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 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
 scripts. Most other scripts, latin, cyrillic, kanji, thai etc. should work
-fine, though. A somewhat difficult case are left-to-right scripts, such
+fine, though. A somewhat difficult case are right-to-left scripts, such
 as hebrew: B<rxvt-unicode> adopts the view that bidirectional algorithms
 belong into the application, not the terminal emulator (too many things --
 such as cursor-movement while editing -- break otherwise), but that might
 change.
 If you are looking for a terminal that supports more exotic scripts, let
-me recommend C<mlterm>, which is a very userfriendly, lean and clean
+me recommend C<mlterm>, which is a very user friendly, lean and clean
 terminal emulator. In fact, the reason rxvt-unicode was born was solely
 because the author couldn't get C<mlterm> to use one font for latin1 and
 another for japanese.
 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
+in i18n-environments, is faster, and has a lot bugs less 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
 @@RXVT_NAME@@c(1) (client).
 It also makes technical information about escape sequences (which have
-been extended) easier accessible: see @@RXVT_NAME@@(7) for technical
+been extended) more accessible: see @@RXVT_NAME@@(7) for technical
 reference documentation (escape sequences etc.).
 =head1 OPTIONS
 The B<@@RXVT_NAME@@> options (mostly a subset of I<xterm>'s) are listed
 Attempt to open a window on the named X display (B<-d> still
 respected). In the absence of this option, the display specified by the
 B<DISPLAY> environment variable is used.
+=item B<-depth> I<bitdepth>
+Compile I<xft>: Attempt to find a visual with the given bit depth;
+resource B<depth>.
 =item B<-geometry> I<geom>
 Window geometry (B<-g> still respected); resource B<geometry>.
 =item B<-rv>|B<+rv>
 =item B<-ip>|B<+ip> | B<-tr>|B<+tr>
 Turn on/off inheriting parent window's pixmap. Alternative form is
 B<-tr>; resource B<inheritPixmap>.
+I<Please note that transparency of any kind if completely unsupported by
+the author. Don't bug him with installation questions! Read the FAQ (man 7
+@@RXVT_NAME@@)!>
 =item B<-fade> I<number>
 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<fading>.
 =item B<-fadecolor> I<colour>
 Fade to this colour when fading is used (see B<-fade>). The default colour
-is black. resource B<fadeColor>.
+is opaque black. resource B<fadeColor>.
 =item B<-tint> I<colour>
 Tint the transparent background pixmap with the given colour when
 transparency is enabled with B<-tr> or B<-ip>. This only works for
 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<font> 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<x:>. To specify an XFT-font, you need to prefix it with C<xft:>,
 e.g.:
    @@RXVT_NAME@@ -fn "xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:pixelsize=15"
    @@RXVT_NAME@@ -fn "9x15bold,xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono"
 Remap a key symbol. See resource B<keysym>.
 =item B<-embed> I<windowid>
-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
 shouldn't be a top-level window. @@RXVT_NAME@@ will also reconfigure it
 quite a bit, so don't expect it to keep some specific state. It's best to
 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
+terminal. This works regardless of whether 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<doc/embed>):
    });
 =item B<-pty-fd> I<file descriptor>
 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
+pair but instead use the given file descriptor 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
 check the @@RXVT_NAME@@perl(3) manpage for additional settings by perl
 extensions not documented here):
 =over 4
+=item B<depth:> I<bitdepth>
+Compile I<xft>: Attempt to find a visual with the given bit depth;
+option B<-depth>.
 =item B<geometry:> I<geom>
 Create the window with the specified X window geometry [default 80x24];
 option B<-geometry>.
 =item B<inheritPixmap:> I<boolean>
 B<True>: make the background inherit the parent windows' pixmap, giving
 artificial transparency. B<False>: do not inherit the parent windows'
 pixmap.
+I<Please note that transparency of any kind if completely unsupported by
+the author. Don't bug him with installation questions!>
 =item B<fading:> I<number>
 Fade the text by the given percentage when focus is lost; option B<-fade>.
 =item B<intensityStyles:> I<boolean>
 When font styles are not enabled, or this option is enabled (B<True>,
 option B<-is>, the default), bold and italic font styles imply high
-intensity foreground/backround colours. Disabling this option (B<False>,
+intensity foreground/background colours. Disabling this option (B<False>,
 option B<+is>) disables this behaviour, the high intensity colours are not
 reachable.
 =item B<selectstyle:> I<mode>
 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<Print>.
+every time you hit C<Print>.
 =item B<scrollBar:> I<boolean>
 B<True>: enable the scrollbar [default]; option B<-sb>. B<False>:
 disable the scrollbar; option B<+sb>.
 =item B<scrollWithBuffer:> I<boolean>
 B<True>: scroll with scrollback buffer when tty receives new lines (and
 B<scrollTtyOutput> is False); option B<-sw>. B<False>: do not scroll
-with scrollback buffer when tty recieves new lines; option B<+sw>.
+with scrollback buffer when tty receives new lines; option B<+sw>.
 =item B<scrollTtyKeypress:> I<boolean>
 B<True>: scroll to bottom when a non-special key is pressed. Special keys
 are those which are intercepted by rxvt-unicode for special handling and
 C<\000>: octal number) or verbatim control characters (C<^?>: delete,
 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<\> 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).
 You can define a range of keysyms in one shot by providing a I<string>
-with pattern B<list/PREFIX/MIDDLE/SUFFIX>, where the delimeter `/'
+with pattern B<list/PREFIX/MIDDLE/SUFFIX>, where the delimiter `/'
 should be a character not used by the strings.
 Its usage can be demonstrated by an example:
   URxvt.keysym.M-C-0x61:    list|\033<M-C-|abc|>
 example, C<default,-selection> will use all the default extension except
 C<selection>.
 Extension names can also be followed by an argument in angle brackets
 (e.g.  C<< searchable-scrollback<M-s> >>, which binds the hotkey for
-searchable scorllback to Alt/Meta-s). Mentioning the same extension
+searchable scrollback 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.
 This mode lets you input characters representing the keycap symbols of
 your keyboard, if representable in the current locale encoding.
 Start by pressing C<Control> and C<Shift> 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<Shift> would enter the symbol for
 C<ISO Level 2 Switch>, although your intention might have been to enter a
 reverse tab (Shift-Tab).
 =head1 COLORS AND GRAPHICS
 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<rgb.txt> names.
+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
+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<index = r * 16 + g * 4 + b +
+16>), 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<xterm>(1) where the colours are only swapped if they have not otherwise
 been specified. For example,
 would yield White on Black, while on I<xterm>(1) it would yield Black
 on 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 support C<rgba:rrrr/gggg/bbbb/aaaa>
+(recommended, but B<MUST> 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<a> 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<Please note that transparency of any kind if completely unsupported by
+the author. Don't bug him with installation questions!>
 =head1 ENVIRONMENT
 B<@@RXVT_NAME@@> sets and/or uses the following environment variables:
 =over 4
 =item B<TERM>
 Normally set to C<rxvt-unicode>, unless overwritten at configure time, via
-resources or on the commandline.
+resources or on the command line.
 =item B<COLORTERM>
-Either C<rxvt>, C<rxvt-xpm>, depending on wether @@RXVT_NAME@@ was
+Either C<rxvt>, C<rxvt-xpm>, depending on whether @@RXVT_NAME@@ was
 compiled with XPM support, and optionally with the added extension
 C<-mono> to indicate that rxvt-unicode runs on a monochrome screen.
 =item B<COLORFGBG>
 C<--with-terminfo=PATH>.
 =item B<DISPLAY>
 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<SHELL>
 The shell to be used for command execution, defaults to C</bin/sh>.
 =item Project Coordinator
 Marc A. Lehmann L<< <rxvt-unicode@schmorp.de> >>
-L<http://software.schmorp.de/#rxvt-unicode>
+L<http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode.html>
 =back
 =head1 AUTHORS

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