--- rxvt-unicode/doc/rxvt.1.pod 2006/07/10 04:03:09 1.116 +++ rxvt-unicode/doc/rxvt.1.pod 2007/08/13 10:01:18 1.136 @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ See @@RXVT_NAME@@(7) (try C) for a list of frequently asked questions and answer to them and some common problems. That document is also accessible on the World-Wide-Web at -L. +L. =head1 RXVT-UNICODE VS. RXVT @@ -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 @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ change. If you are looking for a terminal that supports more exotic scripts, let -me recommend C, which is a very userfriendly, lean and clean +me recommend C, 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 to use one font for latin1 and another for japanese. @@ -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> @@ -118,7 +122,8 @@ B<-tr>; resource B. I +the author. Don't bug him with installation questions! Read the FAQ (man 7 +@@RXVT_NAME@@)!> =item B<-fade> I @@ -136,16 +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> +=item B<-sh> I -I Darken (0 .. 100) or lighten (-1 .. -100) the transparent -background image in addition to tinting it (i.e. B<-tint> must be -specified, too, e.g. C<-tint white>). +Darken (0 .. 100) or lighten (-1 .. -100) the transparent +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 +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 +alpha-blending; resource I. + +=item B<-blr> 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 @@ -157,10 +183,10 @@ =item B<-pixmap> I -Compile I: Specify XPM file for the background and also optionally -specify its scaling with a geometry string. Note you may need to +Compile I: Specify image file for the background and also +optionally specify its scaling with a geometry string. Note you may need to add quotes to avoid special shell interpretation of the C<;> in the -command-line; resource B. +command-line; for more details see resource B. =item B<-cr> I @@ -387,7 +413,8 @@ =item B<-tcw> Change the meaning of triple-click selection with the left mouse -button. Instead of selecting a full line it will extend the selection the +button. Only effective when the original (non-perl) selection code is +in-use. Instead of selecting a full line it will extend the selection the end of the logical line only. resource B. =item B<-insecure> @@ -438,7 +465,7 @@ 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 @@ -453,7 +480,7 @@ =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 +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. @@ -565,8 +592,8 @@ =item B I -Use the specified colour as the background for reverse video -characters. +Use the specified colour as the background for reverse video characters +when OPTION_HC is disabled (--disable-frills). =item B I @@ -592,9 +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 @@ -621,8 +664,17 @@ =item B I -Darken (0 .. 100) or lighten (-1 .. -100) the transparent background -image in addition to tinting it. +Darken (0 .. 100) or lighten (-1 .. -100) the transparent background image +in addition to tinting it; option B<-sh>. + +=item B I + +Specify background blending type; option B<-blt>. + +=item B I + +Apply Gaussian Blurr with the specified radius to the transparent +background image; option B<-blr>. =item B I @@ -640,15 +692,20 @@ =item B I -Use the specified XPM file (note the `.xpm' extension is optional) for -the background and also optionally specify its scaling with a geometry -string B, in which B<"W" / "H"> specify the -horizontal/vertical scale (percent) and B<"X" / "Y"> locate the image -centre (percent). A scale of 0 displays the image with tiling. A scale -of 1 displays the image without any scaling. A scale of 2 to 9 -specifies an integer number of images in that direction. No image will -be magnified beyond 10 times its original size. The maximum permitted -scale is 1000. [default 0x0+50+50] +Use the specified image file for the background and also optionally +specify its scaling with a geometry string B, +in which B<"W" / "H"> specify the horizontal/vertical scale (percent), +and B<"X" / "Y"> locate the image centre (percent). +A scale of 0 displays the image with tiling. A scale of 1 displays the +image without any scaling. A scale of 2 to 9 specifies an integer +number of images in that direction. No image will be magnified beyond +10 times its original size. The maximum permitted scale is 1000. +Special string of B<"auto"> used as a geometry will cause image to be +automatically scaled to match window size. +If used in conjunction with B<-tr> option - specified pixmap will be +blended over transparency image using either alpha-blending, or any +other blending type, specified with B<-blt "type"> option. +[default 0x0+50+50] =item B I @@ -720,15 +777,16 @@ 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, +intensity foreground/background 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 -xterm style with 2.20 old word selection, or anything else which gives -xterm style selection. +Set mouse selection style to B which is 2.20, B which +is xterm style with 2.20 old word selection, or anything else which +gives xterm style selection. Only effective when the original (non-perl) +selection code is in use. =item B I @@ -752,6 +810,11 @@ B: de-iconify (map) on receipt of a bell character. B: no de-iconify (map) on receipt of a bell character [default]. +=item B I + +B: set the urgency hint for the wm on receipt of a bell character. +B: do not set the urgency hint [default]. + =item B I B: use visual bell on receipt of a bell character; option B<-vb>. @@ -782,7 +845,7 @@ 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. +every time you hit C. =item B I @@ -814,7 +877,7 @@ 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>. +with scrollback buffer when tty receives new lines; option B<+sw>. =item B I @@ -917,10 +980,10 @@ 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 perl 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: @@ -989,7 +1052,7 @@ =item B I -Turn on/off secondary screen scroll (default enabled). If the this +Turn on/off secondary screen scroll (default enabled). If 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. @@ -1027,7 +1090,8 @@ C<\e>, C<\E>: escape, C<\n>: newline, C<\r>: carriage return, C<\t>: tab, 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. +can start or end with whitespace. B. Please note that you need to double the C<\> in resource files, as Xlib itself does its own de-escaping (you can use C<\033> instead of @@ -1035,7 +1099,7 @@ processing). You can define a range of keysyms in one shot by providing a I -with pattern B, where the delimeter `/' +with pattern B, where the delimiter `/' should be a character not used by the strings. Its usage can be demonstrated by an example: @@ -1109,7 +1173,7 @@ 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 +searchable scrollback to Alt/Meta-s). Mentioning the same extension multiple times with different arguments will pass multiple arguments to the extension. @@ -1155,7 +1219,7 @@ =item B: I Specifies the program to be started with a URL argument. Used by the -C and C perl extensions. +C and C perl extensions. =item B: I @@ -1166,6 +1230,10 @@ Compile I: Sets override-redirect for the terminal window, making it almost invisible to window managers; option B<-override-redirect>. +=item B I + +Turn on/off ISO 14755 5.2 mode (default enabled). + =back =head1 THE SCROLLBAR @@ -1193,14 +1261,14 @@ up and down arrows sends B (Up) and B (Down), respectively. -=head1 TEXT SELECTION AND INSERTION +=head1 THE SELECTION: SELECTING AND PASTING TEXT -The behaviour of text selection and insertion mechanism is similar to -I(1). +The behaviour of text selection and insertion/pasting mechanism is similar +to I(1). =over 4 -=item B: +=item B: Left click at the beginning of the region, drag to the end of the region and release; Right click to extend the marked region; Left double-click @@ -1214,11 +1282,11 @@ selection, and trailing whitespace is visually underlined and removed from the selection. -=item B: +=item B: 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. +B 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. @@ -1245,7 +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>. @@ -1378,8 +1446,10 @@ (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. +transparent). You can also prefix any color with C<[percent]>, where +C is a decimal percentage (0-100) that specifies the opacity of +the color, where C<0> is completely transparent and C<100> is completelxy +opaque. 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 @@ -1388,7 +1458,7 @@ 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" + @@RXVT_NAME@@ -depth 32 -bg rgba:0000/0000/0000/aaaa -fg "[80]pink" I @@ -1402,11 +1472,11 @@ =item B Normally set to C, unless overwritten at configure time, via -resources or on the commandline. +resources or on the command line. =item B -Either C, C, depending on wether @@RXVT_NAME@@ was +Either C, C, 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.