B<-tint>. =item B I @@ -587,25 +634,17 @@ be magnified beyond 10 times its original size. The maximum permitted scale is 1000. [default 0x0+50+50] -=item B I - -Read in the specified menu file (note the `.menu' extension is -optional) and also optionally specify a starting tag to find. See the -reference documentation for details on the syntax for the menuBar. - =item B I -Specify the colon-delimited search path for finding files (XPM and -menus), in addition to the paths specified by the B and -B environment variables. +Specify the colon-delimited search path for finding XPM files. =item B I -Select the fonts to be used. This is a comma separated list of font -names that are used in turn when trying to display Unicode characters. -The first font defines the cell size for characters; other fonts might -be smaller, but not larger. A reasonable default font list is always -appended to it. option B<-fn>. +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 B<-fn>. Each font can either be a standard X11 core font (XLFD) name, with optional prefix C or a Xft font (Compile I), prefixed with C. @@ -617,7 +656,7 @@ For example, this font resource - 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, \ @@ -661,6 +700,14 @@ If set, but empty, then this specific style is disabled and the normal text font will being used for the given style. +=item B I + +When font styles are not enabled, or this option is enabled (B, +option B<-is>, the default), bold and italic font styles imply high +intensity foreground/backround colours. Disabling this option (B, +option B<+is>) disables this behaviour, the high intensity colours are not +reachable. + =item B I Set mouse selection style to B which is 2.20, B which is @@ -716,7 +763,7 @@ Example: - URxvt*print-pipe: cat > $(TMPDIR=$HOME mktemp urxvt.XXXXXX) + 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 C. @@ -780,6 +827,13 @@ 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 B<-bl>. +=item B I + +Compile I: 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 B<-sbg>. + =item B I Specifies the terminal type name to be set in the B environment @@ -844,8 +898,16 @@ =item B I -The characters used as delimiters for double-click word selection. The -built-in default: +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 @@RXVT_NAME@@perl(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: B<< BACKSLASH `"'&()*,;<=>?@[]{|} >> @@ -862,7 +924,7 @@ The locale to use for opening the IM. You can use an C of e.g. C for normal text processing but C for the input extension to be able to input japanese characters while staying in -another locale. option B<-imlocale>. +another locale; option B<-imlocale>. =item B I @@ -877,20 +939,21 @@ 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 B<-tcw>. +the end of the logical line only; option B<-tcw>. =item B I 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 B<-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. +through a mail client displaying mail bodies unfiltered or through +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 +B<-insecure> as an option. At the moment, this enables display-answer, +locale, findfont, icon label and window title requests. =item B I @@ -904,17 +967,24 @@ character is passed through. It may contain escape values as described in the entry on B following. -=item B I +=item B I Turn on/off secondary screen (default enabled). -=item B I +=item B I 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. +=item B: I + +Turn on/off hold window after exit support. If enabled, @@RXVT_NAME@@ +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. + =item BI: I Compile I: Associate I with keysym I. The @@ -943,10 +1013,10 @@ C<^@>: null, C<^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 C<\> when using -C<--enable-xgetdefault>, as X itself does it's own de-escaping (you can -use C<\033> instead of C<\e> (and so on), which will work with both Xt and -@@RXVT_NAME@@'s own processing). +Please note that you need to double the C<\> in resource files, as +Xlib itself does it's own de-escaping (you can use C<\033> instead of +C<\e> (and so on), which will work with both Xt and @@RXVT_NAME@@'s own +processing). You can define a range of keysyms in one shot by providing a I with pattern B, where the delimeter `/' @@ -969,6 +1039,13 @@ URxvt.keysym.M-C-c: command:\033]701;zh_CN.GBK\007 +If I takes the form C, then the specified B +is passed to the C perl handler. See the @@RXVT_NAME@@perl(3) +manpage. For example, the F extension (activated via +C<@@RXVT_NAME@@ -pe selection>) listens for C 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 I the specified identifiers are being set, and no other key mappings with those and more bits are being defined. That @@ -1001,6 +1078,78 @@ URxvt.keysym.M-C-3: command:\033[8;25;80t URxvt.keysym.M-C-4: command:\033[8;48;110t +=item B: I + +=item B: I + +Comma-separated list(s) of perl extension scripts (default: C) to +use in this terminal instance; option B<-pe>. + +Extension names can be prefixed with a C<-> sign to prohibit using +them. This can be useful to selectively disable some extensions loaded +by default, or specified via the C resource. For +example, C will use all the default extension except +C. + +Extension names can also be followed by an argument in angle brackets +(e.g. C<< searchable-scrollback >>, 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 +B will be used for extensions that should be available to +all instances, while B is used for specific instances. + +=item B: I + +Perl code to be evaluated when all extensions have been registered. See +the @@RXVT_NAME@@perl(3) manpage. Due to security reasons, this resource +will be ignored when running setuid/setgid. + +=item B: I + +Colon-separated list of additional directories that hold extension +scripts. When looking for extensions specified by the C resource, +@@RXVT_NAME@@ will first look in these directories and then in +F<@@RXVT_LIBDIR@@/urxvt/perl/>. Due to security reasons, this resource +will be ignored when running setuid/setgid. + +See the @@RXVT_NAME@@perl(3) manpage. + +=item B<< selection.pattern-I >>: I + +Additional selection patterns, see the @@RXVT_NAME@@perl(3) manpage for +details. + +=item B<< selection-autotransform.I >>: I + +Selection auto-transform patterns, see the @@RXVT_NAME@@perl(3) manpage +for details. + +=item B I + +Sets the hotkey that starts the incremental scrollback buffer search +(default: C). + +=item B: I + +Specifies the program to be started with a URL argument. Used by the +C and C perl extensions. + +=item B: I + +Compile I: Sets the WM_TRANSIENT_FOR property to the given window id. + +=item B: I + +Compile I: Sets override-redirect for the terminal window, making +it almost invisible to window managers; option B<-override-redirect>. + =back =head1 THE SCROLLBAR @@ -1044,14 +1193,19 @@ B. Starting a selection while pressing the B key (or B keys) -(Compile: I) will create a rectangular selection instead of a normal -one. +(Compile: I) 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. =item B: -Pressing and releasing the Middle mouse button (or B) in -an B<@@RXVT_NAME@@> window causes the current text selection to be -inserted as if it had been typed on the keyboard. +Pressing and releasing the Middle mouse button in an B<@@RXVT_NAME@@> +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 B causes the value of the PRIMARY selection to be +inserted too. =back @@ -1060,10 +1214,14 @@ 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. @@ -1235,15 +1393,6 @@ The shell to be used for command execution, defaults to C. -=item B - -The path where @@RXVT_NAME@@ looks for support files such as menu and xpm -files. - -=item B - -Used in the same way as C. - =item B The unix domain socket path used by @@RXVT_NAME@@c(1) and @@ -1282,14 +1431,6 @@ @@RXVT_NAME@@(7), @@RXVT_NAME@@c(1), @@RXVT_NAME@@d(1), xterm(1), sh(1), resize(1), X(1), pty(4), tty(4), utmp(5) -=head1 BUGS - -Check the BUGS file for an up-to-date list. - -Cursor change support is not yet implemented. - -Click-and-drag doesn't work with X11 mouse report overriding. - =head1 CURRENT PROJECT COORDINATOR =over 4 @@ -1330,16 +1471,20 @@ =item Geoff Wing L<< >> -Rewrote screen display and text selection routines. Project Coordinator -(changes.txt 2.4.6 - rxvt-unicode) +Rewrote screen display and text selection routines. + +Project Coordinator (changes.txt 2.4.6 - rxvt-unicode) =item Marc Alexander Lehmann L<< >> -Forked rxvt-unicode, rewrote most of the display code and internal -character handling to store text in unicode, improve xterm -compatibility and apply numerous other bugfixes and extensions. +Forked rxvt-unicode, unicode support, rewrote almost all the code, perl +extension, random hacks, numerous bugfixes and extensions. Project Coordinator (Changes 1.0 -) +=item Emanuele Giaquinta L<< >> + +Pty/tty/utmp/wtmp rewrite, lots of random hacking and bugfixing. + =back