--- rxvt-unicode/doc/rxvt.1.pod 2008/10/15 14:48:22 1.167 +++ rxvt-unicode/doc/rxvt.1.pod 2010/10/15 10:46:57 1.187 @@ -131,9 +131,6 @@ B<-ip> is still accepted as an obsolete alias but will be removed in future versions. -I - =item B<-fade> I Fade the text by the given percentage when focus is lost. Small values @@ -154,7 +151,7 @@ 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. Also -pure black and pure white colors essentially mean no tinting; resource +pure black and pure white colours essentially mean no tinting; resource I. Example: @@RXVT_NAME@@ -tr -tint blue -sh 40 @@ -170,7 +167,7 @@ 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 - colour values averaging, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B. The default is alpha-blending. Compile I; resource I. @@ -181,9 +178,15 @@ 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. Compile I; +on some backgrounds. Maximum radius value is 128. Compile I or I; resource I. +=item B<-icon> I + +Compile I or I: Use the specified image as application icon. This +is used by many window managers, taskbars and pagers to represent the +application window; resource I. + =item B<-bg> I Window background colour; resource B. @@ -194,7 +197,7 @@ =item B<-pixmap> I -Compile I: Specify image file for the background and also +Compile I or 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; for more details see resource B. @@ -317,6 +320,10 @@ Blink the cursor; resource B. +=item B<-uc>|B<+uc> + +Make the cursor underlined; resource B. + =item B<-iconic> Start iconified, if the window manager supports that option. @@ -363,6 +370,13 @@ the display. Useful to work around font rendering problems; resource B. +=item B<-letsp> I + +Compile I: Amount to adjust the computed character width by +to control overall letter spacing. Negative values will tighten up the +letter spacing, positive values will space letters out more. Useful to +work around odd font metrics; resource B. + =item B<-tn> I This option specifies the name of the terminal type to be set in the @@ -610,7 +624,7 @@ high-intensity (bold = bright foreground, blink = bright background) colours. The canonical names are as follows: 0=black, 1=red, 2=green, 3=yellow, 4=blue, 5=magenta, 6=cyan, 7=white, but the actual colour -names used are listed in the B section. +names used are listed in the B section. Colours higher than 15 cannot be set using resources (yet), but can be changed using an escape command (see @@RXVT_NAME@@(7)). @@ -631,16 +645,21 @@ Use the specified colour to display underlined characters when the foreground colour is the default. -=item B I - -Use the specified colour as the background for reverse video characters -when OPTION_HC is disabled (--disable-frills). - =item B I If set, use the specified colour as the colour for the underline itself. If unset, use the foreground colour. +=item B I + +If set, use the specified colour as the background for highlighted +characters. If unset, use reverse video. + +=item B I + +If set and highlightColor is set, use the specified colour as the +foreground for highlighted characters. + =item B I Use the specified colour for the cursor. The default is to use the @@ -656,7 +675,7 @@ B: simulate reverse video by foreground and background colours; option B<-rv>. B: regular screen colours [default]; option -B<+rv>. See note in B section. +B<+rv>. See note in B section. =item B I @@ -687,9 +706,6 @@ B is still accepted as an obsolete alias but will be removed in future versions. -I - =item B I Fade the text by the given percentage when focus is lost; option B<-fade>. @@ -715,9 +731,13 @@ =item B I -Apply Gaussian Blurr with the specified radius to the transparent +Apply gaussian blur with the specified radius to the transparent background image; option B<-blr>. +=item B I + +Set the application icon pixmap; option B<-icon>. + =item B I Use the specified colour for the scrollbar [default #B2B2B2]. @@ -736,12 +756,10 @@ Use the specified image file for the background and also optionally specify its scaling with a geometry string B, -(default C<0x0+50+50>) in which B<"W" / "H"> specify the +(default C<100x100+50+50>) 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. +centre (percent). A scale of 0 displays the image with tiling. +The maximum permitted scale is 1000. Additional operations can be specified after colon B<:op1:op2...>. Supported operations are: @@ -755,8 +773,9 @@ whenever terminal window moves If used in conjunction with B<-tr> option, the specified pixmap will be -blended over transparency image using either alpha-blending, or any -other blending type, specified with B<-blt "type"> option. +blended over transparency image using alpha-blending. If I +support has been compiled in it is possible to choose other blending +types with B<-blt "type"> option. =item B I @@ -793,7 +812,7 @@ The second font is just used to add additional unicode characters not in the base font, likewise the third, which is unfortunately non-bold, but -the bold version of the font does contain less characters, so this is a +the bold version of the font does contain fewer characters, so this is a useful supplement. The third font is an Xft font with aliasing turned off, and the characters @@ -989,6 +1008,11 @@ B: blink the cursor. B: do not blink the cursor [default]; option B<-bc>. +=item B I + +B: Make the cursor underlined. B: Make the cursor a box [default]; +option B<-uc>. + =item B I B: blank the pointer when a key is pressed or after a set number @@ -1011,7 +1035,7 @@ =item B I The string to send when the backspace key is pressed. If set to B -or unset it will send B (code 127) or, if shifted, B +or unset it will send B (code 127) or, with control, B (code 8) - which can be reversed with the appropriate DEC private mode escape sequence. @@ -1140,7 +1164,7 @@ performed in an exact manner; however, the closest match is assured. I may contain escape values (C<\n>: newline, C<\000>: octal -number), see RESOURCES in C for futher details. +number), see RESOURCES in C for further details. You can define a range of keysyms in one shot by providing a I with pattern B, where the delimiter `/' @@ -1164,14 +1188,14 @@ URxvt.keysym.M-C-c: command:\033]701;zh_CN.GBK\007 If I takes the form C, then the specified B -is passed to the C perl handler. See the @@RXVT_NAME@@perl(3) +is passed to the C perl handler. See the @@RXVT_NAME@@perl(3) manpage. For example, the F extension (activated via C<@@RXVT_NAME@@ -pe selection>) listens for C events: URxvt.keysym.M-C-c: perl:selection:rot13 Due the the large number of modifier combinations, a defined key mapping -will match if at I the specified identifiers are being set, and +will match if 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 @@ -1272,6 +1296,10 @@ 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 (default enabled). + =item B I Turn on/off ISO 14755 5.2 mode (default enabled). @@ -1423,12 +1451,15 @@ allow this feature, B<@@RXVT_NAME@@> may need to be installed setuid root on some systems or setgid to root or to some other group on others. -=head1 COLORS AND GRAPHICS +=head1 COLOURS 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 names. +B<@@RXVT_NAME@@> can display up to 88/256 colours: 8 ANSI colours plus +high-intensity (potentially bold/blink) versions of the same, and 72 (or +240 in 256 colour mode) colours arranged in an 4x4x4 (or 6x6x6) colour RGB +cube plus a 8 (24) colour greyscale ramp. + +Here is a list of the ANSI colours with their names. =begin table @@ -1458,37 +1489,43 @@ 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"). +The following text gives values for the standard 88 colour mode (and +values for the 256 colour mode in parentheses). + +The RGB cube uses indices 16..79 (16..231) using the following formulas: + + index_88 = (r * 4 + g) * 4 + b + 16 # r, g, b = 0..3 + index_256 = (r * 16 + g) * 16 + b + 16 # r, g, b = 0..15 + +The grayscale ramp uses indices 80..87 (232..239), from 10% to 90% in 10% +steps (1/26 to 25/26 in 1/26 steps) - black and white are already part of +the RGB cube. + +Together, all those colours implement the 88 (256) colour xterm +colours. Only the first 16 can be changed using resources currently, the +rest can only be changed via command sequences ("escape codes"). + +Applications are advised to use terminfo or command sequences to discover +number and RGB values of all colours (yes, you can query this...). 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 been specified. For example, -=over 4 + @@RXVT_NAME@@ -fg Black -bg White -rv -=item B<@@RXVT_NAME@@ -fg Black -bg White -rv> - -would yield White on Black, while on I(1) it would yield Black -on White. - -=back +would yield White on Black, while on I(1) it would yield Black on +White. =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 do it's own alpha channel management: -You can prefix any color with an opaquenes percentage enclosed in +You can prefix any colour with an opaqueness percentage enclosed in brackets, i.e. C<[percent]>, where C is a decimal percentage -(0-100) that specifies the opacity of the color, where C<0> is completely +(0-100) that specifies the opacity of the colour, where C<0> is completely transparent and C<100> is completely opaque. For example, C<[50]red> is a half-transparent red, while C<[95]#00ff00> is an almost opaque green. This is the recommended format to specify transparency values, and works with @@ -1606,7 +1643,7 @@ =item B -Color names. +Colour names. =back