--- rxvt-unicode/doc/rxvt.1.pod 2007/06/09 09:05:38 1.131 +++ rxvt-unicode/doc/rxvt.1.pod 2007/09/01 09:38:50 1.137 @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ world. Being a terminal emulator, however, some things are very difficult, especially cursive scripts such as arabic, vertically written scripts like mongolian or scripts requiring extremely complex combining rules, -like tibetan or devenagari. Don't expect pretty output when using these +like tibetan or devanagari. Don't expect pretty output when using these scripts. Most other scripts, latin, cyrillic, kanji, thai etc. should work fine, though. A somewhat difficult case are right-to-left scripts, such as hebrew: B adopts the view that bidirectional algorithms @@ -110,7 +110,11 @@ =item B<-j>|B<+j> -Turn on/off jump scrolling; resource B. +Turn on/off jump scrolling (allow multiple lines per refresh); resource B. + +=item B<-ss>|B<+ss> + +Turn on/off skip scrolling (allow multiple screens per refresh); resource B. =item B<-ip>|B<+ip> | B<-tr>|B<+tr> @@ -137,31 +141,37 @@ Tint the transparent background pixmap with the given colour when 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 +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; resource I. Example: @@RXVT_NAME@@ -tr -tint blue -sh 40 -=item B<-sh> I +=item B<-sh> I Darken (0 .. 100) or lighten (-1 .. -100) the transparent -background image in addition to (or instead of) tinting it; +background image in addition to (or instead of) tinting it; resource I. =item B<-blt> I -Specify background blending type. If background pixmap is specified -at the same time as transparency - such pixmap will be blended over +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, B, B - color values averaging, B, -B, B, B, B, B, B, -B, B, B, B, B. The default is +B, B, B - color values averaging, B, +B, B, B, B, B, B, +B, B, B, B, B. The default is alpha-blending; resource I. -=item B<-blr> I +=item B<-blr> I -Apply Gaussian Blur with the specified radius to the transparent -background image; resource I. +Apply Gaussian Blur with the specified radii to the transparent +background image. If single number is specified - both vertical and +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; resource I. =item B<-bg> I @@ -339,7 +349,7 @@ Compile I: Lines (pixel height) to insert between each row of the display. Useful to work around font rendering problems; resource -B. +B. =item B<-tn> I @@ -609,9 +619,25 @@ =item B I -B: specify that jump scrolling should be used. When scrolling -quickly, fewer screen updates are performed [default]; option B<-j>. -B: specify that smooth scrolling should be used; option B<+j>. +B: specify that jump scrolling should be used. When receiving lots +of lines, @@RXVT_NAME@@ will only scroll once a whole screen height of lines +has been read, resulting in fewer updates while still displaying every +received line; option B<-j>. + +B: specify that smooth scrolling should be used. @@RXVT_NAME@@ will +force a screen refresh on each new line it received; option B<+j>. + +=item B I + +B: (the default) specify that skip scrolling should be used. When +receiving lots of lines, @@RXVT_NAME@@ will only scroll once in a while +(around 60 times per second), resulting in far fewer updates. This can +result in @@RXVT_NAME@@ not ever displaying some of the lines it receives; +option B<-ss>. + +B: specify that everything is to be displayed, even +if the refresh is too fast for the human eye to read anything (or the +monitor to display anything); option B<+ss>. =item B I @@ -892,7 +918,7 @@ Specifies the terminal type name to be set in the B environment variable; option B<-tn>. -=item B I +=item B I Specifies number of lines (pixel height) to insert between each row of the display [default 0]; option B<-lsp>. @@ -1287,7 +1313,7 @@ ISO 14755 is a standard for entering and viewing unicode characters and character codes using the keyboard. It consists of 4 parts. The -first part is available rxvt-unicode has been compiled with +first part is available if rxvt-unicode has been compiled with C<--enable-frills>, the rest is available when rxvt-unicode was compiled with C<--enable-iso14755>.