--- rxvt-unicode/doc/rxvt.1.pod 2005/02/14 18:47:54 1.56 +++ rxvt-unicode/doc/rxvt.1.pod 2005/08/11 02:05:07 1.68 @@ -114,14 +114,21 @@ =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. +tinting it; resource I. =item B<-sh> @@ -240,7 +247,7 @@ =item B<-st>|B<+st> -Display normal (non XTerm/NeXT) scrollbar without/with a trough; +Display rxvt (non XTerm/NeXT) scrollbar without/with a trough; resource B. =item B<-ptab>|B<+ptab> @@ -370,11 +377,11 @@ Turn on/off secondary screen scroll (default enabled); resource B. -=item B<-keysym.>I: I +=item B<-keysym.>I I Remap a key symbol. See resource B. -=item B<-embed>: I +=item B<-embed> I Tells @@RXVT_NAME@@ to embed it's windows into an already-existing window, which enables applications to easily embed a terminal. @@ -384,12 +391,49 @@ quite a bit, so don't expect it to keep some specific state. It's best to create an extra subwindow for @@RXVT_NAME@@ and leave it alone. +The window will not be destroyed when @@RXVT_NAME@@ exits. + It might be useful to know that @@RXVT_NAME@@ 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 C<-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 F): + + my $rxvt = new Gtk2::Socket; + $rxvt->signal_connect_after (realize => sub { + my $xid = $_[0]->window->get_xid; + system "@@RXVT_NAME@@ -embed $xid &"; + }); + +=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 +useful if you want to drive @@RXVT_NAME@@ as a generic terminal emulator +without having to run a program within it. + +If this switch is given, @@RXVT_NAME@@ 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. + +Here is a example in perl that illustrates how this option can be used (a +longer example is in F): + + use IO::Pty; + use Fcntl; + + my $pty = new IO::Pty; + fcntl $pty, F_SETFD, 0; # clear close-on-exec + system "@@RXVT_NAME@@ -pty-fd " . (fileno $pty) . "&"; + close $pty; + + # now communicate with rxvt + my $slave = $pty->slave; + while (<$slave>) { print $slave "got <$_>\n" } + =back =head1 RESOURCES (available also as long-options) @@ -513,11 +557,17 @@ =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 @@ -531,7 +581,7 @@ =item B I Use the specified colour for the scrollbar's trough area [default -#969696]. Only relevant for normal (non XTerm/NeXT) scrollbar. +#969696]. Only relevant for rxvt (non XTerm/NeXT) scrollbar. =item B I @@ -633,7 +683,7 @@ =item B I Set scrollbar style to B, B, B or B. B is -the author's favourite.. +the author's favourite. =item B I @@ -675,6 +725,15 @@ B to initiate a screen dump to the printer and B or B 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 C. + =item B I B: enable the scrollbar [default]; option B<-sb>. B: @@ -704,8 +763,8 @@ =item B I B: scroll with scrollback buffer when tty receives new lines (and -B is False); option B<+sw>. B: do not scroll -with scrollback buffer when tty recieves new lines; option B<-sw>. +B is False); option B<-sw>. B: do not scroll +with scrollback buffer when tty recieves new lines; option B<+sw>. =item B I @@ -780,7 +839,8 @@ =item B I -Specifies number of seconds before blanking the pointer [default 2]. +Specifies number of seconds before blanking the pointer [default 2]. Use a +large number (e.g. C<987654321>) to effectively disable the timeout. =item B I @@ -922,6 +982,25 @@ URxvt.keysym.M-C-c: command:\033]701;zh_CN.GBK\007 +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 +means that defining a key map for C will automatically provide +definitions for C, C 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 C key you will disable @@RXVT_NAME@@'s +C mapping. To re-enable that, you can poke "holes" into the +user-defined keymap using the C replacement: + + URxvt.keysym.Insert: + URxvt.keysym.S-Insert: builtin: + +The first line defines a mapping for C and I combination +of modifiers. The second line re-establishes the default mapping for +C. + The following example will map Control-Meta-1 and Control-Meta-2 to the fonts C and C<9x15bold>, so you can have some limited font-switching at runtime: @@ -1183,7 +1262,7 @@ The unix domain socket path used by @@RXVT_NAME@@c(1) and @@RXVT_NAME@@d(1). -Default C<< $HOME/.rxvt-unicode->. +Default F<<< $HOME/.rxvt-unicode-I<< > >>>. =item B @@ -1214,7 +1293,7 @@ =head1 SEE ALSO -@@RXVT_NAME@@(7), xterm(1), sh(1), resize(1), X(1), pty(4), tty(4), utmp(5) +@@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