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5SYNOPSIS 5SYNOPSIS
6 rxvt [options] [-e command [ args ]] 6 rxvt [options] [-e command [ args ]]
7 7
8DESCRIPTION 8DESCRIPTION
9 rxvt-unicode, version , is a colour vt102 terminal emulator intended as 9 rxvt-unicode, version 5.6, is a colour vt102 terminal emulator intended
10 an *xterm*(1) replacement for users who do not require features such as 10 as an *xterm*(1) replacement for users who do not require features such
11 Tektronix 4014 emulation and toolkit-style configurability. As a result, 11 as Tektronix 4014 emulation and toolkit-style configurability. As a
12 rxvt-unicode uses much less swap space -- a significant advantage on a 12 result, rxvt-unicode uses much less swap space -- a significant
13 machine serving many X sessions. 13 advantage on a machine serving many X sessions.
14 14
15FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS 15FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
16 See rxvt(7) (try "man 7 rxvt") for a list of frequently asked questions 16 See rxvt(7) (try "man 7 rxvt") for a list of frequently asked questions
17 and answer to them and some common problems. That document is also 17 and answer to them and some common problems. That document is also
18 accessible on the World-Wide-Web at 18 accessible on the World-Wide-Web at
204 204
205 -sr|+sr 205 -sr|+sr
206 Put scrollbar on right/left; resource scrollBar_right. 206 Put scrollbar on right/left; resource scrollBar_right.
207 207
208 -st|+st 208 -st|+st
209 Display normal (non XTerm/NeXT) scrollbar without/with a trough; 209 Display rxvt (non XTerm/NeXT) scrollbar without/with a trough;
210 resource scrollBar_floating. 210 resource scrollBar_floating.
211 211
212 -ptab|+ptab 212 -ptab|+ptab
213 If enabled (default), "Horizontal Tab" characters are being stored 213 If enabled (default), "Horizontal Tab" characters are being stored
214 as actual wide characters in the screen buffer, which makes it 214 as actual wide characters in the screen buffer, which makes it
311 311
312 -ssr|+ssr 312 -ssr|+ssr
313 Turn on/off secondary screen scroll (default enabled); resource 313 Turn on/off secondary screen scroll (default enabled); resource
314 secondaryScroll. 314 secondaryScroll.
315 315
316 -keysym.*sym*: *string* 316 -keysym.*sym* *string*
317 Remap a key symbol. See resource keysym. 317 Remap a key symbol. See resource keysym.
318 318
319 -xrm *resourcestring* 319 -embed *windowid*
320 No effect on rxvt-unicode. Simply passes through an argument to be 320 Tells rxvt to embed it's windows into an already-existing window,
321 made available in the instance's argument list. Appears in 321 which enables applications to easily embed a terminal.
322 *WM_COMMAND* in some window managers. 322
323 Right now, rxvt will first unmap/map the specified window, so it
324 shouldn't be a top-level window. rxvt will also reconfigure it quite
325 a bit, so don't expect it to keep some specific state. It's best to
326 create an extra subwindow for rxvt and leave it alone.
327
328 The window will not be destroyed when rxvt exits.
329
330 It might be useful to know that rxvt will not close file descriptors
331 passed to it (except for stdin/out/err, of course), so you can use
332 file descriptors to communicate with the programs within the
333 terminal. This works regardless of wether the "-embed" option was
334 used or not.
335
336 Here is a short Gtk2-perl snippet that illustrates how this option
337 can be used (a longer example is in doc/embed):
338
339 my $rxvt = new Gtk2::Socket;
340 $rxvt->signal_connect_after (realize => sub {
341 my $xid = $_[0]->window->get_xid;
342 system "rxvt -embed $xid &";
343 });
344
345 -pty-fd *fileno*
346 Tells rxvt NOT to execute any commands or create a new pty/tty pair
347 but instead use the given filehandle as the tty master. This is
348 useful if you want to drive rxvt as a generic terminal emulator
349 without having to run a program within it.
350
351 If this switch is given, rxvt will not create any utmp/wtmp entries
352 and will not tinker with pty/tty permissions - you have to do that
353 yourself if you want that.
354
355 Here is a example in perl that illustrates how this option can be
356 used (a longer example is in doc/pty-fd):
357
358 use IO::Pty;
359 use Fcntl;
360
361 my $pty = new IO::Pty;
362 fcntl $pty, F_SETFD, 0; # clear close-on-exec
363 system "rxvt -pty-fd " . (fileno $pty) . "&";
364 close $pty;
365
366 # now communicate with rxvt
367 my $slave = $pty->slave;
368 while (<$slave>) { print $slave "got <$_>\n" }
323 369
324RESOURCES (available also as long-options) 370RESOURCES (available also as long-options)
325 Note: `rxvt --help' gives a list of all resources (long options) 371 Note: `rxvt --help' gives a list of all resources (long options)
326 compiled into your version. 372 compiled into your version.
327 373
435 scrollColor: *colour* 481 scrollColor: *colour*
436 Use the specified colour for the scrollbar [default #B2B2B2]. 482 Use the specified colour for the scrollbar [default #B2B2B2].
437 483
438 troughColor: *colour* 484 troughColor: *colour*
439 Use the specified colour for the scrollbar's trough area [default 485 Use the specified colour for the scrollbar's trough area [default
440 #969696]. Only relevant for normal (non XTerm/NeXT) scrollbar. 486 #969696]. Only relevant for rxvt (non XTerm/NeXT) scrollbar.
441 487
442 borderColor: *colour* 488 borderColor: *colour*
443 The colour of the border around the text area and between the 489 The colour of the border around the text area and between the
444 scrollbar and the text. 490 scrollbar and the text.
445 491
531 xterm style with 2.20 old word selection, or anything else which 577 xterm style with 2.20 old word selection, or anything else which
532 gives xterm style selection. 578 gives xterm style selection.
533 579
534 scrollstyle: *mode* 580 scrollstyle: *mode*
535 Set scrollbar style to rxvt, plain, next or xterm. plain is the 581 Set scrollbar style to rxvt, plain, next or xterm. plain is the
536 author's favourite.. 582 author's favourite.
537 583
538 title: *string* 584 title: *string*
539 Set window title string, the default title is the command-line 585 Set window title string, the default title is the command-line
540 specified after the -e option, if any, otherwise the application 586 specified after the -e option, if any, otherwise the application
541 name; option -title. 587 name; option -title.
566 print-pipe: *string* 612 print-pipe: *string*
567 Specify a command pipe for vt100 printer [default *lpr(1)*]. Use 613 Specify a command pipe for vt100 printer [default *lpr(1)*]. Use
568 Print to initiate a screen dump to the printer and Ctrl-Print or 614 Print to initiate a screen dump to the printer and Ctrl-Print or
569 Shift-Print to include the scrollback as well. 615 Shift-Print to include the scrollback as well.
570 616
617 The string will be interpreted as if typed into the shell as-is.
618
619 Example:
620
621 URxvt*print-pipe: cat > $(TMPDIR=$HOME mktemp urxvt.XXXXXX)
622
623 This creates a new file in your home directory with the screen
624 contents everytime you hit "Print".
625
571 scrollBar: *boolean* 626 scrollBar: *boolean*
572 True: enable the scrollbar [default]; option -sb. False: disable the 627 True: enable the scrollbar [default]; option -sb. False: disable the
573 scrollbar; option +sb. 628 scrollbar; option +sb.
574 629
575 scrollBar_right: *boolean* 630 scrollBar_right: *boolean*
588 True: scroll to bottom when tty receives output; option -si. False: 643 True: scroll to bottom when tty receives output; option -si. False:
589 do not scroll to bottom when tty receives output; option +si. 644 do not scroll to bottom when tty receives output; option +si.
590 645
591 scrollWithBuffer: *boolean* 646 scrollWithBuffer: *boolean*
592 True: scroll with scrollback buffer when tty receives new lines (and 647 True: scroll with scrollback buffer when tty receives new lines (and
593 scrollTtyOutput is False); option +sw. False: do not scroll with 648 scrollTtyOutput is False); option -sw. False: do not scroll with
594 scrollback buffer when tty recieves new lines; option -sw. 649 scrollback buffer when tty recieves new lines; option +sw.
595 650
596 scrollTtyKeypress: *boolean* 651 scrollTtyKeypress: *boolean*
597 True: scroll to bottom when a non-special key is pressed. Special 652 True: scroll to bottom when a non-special key is pressed. Special
598 keys are those which are intercepted by rxvt-unicode for special 653 keys are those which are intercepted by rxvt-unicode for special
599 handling and are not passed onto the shell; option -sk. False: do 654 handling and are not passed onto the shell; option -sk. False: do
651 pointerColor2: *colour* 706 pointerColor2: *colour*
652 Mouse pointer background colour. 707 Mouse pointer background colour.
653 708
654 pointerBlankDelay: *number* 709 pointerBlankDelay: *number*
655 Specifies number of seconds before blanking the pointer [default 2]. 710 Specifies number of seconds before blanking the pointer [default 2].
711 Use a large number (e.g. 987654321) to effectively disable the
712 timeout.
656 713
657 backspacekey: *string* 714 backspacekey: *string*
658 The string to send when the backspace key is pressed. If set to DEC 715 The string to send when the backspace key is pressed. If set to DEC
659 or unset it will send Delete (code 127) or, if shifted, Backspace 716 or unset it will send Delete (code 127) or, if shifted, Backspace
660 (code 8) - which can be reversed with the appropriate DEC private 717 (code 8) - which can be reversed with the appropriate DEC private
776 is interpreted and executed as rxvt's control sequence. For example 833 is interpreted and executed as rxvt's control sequence. For example
777 the following means "change the current locale to "zh_CN.GBK" when 834 the following means "change the current locale to "zh_CN.GBK" when
778 Control-Meta-c is being pressed": 835 Control-Meta-c is being pressed":
779 836
780 URxvt.keysym.M-C-c: command:\033]701;zh_CN.GBK\007 837 URxvt.keysym.M-C-c: command:\033]701;zh_CN.GBK\007
838
839 Due the the large number of modifier combinations, a defined key
840 mapping will match if at *at least* the specified identifiers are
841 being set, and no other key mappings with those and more bits are
842 being defined. That means that defining a key map for "a" will
843 automatically provide definitions for "Meta-a", "Shift-a" and so on,
844 unless some of those are defined mappings themselves.
845
846 Unfortunately, this will override built-in key mappings. For example
847 if you overwrite the "Insert" key you will disable rxvt's
848 "Shift-Insert" mapping. To re-enable that, you can poke "holes" into
849 the user-defined keymap using the "builtin:" replacement:
850
851 URxvt.keysym.Insert: <my insert key sequence>
852 URxvt.keysym.S-Insert: builtin:
853
854 The first line defines a mapping for "Insert" and *any* combination
855 of modifiers. The second line re-establishes the default mapping for
856 "Shift-Insert".
781 857
782 The following example will map Control-Meta-1 and Control-Meta-2 to 858 The following example will map Control-Meta-1 and Control-Meta-2 to
783 the fonts "suxuseuro" and "9x15bold", so you can have some limited 859 the fonts "suxuseuro" and "9x15bold", so you can have some limited
784 font-switching at runtime: 860 font-switching at runtime:
785 861
995 Used in the same way as "RXVTPATH". 1071 Used in the same way as "RXVTPATH".
996 1072
997 RXVT_SOCKET 1073 RXVT_SOCKET
998 The unix domain socket path used by rxvtc(1) and rxvtd(1). 1074 The unix domain socket path used by rxvtc(1) and rxvtd(1).
999 1075
1000 Default "$HOME/.rxvt-unicode-<nodename". 1076 Default $HOME/.rxvt-unicode-*<nodename*.
1001 1077
1002 HOME 1078 HOME
1003 Used to locate the default directory for the unix domain socket for 1079 Used to locate the default directory for the unix domain socket for
1004 daemon communications and to locate various resource files (such as 1080 daemon communications and to locate various resource files (such as
1005 ".Xdefaults") 1081 ".Xdefaults")
1014FILES 1090FILES
1015 /usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt 1091 /usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt
1016 Color names. 1092 Color names.
1017 1093
1018SEE ALSO 1094SEE ALSO
1019 rxvt(7), xterm(1), sh(1), resize(1), X(1), pty(4), tty(4), utmp(5) 1095 rxvt(7), rxvtc(1), rxvtd(1), xterm(1), sh(1), resize(1), X(1), pty(4),
1096 tty(4), utmp(5)
1020 1097
1021BUGS 1098BUGS
1022 Check the BUGS file for an up-to-date list. 1099 Check the BUGS file for an up-to-date list.
1023 1100
1024 Cursor change support is not yet implemented. 1101 Cursor change support is not yet implemented.

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