--- rxvt-unicode/doc/rxvt.1.pod 2006/01/16 15:12:48 1.98 +++ rxvt-unicode/doc/rxvt.1.pod 2006/07/06 19:43:21 1.114 @@ -44,17 +44,17 @@ Therefore another design rationale was the use of multiple fonts to display characters: The idea of a single unicode font which many other -programs force onto it's users never made sense to me: You should be able +programs force onto its users never made sense to me: You should be able to choose any font for any script freely. Apart from that, rxvt-unicode is also much better internationalised than -it's predecessor, supports things such as XFT and ISO 14755 that are handy +its predecessor, supports things such as XFT and ISO 14755 that are handy in i18n-environments, is faster, and has a lot less bugs than the original rxvt. This all in addition to dozens of other small improvements. It is still faithfully following the original rxvt idea of being lean and nice on resources: for example, you can still configure rxvt-unicode -without most of it's features to get a lean binary. It also comes with +without most of its features to get a lean binary. It also comes with a client/daemon pair that lets you open any number of terminal windows from within a single process, which makes startup time very fast and drastically reduces memory usage. See @@RXVT_NAME@@d(1) (daemon) and @@ -95,6 +95,11 @@ respected). In the absence of this option, the display specified by the B environment variable is used. +=item B<-depth> I + +Compile I: Attempt to find a visual with the given bit depth; +resource B. + =item B<-geometry> I Window geometry (B<-g> still respected); resource B. @@ -112,6 +117,9 @@ Turn on/off inheriting parent window's pixmap. Alternative form is B<-tr>; resource B. +I + =item B<-fade> I Fade the text by the given percentage when focus is lost. Small values @@ -121,7 +129,7 @@ =item B<-fadecolor> I Fade to this colour when fading is used (see B<-fade>). The default colour -is black. resource B. +is opaque black. resource B. =item B<-tint> I @@ -179,7 +187,7 @@ smaller, but not (in general) larger. A (hopefully) reasonable default font list is always appended to it. See resource B for more details. -In short, to specify an X11 core font, just specify it's name or prefix it +In short, to specify an X11 core font, just specify its name or prefix it with C. To specify an XFT-font, you need to prefix it with C, e.g.: @@ -299,6 +307,11 @@ 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 @@ -412,7 +425,7 @@ =item B<-embed> I -Tells @@RXVT_NAME@@ to embed it's windows into an already-existing window, +Tells @@RXVT_NAME@@ to embed its windows into an already-existing window, which enables applications to easily embed a terminal. Right now, @@RXVT_NAME@@ will first unmap/map the specified window, so it @@ -502,6 +515,11 @@ =over 4 +=item B I + +Compile I: Attempt to find a visual with the given bit depth; +option B<-depth>. + =item B I Create the window with the specified X window geometry [default 80x24]; @@ -584,6 +602,9 @@ artificial transparency. B: do not inherit the parent windows' pixmap. +I + =item B I Fade the text by the given percentage when focus is lost; option B<-fade>. @@ -893,8 +914,16 @@ =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 `"'&()*,;<=>?@[]{|} >> @@ -954,18 +983,18 @@ 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 +=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 @@ -1001,7 +1030,7 @@ can start or end with whitespace. 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 +Xlib itself does its 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). @@ -1130,7 +1159,12 @@ =item B: I -Sets the WM_TRANSIENT_FOR property to the given window iw. +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 @@ -1182,9 +1216,12 @@ =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 @@ -1238,7 +1275,7 @@ Start by pressing C and C together, then releasing them. The next special key (cursor keys, home etc.) you enter will not -invoke it's usual function but instead will insert the corresponding +invoke its usual function but instead will insert the corresponding keycap symbol. The symbol will only be entered when the key has been released, otherwise pressing e.g. C would enter the symbol for C, although your intention might have been to enter a @@ -1281,7 +1318,7 @@ In addition to the default foreground and background colours, B<@@RXVT_NAME@@> can display up to 16 colours (8 ANSI colours plus high-intensity bold/blink versions of the same). Here is a list of the -colours with their B names. +colours with their names. =begin table @@ -1311,6 +1348,15 @@ 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 +additional 72 colours. The first 64 of those (with indices 16 to 79) +consist of a 4*4*4 RGB colour cube (i.e. I), followed by 8 additional shades of gray (with indices 80 to 87). + +Together, all those colours implement the 88 colour xterm colours. Only +the first 16 can be changed using resources currently, the rest can only +be changed via command sequences ("escape codes"). + Note that B<-rv> (B<"reverseVideo: True">) simulates reverse video by always swapping the foreground/background colours. This is in contrast to I(1) where the colours are only swapped if they have not otherwise @@ -1325,6 +1371,28 @@ =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 support C +(recommended, but B 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 C<0> is completely +transparent). You can also prefix any color with C<[a]>, where C is on +to four hex digits specifiying the opacity value. + +You probably need to specify B<"-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_NAME@@ -depth 32 -bg rgba:0000/0000/0000/2222 -fg "[e]pink" + +I + =head1 ENVIRONMENT B<@@RXVT_NAME@@> sets and/or uses the following environment variables: @@ -1366,7 +1434,7 @@ =item B Used by @@RXVT_NAME@@ to connect to the display and set to the correct -display in it's child processes. +display in its child processes. =item B @@ -1418,7 +1486,7 @@ Marc A. Lehmann L<< >> -L +L =back @@ -1450,16 +1518,20 @@ =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