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4 <title>REFERENCE - FAQ, command sequences and other background information</title>
5 <link rev="made" href="mailto:perl-binary@plan9.de" />
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10 <p><a name="__index__"></a></p>
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12
13 <ul>
14
15 <li><a href="#name">NAME</a></li>
16 <li><a href="#synopsis">SYNOPSIS</a></li>
17 <li><a href="#description">DESCRIPTION</a></li>
18 <li><a href="#frequently_asked_questions">FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS</a></li>
19 <li><a href="#rxvt_technical_reference">RXVT TECHNICAL REFERENCE</a></li>
20 <li><a href="#description">DESCRIPTION</a></li>
21 <li><a href="#definitions">Definitions</a></li>
22 <li><a href="#values">Values</a></li>
23 <li><a href="#escape_sequences">Escape Sequences</a></li>
24 <li><a href="#csi__command_sequence_introducer__sequences">CSI (Command Sequence Introducer) Sequences</a></li>
25 <li><a href="#dec_private_modes">DEC Private Modes</a></li>
26 <li><a href="#xterm_operating_system_commands">XTerm Operating System Commands</a></li>
27 <li><a href="#xpm">XPM</a></li>
28 <li><a href="#mouse_reporting">Mouse Reporting</a></li>
29 <li><a href="#key_codes">Key Codes</a></li>
30 <li><a href="#configure_options">CONFIGURE OPTIONS</a></li>
31 <li><a href="#authors">AUTHORS</a></li>
32 </ul>
33 <!-- INDEX END -->
34
35 <hr />
36 <p>
37 </p>
38 <h1><a name="name">NAME</a></h1>
39 <p>RXVT REFERENCE - FAQ, command sequences and other background information</p>
40 <p>
41 </p>
42 <hr />
43 <h1><a name="synopsis">SYNOPSIS</a></h1>
44 <pre>
45 # set a new font set
46 printf '\33]50;%s\007' 9x15,xft:Kochi&quot; Mincho&quot;</pre>
47 <pre>
48 # change the locale and tell rxvt-unicode about it
49 export LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.EUC-JP; printf &quot;\33]701;$LC_CTYPE\007&quot;</pre>
50 <pre>
51 # set window title
52 printf '\33]2;%s\007' &quot;new window title&quot;</pre>
53 <p>
54 </p>
55 <hr />
56 <h1><a name="description">DESCRIPTION</a></h1>
57 <p>This document contains the FAQ, the RXVT TECHNICAL REFERENCE documenting
58 all escape sequences, and other background information.</p>
59 <p>The newest version of this document is also available on the World Wide Web at
60 <a href="http://cvs.schmorp.de/browse/*checkout*/rxvt-unicode/doc/rxvt.7.html">http://cvs.schmorp.de/browse/*checkout*/rxvt-unicode/doc/rxvt.7.html</a>.</p>
61 <p>
62 </p>
63 <hr />
64 <h1><a name="frequently_asked_questions">FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS</a></h1>
65 <dl>
66 <dt><strong><a name="item_the_new_selection_selects_pieces_that_are_too_big_">The new selection selects pieces that are too big, how can I select
67 single words?</a></strong><br />
68 </dt>
69 <dd>
70 Yes. For example, if you want to select alphanumeric words, you can use
71 the following resource:
72 </dd>
73 <dd>
74 <pre>
75 URxvt.selection.pattern-0: ([[:word:]]+)</pre>
76 </dd>
77 <dd>
78 <p>If you click more than twice, the selection will be extended
79 more and more.</p>
80 </dd>
81 <dd>
82 <p>To get a selection that is very similar to the old code, try this pattern:</p>
83 </dd>
84 <dd>
85 <pre>
86 URxvt.selection.pattern-0: ([^&quot;&amp;'()*,;&lt;=&gt;?@[\\\\]^`{|})]+)</pre>
87 </dd>
88 <dd>
89 <p>Please also note that the <em>LeftClick Shift-LeftClik</em> combination also
90 selects words like the old code.</p>
91 </dd>
92 <p></p>
93 <dt><strong><a name="item_i_don_27t_like_the_new_selection_2fpopups_2fhotkey">I don't like the new selection/popups/hotkeys/perl, how do I
94 change/disable it?</a></strong><br />
95 </dt>
96 <dd>
97 You can disable the perl extension completely by setting the
98 <strong>perl-ext-common</strong> resource to the empty string, which also keeps
99 rxvt-unicode from initialising perl, saving memory.
100 </dd>
101 <dd>
102 <p>If you only want to disable specific features, you first have to
103 identify which perl extension is responsible. For this, read the section
104 <strong>PREPACKAGED EXTENSIONS</strong> in the <code>rxvtperl(3)</code> manpage. For
105 example, to disable the <strong>selection-popup</strong> and <strong>option-popup</strong>, specify
106 this <strong>perl-ext-common</strong> resource:</p>
107 </dd>
108 <dd>
109 <pre>
110 URxvt.perl-ext-common: default,-selection-popup,-option-popup</pre>
111 </dd>
112 <dd>
113 <p>This will keep the default extensions, but disable the two popup
114 extensions. Some extensions can also be configured, for example,
115 scrollback search mode is triggered by <strong>M-s</strong>. You can move it to any
116 other combination either by setting the <strong>searchable-scrollback</strong> resource:</p>
117 </dd>
118 <dd>
119 <pre>
120 URxvt.searchable-scrollback: CM-s</pre>
121 </dd>
122 <p></p>
123 <dt><strong><a name="item_the_cursor_moves_when_selecting_text_in_the_curren">The cursor moves when selecting text in the current input line, how
124 do I switch this off?</a></strong><br />
125 </dt>
126 <dt><strong><a name="item_during_rlogin_2fssh_2ftelnet_2fetc_2e_sessions_2c_">During rlogin/ssh/telnet/etc. sessions, clicking near the cursor
127 outputs strange escape sequences, how do I fix this?</a></strong><br />
128 </dt>
129 <dd>
130 These are caused by the <code>readline</code> perl extension. Under normal
131 circumstances, it will move your cursor around when you click into the
132 line that contains it. It tries hard not to do this at the wrong moment,
133 but when running a program that doesn't parse cursor movements or in some
134 cases during rlogin sessions, it fails to detect this properly.
135 </dd>
136 <dd>
137 <p>You can permamently switch this feature off by disabling the <code>readline</code>
138 extension:</p>
139 </dd>
140 <dd>
141 <pre>
142 URxvt.perl-ext-common: default,-readline</pre>
143 </dd>
144 <p></p>
145 <dt><strong><a name="item_why_doesn_27t_rxvt_2dunicode_read_my_resources_3f">Why doesn't rxvt-unicode read my resources?</a></strong><br />
146 </dt>
147 <dd>
148 Well, why, indeed? It does, in a way very similar to other X
149 applications. Most importantly, this means that if you or your OS loads
150 resources into the X display (the right way to do it), rxvt-unicode will
151 ignore any resource files in your home directory. It will only read
152 <em>$HOME/.Xdefaults</em> when no resources are attached to the display.
153 </dd>
154 <dd>
155 <p>If you have or use an <em>$HOME/.Xresources</em> file, chances are that
156 resources are loaded into your X-server. In this case, you have to
157 re-login after every change (or run <em>xrdb -merge $HOME/.Xresources</em>).</p>
158 </dd>
159 <dd>
160 <p>Also consider the form resources have to use:</p>
161 </dd>
162 <dd>
163 <pre>
164 URxvt.resource: value</pre>
165 </dd>
166 <dd>
167 <p>If you want to use another form (there are lots of different ways of
168 specifying resources), make sure you understand wether and why it
169 works. If unsure, use the form above.</p>
170 </dd>
171 <p></p>
172 <dt><strong><a name="item_i_can_27t_get_transparency_working_2c_what_am_i_do">I can't get transparency working, what am I doing wrong?</a></strong><br />
173 </dt>
174 <dd>
175 First of all, transparency isn't officially supported in rxvt-unicode, so
176 you are mostly on your own. Do not bug the author about it (but you may
177 bug everybody else). Also, if you can't get it working consider it a rite
178 of passage: ... and you failed.
179 </dd>
180 <dd>
181 <p>Here are four ways to get transparency. <strong>Do</strong> read the manpage and option
182 descriptions for the programs mentioned and rxvt-unicode. Really, do it!</p>
183 </dd>
184 <dd>
185 <p>1. Use inheritPixmap:</p>
186 </dd>
187 <dd>
188 <pre>
189 Esetroot wallpaper.jpg
190 rxvt -ip -tint red -sh 40</pre>
191 </dd>
192 <dd>
193 <p>That works. If you think it doesn't, you lack transparency and tinting
194 support, or you are unable to read.</p>
195 </dd>
196 <dd>
197 <p>2. Use a simple pixmap and emulate pseudo-transparency. This enables you
198 to use effects other than tinting and shading: Just shade/tint/whatever
199 your picture with gimp:</p>
200 </dd>
201 <dd>
202 <pre>
203 convert wallpaper.jpg -blur 20x20 -modulate 30 background.xpm
204 rxvt -pixmap background.xpm -pe automove-background</pre>
205 </dd>
206 <dd>
207 <p>That works. If you think it doesn't, you lack XPM and Perl support, or you
208 are unable to read.</p>
209 </dd>
210 <dd>
211 <p>3. Use an ARGB visual:</p>
212 </dd>
213 <dd>
214 <pre>
215 rxvt -depth 32 -fg grey90 -bg rgba:0000/0000/4444/cccc</pre>
216 </dd>
217 <dd>
218 <p>This requires XFT support, and the support of your X-server. If that
219 doesn't work for you, blame Xorg and Keith Packard. ARGB visuals aren't
220 there yet, no matter what they claim. Rxvt-Unicode contains the neccessary
221 bugfixes and workarounds for Xft and Xlib to make it work, but that
222 doesn't mean that your WM has the required kludges in place.</p>
223 </dd>
224 <dd>
225 <p>4. Use xcompmgr and let it do the job:</p>
226 </dd>
227 <dd>
228 <pre>
229 xprop -frame -f _NET_WM_WINDOW_OPACITY 32c \
230 -set _NET_WM_WINDOW_OPACITY 0xc0000000</pre>
231 </dd>
232 <dd>
233 <p>Then click on a window you want to make transparent. Replace <code>0xc0000000</code>
234 by other values to change the degree of opacity. If it doesn't work and
235 your server crashes, you got to keep the pieces.</p>
236 </dd>
237 <p></p>
238 <dt><strong><a name="item_isn_27t_rxvt_supposed_to_be_small_3f_don_27t_all_t">Isn't rxvt supposed to be small? Don't all those features bloat?</a></strong><br />
239 </dt>
240 <dd>
241 I often get asked about this, and I think, no, they didn't cause extra
242 bloat. If you compare a minimal rxvt and a minimal urxvt, you can see
243 that the urxvt binary is larger (due to some encoding tables always being
244 compiled in), but it actually uses less memory (RSS) after startup. Even
245 with <code>--disable-everything</code>, this comparison is a bit unfair, as many
246 features unique to urxvt (locale, encoding conversion, iso14755 etc.) are
247 already in use in this mode.
248 </dd>
249 <dd>
250 <pre>
251 text data bss drs rss filename
252 98398 1664 24 15695 1824 rxvt --disable-everything
253 188985 9048 66616 18222 1788 urxvt --disable-everything</pre>
254 </dd>
255 <dd>
256 <p>When you <a href="#item__2d_2denable_2deverything"><code>--enable-everything</code></a> (which _is_ unfair, as this involves xft
257 and full locale/XIM support which are quite bloaty inside libX11 and my
258 libc), the two diverge, but not unreasnobaly so.</p>
259 </dd>
260 <dd>
261 <pre>
262 text data bss drs rss filename
263 163431 2152 24 20123 2060 rxvt --enable-everything
264 1035683 49680 66648 29096 3680 urxvt --enable-everything</pre>
265 </dd>
266 <dd>
267 <p>The very large size of the text section is explained by the east-asian
268 encoding tables, which, if unused, take up disk space but nothing else
269 and can be compiled out unless you rely on X11 core fonts that use those
270 encodings. The BSS size comes from the 64k emergency buffer that my c++
271 compiler allocates (but of course doesn't use unless you are out of
272 memory). Also, using an xft font instead of a core font immediately adds a
273 few megabytes of RSS. Xft indeed is responsible for a lot of RSS even when
274 not used.</p>
275 </dd>
276 <dd>
277 <p>Of course, due to every character using two or four bytes instead of one,
278 a large scrollback buffer will ultimately make rxvt-unicode use more
279 memory.</p>
280 </dd>
281 <dd>
282 <p>Compared to e.g. Eterm (5112k), aterm (3132k) and xterm (4680k), this
283 still fares rather well. And compared to some monsters like gnome-terminal
284 (21152k + extra 4204k in separate processes) or konsole (22200k + extra
285 43180k in daemons that stay around after exit, plus half a minute of
286 startup time, including the hundreds of warnings it spits out), it fares
287 extremely well *g*.</p>
288 </dd>
289 <p></p>
290 <dt><strong><a name="item_why_c_2b_2b_2c_isn_27t_that_unportable_2fbloated_2">Why C++, isn't that unportable/bloated/uncool?</a></strong><br />
291 </dt>
292 <dd>
293 Is this a question? :) It comes up very often. The simple answer is: I had
294 to write it, and C++ allowed me to write and maintain it in a fraction
295 of the time and effort (which is a scarce resource for me). Put even
296 shorter: It simply wouldn't exist without C++.
297 </dd>
298 <dd>
299 <p>My personal stance on this is that C++ is less portable than C, but in
300 the case of rxvt-unicode this hardly matters, as its portability limits
301 are defined by things like X11, pseudo terminals, locale support and unix
302 domain sockets, which are all less portable than C++ itself.</p>
303 </dd>
304 <dd>
305 <p>Regarding the bloat, see the above question: It's easy to write programs
306 in C that use gobs of memory, an certainly possible to write programs in
307 C++ that don't. C++ also often comes with large libraries, but this is
308 not necessarily the case with GCC. Here is what rxvt links against on my
309 system with a minimal config:</p>
310 </dd>
311 <dd>
312 <pre>
313 libX11.so.6 =&gt; /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x00002aaaaabc3000)
314 libc.so.6 =&gt; /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00002aaaaadde000)
315 libdl.so.2 =&gt; /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00002aaaab01d000)
316 /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00002aaaaaaab000)</pre>
317 </dd>
318 <dd>
319 <p>And here is rxvt-unicode:</p>
320 </dd>
321 <dd>
322 <pre>
323 libX11.so.6 =&gt; /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x00002aaaaabc3000)
324 libgcc_s.so.1 =&gt; /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00002aaaaada2000)
325 libc.so.6 =&gt; /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00002aaaaaeb0000)
326 libdl.so.2 =&gt; /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00002aaaab0ee000)
327 /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00002aaaaaaab000)</pre>
328 </dd>
329 <dd>
330 <p>No large bloated libraries (of course, none were linked in statically),
331 except maybe libX11 :)</p>
332 </dd>
333 <p></p>
334 <dt><strong><a name="item_does_it_support_tabs_2c_can_i_have_a_tabbed_rxvt_2">Does it support tabs, can I have a tabbed rxvt-unicode?</a></strong><br />
335 </dt>
336 <dd>
337 Beginning with version 7.3, there is a perl extension that implements a
338 simple tabbed terminal. It is installed by default, so any of these should
339 give you tabs:
340 </dd>
341 <dd>
342 <pre>
343 rxvt -pe tabbed</pre>
344 </dd>
345 <dd>
346 <pre>
347 URxvt.perl-ext-common: default,tabbed</pre>
348 </dd>
349 <dd>
350 <p>It will also work fine with tabbing functionality of many window managers
351 or similar tabbing programs, and its embedding-features allow it to be
352 embedded into other programs, as witnessed by <em>doc/rxvt-tabbed</em> or
353 the upcoming <code>Gtk2::URxvt</code> perl module, which features a tabbed urxvt
354 (murxvt) terminal as an example embedding application.</p>
355 </dd>
356 <p></p>
357 <dt><strong><a name="item_how_do_i_know_which_rxvt_2dunicode_version_i_27m_u">How do I know which rxvt-unicode version I'm using?</a></strong><br />
358 </dt>
359 <dd>
360 The version number is displayed with the usage (-h). Also the escape
361 sequence <code>ESC [ 8 n</code> sets the window title to the version number. When
362 using the rxvtc client, the version displayed is that of the
363 daemon.
364 </dd>
365 <p></p>
366 <dt><strong><a name="item_i_am_using_debian_gnu_2flinux_and_have_a_problem_2">I am using Debian GNU/Linux and have a problem...</a></strong><br />
367 </dt>
368 <dd>
369 The Debian GNU/Linux package of rxvt-unicode in sarge contains large
370 patches that considerably change the behaviour of rxvt-unicode (but
371 unfortunately this notice has been removed). Before reporting a bug to
372 the original rxvt-unicode author please download and install the genuine
373 version (<a href="http://software.schmorp.de#rxvt-unicode">http://software.schmorp.de#rxvt-unicode</a>) and try to reproduce
374 the problem. If you cannot, chances are that the problems are specific to
375 Debian GNU/Linux, in which case it should be reported via the Debian Bug
376 Tracking System (use <code>reportbug</code> to report the bug).
377 </dd>
378 <dd>
379 <p>For other problems that also affect the Debian package, you can and
380 probably should use the Debian BTS, too, because, after all, it's also a
381 bug in the Debian version and it serves as a reminder for other users that
382 might encounter the same issue.</p>
383 </dd>
384 <p></p>
385 <dt><strong><a name="item_i_am_maintaining_rxvt_2dunicode_for_distribution_2">I am maintaining rxvt-unicode for distribution/OS XXX, any
386 recommendation?</a></strong><br />
387 </dt>
388 <dd>
389 You should build one binary with the default options. <em>configure</em>
390 now enables most useful options, and the trend goes to making them
391 runtime-switchable, too, so there is usually no drawback to enbaling them,
392 except higher disk and possibly memory usage. The perl interpreter should
393 be enabled, as important functionality (menus, selection, likely more in
394 the future) depends on it.
395 </dd>
396 <dd>
397 <p>You should not overwrite the <code>perl-ext-common</code> snd <code>perl-ext</code> resources
398 system-wide (except maybe with <code>defaults</code>). This will result in useful
399 behaviour. If your distribution aims at low memory, add an empty
400 <code>perl-ext-common</code> resource to the app-defaults file. This will keep the
401 perl interpreter disabled until the user enables it.</p>
402 </dd>
403 <dd>
404 <p>If you can/want build more binaries, I recommend building a minimal
405 one with <code>--disable-everything</code> (very useful) and a maximal one with
406 <a href="#item__2d_2denable_2deverything"><code>--enable-everything</code></a> (less useful, it will be very big due to a lot of
407 encodings built-in that increase download times and are rarely used).</p>
408 </dd>
409 <p></p>
410 <dt><strong><a name="item_i_need_to_make_it_setuid_2fsetgid_to_support_utmp_">I need to make it setuid/setgid to support utmp/ptys on my OS, is this safe?</a></strong><br />
411 </dt>
412 <dd>
413 It should be, starting with release 7.1. You are encouraged to properly
414 install urxvt with privileges necessary for your OS now.
415 </dd>
416 <dd>
417 <p>When rxvt-unicode detects that it runs setuid or setgid, it will fork
418 into a helper process for privileged operations (pty handling on some
419 systems, utmp/wtmp/lastlog handling on others) and drop privileges
420 immediately. This is much safer than most other terminals that keep
421 privileges while running (but is more relevant to urxvt, as it contains
422 things as perl interpreters, which might be ``helpful'' to attackers).</p>
423 </dd>
424 <dd>
425 <p>This forking is done as the very first within main(), which is very early
426 and reduces possible bugs to initialisation code run before main(), or
427 things like the dynamic loader of your system, which should result in very
428 little risk.</p>
429 </dd>
430 <p></p>
431 <dt><strong><a name="item_when_i_log_2din_to_another_system_it_tells_me_abou">When I log-in to another system it tells me about missing terminfo data?</a></strong><br />
432 </dt>
433 <dd>
434 The terminal description used by rxvt-unicode is not as widely available
435 as that for xterm, or even rxvt (for which the same problem often arises).
436 </dd>
437 <dd>
438 <p>The correct solution for this problem is to install the terminfo, this can
439 be done like this (with ncurses' infocmp):</p>
440 </dd>
441 <dd>
442 <pre>
443 REMOTE=remotesystem.domain
444 infocmp rxvt-unicode | ssh $REMOTE &quot;cat &gt;/tmp/ti &amp;&amp; tic /tmp/ti&quot;</pre>
445 </dd>
446 <dd>
447 <p>... or by installing rxvt-unicode normally on the remote system,</p>
448 </dd>
449 <dd>
450 <p>If you cannot or do not want to do this, then you can simply set
451 <code>TERM=rxvt</code> or even <code>TERM=xterm</code>, and live with the small number of
452 problems arising, which includes wrong keymapping, less and different
453 colours and some refresh errors in fullscreen applications. It's a nice
454 quick-and-dirty workaround for rare cases, though.</p>
455 </dd>
456 <dd>
457 <p>If you always want to do this (and are fine with the consequences) you
458 can either recompile rxvt-unicode with the desired TERM value or use a
459 resource to set it:</p>
460 </dd>
461 <dd>
462 <pre>
463 URxvt.termName: rxvt</pre>
464 </dd>
465 <dd>
466 <p>If you don't plan to use <strong>rxvt</strong> (quite common...) you could also replace
467 the rxvt terminfo file with the rxvt-unicode one.</p>
468 </dd>
469 <p></p>
470 <dt><strong><a name="item_tic_outputs_some_error_when_compiling_the_terminfo"><code>tic</code> outputs some error when compiling the terminfo entry.</a></strong><br />
471 </dt>
472 <dd>
473 Most likely it's the empty definition for <code>enacs=</code>. Just replace it by
474 <code>enacs=\E[0@</code> and try again.
475 </dd>
476 <p></p>
477 <dt><strong><a name="item_bash_27s_readline_does_not_work_correctly_under_rx"><code>bash</code>'s readline does not work correctly under rxvt.</a></strong><br />
478 </dt>
479 <dt><strong><a name="item_i_need_a_termcap_file_entry_2e">I need a termcap file entry.</a></strong><br />
480 </dt>
481 <dd>
482 One reason you might want this is that some distributions or operating
483 systems still compile some programs using the long-obsoleted termcap
484 library (Fedora Core's bash is one example) and rely on a termcap entry
485 for <code>rxvt-unicode</code>.
486 </dd>
487 <dd>
488 <p>You could use rxvt's termcap entry with resonable results in many cases.
489 You can also create a termcap entry by using terminfo's infocmp program
490 like this:</p>
491 </dd>
492 <dd>
493 <pre>
494 infocmp -C rxvt-unicode</pre>
495 </dd>
496 <dd>
497 <p>Or you could use this termcap entry, generated by the command above:</p>
498 </dd>
499 <dd>
500 <pre>
501 rxvt-unicode|rxvt-unicode terminal (X Window System):\
502 :am:bw:eo:km:mi:ms:xn:xo:\
503 :co#80:it#8:li#24:lm#0:\
504 :AL=\E[%dL:DC=\E[%dP:DL=\E[%dM:DO=\E[%dB:IC=\E[%d@:\
505 :K1=\EOw:K2=\EOu:K3=\EOy:K4=\EOq:K5=\EOs:LE=\E[%dD:\
506 :RI=\E[%dC:SF=\E[%dS:SR=\E[%dT:UP=\E[%dA:ae=\E(B:al=\E[L:\
507 :as=\E(0:bl=^G:cd=\E[J:ce=\E[K:cl=\E[H\E[2J:\
508 :cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:cr=^M:cs=\E[%i%d;%dr:ct=\E[3g:dc=\E[P:\
509 :dl=\E[M:do=^J:ec=\E[%dX:ei=\E[4l:ho=\E[H:\
510 :i1=\E[?47l\E=\E[?1l:ic=\E[@:im=\E[4h:\
511 :is=\E[r\E[m\E[2J\E[H\E[?7h\E[?1;3;4;6l\E[4l:\
512 :k1=\E[11~:k2=\E[12~:k3=\E[13~:k4=\E[14~:k5=\E[15~:\
513 :k6=\E[17~:k7=\E[18~:k8=\E[19~:k9=\E[20~:kD=\E[3~:\
514 :kI=\E[2~:kN=\E[6~:kP=\E[5~:kb=\177:kd=\EOB:ke=\E[?1l\E&gt;:\
515 :kh=\E[7~:kl=\EOD:kr=\EOC:ks=\E[?1h\E=:ku=\EOA:le=^H:\
516 :mb=\E[5m:md=\E[1m:me=\E[m\017:mr=\E[7m:nd=\E[C:rc=\E8:\
517 :sc=\E7:se=\E[27m:sf=^J:so=\E[7m:sr=\EM:st=\EH:ta=^I:\
518 :te=\E[r\E[?1049l:ti=\E[?1049h:ue=\E[24m:up=\E[A:\
519 :us=\E[4m:vb=\E[?5h\E[?5l:ve=\E[?25h:vi=\E[?25l:\
520 :vs=\E[?25h:</pre>
521 </dd>
522 <p></p>
523 <dt><strong><a name="item_why_does_ls_no_longer_have_coloured_output_3f">Why does <code>ls</code> no longer have coloured output?</a></strong><br />
524 </dt>
525 <dd>
526 The <code>ls</code> in the GNU coreutils unfortunately doesn't use terminfo to
527 decide wether a terminal has colour, but uses it's own configuration
528 file. Needless to say, <code>rxvt-unicode</code> is not in it's default file (among
529 with most other terminals supporting colour). Either add:
530 </dd>
531 <dd>
532 <pre>
533 TERM rxvt-unicode</pre>
534 </dd>
535 <dd>
536 <p>to <code>/etc/DIR_COLORS</code> or simply add:</p>
537 </dd>
538 <dd>
539 <pre>
540 alias ls='ls --color=auto'</pre>
541 </dd>
542 <dd>
543 <p>to your <code>.profile</code> or <code>.bashrc</code>.</p>
544 </dd>
545 <p></p>
546 <dt><strong><a name="item_why_doesn_27t_vim_2femacs_etc_2e_use_the_88_colour">Why doesn't vim/emacs etc. use the 88 colour mode?</a></strong><br />
547 </dt>
548 <dt><strong><a name="item_why_doesn_27t_vim_2femacs_etc_2e_make_use_of_itali">Why doesn't vim/emacs etc. make use of italic?</a></strong><br />
549 </dt>
550 <dt><strong><a name="item_why_are_the_secondary_screen_2drelated_options_not">Why are the secondary screen-related options not working properly?</a></strong><br />
551 </dt>
552 <dd>
553 Make sure you are using <code>TERM=rxvt-unicode</code>. Some pre-packaged
554 distributions (most notably Debian GNU/Linux) break rxvt-unicode
555 by setting <code>TERM</code> to <code>rxvt</code>, which doesn't have these extra
556 features. Unfortunately, some of these (most notably, again, Debian
557 GNU/Linux) furthermore fail to even install the <code>rxvt-unicode</code> terminfo
558 file, so you will need to install it on your own (See the question <strong>When
559 I log-in to another system it tells me about missing terminfo data?</strong> on
560 how to do this).
561 </dd>
562 <p></p>
563 <dt><strong><a name="item_my_numerical_keypad_acts_weird_and_generates_diffe">My numerical keypad acts weird and generates differing output?</a></strong><br />
564 </dt>
565 <dd>
566 Some Debian GNUL/Linux users seem to have this problem, although no
567 specific details were reported so far. It is possible that this is caused
568 by the wrong <code>TERM</code> setting, although the details of wether and how
569 this can happen are unknown, as <code>TERM=rxvt</code> should offer a compatible
570 keymap. See the answer to the previous question, and please report if that
571 helped.
572 </dd>
573 <p></p>
574 <dt><strong><a name="item_rxvt_2dunicode_does_not_seem_to_understand_the_sel">Rxvt-unicode does not seem to understand the selected encoding?</a></strong><br />
575 </dt>
576 <dt><strong><a name="item_unicode_does_not_seem_to_work_3f">Unicode does not seem to work?</a></strong><br />
577 </dt>
578 <dd>
579 If you encounter strange problems like typing an accented character but
580 getting two unrelated other characters or similar, or if program output is
581 subtly garbled, then you should check your locale settings.
582 </dd>
583 <dd>
584 <p>Rxvt-unicode must be started with the same <code>LC_CTYPE</code> setting as the
585 programs. Often rxvt-unicode is started in the <a href="#item_c"><code>C</code></a> locale, while the
586 login script running within the rxvt-unicode window changes the locale to
587 something else, e.g. <code>en_GB.UTF-8</code>. Needless to say, this is not going to work.</p>
588 </dd>
589 <dd>
590 <p>The best thing is to fix your startup environment, as you will likely run
591 into other problems. If nothing works you can try this in your .profile.</p>
592 </dd>
593 <dd>
594 <pre>
595 printf '\e]701;%s\007' &quot;$LC_CTYPE&quot;</pre>
596 </dd>
597 <dd>
598 <p>If this doesn't work, then maybe you use a <code>LC_CTYPE</code> specification not
599 supported on your systems. Some systems have a <code>locale</code> command which
600 displays this (also, <code>perl -e0</code> can be used to check locale settings, as
601 it will complain loudly if it cannot set the locale). If it displays something
602 like:</p>
603 </dd>
604 <dd>
605 <pre>
606 locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: ...</pre>
607 </dd>
608 <dd>
609 <p>Then the locale you specified is not supported on your system.</p>
610 </dd>
611 <dd>
612 <p>If nothing works and you are sure that everything is set correctly then
613 you will need to remember a little known fact: Some programs just don't
614 support locales :(</p>
615 </dd>
616 <p></p>
617 <dt><strong><a name="item_why_do_some_characters_look_so_much_different_than">Why do some characters look so much different than others?</a></strong><br />
618 </dt>
619 <dt><strong><a name="item_how_does_rxvt_2dunicode_choose_fonts_3f">How does rxvt-unicode choose fonts?</a></strong><br />
620 </dt>
621 <dd>
622 Most fonts do not contain the full range of Unicode, which is
623 fine. Chances are that the font you (or the admin/package maintainer of
624 your system/os) have specified does not cover all the characters you want
625 to display.
626 </dd>
627 <dd>
628 <p><strong>rxvt-unicode</strong> makes a best-effort try at finding a replacement
629 font. Often the result is fine, but sometimes the chosen font looks
630 bad/ugly/wrong. Some fonts have totally strange characters that don't
631 resemble the correct glyph at all, and rxvt-unicode lacks the artificial
632 intelligence to detect that a specific glyph is wrong: it has to believe
633 the font that the characters it claims to contain indeed look correct.</p>
634 </dd>
635 <dd>
636 <p>In that case, select a font of your taste and add it to the font list,
637 e.g.:</p>
638 </dd>
639 <dd>
640 <pre>
641 rxvt -fn basefont,font2,font3...</pre>
642 </dd>
643 <dd>
644 <p>When rxvt-unicode sees a character, it will first look at the base
645 font. If the base font does not contain the character, it will go to the
646 next font, and so on. Specifying your own fonts will also speed up this
647 search and use less resources within rxvt-unicode and the X-server.</p>
648 </dd>
649 <dd>
650 <p>The only limitation is that none of the fonts may be larger than the base
651 font, as the base font defines the terminal character cell size, which
652 must be the same due to the way terminals work.</p>
653 </dd>
654 <p></p>
655 <dt><strong><a name="item_why_do_some_chinese_characters_look_so_different_t">Why do some chinese characters look so different than others?</a></strong><br />
656 </dt>
657 <dd>
658 This is because there is a difference between script and language --
659 rxvt-unicode does not know which language the text that is output is,
660 as it only knows the unicode character codes. If rxvt-unicode first
661 sees a japanese/chinese character, it might choose a japanese font for
662 display. Subsequent japanese characters will use that font. Now, many
663 chinese characters aren't represented in japanese fonts, so when the first
664 non-japanese character comes up, rxvt-unicode will look for a chinese font
665 -- unfortunately at this point, it will still use the japanese font for
666 chinese characters that are also in the japanese font.
667 </dd>
668 <dd>
669 <p>The workaround is easy: just tag a chinese font at the end of your font
670 list (see the previous question). The key is to view the font list as
671 a preference list: If you expect more japanese, list a japanese font
672 first. If you expect more chinese, put a chinese font first.</p>
673 </dd>
674 <dd>
675 <p>In the future it might be possible to switch language preferences at
676 runtime (the internal data structure has no problem with using different
677 fonts for the same character at the same time, but no interface for this
678 has been designed yet).</p>
679 </dd>
680 <dd>
681 <p>Until then, you might get away with switching fonts at runtime (see <a href="#can_i_switch_the_fonts_at_runtime">Can I switch the fonts at runtime?</a> later in this document).</p>
682 </dd>
683 <p></p>
684 <dt><strong><a name="item_why_does_rxvt_2dunicode_sometimes_leave_pixel_drop">Why does rxvt-unicode sometimes leave pixel droppings?</a></strong><br />
685 </dt>
686 <dd>
687 Most fonts were not designed for terminal use, which means that character
688 size varies a lot. A font that is otherwise fine for terminal use might
689 contain some characters that are simply too wide. Rxvt-unicode will avoid
690 these characters. For characters that are just ``a bit'' too wide a special
691 ``careful'' rendering mode is used that redraws adjacent characters.
692 </dd>
693 <dd>
694 <p>All of this requires that fonts do not lie about character sizes,
695 however: Xft fonts often draw glyphs larger than their acclaimed bounding
696 box, and rxvt-unicode has no way of detecting this (the correct way is to
697 ask for the character bounding box, which unfortunately is wrong in these
698 cases).</p>
699 </dd>
700 <dd>
701 <p>It's not clear (to me at least), wether this is a bug in Xft, freetype,
702 or the respective font. If you encounter this problem you might try using
703 the <code>-lsp</code> option to give the font more height. If that doesn't work, you
704 might be forced to use a different font.</p>
705 </dd>
706 <dd>
707 <p>All of this is not a problem when using X11 core fonts, as their bounding
708 box data is correct.</p>
709 </dd>
710 <p></p>
711 <dt><strong><a name="item_on_solaris_9_2c_many_line_2ddrawing_characters_are">On Solaris 9, many line-drawing characters are too wide.</a></strong><br />
712 </dt>
713 <dd>
714 Seems to be a known bug, read
715 <a href="http://nixdoc.net/files/forum/about34198.html">http://nixdoc.net/files/forum/about34198.html</a>. Some people use the
716 following ugly workaround to get non-double-wide-characters working:
717 </dd>
718 <dd>
719 <pre>
720 #define wcwidth(x) wcwidth(x) &gt; 1 ? 1 : wcwidth(x)</pre>
721 </dd>
722 <p></p>
723 <dt><strong><a name="item_compose">My Compose (Multi_key) key is no longer working.</a></strong><br />
724 </dt>
725 <dd>
726 The most common causes for this are that either your locale is not set
727 correctly, or you specified a <strong>preeditStyle</strong> that is not supported by
728 your input method. For example, if you specified <strong>OverTheSpot</strong> and
729 your input method (e.g. the default input method handling Compose keys)
730 does not support this (for instance because it is not visual), then
731 rxvt-unicode will continue without an input method.
732 </dd>
733 <dd>
734 <p>In this case either do not specify a <strong>preeditStyle</strong> or specify more than
735 one pre-edit style, such as <strong>OverTheSpot,Root,None</strong>.</p>
736 </dd>
737 <p></p>
738 <dt><strong><a name="item_i_cannot_type_ctrl_2dshift_2d2_to_get_an_ascii_nul">I cannot type <code>Ctrl-Shift-2</code> to get an ASCII NUL character due to ISO 14755</a></strong><br />
739 </dt>
740 <dd>
741 Either try <code>Ctrl-2</code> alone (it often is mapped to ASCII NUL even on
742 international keyboards) or simply use ISO 14755 support to your
743 advantage, typing &lt;Ctrl-Shift-0&gt; to get a ASCII NUL. This works for other
744 codes, too, such as <code>Ctrl-Shift-1-d</code> to type the default telnet escape
745 character and so on.
746 </dd>
747 <p></p>
748 <dt><strong><a name="item_how_can_i_keep_rxvt_2dunicode_from_using_reverse_v">How can I keep rxvt-unicode from using reverse video so much?</a></strong><br />
749 </dt>
750 <dd>
751 First of all, make sure you are running with the right terminal settings
752 (<code>TERM=rxvt-unicode</code>), which will get rid of most of these effects. Then
753 make sure you have specified colours for italic and bold, as otherwise
754 rxvt-unicode might use reverse video to simulate the effect:
755 </dd>
756 <dd>
757 <pre>
758 URxvt.colorBD: white
759 URxvt.colorIT: green</pre>
760 </dd>
761 <p></p>
762 <dt><strong><a name="item_colours">Some programs assume totally weird colours (red instead of blue), how can I fix that?</a></strong><br />
763 </dt>
764 <dd>
765 For some unexplainable reason, some rare programs assume a very weird
766 colour palette when confronted with a terminal with more than the standard
767 8 colours (rxvt-unicode supports 88). The right fix is, of course, to fix
768 these programs not to assume non-ISO colours without very good reasons.
769 </dd>
770 <dd>
771 <p>In the meantime, you can either edit your <code>rxvt-unicode</code> terminfo
772 definition to only claim 8 colour support or use <code>TERM=rxvt</code>, which will
773 fix colours but keep you from using other rxvt-unicode features.</p>
774 </dd>
775 <p></p>
776 <dt><strong><a name="item_i_am_on_freebsd_and_rxvt_2dunicode_does_not_seem_t">I am on FreeBSD and rxvt-unicode does not seem to work at all.</a></strong><br />
777 </dt>
778 <dd>
779 Rxvt-unicode requires the symbol <code>__STDC_ISO_10646__</code> to be defined
780 in your compile environment, or an implementation that implements it,
781 wether it defines the symbol or not. <code>__STDC_ISO_10646__</code> requires that
782 <strong>wchar_t</strong> is represented as unicode.
783 </dd>
784 <dd>
785 <p>As you might have guessed, FreeBSD does neither define this symobl nor
786 does it support it. Instead, it uses it's own internal representation of
787 <strong>wchar_t</strong>. This is, of course, completely fine with respect to standards.</p>
788 </dd>
789 <dd>
790 <p>However, that means rxvt-unicode only works in <code>POSIX</code>, <code>ISO-8859-1</code> and
791 <code>UTF-8</code> locales under FreeBSD (which all use Unicode as <strong>wchar_t</strong>.</p>
792 </dd>
793 <dd>
794 <p><code>__STDC_ISO_10646__</code> is the only sane way to support multi-language
795 apps in an OS, as using a locale-dependent (and non-standardized)
796 representation of <strong>wchar_t</strong> makes it impossible to convert between
797 <strong>wchar_t</strong> (as used by X11 and your applications) and any other encoding
798 without implementing OS-specific-wrappers for each and every locale. There
799 simply are no APIs to convert <strong>wchar_t</strong> into anything except the current
800 locale encoding.</p>
801 </dd>
802 <dd>
803 <p>Some applications (such as the formidable <strong>mlterm</strong>) work around this
804 by carrying their own replacement functions for character set handling
805 with them, and either implementing OS-dependent hacks or doing multiple
806 conversions (which is slow and unreliable in case the OS implements
807 encodings slightly different than the terminal emulator).</p>
808 </dd>
809 <dd>
810 <p>The rxvt-unicode author insists that the right way to fix this is in the
811 system libraries once and for all, instead of forcing every app to carry
812 complete replacements for them :)</p>
813 </dd>
814 <p></p>
815 <dt><strong><a name="item_i_use_solaris_9_and_it_doesn_27t_compile_2fwork_2f">I use Solaris 9 and it doesn't compile/work/etc.</a></strong><br />
816 </dt>
817 <dd>
818 Try the diff in <em>doc/solaris9.patch</em> as a base. It fixes the worst
819 problems with <code>wcwidth</code> and a compile problem.
820 </dd>
821 <p></p>
822 <dt><strong><a name="item_how_can_i_use_rxvt_2dunicode_under_cygwin_3f">How can I use rxvt-unicode under cygwin?</a></strong><br />
823 </dt>
824 <dd>
825 rxvt-unicode should compile and run out of the box on cygwin, using
826 the X11 libraries that come with cygwin. libW11 emulation is no
827 longer supported (and makes no sense, either, as it only supported a
828 single font). I recommend starting the X-server in <code>-multiwindow</code> or
829 <code>-rootless</code> mode instead, which will result in similar look&amp;feel as the
830 old libW11 emulation.
831 </dd>
832 <dd>
833 <p>At the time of this writing, cygwin didn't seem to support any multi-byte
834 encodings (you might try <code>LC_CTYPE=C-UTF-8</code>), so you are likely limited
835 to 8-bit encodings.</p>
836 </dd>
837 <p></p>
838 <dt><strong><a name="item_how_does_rxvt_2dunicode_determine_the_encoding_to_">How does rxvt-unicode determine the encoding to use?</a></strong><br />
839 </dt>
840 <dt><strong><a name="item_is_there_an_option_to_switch_encodings_3f">Is there an option to switch encodings?</a></strong><br />
841 </dt>
842 <dd>
843 Unlike some other terminals, rxvt-unicode has no encoding switch, and no
844 specific ``utf-8'' mode, such as xterm. In fact, it doesn't even know about
845 UTF-8 or any other encodings with respect to terminal I/O.
846 </dd>
847 <dd>
848 <p>The reasons is that there exists a perfectly fine mechanism for selecting
849 the encoding, doing I/O and (most important) communicating this to all
850 applications so everybody agrees on character properties such as width
851 and code number. This mechanism is the <em>locale</em>. Applications not using
852 that info will have problems (for example, <code>xterm</code> gets the width of
853 characters wrong as it uses it's own, locale-independent table under all
854 locales).</p>
855 </dd>
856 <dd>
857 <p>Rxvt-unicode uses the <code>LC_CTYPE</code> locale category to select encoding. All
858 programs doing the same (that is, most) will automatically agree in the
859 interpretation of characters.</p>
860 </dd>
861 <dd>
862 <p>Unfortunately, there is no system-independent way to select locales, nor
863 is there a standard on how locale specifiers will look like.</p>
864 </dd>
865 <dd>
866 <p>On most systems, the content of the <code>LC_CTYPE</code> environment variable
867 contains an arbitrary string which corresponds to an already-installed
868 locale. Common names for locales are <code>en_US.UTF-8</code>, <code>de_DE.ISO-8859-15</code>,
869 <code>ja_JP.EUC-JP</code>, i.e. <code>language_country.encoding</code>, but other forms
870 (i.e. <code>de</code> or <code>german</code>) are also common.</p>
871 </dd>
872 <dd>
873 <p>Rxvt-unicode ignores all other locale categories, and except for
874 the encoding, ignores country or language-specific settings,
875 i.e. <code>de_DE.UTF-8</code> and <code>ja_JP.UTF-8</code> are the normally same to
876 rxvt-unicode.</p>
877 </dd>
878 <dd>
879 <p>If you want to use a specific encoding you have to make sure you start
880 rxvt-unicode with the correct <code>LC_CTYPE</code> category.</p>
881 </dd>
882 <p></p>
883 <dt><strong><a name="item_can_i_switch_locales_at_runtime_3f">Can I switch locales at runtime?</a></strong><br />
884 </dt>
885 <dd>
886 Yes, using an escape sequence. Try something like this, which sets
887 rxvt-unicode's idea of <code>LC_CTYPE</code>.
888 </dd>
889 <dd>
890 <pre>
891 printf '\e]701;%s\007' ja_JP.SJIS</pre>
892 </dd>
893 <dd>
894 <p>See also the previous answer.</p>
895 </dd>
896 <dd>
897 <p>Sometimes this capability is rather handy when you want to work in
898 one locale (e.g. <code>de_DE.UTF-8</code>) but some programs don't support it
899 (e.g. UTF-8). For example, I use this script to start <code>xjdic</code>, which
900 first switches to a locale supported by xjdic and back later:</p>
901 </dd>
902 <dd>
903 <pre>
904 printf '\e]701;%s\007' ja_JP.SJIS
905 xjdic -js
906 printf '\e]701;%s\007' de_DE.UTF-8</pre>
907 </dd>
908 <dd>
909 <p>You can also use xterm's <code>luit</code> program, which usually works fine, except
910 for some locales where character width differs between program- and
911 rxvt-unicode-locales.</p>
912 </dd>
913 <p></p>
914 <dt><strong><a name="item_can_i_switch_the_fonts_at_runtime_3f">Can I switch the fonts at runtime?</a></strong><br />
915 </dt>
916 <dd>
917 Yes, using an escape sequence. Try something like this, which has the same
918 effect as using the <code>-fn</code> switch, and takes effect immediately:
919 </dd>
920 <dd>
921 <pre>
922 printf '\e]50;%s\007' &quot;9x15bold,xft:Kochi Gothic&quot;</pre>
923 </dd>
924 <dd>
925 <p>This is useful if you e.g. work primarily with japanese (and prefer a
926 japanese font), but you have to switch to chinese temporarily, where
927 japanese fonts would only be in your way.</p>
928 </dd>
929 <dd>
930 <p>You can think of this as a kind of manual ISO-2022 switching.</p>
931 </dd>
932 <p></p>
933 <dt><strong><a name="item_why_do_italic_characters_look_as_if_clipped_3f">Why do italic characters look as if clipped?</a></strong><br />
934 </dt>
935 <dd>
936 Many fonts have difficulties with italic characters and hinting. For
937 example, the otherwise very nicely hinted font <code>xft:Bitstream Vera Sans
938 Mono</code> completely fails in it's italic face. A workaround might be to
939 enable freetype autohinting, i.e. like this:
940 </dd>
941 <dd>
942 <pre>
943 URxvt.italicFont: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:italic:autohint=true
944 URxvt.boldItalicFont: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:bold:italic:autohint=true</pre>
945 </dd>
946 <p></p>
947 <dt><strong><a name="item_my_input_method_wants__3csome_encoding_3e_but_i_wa">My input method wants &lt;some encoding&gt; but I want UTF-8, what can I do?</a></strong><br />
948 </dt>
949 <dd>
950 You can specify separate locales for the input method and the rest of the
951 terminal, using the resource <code>imlocale</code>:
952 </dd>
953 <dd>
954 <pre>
955 URxvt.imlocale: ja_JP.EUC-JP</pre>
956 </dd>
957 <dd>
958 <p>Now you can start your terminal with <code>LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8</code> and still
959 use your input method. Please note, however, that you will not be able to
960 input characters outside <code>EUC-JP</code> in a normal way then, as your input
961 method limits you.</p>
962 </dd>
963 <p></p>
964 <dt><strong><a name="item_rxvt_2dunicode_crashes_when_the_x_input_method_cha">Rxvt-unicode crashes when the X Input Method changes or exits.</a></strong><br />
965 </dt>
966 <dd>
967 Unfortunately, this is unavoidable, as the XIM protocol is racy by
968 design. Applications can avoid some crashes at the expense of memory
969 leaks, and Input Methods can avoid some crashes by careful ordering at
970 exit time. <strong>kinput2</strong> (and derived input methods) generally succeeds,
971 while <strong>SCIM</strong> (or similar input methods) fails. In the end, however,
972 crashes cannot be completely avoided even if both sides cooperate.
973 </dd>
974 <dd>
975 <p>So the only workaround is not to kill your Input Method Servers.</p>
976 </dd>
977 <p></p>
978 <dt><strong><a name="item_rxvt_2dunicode_uses_gobs_of_memory_2c_how_can_i_re">Rxvt-unicode uses gobs of memory, how can I reduce that?</a></strong><br />
979 </dt>
980 <dd>
981 Rxvt-unicode tries to obey the rule of not charging you for something you
982 don't use. One thing you should try is to configure out all settings that
983 you don't need, for example, Xft support is a resource hog by design,
984 when used. Compiling it out ensures that no Xft font will be loaded
985 accidentally when rxvt-unicode tries to find a font for your characters.
986 </dd>
987 <dd>
988 <p>Also, many people (me included) like large windows and even larger
989 scrollback buffers: Without <code>--enable-unicode3</code>, rxvt-unicode will use
990 6 bytes per screen cell. For a 160x?? window this amounts to almost a
991 kilobyte per line. A scrollback buffer of 10000 lines will then (if full)
992 use 10 Megabytes of memory. With <code>--enable-unicode3</code> it gets worse, as
993 rxvt-unicode then uses 8 bytes per screen cell.</p>
994 </dd>
995 <p></p>
996 <dt><strong><a name="item_can_i_speed_up_xft_rendering_somehow_3f">Can I speed up Xft rendering somehow?</a></strong><br />
997 </dt>
998 <dd>
999 Yes, the most obvious way to speed it up is to avoid Xft entirely, as
1000 it is simply slow. If you still want Xft fonts you might try to disable
1001 antialiasing (by appending <code>:antialias=false</code>), which saves lots of
1002 memory and also speeds up rendering considerably.
1003 </dd>
1004 <p></p>
1005 <dt><strong><a name="item_rxvt_2dunicode_doesn_27t_seem_to_anti_2dalias_its_">Rxvt-unicode doesn't seem to anti-alias its fonts, what is wrong?</a></strong><br />
1006 </dt>
1007 <dd>
1008 Rxvt-unicode will use whatever you specify as a font. If it needs to
1009 fall back to it's default font search list it will prefer X11 core
1010 fonts, because they are small and fast, and then use Xft fonts. It has
1011 antialiasing disabled for most of them, because the author thinks they
1012 look best that way.
1013 </dd>
1014 <dd>
1015 <p>If you want antialiasing, you have to specify the fonts manually.</p>
1016 </dd>
1017 <p></p>
1018 <dt><strong><a name="item_mouse_cut_2fpaste_suddenly_no_longer_works_2e">Mouse cut/paste suddenly no longer works.</a></strong><br />
1019 </dt>
1020 <dd>
1021 Make sure that mouse reporting is actually turned off since killing
1022 some editors prematurely may leave the mouse in mouse report mode. I've
1023 heard that tcsh may use mouse reporting unless it otherwise specified. A
1024 quick check is to see if cut/paste works when the Alt or Shift keys are
1025 depressed.
1026 </dd>
1027 <p></p>
1028 <dt><strong><a name="item_what_27s_with_this_bold_2fblink_stuff_3f">What's with this bold/blink stuff?</a></strong><br />
1029 </dt>
1030 <dd>
1031 If no bold colour is set via <code>colorBD:</code>, bold will invert text using the
1032 standard foreground colour.
1033 </dd>
1034 <dd>
1035 <p>For the standard background colour, blinking will actually make the
1036 text blink when compiled with <code>--enable-blinking</code>. with standard
1037 colours. Without <code>--enable-blinking</code>, the blink attribute will be
1038 ignored.</p>
1039 </dd>
1040 <dd>
1041 <p>On ANSI colours, bold/blink attributes are used to set high-intensity
1042 foreground/background colors.</p>
1043 </dd>
1044 <dd>
1045 <p>color0-7 are the low-intensity colors.</p>
1046 </dd>
1047 <dd>
1048 <p>color8-15 are the corresponding high-intensity colors.</p>
1049 </dd>
1050 <p></p>
1051 <dt><strong><a name="item_i_don_27t_like_the_screen_colors_2e_how_do_i_chang">I don't like the screen colors. How do I change them?</a></strong><br />
1052 </dt>
1053 <dd>
1054 You can change the screen colors at run-time using <em>~/.Xdefaults</em>
1055 resources (or as long-options).
1056 </dd>
1057 <dd>
1058 <p>Here are values that are supposed to resemble a VGA screen,
1059 including the murky brown that passes for low-intensity yellow:</p>
1060 </dd>
1061 <dd>
1062 <pre>
1063 URxvt.color0: #000000
1064 URxvt.color1: #A80000
1065 URxvt.color2: #00A800
1066 URxvt.color3: #A8A800
1067 URxvt.color4: #0000A8
1068 URxvt.color5: #A800A8
1069 URxvt.color6: #00A8A8
1070 URxvt.color7: #A8A8A8</pre>
1071 </dd>
1072 <dd>
1073 <pre>
1074 URxvt.color8: #000054
1075 URxvt.color9: #FF0054
1076 URxvt.color10: #00FF54
1077 URxvt.color11: #FFFF54
1078 URxvt.color12: #0000FF
1079 URxvt.color13: #FF00FF
1080 URxvt.color14: #00FFFF
1081 URxvt.color15: #FFFFFF</pre>
1082 </dd>
1083 <dd>
1084 <p>And here is a more complete set of non-standard colors described (not by
1085 me) as ``pretty girly''.</p>
1086 </dd>
1087 <dd>
1088 <pre>
1089 URxvt.cursorColor: #dc74d1
1090 URxvt.pointerColor: #dc74d1
1091 URxvt.background: #0e0e0e
1092 URxvt.foreground: #4ad5e1
1093 URxvt.color0: #000000
1094 URxvt.color8: #8b8f93
1095 URxvt.color1: #dc74d1
1096 URxvt.color9: #dc74d1
1097 URxvt.color2: #0eb8c7
1098 URxvt.color10: #0eb8c7
1099 URxvt.color3: #dfe37e
1100 URxvt.color11: #dfe37e
1101 URxvt.color5: #9e88f0
1102 URxvt.color13: #9e88f0
1103 URxvt.color6: #73f7ff
1104 URxvt.color14: #73f7ff
1105 URxvt.color7: #e1dddd
1106 URxvt.color15: #e1dddd</pre>
1107 </dd>
1108 <p></p>
1109 <dt><strong><a name="item_how_can_i_start_rxvtd_in_a_race_2dfree_way_3f">How can I start rxvtd in a race-free way?</a></strong><br />
1110 </dt>
1111 <dd>
1112 Try <code>rxvtd -f -o</code>, which tells rxvtd to open the
1113 display, create the listening socket and then fork.
1114 </dd>
1115 <p></p>
1116 <dt><strong><a name="item_what_27s_with_the_strange_backspace_2fdelete_key_b">What's with the strange Backspace/Delete key behaviour?</a></strong><br />
1117 </dt>
1118 <dd>
1119 Assuming that the physical Backspace key corresponds to the
1120 BackSpace keysym (not likely for Linux ... see the following
1121 question) there are two standard values that can be used for
1122 Backspace: <code>^H</code> and <code>^?</code>.
1123 </dd>
1124 <dd>
1125 <p>Historically, either value is correct, but rxvt-unicode adopts the debian
1126 policy of using <code>^?</code> when unsure, because it's the one only only correct
1127 choice :).</p>
1128 </dd>
1129 <dd>
1130 <p>Rxvt-unicode tries to inherit the current stty settings and uses the value
1131 of `erase' to guess the value for backspace. If rxvt-unicode wasn't
1132 started from a terminal (say, from a menu or by remote shell), then the
1133 system value of `erase', which corresponds to CERASE in &lt;termios.h&gt;, will
1134 be used (which may not be the same as your stty setting).</p>
1135 </dd>
1136 <dd>
1137 <p>For starting a new rxvt-unicode:</p>
1138 </dd>
1139 <dd>
1140 <pre>
1141 # use Backspace = ^H
1142 $ stty erase ^H
1143 $ rxvt</pre>
1144 </dd>
1145 <dd>
1146 <pre>
1147 # use Backspace = ^?
1148 $ stty erase ^?
1149 $ rxvt</pre>
1150 </dd>
1151 <dd>
1152 <p>Toggle with <code>ESC [ 36 h</code> / <code>ESC [ 36 l</code>.</p>
1153 </dd>
1154 <dd>
1155 <p>For an existing rxvt-unicode:</p>
1156 </dd>
1157 <dd>
1158 <pre>
1159 # use Backspace = ^H
1160 $ stty erase ^H
1161 $ echo -n &quot;^[[36h&quot;</pre>
1162 </dd>
1163 <dd>
1164 <pre>
1165 # use Backspace = ^?
1166 $ stty erase ^?
1167 $ echo -n &quot;^[[36l&quot;</pre>
1168 </dd>
1169 <dd>
1170 <p>This helps satisfy some of the Backspace discrepancies that occur, but
1171 if you use Backspace = <code>^H</code>, make sure that the termcap/terminfo value
1172 properly reflects that.</p>
1173 </dd>
1174 <dd>
1175 <p>The Delete key is a another casualty of the ill-defined Backspace problem.
1176 To avoid confusion between the Backspace and Delete keys, the Delete
1177 key has been assigned an escape sequence to match the vt100 for Execute
1178 (<code>ESC [ 3 ~</code>) and is in the supplied termcap/terminfo.</p>
1179 </dd>
1180 <dd>
1181 <p>Some other Backspace problems:</p>
1182 </dd>
1183 <dd>
1184 <p>some editors use termcap/terminfo,
1185 some editors (vim I'm told) expect Backspace = ^H,
1186 GNU Emacs (and Emacs-like editors) use ^H for help.</p>
1187 </dd>
1188 <dd>
1189 <p>Perhaps someday this will all be resolved in a consistent manner.</p>
1190 </dd>
1191 <p></p>
1192 <dt><strong><a name="item_i_don_27t_like_the_key_2dbindings_2e_how_do_i_chan">I don't like the key-bindings. How do I change them?</a></strong><br />
1193 </dt>
1194 <dd>
1195 There are some compile-time selections available via configure. Unless
1196 you have run ``configure'' with the <a href="#item__2d_2ddisable_2dresources"><code>--disable-resources</code></a> option you can
1197 use the `keysym' resource to alter the keystrings associated with keysyms.
1198 </dd>
1199 <dd>
1200 <p>Here's an example for a URxvt session started using <code>rxvt -name URxvt</code></p>
1201 </dd>
1202 <dd>
1203 <pre>
1204 URxvt.keysym.Home: \033[1~
1205 URxvt.keysym.End: \033[4~
1206 URxvt.keysym.C-apostrophe: \033&lt;C-'&gt;
1207 URxvt.keysym.C-slash: \033&lt;C-/&gt;
1208 URxvt.keysym.C-semicolon: \033&lt;C-;&gt;
1209 URxvt.keysym.C-grave: \033&lt;C-`&gt;
1210 URxvt.keysym.C-comma: \033&lt;C-,&gt;
1211 URxvt.keysym.C-period: \033&lt;C-.&gt;
1212 URxvt.keysym.C-0x60: \033&lt;C-`&gt;
1213 URxvt.keysym.C-Tab: \033&lt;C-Tab&gt;
1214 URxvt.keysym.C-Return: \033&lt;C-Return&gt;
1215 URxvt.keysym.S-Return: \033&lt;S-Return&gt;
1216 URxvt.keysym.S-space: \033&lt;S-Space&gt;
1217 URxvt.keysym.M-Up: \033&lt;M-Up&gt;
1218 URxvt.keysym.M-Down: \033&lt;M-Down&gt;
1219 URxvt.keysym.M-Left: \033&lt;M-Left&gt;
1220 URxvt.keysym.M-Right: \033&lt;M-Right&gt;
1221 URxvt.keysym.M-C-0: list \033&lt;M-C- 0123456789 &gt;
1222 URxvt.keysym.M-C-a: list \033&lt;M-C- abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz &gt;
1223 URxvt.keysym.F12: command:\033]701;zh_CN.GBK\007</pre>
1224 </dd>
1225 <dd>
1226 <p>See some more examples in the documentation for the <strong>keysym</strong> resource.</p>
1227 </dd>
1228 <p></p>
1229 <dt><strong><a name="item_i_27m_using_keyboard_model_xxx_that_has_extra_prio">I'm using keyboard model XXX that has extra Prior/Next/Insert keys.
1230 How do I make use of them? For example, the Sun Keyboard type 4
1231 has the following mappings that rxvt-unicode doesn't recognize.</a></strong><br />
1232 </dt>
1233 <dd>
1234 <pre>
1235 KP_Insert == Insert
1236 F22 == Print
1237 F27 == Home
1238 F29 == Prior
1239 F33 == End
1240 F35 == Next</pre>
1241 </dd>
1242 <dd>
1243 <p>Rather than have rxvt-unicode try to accommodate all the various possible
1244 keyboard mappings, it is better to use `xmodmap' to remap the keys as
1245 required for your particular machine.</p>
1246 </dd>
1247 <dt><strong><a name="item_how_do_i_distinguish_wether_i_27m_running_rxvt_2du">How do I distinguish wether I'm running rxvt-unicode or a regular xterm?
1248 I need this to decide about setting colors etc.</a></strong><br />
1249 </dt>
1250 <dd>
1251 rxvt and rxvt-unicode always export the variable ``COLORTERM'', so you can
1252 check and see if that is set. Note that several programs, JED, slrn,
1253 Midnight Commander automatically check this variable to decide whether or
1254 not to use color.
1255 </dd>
1256 <p></p>
1257 <dt><strong><a name="item_how_do_i_set_the_correct_2c_full_ip_address_for_th">How do I set the correct, full IP address for the DISPLAY variable?</a></strong><br />
1258 </dt>
1259 <dd>
1260 If you've compiled rxvt-unicode with DISPLAY_IS_IP and have enabled
1261 insecure mode then it is possible to use the following shell script
1262 snippets to correctly set the display. If your version of rxvt-unicode
1263 wasn't also compiled with ESCZ_ANSWER (as assumed in these snippets) then
1264 the COLORTERM variable can be used to distinguish rxvt-unicode from a
1265 regular xterm.
1266 </dd>
1267 <dd>
1268 <p>Courtesy of Chuck Blake &lt;<a href="mailto:cblake@BBN.COM">cblake@BBN.COM</a>&gt; with the following shell script
1269 snippets:</p>
1270 </dd>
1271 <dd>
1272 <pre>
1273 # Bourne/Korn/POSIX family of shells:
1274 [ ${TERM:-foo} = foo ] &amp;&amp; TERM=xterm # assume an xterm if we don't know
1275 if [ ${TERM:-foo} = xterm ]; then
1276 stty -icanon -echo min 0 time 15 # see if enhanced rxvt or not
1277 echo -n '^[Z'
1278 read term_id
1279 stty icanon echo
1280 if [ &quot;&quot;${term_id} = '^[[?1;2C' -a ${DISPLAY:-foo} = foo ]; then
1281 echo -n '^[[7n' # query the rxvt we are in for the DISPLAY string
1282 read DISPLAY # set it in our local shell
1283 fi
1284 fi</pre>
1285 </dd>
1286 <p></p>
1287 <dt><strong><a name="item_how_do_i_compile_the_manual_pages_for_myself_3f">How do I compile the manual pages for myself?</a></strong><br />
1288 </dt>
1289 <dd>
1290 You need to have a recent version of perl installed as <em>/usr/bin/perl</em>,
1291 one that comes with <em>pod2man</em>, <em>pod2text</em> and <em>pod2html</em>. Then go to
1292 the doc subdirectory and enter <code>make alldoc</code>.
1293 </dd>
1294 <p></p>
1295 <dt><strong><a name="item_my_question_isn_27t_answered_here_2c_can_i_ask_a_h">My question isn't answered here, can I ask a human?</a></strong><br />
1296 </dt>
1297 <dd>
1298 Before sending me mail, you could go to IRC: <code>irc.freenode.net</code>,
1299 channel <code>#rxvt-unicode</code> has some rxvt-unicode enthusiasts that might be
1300 interested in learning about new and exciting problems (but not FAQs :).
1301 </dd>
1302 <p></p></dl>
1303 <p>
1304 </p>
1305 <hr />
1306 <h1><a name="rxvt_technical_reference">RXVT TECHNICAL REFERENCE</a></h1>
1307 <p>
1308 </p>
1309 <hr />
1310 <h1><a name="description">DESCRIPTION</a></h1>
1311 <p>The rest of this document describes various technical aspects of
1312 <strong>rxvt-unicode</strong>. First the description of supported command sequences,
1313 followed by pixmap support and last by a description of all features
1314 selectable at <code>configure</code> time.</p>
1315 <p>
1316 </p>
1317 <hr />
1318 <h1><a name="definitions">Definitions</a></h1>
1319 <dl>
1320 <dt><strong><a name="item_c"><strong><code>c</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1321 </dt>
1322 <dd>
1323 The literal character c.
1324 </dd>
1325 <p></p>
1326 <dt><strong><a name="item_c"><strong><code>C</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1327 </dt>
1328 <dd>
1329 A single (required) character.
1330 </dd>
1331 <p></p>
1332 <dt><strong><a name="item_ps"><strong><code>Ps</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1333 </dt>
1334 <dd>
1335 A single (usually optional) numeric parameter, composed of one or more
1336 digits.
1337 </dd>
1338 <p></p>
1339 <dt><strong><a name="item_pm"><strong><code>Pm</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1340 </dt>
1341 <dd>
1342 A multiple numeric parameter composed of any number of single numeric
1343 parameters, separated by <code>;</code> character(s).
1344 </dd>
1345 <p></p>
1346 <dt><strong><a name="item_pt"><strong><code>Pt</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1347 </dt>
1348 <dd>
1349 A text parameter composed of printable characters.
1350 </dd>
1351 <p></p></dl>
1352 <p>
1353 </p>
1354 <hr />
1355 <h1><a name="values">Values</a></h1>
1356 <dl>
1357 <dt><strong><a name="item_enq"><strong><code>ENQ</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1358 </dt>
1359 <dd>
1360 Enquiry (Ctrl-E) = Send Device Attributes (DA)
1361 request attributes from terminal. See <strong><a href="#item_esc__5b_ps_c"><code>ESC [ Ps c</code></a> </strong>&gt;.
1362 </dd>
1363 <p></p>
1364 <dt><strong><a name="item_bel"><strong><code>BEL</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1365 </dt>
1366 <dd>
1367 Bell (Ctrl-G)
1368 </dd>
1369 <p></p>
1370 <dt><strong><a name="item_bs"><strong><code>BS</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1371 </dt>
1372 <dd>
1373 Backspace (Ctrl-H)
1374 </dd>
1375 <p></p>
1376 <dt><strong><a name="item_tab"><strong><code>TAB</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1377 </dt>
1378 <dd>
1379 Horizontal Tab (HT) (Ctrl-I)
1380 </dd>
1381 <p></p>
1382 <dt><strong><a name="item_lf"><strong><code>LF</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1383 </dt>
1384 <dd>
1385 Line Feed or New Line (NL) (Ctrl-J)
1386 </dd>
1387 <p></p>
1388 <dt><strong><a name="item_vt"><strong><code>VT</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1389 </dt>
1390 <dd>
1391 Vertical Tab (Ctrl-K) same as <strong><a href="#item_lf"><code>LF</code></a> </strong>&gt;
1392 </dd>
1393 <p></p>
1394 <dt><strong><a name="item_ff"><strong><code>FF</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1395 </dt>
1396 <dd>
1397 Form Feed or New Page (NP) (Ctrl-L) same as <strong><a href="#item_lf"><code>LF</code></a> </strong>&gt;
1398 </dd>
1399 <p></p>
1400 <dt><strong><a name="item_cr"><strong><code>CR</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1401 </dt>
1402 <dd>
1403 Carriage Return (Ctrl-M)
1404 </dd>
1405 <p></p>
1406 <dt><strong><a name="item_so"><strong><code>SO</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1407 </dt>
1408 <dd>
1409 Shift Out (Ctrl-N), invokes the G1 character set.
1410 Switch to Alternate Character Set
1411 </dd>
1412 <p></p>
1413 <dt><strong><a name="item_si"><strong><code>SI</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1414 </dt>
1415 <dd>
1416 Shift In (Ctrl-O), invokes the G0 character set (the default).
1417 Switch to Standard Character Set
1418 </dd>
1419 <p></p>
1420 <dt><strong><a name="item_spc"><strong><code>SPC</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1421 </dt>
1422 <dd>
1423 Space Character
1424 </dd>
1425 <p></p></dl>
1426 <p>
1427 </p>
1428 <hr />
1429 <h1><a name="escape_sequences">Escape Sequences</a></h1>
1430 <dl>
1431 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__23_8"><strong><code>ESC # 8</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1432 </dt>
1433 <dd>
1434 DEC Screen Alignment Test (DECALN)
1435 </dd>
1436 <p></p>
1437 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc_7"><strong><code>ESC 7</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1438 </dt>
1439 <dd>
1440 Save Cursor (SC)
1441 </dd>
1442 <p></p>
1443 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc_8"><strong><code>ESC 8</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1444 </dt>
1445 <dd>
1446 Restore Cursor
1447 </dd>
1448 <p></p>
1449 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__3d"><strong><code>ESC =</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1450 </dt>
1451 <dd>
1452 Application Keypad (SMKX). See also next sequence.
1453 </dd>
1454 <p></p>
1455 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc"><strong><code>ESC</code> </strong>&gt;&gt;</a></strong><br />
1456 </dt>
1457 <dd>
1458 Normal Keypad (RMKX)
1459 </dd>
1460 <dd>
1461 <p><strong>Note:</strong> If the numeric keypad is activated, eg, <strong>Num_Lock</strong> has been
1462 pressed, numbers or control functions are generated by the numeric keypad
1463 (see Key Codes).</p>
1464 </dd>
1465 <p></p>
1466 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc_d"><strong><code>ESC D</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1467 </dt>
1468 <dd>
1469 Index (IND)
1470 </dd>
1471 <p></p>
1472 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc_e"><strong><code>ESC E</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1473 </dt>
1474 <dd>
1475 Next Line (NEL)
1476 </dd>
1477 <p></p>
1478 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc_h"><strong><code>ESC H</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1479 </dt>
1480 <dd>
1481 Tab Set (HTS)
1482 </dd>
1483 <p></p>
1484 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc_m"><strong><code>ESC M</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1485 </dt>
1486 <dd>
1487 Reverse Index (RI)
1488 </dd>
1489 <p></p>
1490 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc_n"><strong><code>ESC N</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1491 </dt>
1492 <dd>
1493 Single Shift Select of G2 Character Set (SS2): affects next character
1494 only <em>unimplemented</em>
1495 </dd>
1496 <p></p>
1497 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc_o"><strong><code>ESC O</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1498 </dt>
1499 <dd>
1500 Single Shift Select of G3 Character Set (SS3): affects next character
1501 only <em>unimplemented</em>
1502 </dd>
1503 <p></p>
1504 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc_z"><strong><code>ESC Z</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1505 </dt>
1506 <dd>
1507 Obsolete form of returns: <strong><code>ESC [ ? 1 ; 2 C</code> </strong>&gt; <em>rxvt-unicode compile-time option</em>
1508 </dd>
1509 <p></p>
1510 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc_c"><strong><code>ESC c</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1511 </dt>
1512 <dd>
1513 Full reset (RIS)
1514 </dd>
1515 <p></p>
1516 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc_n"><strong><code>ESC n</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1517 </dt>
1518 <dd>
1519 Invoke the G2 Character Set (LS2)
1520 </dd>
1521 <p></p>
1522 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc_o"><strong><code>ESC o</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1523 </dt>
1524 <dd>
1525 Invoke the G3 Character Set (LS3)
1526 </dd>
1527 <p></p>
1528 <dt><strong><strong><code>ESC ( C</code> </strong>&gt;</strong><br />
1529 </dt>
1530 <dd>
1531 Designate G0 Character Set (ISO 2022), see below for values of <a href="#item_c"><code>C</code></a>.
1532 </dd>
1533 <p></p>
1534 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__29_c"><strong><code>ESC ) C</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1535 </dt>
1536 <dd>
1537 Designate G1 Character Set (ISO 2022), see below for values of <a href="#item_c"><code>C</code></a>.
1538 </dd>
1539 <p></p>
1540 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__2a_c"><strong><code>ESC * C</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1541 </dt>
1542 <dd>
1543 Designate G2 Character Set (ISO 2022), see below for values of <a href="#item_c"><code>C</code></a>.
1544 </dd>
1545 <p></p>
1546 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__2b_c"><strong><code>ESC + C</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1547 </dt>
1548 <dd>
1549 Designate G3 Character Set (ISO 2022), see below for values of <a href="#item_c"><code>C</code></a>.
1550 </dd>
1551 <p></p>
1552 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__24_c"><strong><code>ESC $ C</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1553 </dt>
1554 <dd>
1555 Designate Kanji Character Set
1556 </dd>
1557 <dd>
1558 <p>Where <strong><a href="#item_c"><code>C</code></a> </strong>&gt; is one of:</p>
1559 </dd>
1560 <table>
1561 <tr><td>C = 0 </td><td>DEC Special Character and Line Drawing Set</td></tr>
1562 <tr><td>C = A </td><td>United Kingdom (UK)</td></tr>
1563 <tr><td>C = B </td><td>United States (USASCII)</td></tr>
1564 <tr><td>C = <</td><td>Multinational character set unimplemented</td></tr>
1565 <tr><td>C = 5 </td><td>Finnish character set unimplemented</td></tr>
1566 <tr><td>C = C </td><td>Finnish character set unimplemented</td></tr>
1567 <tr><td>C = K </td><td>German character set unimplemented</td></tr>
1568 </table><p></p></dl>
1569 <p></p>
1570 <p>
1571 </p>
1572 <hr />
1573 <h1><a name="csi__command_sequence_introducer__sequences">CSI (Command Sequence Introducer) Sequences</a></h1>
1574 <dl>
1575 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps__40"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps @</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1576 </dt>
1577 <dd>
1578 Insert <strong><a href="#item_ps"><code>Ps</code></a> </strong>&gt; (Blank) <code>Character(s)</code> [default: 1] (ICH)
1579 </dd>
1580 <p></p>
1581 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_a"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps A</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1582 </dt>
1583 <dd>
1584 Cursor Up <strong><a href="#item_ps"><code>Ps</code></a> </strong>&gt; Times [default: 1] (CUU)
1585 </dd>
1586 <p></p>
1587 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_b"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps B</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1588 </dt>
1589 <dd>
1590 Cursor Down <strong><a href="#item_ps"><code>Ps</code></a> </strong>&gt; Times [default: 1] (CUD)
1591 </dd>
1592 <p></p>
1593 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_c"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps C</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1594 </dt>
1595 <dd>
1596 Cursor Forward <strong><a href="#item_ps"><code>Ps</code></a> </strong>&gt; Times [default: 1] (CUF)
1597 </dd>
1598 <p></p>
1599 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_d"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps D</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1600 </dt>
1601 <dd>
1602 Cursor Backward <strong><a href="#item_ps"><code>Ps</code></a> </strong>&gt; Times [default: 1] (CUB)
1603 </dd>
1604 <p></p>
1605 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_e"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps E</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1606 </dt>
1607 <dd>
1608 Cursor Down <strong><a href="#item_ps"><code>Ps</code></a> </strong>&gt; Times [default: 1] and to first column
1609 </dd>
1610 <p></p>
1611 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_f"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps F</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1612 </dt>
1613 <dd>
1614 Cursor Up <strong><a href="#item_ps"><code>Ps</code></a> </strong>&gt; Times [default: 1] and to first column
1615 </dd>
1616 <p></p>
1617 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_g"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps G</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1618 </dt>
1619 <dd>
1620 Cursor to Column <strong><a href="#item_ps"><code>Ps</code></a> </strong>&gt; (HPA)
1621 </dd>
1622 <p></p>
1623 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_3bps_h"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps;Ps H</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1624 </dt>
1625 <dd>
1626 Cursor Position [row;column] [default: 1;1] (CUP)
1627 </dd>
1628 <p></p>
1629 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_i"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps I</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1630 </dt>
1631 <dd>
1632 Move forward <strong><a href="#item_ps"><code>Ps</code></a> </strong>&gt; tab stops [default: 1]
1633 </dd>
1634 <p></p>
1635 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_j"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps J</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1636 </dt>
1637 <dd>
1638 Erase in Display (ED)
1639 </dd>
1640 <table>
1641 <tr><td>Ps = 0</td><td>Clear Below (default)</td></tr>
1642 <tr><td>Ps = 1</td><td>Clear Above</td></tr>
1643 <tr><td>Ps = 2</td><td>Clear All</td></tr>
1644 </table><p></p>
1645 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_k"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps K</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1646 </dt>
1647 <dd>
1648 Erase in Line (EL)
1649 </dd>
1650 <table>
1651 <tr><td>Ps = 0</td><td>Clear to Right (default)</td></tr>
1652 <tr><td>Ps = 1</td><td>Clear to Left</td></tr>
1653 <tr><td>Ps = 2</td><td>Clear All</td></tr>
1654 </table><p></p>
1655 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_l"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps L</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1656 </dt>
1657 <dd>
1658 Insert <strong><a href="#item_ps"><code>Ps</code></a> </strong>&gt; <code>Line(s)</code> [default: 1] (IL)
1659 </dd>
1660 <p></p>
1661 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_m"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps M</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1662 </dt>
1663 <dd>
1664 Delete <strong><a href="#item_ps"><code>Ps</code></a> </strong>&gt; <code>Line(s)</code> [default: 1] (DL)
1665 </dd>
1666 <p></p>
1667 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_p"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps P</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1668 </dt>
1669 <dd>
1670 Delete <strong><a href="#item_ps"><code>Ps</code></a> </strong>&gt; <code>Character(s)</code> [default: 1] (DCH)
1671 </dd>
1672 <p></p>
1673 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_3bps_3bps_3bps_3bps_t"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps;Ps;Ps;Ps;Ps T</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1674 </dt>
1675 <dd>
1676 Initiate . <em>unimplemented</em> Parameters are
1677 [func;startx;starty;firstrow;lastrow].
1678 </dd>
1679 <p></p>
1680 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_w"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps W</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1681 </dt>
1682 <dd>
1683 Tabulator functions
1684 </dd>
1685 <table>
1686 <tr><td>Ps = 0</td><td>Tab Set (HTS)</td></tr>
1687 <tr><td>Ps = 2</td><td>Tab Clear (TBC), Clear Current Column (default)</td></tr>
1688 <tr><td>Ps = 5</td><td>Tab Clear (TBC), Clear All</td></tr>
1689 </table><p></p>
1690 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_x"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps X</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1691 </dt>
1692 <dd>
1693 Erase <strong><a href="#item_ps"><code>Ps</code></a> </strong>&gt; <code>Character(s)</code> [default: 1] (ECH)
1694 </dd>
1695 <p></p>
1696 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_z"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps Z</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1697 </dt>
1698 <dd>
1699 Move backward <strong><a href="#item_ps"><code>Ps</code></a> </strong>&gt; [default: 1] tab stops
1700 </dd>
1701 <p></p>
1702 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps__27"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps '</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1703 </dt>
1704 <dd>
1705 See <strong><a href="#item_esc__5b_ps_g"><code>ESC [ Ps G</code></a> </strong>&gt;
1706 </dd>
1707 <p></p>
1708 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_a"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps a</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1709 </dt>
1710 <dd>
1711 See <strong><a href="#item_esc__5b_ps_c"><code>ESC [ Ps C</code></a> </strong>&gt;
1712 </dd>
1713 <p></p>
1714 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_c"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps c</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1715 </dt>
1716 <dd>
1717 Send Device Attributes (DA)
1718 <strong><code>Ps = 0</code> </strong>&gt; (or omitted): request attributes from terminal
1719 returns: <strong><code>ESC [ ? 1 ; 2 c</code> </strong>&gt; (``I am a VT100 with Advanced Video
1720 Option'')
1721 </dd>
1722 <p></p>
1723 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_d"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps d</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1724 </dt>
1725 <dd>
1726 Cursor to Line <strong><a href="#item_ps"><code>Ps</code></a> </strong>&gt; (VPA)
1727 </dd>
1728 <p></p>
1729 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_e"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps e</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1730 </dt>
1731 <dd>
1732 See <strong><a href="#item_esc__5b_ps_a"><code>ESC [ Ps A</code></a> </strong>&gt;
1733 </dd>
1734 <p></p>
1735 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_3bps_f"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps;Ps f</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1736 </dt>
1737 <dd>
1738 Horizontal and Vertical Position [row;column] (HVP) [default: 1;1]
1739 </dd>
1740 <p></p>
1741 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_g"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps g</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1742 </dt>
1743 <dd>
1744 Tab Clear (TBC)
1745 </dd>
1746 <table>
1747 <tr><td>Ps = 0</td><td>Clear Current Column (default)</td></tr>
1748 <tr><td>Ps = 3</td><td>Clear All (TBC)</td></tr>
1749 </table><p></p>
1750 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_pm_h"><strong><code>ESC [ Pm h</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1751 </dt>
1752 <dd>
1753 Set Mode (SM). See <strong><a href="#item_esc__5b_pm_l"><code>ESC [ Pm l</code></a> </strong>&gt; sequence for description of <a href="#item_pm"><code>Pm</code></a>.
1754 </dd>
1755 <p></p>
1756 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_i"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps i</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1757 </dt>
1758 <dd>
1759 Printing. See also the <code>print-pipe</code> resource.
1760 </dd>
1761 <table>
1762 <tr><td>Ps = 0</td><td>print screen (MC0)</td></tr>
1763 <tr><td>Ps = 4</td><td>disable transparent print mode (MC4)</td></tr>
1764 <tr><td>Ps = 5</td><td>enable transparent print mode (MC5)</td></tr>
1765 </table><p></p>
1766 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_pm_l"><strong><code>ESC [ Pm l</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1767 </dt>
1768 <dd>
1769 Reset Mode (RM)
1770 </dd>
1771 <dl>
1772 <dt><strong><a name="item_ps__3d_4"><strong><code>Ps = 4</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1773 </dt>
1774 <table>
1775 <tr><td>h</td><td>Insert Mode (SMIR)</td></tr>
1776 <tr><td>l</td><td>Replace Mode (RMIR)</td></tr>
1777 </table><dt><strong><a name="item_20"><strong><code>Ps = 20</code> </strong>&gt; (partially implemented)</a></strong><br />
1778 </dt>
1779 <table>
1780 <tr><td>h</td><td>Automatic Newline (LNM)</td></tr>
1781 <tr><td>l</td><td>Normal Linefeed (LNM)</td></tr>
1782 </table></dl>
1783 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_pm_m"><strong><code>ESC [ Pm m</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1784 </dt>
1785 <dd>
1786 Character Attributes (SGR)
1787 </dd>
1788 <table>
1789 <tr><td>Ps = 0</td><td>Normal (default)</td></tr>
1790 <tr><td>Ps = 1 / 21</td><td>On / Off Bold (bright fg)</td></tr>
1791 <tr><td>Ps = 3 / 23</td><td>On / Off Italic</td></tr>
1792 <tr><td>Ps = 4 / 24</td><td>On / Off Underline</td></tr>
1793 <tr><td>Ps = 5 / 25</td><td>On / Off Slow Blink (bright bg)</td></tr>
1794 <tr><td>Ps = 6 / 26</td><td>On / Off Rapid Blink (bright bg)</td></tr>
1795 <tr><td>Ps = 7 / 27</td><td>On / Off Inverse</td></tr>
1796 <tr><td>Ps = 8 / 27</td><td>On / Off Invisible (NYI)</td></tr>
1797 <tr><td>Ps = 30 / 40</td><td>fg/bg Black</td></tr>
1798 <tr><td>Ps = 31 / 41</td><td>fg/bg Red</td></tr>
1799 <tr><td>Ps = 32 / 42</td><td>fg/bg Green</td></tr>
1800 <tr><td>Ps = 33 / 43</td><td>fg/bg Yellow</td></tr>
1801 <tr><td>Ps = 34 / 44</td><td>fg/bg Blue</td></tr>
1802 <tr><td>Ps = 35 / 45</td><td>fg/bg Magenta</td></tr>
1803 <tr><td>Ps = 36 / 46</td><td>fg/bg Cyan</td></tr>
1804 <tr><td>Ps = 38;5 / 48;5</td><td>set fg/bg to color #m (ISO 8613-6)</td></tr>
1805 <tr><td>Ps = 37 / 47</td><td>fg/bg White</td></tr>
1806 <tr><td>Ps = 39 / 49</td><td>fg/bg Default</td></tr>
1807 <tr><td>Ps = 90 / 100</td><td>fg/bg Bright Black</td></tr>
1808 <tr><td>Ps = 91 / 101</td><td>fg/bg Bright Red</td></tr>
1809 <tr><td>Ps = 92 / 102</td><td>fg/bg Bright Green</td></tr>
1810 <tr><td>Ps = 93 / 103</td><td>fg/bg Bright Yellow</td></tr>
1811 <tr><td>Ps = 94 / 104</td><td>fg/bg Bright Blue</td></tr>
1812 <tr><td>Ps = 95 / 105</td><td>fg/bg Bright Magenta</td></tr>
1813 <tr><td>Ps = 96 / 106</td><td>fg/bg Bright Cyan</td></tr>
1814 <tr><td>Ps = 97 / 107</td><td>fg/bg Bright White</td></tr>
1815 <tr><td>Ps = 99 / 109</td><td>fg/bg Bright Default</td></tr>
1816 </table><p></p>
1817 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_n"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps n</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1818 </dt>
1819 <dd>
1820 Device Status Report (DSR)
1821 </dd>
1822 <table>
1823 <tr><td>Ps = 5</td><td>Status Report ESC [ 0 n (``OK'')</td></tr>
1824 <tr><td>Ps = 6</td><td>Report Cursor Position (CPR) [row;column] as ESC [ r ; c R</td></tr>
1825 <tr><td>Ps = 7</td><td>Request Display Name</td></tr>
1826 <tr><td>Ps = 8</td><td>Request Version Number (place in window title)</td></tr>
1827 </table><p></p>
1828 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_3bps_r"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps;Ps r</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1829 </dt>
1830 <dd>
1831 Set Scrolling Region [top;bottom]
1832 [default: full size of window] (CSR)
1833 </dd>
1834 <p></p>
1835 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_s"><strong><code>ESC [ s</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1836 </dt>
1837 <dd>
1838 Save Cursor (SC)
1839 </dd>
1840 <p></p>
1841 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_3bpt_t"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps;Pt t</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1842 </dt>
1843 <dd>
1844 Window Operations
1845 </dd>
1846 <table>
1847 <tr><td>Ps = 1</td><td>Deiconify (map) window</td></tr>
1848 <tr><td>Ps = 2</td><td>Iconify window</td></tr>
1849 <tr><td>Ps = 3</td><td>ESC [ 3 ; X ; Y t Move window to (X|Y)</td></tr>
1850 <tr><td>Ps = 4</td><td>ESC [ 4 ; H ; W t Resize to WxH pixels</td></tr>
1851 <tr><td>Ps = 5</td><td>Raise window</td></tr>
1852 <tr><td>Ps = 6</td><td>Lower window</td></tr>
1853 <tr><td>Ps = 7</td><td>Refresh screen once</td></tr>
1854 <tr><td>Ps = 8</td><td>ESC [ 8 ; R ; C t Resize to R rows and C columns</td></tr>
1855 <tr><td>Ps = 11</td><td>Report window state (responds with Ps = 1 or Ps = 2)</td></tr>
1856 <tr><td>Ps = 13</td><td>Report window position (responds with Ps = 3)</td></tr>
1857 <tr><td>Ps = 14</td><td>Report window pixel size (responds with Ps = 4)</td></tr>
1858 <tr><td>Ps = 18</td><td>Report window text size (responds with Ps = 7)</td></tr>
1859 <tr><td>Ps = 19</td><td>Currently the same as Ps = 18, but responds with Ps = 9</td></tr>
1860 <tr><td>Ps = 20</td><td>Reports icon label (ESC ] L NAME \234)</td></tr>
1861 <tr><td>Ps = 21</td><td>Reports window title (ESC ] l NAME \234)</td></tr>
1862 <tr><td>Ps = 24..</td><td>Set window height to Ps rows</td></tr>
1863 </table><p></p>
1864 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_u"><strong><code>ESC [ u</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1865 </dt>
1866 <dd>
1867 Restore Cursor
1868 </dd>
1869 <p></p>
1870 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_x"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps x</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1871 </dt>
1872 <dd>
1873 Request Terminal Parameters (DECREQTPARM)
1874 </dd>
1875 <p></p></dl>
1876 <p></p>
1877 <p>
1878 </p>
1879 <hr />
1880 <h1><a name="dec_private_modes">DEC Private Modes</a></h1>
1881 <dl>
1882 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b__3f_pm_h"><strong><code>ESC [ ? Pm h</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1883 </dt>
1884 <dd>
1885 DEC Private Mode Set (DECSET)
1886 </dd>
1887 <p></p>
1888 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b__3f_pm_l"><strong><code>ESC [ ? Pm l</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1889 </dt>
1890 <dd>
1891 DEC Private Mode Reset (DECRST)
1892 </dd>
1893 <p></p>
1894 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b__3f_pm_r"><strong><code>ESC [ ? Pm r</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1895 </dt>
1896 <dd>
1897 Restore previously saved DEC Private Mode Values.
1898 </dd>
1899 <p></p>
1900 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b__3f_pm_s"><strong><code>ESC [ ? Pm s</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1901 </dt>
1902 <dd>
1903 Save DEC Private Mode Values.
1904 </dd>
1905 <p></p>
1906 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b__3f_pm_t"><strong><code>ESC [ ? Pm t</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1907 </dt>
1908 <dd>
1909 Toggle DEC Private Mode Values (rxvt extension). <em>where</em>
1910 </dd>
1911 <dl>
1912 <dt><strong><a name="item_1"><strong><code>Ps = 1</code> </strong>&gt; (DECCKM)</a></strong><br />
1913 </dt>
1914 <table>
1915 <tr><td>h</td><td>Application Cursor Keys</td></tr>
1916 <tr><td>l</td><td>Normal Cursor Keys</td></tr>
1917 </table><dt><strong><a name="item_2"><strong><code>Ps = 2</code> </strong>&gt; (ANSI/VT52 mode)</a></strong><br />
1918 </dt>
1919 <table>
1920 <tr><td>h</td><td>Enter VT52 mode</td></tr>
1921 <tr><td>l</td><td>Enter VT52 mode</td></tr>
1922 </table><dt><strong><a name="item_ps__3d_3"><strong><code>Ps = 3</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1923 </dt>
1924 <table>
1925 <tr><td>h</td><td>132 Column Mode (DECCOLM)</td></tr>
1926 <tr><td>l</td><td>80 Column Mode (DECCOLM)</td></tr>
1927 </table><dt><strong><strong><code>Ps = 4</code> </strong>&gt;</strong><br />
1928 </dt>
1929 <table>
1930 <tr><td>h</td><td>Smooth (Slow) Scroll (DECSCLM)</td></tr>
1931 <tr><td>l</td><td>Jump (Fast) Scroll (DECSCLM)</td></tr>
1932 </table><dt><strong><a name="item_ps__3d_5"><strong><code>Ps = 5</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1933 </dt>
1934 <table>
1935 <tr><td>h</td><td>Reverse Video (DECSCNM)</td></tr>
1936 <tr><td>l</td><td>Normal Video (DECSCNM)</td></tr>
1937 </table><dt><strong><a name="item_ps__3d_6"><strong><code>Ps = 6</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1938 </dt>
1939 <table>
1940 <tr><td>h</td><td>Origin Mode (DECOM)</td></tr>
1941 <tr><td>l</td><td>Normal Cursor Mode (DECOM)</td></tr>
1942 </table><dt><strong><a name="item_ps__3d_7"><strong><code>Ps = 7</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1943 </dt>
1944 <table>
1945 <tr><td>h</td><td>Wraparound Mode (DECAWM)</td></tr>
1946 <tr><td>l</td><td>No Wraparound Mode (DECAWM)</td></tr>
1947 </table><dt><strong><a name="item_ps__3d_8_unimplemented"><strong><code>Ps = 8</code> </strong>&gt; <em>unimplemented</em></a></strong><br />
1948 </dt>
1949 <table>
1950 <tr><td>h</td><td>Auto-repeat Keys (DECARM)</td></tr>
1951 <tr><td>l</td><td>No Auto-repeat Keys (DECARM)</td></tr>
1952 </table><dt><strong><a name="item_ps__3d_9_x10_xterm"><strong><code>Ps = 9</code> </strong>&gt; X10 XTerm</a></strong><br />
1953 </dt>
1954 <table>
1955 <tr><td>h</td><td>Send Mouse X & Y on button press.</td></tr>
1956 <tr><td>l</td><td>No mouse reporting.</td></tr>
1957 </table><dt><strong><a name="item_ps__3d_25"><strong><code>Ps = 25</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1958 </dt>
1959 <table>
1960 <tr><td>h</td><td>Visible cursor {cnorm/cvvis}</td></tr>
1961 <tr><td>l</td><td>Invisible cursor {civis}</td></tr>
1962 </table><dt><strong><a name="item_ps__3d_30"><strong><code>Ps = 30</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1963 </dt>
1964 <table>
1965 <tr><td>h</td><td>scrollBar visisble</td></tr>
1966 <tr><td>l</td><td>scrollBar invisisble</td></tr>
1967 </table><dt><strong><a name="item_35"><strong><code>Ps = 35</code> </strong>&gt; (<strong>rxvt</strong>)</a></strong><br />
1968 </dt>
1969 <table>
1970 <tr><td>h</td><td>Allow XTerm Shift+key sequences</td></tr>
1971 <tr><td>l</td><td>Disallow XTerm Shift+key sequences</td></tr>
1972 </table><dt><strong><a name="item_ps__3d_38_unimplemented"><strong><code>Ps = 38</code> </strong>&gt; <em>unimplemented</em></a></strong><br />
1973 </dt>
1974 <dd>
1975 Enter Tektronix Mode (DECTEK)
1976 </dd>
1977 <p></p>
1978 <dt><strong><a name="item_ps__3d_40"><strong><code>Ps = 40</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1979 </dt>
1980 <table>
1981 <tr><td>h</td><td>Allow 80/132 Mode</td></tr>
1982 <tr><td>l</td><td>Disallow 80/132 Mode</td></tr>
1983 </table><dt><strong><a name="item_ps__3d_44_unimplemented"><strong><code>Ps = 44</code> </strong>&gt; <em>unimplemented</em></a></strong><br />
1984 </dt>
1985 <table>
1986 <tr><td>h</td><td>Turn On Margin Bell</td></tr>
1987 <tr><td>l</td><td>Turn Off Margin Bell</td></tr>
1988 </table><dt><strong><a name="item_ps__3d_45_unimplemented"><strong><code>Ps = 45</code> </strong>&gt; <em>unimplemented</em></a></strong><br />
1989 </dt>
1990 <table>
1991 <tr><td>h</td><td>Reverse-wraparound Mode</td></tr>
1992 <tr><td>l</td><td>No Reverse-wraparound Mode</td></tr>
1993 </table><dt><strong><a name="item_ps__3d_46_unimplemented"><strong><code>Ps = 46</code> </strong>&gt; <em>unimplemented</em></a></strong><br />
1994 </dt>
1995 <dt><strong><a name="item_ps__3d_47"><strong><code>Ps = 47</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1996 </dt>
1997 <table>
1998 <tr><td>h</td><td>Use Alternate Screen Buffer</td></tr>
1999 <tr><td>l</td><td>Use Normal Screen Buffer</td></tr>
2000 </table><p></p>
2001 <dt><strong><a name="item_ps__3d_66"><strong><code>Ps = 66</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
2002 </dt>
2003 <table>
2004 <tr><td>h</td><td>Application Keypad (DECPAM) == ESC =</td></tr>
2005 <tr><td>l</td><td>Normal Keypad (DECPNM) == ESC ></td></tr>
2006 </table><dt><strong><a name="item_ps__3d_67"><strong><code>Ps = 67</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
2007 </dt>
2008 <table>
2009 <tr><td>h</td><td>Backspace key sends BS (DECBKM)</td></tr>
2010 <tr><td>l</td><td>Backspace key sends DEL</td></tr>
2011 </table><dt><strong><a name="item_1000"><strong><code>Ps = 1000</code> </strong>&gt; (X11 XTerm)</a></strong><br />
2012 </dt>
2013 <table>
2014 <tr><td>h</td><td>Send Mouse X & Y on button press and release.</td></tr>
2015 <tr><td>l</td><td>No mouse reporting.</td></tr>
2016 </table><dt><strong><a name="item_1001"><strong><code>Ps = 1001</code> </strong>&gt; (X11 XTerm) <em>unimplemented</em></a></strong><br />
2017 </dt>
2018 <table>
2019 <tr><td>h</td><td>Use Hilite Mouse Tracking.</td></tr>
2020 <tr><td>l</td><td>No mouse reporting.</td></tr>
2021 </table><dt><strong><a name="item_1010"><strong><code>Ps = 1010</code> </strong>&gt; (<strong>rxvt</strong>)</a></strong><br />
2022 </dt>
2023 <table>
2024 <tr><td>h</td><td>Don't scroll to bottom on TTY output</td></tr>
2025 <tr><td>l</td><td>Scroll to bottom on TTY output</td></tr>
2026 </table><dt><strong><a name="item_1011"><strong><code>Ps = 1011</code> </strong>&gt; (<strong>rxvt</strong>)</a></strong><br />
2027 </dt>
2028 <table>
2029 <tr><td>h</td><td>Scroll to bottom when a key is pressed</td></tr>
2030 <tr><td>l</td><td>Don't scroll to bottom when a key is pressed</td></tr>
2031 </table><dt><strong><a name="item_1021"><strong><code>Ps = 1021</code> </strong>&gt; (<strong>rxvt</strong>)</a></strong><br />
2032 </dt>
2033 <table>
2034 <tr><td>h</td><td>Bold/italic implies high intensity (see option -is)</td></tr>
2035 <tr><td>l</td><td>Font styles have no effect on intensity (Compile styles)</td></tr>
2036 </table><dt><strong><a name="item_ps__3d_1047"><strong><code>Ps = 1047</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
2037 </dt>
2038 <table>
2039 <tr><td>h</td><td>Use Alternate Screen Buffer</td></tr>
2040 <tr><td>l</td><td>Use Normal Screen Buffer - clear Alternate Screen Buffer if returning from it</td></tr>
2041 </table><dt><strong><a name="item_ps__3d_1048"><strong><code>Ps = 1048</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
2042 </dt>
2043 <table>
2044 <tr><td>h</td><td>Save cursor position</td></tr>
2045 <tr><td>l</td><td>Restore cursor position</td></tr>
2046 </table><dt><strong><a name="item_ps__3d_1049"><strong><code>Ps = 1049</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
2047 </dt>
2048 <table>
2049 <tr><td>h</td><td>Use Alternate Screen Buffer - clear Alternate Screen Buffer if switching to it</td></tr>
2050 <tr><td>l</td><td>Use Normal Screen Buffer</td></tr>
2051 </table></dl>
2052 </dl>
2053 <p></p>
2054 <p>
2055 </p>
2056 <hr />
2057 <h1><a name="xterm_operating_system_commands">XTerm Operating System Commands</a></h1>
2058 <dl>
2059 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5d_ps_3bpt_st"><strong><code>ESC ] Ps;Pt ST</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
2060 </dt>
2061 <dd>
2062 Set XTerm Parameters. 8-bit ST: 0x9c, 7-bit ST sequence: ESC \ (0x1b,
2063 0x5c), backwards compatible terminator BEL (0x07) is also accepted. any
2064 <strong>octet</strong> can be escaped by prefixing it with SYN (0x16, ^V).
2065 </dd>
2066 <table>
2067 <tr><td>Ps = 0</td><td>Change Icon Name and Window Title to Pt</td></tr>
2068 <tr><td>Ps = 1</td><td>Change Icon Name to Pt</td></tr>
2069 <tr><td>Ps = 2</td><td>Change Window Title to Pt</td></tr>
2070 <tr><td>Ps = 3</td><td>If Pt starts with a ?, query the (STRING) property of the window and return it. If Pt contains a =, set the named property to the given value, else delete the specified property.</td></tr>
2071 <tr><td>Ps = 4</td><td>Pt is a semi-colon separated sequence of one or more semi-colon separated number/name pairs, where number is an index to a colour and name is the name of a colour. Each pair causes the numbered colour to be changed to name. Numbers 0-7 corresponds to low-intensity (normal) colours and 8-15 corresponds to high-intensity colours. 0=black, 1=red, 2=green, 3=yellow, 4=blue, 5=magenta, 6=cyan, 7=white</td></tr>
2072 <tr><td>Ps = 10</td><td>Change colour of text foreground to Pt (NB: may change in future)</td></tr>
2073 <tr><td>Ps = 11</td><td>Change colour of text background to Pt (NB: may change in future)</td></tr>
2074 <tr><td>Ps = 12</td><td>Change colour of text cursor foreground to Pt</td></tr>
2075 <tr><td>Ps = 13</td><td>Change colour of mouse foreground to Pt</td></tr>
2076 <tr><td>Ps = 17</td><td>Change colour of highlight characters to Pt</td></tr>
2077 <tr><td>Ps = 18</td><td>Change colour of bold characters to Pt [deprecated, see 706]</td></tr>
2078 <tr><td>Ps = 19</td><td>Change colour of underlined characters to Pt [deprecated, see 707]</td></tr>
2079 <tr><td>Ps = 20</td><td>Change background pixmap parameters (see section XPM) (Compile XPM).</td></tr>
2080 <tr><td>Ps = 39</td><td>Change default foreground colour to Pt.</td></tr>
2081 <tr><td>Ps = 46</td><td>Change Log File to Pt unimplemented</td></tr>
2082 <tr><td>Ps = 49</td><td>Change default background colour to Pt.</td></tr>
2083 <tr><td>Ps = 50</td><td>Set fontset to Pt, with the following special values of Pt (rxvt) #+n change up n #-n change down n if n is missing of 0, a value of 1 is used empty change to font0 n change to font n</td></tr>
2084 <tr><td>Ps = 55</td><td>Log all scrollback buffer and all of screen to Pt</td></tr>
2085 <tr><td>Ps = 701</td><td>Change current locale to Pt, or, if Pt is ?, return the current locale (Compile frills).</td></tr>
2086 <tr><td>Ps = 702</td><td>Request version if Pt is ?, returning rxvt-unicode, the resource name, the major and minor version numbers, e.g. ESC ] 702 ; rxvt-unicode ; urxvt ; 7 ; 4 ST.</td></tr>
2087 <tr><td>Ps = 704</td><td>Change colour of italic characters to Pt</td></tr>
2088 <tr><td>Ps = 705</td><td>Change background pixmap tint colour to Pt (Compile transparency).</td></tr>
2089 <tr><td>Ps = 706</td><td>Change colour of bold characters to Pt</td></tr>
2090 <tr><td>Ps = 707</td><td>Change colour of underlined characters to Pt</td></tr>
2091 <tr><td>Ps = 710</td><td>Set normal fontset to Pt. Same as Ps = 50.</td></tr>
2092 <tr><td>Ps = 711</td><td>Set bold fontset to Pt. Similar to Ps = 50 (Compile styles).</td></tr>
2093 <tr><td>Ps = 712</td><td>Set italic fontset to Pt. Similar to Ps = 50 (Compile styles).</td></tr>
2094 <tr><td>Ps = 713</td><td>Set bold-italic fontset to Pt. Similar to Ps = 50 (Compile styles).</td></tr>
2095 <tr><td>Ps = 720</td><td>Move viewing window up by Pt lines, or clear scrollback buffer if Pt = 0 (Compile frills).</td></tr>
2096 <tr><td>Ps = 721</td><td>Move viewing window down by Pt lines, or clear scrollback buffer if Pt = 0 (Compile frills).</td></tr>
2097 <tr><td>Ps = 777</td><td>Call the perl extension with the given string, which should be of the form extension:parameters (Compile perl).</td></tr>
2098 </table><p></p></dl>
2099 <p></p>
2100 <p>
2101 </p>
2102 <hr />
2103 <h1><a name="xpm">XPM</a></h1>
2104 <p>For the XPM XTerm escape sequence <strong><code>ESC ] 20 ; Pt ST</code> </strong>&gt; then value
2105 of <strong><a href="#item_pt"><code>Pt</code></a> </strong>&gt; can be the name of the background pixmap followed by a
2106 sequence of scaling/positioning commands separated by semi-colons. The
2107 scaling/positioning commands are as follows:</p>
2108 <dl>
2109 <dt><strong><a name="item_query_scale_2fposition">query scale/position</a></strong><br />
2110 </dt>
2111 <dd>
2112 <strong>?</strong>
2113 </dd>
2114 <p></p>
2115 <dt><strong><a name="item_change_scale_and_position">change scale and position</a></strong><br />
2116 </dt>
2117 <dd>
2118 <strong>WxH+X+Y</strong>
2119 </dd>
2120 <dd>
2121 <p><strong>WxH+X</strong> (== <strong>WxH+X+X</strong>)</p>
2122 </dd>
2123 <dd>
2124 <p><strong>WxH</strong> (same as <strong>WxH+50+50</strong>)</p>
2125 </dd>
2126 <dd>
2127 <p><strong>W+X+Y</strong> (same as <strong>WxW+X+Y</strong>)</p>
2128 </dd>
2129 <dd>
2130 <p><strong>W+X</strong> (same as <strong>WxW+X+X</strong>)</p>
2131 </dd>
2132 <dd>
2133 <p><strong>W</strong> (same as <strong>WxW+50+50</strong>)</p>
2134 </dd>
2135 <p></p>
2136 <dt><strong><a name="item_position">change position (absolute)</a></strong><br />
2137 </dt>
2138 <dd>
2139 <strong>=+X+Y</strong>
2140 </dd>
2141 <dd>
2142 <p><strong>=+X</strong> (same as <strong>=+X+Y</strong>)</p>
2143 </dd>
2144 <p></p>
2145 <dt><strong>change position (relative)</strong><br />
2146 </dt>
2147 <dd>
2148 <strong>+X+Y</strong>
2149 </dd>
2150 <dd>
2151 <p><strong>+X</strong> (same as <strong>+X+Y</strong>)</p>
2152 </dd>
2153 <p></p>
2154 <dt><strong><a name="item_rescale">rescale (relative)</a></strong><br />
2155 </dt>
2156 <dd>
2157 <strong>Wx0</strong> -&gt; <strong>W *= (W/100)</strong>
2158 </dd>
2159 <dd>
2160 <p><strong>0xH</strong> -&gt; <strong>H *= (H/100)</strong></p>
2161 </dd>
2162 <p></p></dl>
2163 <p>For example:</p>
2164 <dl>
2165 <dt><strong><a name="item__5ce_5d20_3bfunky_5ca"><strong>\E]20;funky\a</strong></a></strong><br />
2166 </dt>
2167 <dd>
2168 load <strong>funky.xpm</strong> as a tiled image
2169 </dd>
2170 <p></p>
2171 <dt><strong><a name="item__5ce_5d20_3bmona_3b100_5ca"><strong>\E]20;mona;100\a</strong></a></strong><br />
2172 </dt>
2173 <dd>
2174 load <strong>mona.xpm</strong> with a scaling of 100%
2175 </dd>
2176 <p></p>
2177 <dt><strong><a name="item__5ce_5d20_3b_3b200_3b_3f_5ca"><strong>\E]20;;200;?\a</strong></a></strong><br />
2178 </dt>
2179 <dd>
2180 rescale the current pixmap to 200% and display the image geometry in
2181 the title
2182 </dd>
2183 <p></p></dl>
2184 <p>
2185 </p>
2186 <hr />
2187 <h1><a name="mouse_reporting">Mouse Reporting</a></h1>
2188 <dl>
2189 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_m__3cb_3e__3cx_3e__3cy_3e"><strong><code>ESC [ M &lt;b&gt; &lt;x&gt; &lt;y&gt;</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
2190 </dt>
2191 <dd>
2192 report mouse position
2193 </dd>
2194 <p></p></dl>
2195 <p>The lower 2 bits of <strong><code>&lt;b&gt;</code> </strong>&gt; indicate the button:</p>
2196 <dl>
2197 <dt><strong><a name="item_button__3d__28_3cb_3e__2d_space_29__26_3">Button = <strong><code>(&lt;b&gt; - SPACE) &amp; 3</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
2198 </dt>
2199 <table>
2200 <tr><td>0</td><td>Button1 pressed</td></tr>
2201 <tr><td>1</td><td>Button2 pressed</td></tr>
2202 <tr><td>2</td><td>Button3 pressed</td></tr>
2203 <tr><td>3</td><td>button released (X11 mouse report)</td></tr>
2204 </table></dl>
2205 <p>The upper bits of <strong><code>&lt;b&gt;</code> </strong>&gt; indicate the modifiers when the
2206 button was pressed and are added together (X11 mouse report only):</p>
2207 <dl>
2208 <dt><strong><a name="item_state__3d__28_3cb_3e__2d_space_29__26_60">State = <strong><code>(&lt;b&gt; - SPACE) &amp; 60</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
2209 </dt>
2210 <table>
2211 <tr><td>4</td><td>Shift</td></tr>
2212 <tr><td>8</td><td>Meta</td></tr>
2213 <tr><td>16</td><td>Control</td></tr>
2214 <tr><td>32</td><td>Double Click (Rxvt extension)</td></tr>
2215 </table><p>Col = <strong><code>&lt;x&gt; - SPACE</code> </strong>&gt;</p>
2216 <p>Row = <strong><code>&lt;y&gt; - SPACE</code> </strong>&gt;</p>
2217 </dl>
2218 <p>
2219 </p>
2220 <hr />
2221 <h1><a name="key_codes">Key Codes</a></h1>
2222 <p>Note: <strong>Shift</strong> + <strong>F1</strong>-<strong>F10</strong> generates <strong>F11</strong>-<strong>F20</strong></p>
2223 <p>For the keypad, use <strong>Shift</strong> to temporarily override Application-Keypad
2224 setting use <strong>Num_Lock</strong> to toggle Application-Keypad setting if
2225 <strong>Num_Lock</strong> is off, toggle Application-Keypad setting. Also note that
2226 values of <strong>Home</strong>, <strong>End</strong>, <strong>Delete</strong> may have been compiled differently on
2227 your system.</p>
2228 <table>
2229 <tr><td></td><td>Normal</td><td>Shift</td><td>Control</td><td>Ctrl+Shift</td></tr>
2230 <tr><td>Tab</td><td>^I</td><td>ESC [ Z</td><td>^I</td><td>ESC [ Z</td></tr>
2231 <tr><td>BackSpace</td><td>^H</td><td>^?</td><td>^?</td><td>^?</td></tr>
2232 <tr><td>Find</td><td>ESC [ 1 ~</td><td>ESC [ 1 $</td><td>ESC [ 1 ^</td><td>ESC [ 1 @</td></tr>
2233 <tr><td>Insert</td><td>ESC [ 2 ~</td><td>paste</td><td>ESC [ 2 ^</td><td>ESC [ 2 @</td></tr>
2234 <tr><td>Execute</td><td>ESC [ 3 ~</td><td>ESC [ 3 $</td><td>ESC [ 3 ^</td><td>ESC [ 3 @</td></tr>
2235 <tr><td>Select</td><td>ESC [ 4 ~</td><td>ESC [ 4 $</td><td>ESC [ 4 ^</td><td>ESC [ 4 @</td></tr>
2236 <tr><td>Prior</td><td>ESC [ 5 ~</td><td>scroll-up</td><td>ESC [ 5 ^</td><td>ESC [ 5 @</td></tr>
2237 <tr><td>Next</td><td>ESC [ 6 ~</td><td>scroll-down</td><td>ESC [ 6 ^</td><td>ESC [ 6 @</td></tr>
2238 <tr><td>Home</td><td>ESC [ 7 ~</td><td>ESC [ 7 $</td><td>ESC [ 7 ^</td><td>ESC [ 7 @</td></tr>
2239 <tr><td>End</td><td>ESC [ 8 ~</td><td>ESC [ 8 $</td><td>ESC [ 8 ^</td><td>ESC [ 8 @</td></tr>
2240 <tr><td>Delete</td><td>ESC [ 3 ~</td><td>ESC [ 3 $</td><td>ESC [ 3 ^</td><td>ESC [ 3 @</td></tr>
2241 <tr><td>F1</td><td>ESC [ 11 ~</td><td>ESC [ 23 ~</td><td>ESC [ 11 ^</td><td>ESC [ 23 ^</td></tr>
2242 <tr><td>F2</td><td>ESC [ 12 ~</td><td>ESC [ 24 ~</td><td>ESC [ 12 ^</td><td>ESC [ 24 ^</td></tr>
2243 <tr><td>F3</td><td>ESC [ 13 ~</td><td>ESC [ 25 ~</td><td>ESC [ 13 ^</td><td>ESC [ 25 ^</td></tr>
2244 <tr><td>F4</td><td>ESC [ 14 ~</td><td>ESC [ 26 ~</td><td>ESC [ 14 ^</td><td>ESC [ 26 ^</td></tr>
2245 <tr><td>F5</td><td>ESC [ 15 ~</td><td>ESC [ 28 ~</td><td>ESC [ 15 ^</td><td>ESC [ 28 ^</td></tr>
2246 <tr><td>F6</td><td>ESC [ 17 ~</td><td>ESC [ 29 ~</td><td>ESC [ 17 ^</td><td>ESC [ 29 ^</td></tr>
2247 <tr><td>F7</td><td>ESC [ 18 ~</td><td>ESC [ 31 ~</td><td>ESC [ 18 ^</td><td>ESC [ 31 ^</td></tr>
2248 <tr><td>F8</td><td>ESC [ 19 ~</td><td>ESC [ 32 ~</td><td>ESC [ 19 ^</td><td>ESC [ 32 ^</td></tr>
2249 <tr><td>F9</td><td>ESC [ 20 ~</td><td>ESC [ 33 ~</td><td>ESC [ 20 ^</td><td>ESC [ 33 ^</td></tr>
2250 <tr><td>F10</td><td>ESC [ 21 ~</td><td>ESC [ 34 ~</td><td>ESC [ 21 ^</td><td>ESC [ 34 ^</td></tr>
2251 <tr><td>F11</td><td>ESC [ 23 ~</td><td>ESC [ 23 $</td><td>ESC [ 23 ^</td><td>ESC [ 23 @</td></tr>
2252 <tr><td>F12</td><td>ESC [ 24 ~</td><td>ESC [ 24 $</td><td>ESC [ 24 ^</td><td>ESC [ 24 @</td></tr>
2253 <tr><td>F13</td><td>ESC [ 25 ~</td><td>ESC [ 25 $</td><td>ESC [ 25 ^</td><td>ESC [ 25 @</td></tr>
2254 <tr><td>F14</td><td>ESC [ 26 ~</td><td>ESC [ 26 $</td><td>ESC [ 26 ^</td><td>ESC [ 26 @</td></tr>
2255 <tr><td>F15 (Help)</td><td>ESC [ 28 ~</td><td>ESC [ 28 $</td><td>ESC [ 28 ^</td><td>ESC [ 28 @</td></tr>
2256 <tr><td>F16 (Menu)</td><td>ESC [ 29 ~</td><td>ESC [ 29 $</td><td>ESC [ 29 ^</td><td>ESC [ 29 @</td></tr>
2257 <tr><td>F17</td><td>ESC [ 31 ~</td><td>ESC [ 31 $</td><td>ESC [ 31 ^</td><td>ESC [ 31 @</td></tr>
2258 <tr><td>F18</td><td>ESC [ 32 ~</td><td>ESC [ 32 $</td><td>ESC [ 32 ^</td><td>ESC [ 32 @</td></tr>
2259 <tr><td>F19</td><td>ESC [ 33 ~</td><td>ESC [ 33 $</td><td>ESC [ 33 ^</td><td>ESC [ 33 @</td></tr>
2260 <tr><td>F20</td><td>ESC [ 34 ~</td><td>ESC [ 34 $</td><td>ESC [ 34 ^</td><td>ESC [ 34 @</td></tr>
2261 <tr><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>Application</td></tr>
2262 <tr><td>Up</td><td>ESC [ A</td><td>ESC [ a</td><td>ESC O a</td><td>ESC O A</td></tr>
2263 <tr><td>Down</td><td>ESC [ B</td><td>ESC [ b</td><td>ESC O b</td><td>ESC O B</td></tr>
2264 <tr><td>Right</td><td>ESC [ C</td><td>ESC [ c</td><td>ESC O c</td><td>ESC O C</td></tr>
2265 <tr><td>Left</td><td>ESC [ D</td><td>ESC [ d</td><td>ESC O d</td><td>ESC O D</td></tr>
2266 <tr><td>KP_Enter</td><td>^M</td><td></td><td></td><td>ESC O M</td></tr>
2267 <tr><td>KP_F1</td><td>ESC O P</td><td></td><td></td><td>ESC O P</td></tr>
2268 <tr><td>KP_F2</td><td>ESC O Q</td><td></td><td></td><td>ESC O Q</td></tr>
2269 <tr><td>KP_F3</td><td>ESC O R</td><td></td><td></td><td>ESC O R</td></tr>
2270 <tr><td>KP_F4</td><td>ESC O S</td><td></td><td></td><td>ESC O S</td></tr>
2271 <tr><td>XK_KP_Multiply</td><td>*</td><td></td><td></td><td>ESC O j</td></tr>
2272 <tr><td>XK_KP_Add</td><td>+</td><td></td><td></td><td>ESC O k</td></tr>
2273 <tr><td>XK_KP_Separator</td><td>,</td><td></td><td></td><td>ESC O l</td></tr>
2274 <tr><td>XK_KP_Subtract</td><td>-</td><td></td><td></td><td>ESC O m</td></tr>
2275 <tr><td>XK_KP_Decimal</td><td>.</td><td></td><td></td><td>ESC O n</td></tr>
2276 <tr><td>XK_KP_Divide</td><td>/</td><td></td><td></td><td>ESC O o</td></tr>
2277 <tr><td>XK_KP_0</td><td>0</td><td></td><td></td><td>ESC O p</td></tr>
2278 <tr><td>XK_KP_1</td><td>1</td><td></td><td></td><td>ESC O q</td></tr>
2279 <tr><td>XK_KP_2</td><td>2</td><td></td><td></td><td>ESC O r</td></tr>
2280 <tr><td>XK_KP_3</td><td>3</td><td></td><td></td><td>ESC O s</td></tr>
2281 <tr><td>XK_KP_4</td><td>4</td><td></td><td></td><td>ESC O t</td></tr>
2282 <tr><td>XK_KP_5</td><td>5</td><td></td><td></td><td>ESC O u</td></tr>
2283 <tr><td>XK_KP_6</td><td>6</td><td></td><td></td><td>ESC O v</td></tr>
2284 <tr><td>XK_KP_7</td><td>7</td><td></td><td></td><td>ESC O w</td></tr>
2285 <tr><td>XK_KP_8</td><td>8</td><td></td><td></td><td>ESC O x</td></tr>
2286 <tr><td>XK_KP_9</td><td>9</td><td></td><td></td><td>ESC O y</td></tr>
2287 </table><p>
2288 </p>
2289 <hr />
2290 <h1><a name="configure_options">CONFIGURE OPTIONS</a></h1>
2291 <p>General hint: if you get compile errors, then likely your configuration
2292 hasn't been tested well. Either try with <a href="#item__2d_2denable_2deverything"><code>--enable-everything</code></a> or use
2293 the <em>./reconf</em> script as a base for experiments. <em>./reconf</em> is used by
2294 myself, so it should generally be a working config. Of course, you should
2295 always report when a combination doesn't work, so it can be fixed. Marc
2296 Lehmann &lt;<a href="mailto:rxvt@schmorp.de">rxvt@schmorp.de</a>&gt;.</p>
2297 <p>All</p>
2298 <dl>
2299 <dt><strong><a name="item__2d_2denable_2deverything">--enable-everything</a></strong><br />
2300 </dt>
2301 <dd>
2302 Add (or remove) support for all non-multichoice options listed in ``./configure
2303 --help''.
2304 </dd>
2305 <dd>
2306 <p>You can specify this and then disable options you do not like by
2307 <em>following</em> this with the appropriate <code>--disable-...</code> arguments,
2308 or you can start with a minimal configuration by specifying
2309 <code>--disable-everything</code> and than adding just the <code>--enable-...</code> arguments
2310 you want.</p>
2311 </dd>
2312 <p></p>
2313 <dt><strong><a name="item_xft">--enable-xft (default: enabled)</a></strong><br />
2314 </dt>
2315 <dd>
2316 Add support for Xft (anti-aliases, among others) fonts. Xft fonts are
2317 slower and require lots of memory, but as long as you don't use them, you
2318 don't pay for them.
2319 </dd>
2320 <p></p>
2321 <dt><strong><a name="item_styles">--enable-font-styles (default: on)</a></strong><br />
2322 </dt>
2323 <dd>
2324 Add support for <strong>bold</strong>, <em>italic</em> and <strong><em>bold italic</em> </strong>&gt; font
2325 styles. The fonts can be set manually or automatically.
2326 </dd>
2327 <p></p>
2328 <dt><strong><a name="item__2d_2dwith_2dcodesets_3dname_2c_2e_2e_2e__28defaul">--with-codesets=NAME,... (default: all)</a></strong><br />
2329 </dt>
2330 <dd>
2331 Compile in support for additional codeset (encoding) groups (<code>eu</code>, <code>vn</code>
2332 are always compiled in, which includes most 8-bit character sets). These
2333 codeset tables are used for driving X11 core fonts, they are not required
2334 for Xft fonts, although having them compiled in lets rxvt-unicode choose
2335 replacement fonts more intelligently. Compiling them in will make your
2336 binary bigger (all of together cost about 700kB), but it doesn't increase
2337 memory usage unless you use a font requiring one of these encodings.
2338 </dd>
2339 <table>
2340 <tr><td>all</td><td>all available codeset groups</td></tr>
2341 <tr><td>zh</td><td>common chinese encodings</td></tr>
2342 <tr><td>zh_ext</td><td>rarely used but very big chinese encodigs</td></tr>
2343 <tr><td>jp</td><td>common japanese encodings</td></tr>
2344 <tr><td>jp_ext</td><td>rarely used but big japanese encodings</td></tr>
2345 <tr><td>kr</td><td>korean encodings</td></tr>
2346 </table><p></p>
2347 <dt><strong><a name="item_xim">--enable-xim (default: on)</a></strong><br />
2348 </dt>
2349 <dd>
2350 Add support for XIM (X Input Method) protocol. This allows using
2351 alternative input methods (e.g. kinput2) and will also correctly
2352 set up the input for people using dead keys or compose keys.
2353 </dd>
2354 <p></p>
2355 <dt><strong><a name="item_unicode3">--enable-unicode3 (default: off)</a></strong><br />
2356 </dt>
2357 <dd>
2358 Recommended to stay off unless you really need non-BMP characters.
2359 </dd>
2360 <dd>
2361 <p>Enable direct support for displaying unicode codepoints above
2362 65535 (the basic multilingual page). This increases storage
2363 requirements per character from 2 to 4 bytes. X11 fonts do not yet
2364 support these extra characters, but Xft does.</p>
2365 </dd>
2366 <dd>
2367 <p>Please note that rxvt-unicode can store unicode code points &gt;65535
2368 even without this flag, but the number of such characters is
2369 limited to a view thousand (shared with combining characters,
2370 see next switch), and right now rxvt-unicode cannot display them
2371 (input/output and cut&amp;paste still work, though).</p>
2372 </dd>
2373 <p></p>
2374 <dt><strong><a name="item_combining">--enable-combining (default: on)</a></strong><br />
2375 </dt>
2376 <dd>
2377 Enable automatic composition of combining characters into
2378 composite characters. This is required for proper viewing of text
2379 where accents are encoded as seperate unicode characters. This is
2380 done by using precomposited characters when available or creating
2381 new pseudo-characters when no precomposed form exists.
2382 </dd>
2383 <dd>
2384 <p>Without --enable-unicode3, the number of additional precomposed
2385 characters is somewhat limited (the 6400 private use characters will be
2386 (ab-)used). With --enable-unicode3, no practical limit exists.</p>
2387 </dd>
2388 <dd>
2389 <p>This option will also enable storage (but not display) of characters
2390 beyond plane 0 (&gt;65535) when --enable-unicode3 was not specified.</p>
2391 </dd>
2392 <dd>
2393 <p>The combining table also contains entries for arabic presentation forms,
2394 but these are not currently used. Bug me if you want these to be used (and
2395 tell me how these are to be used...).</p>
2396 </dd>
2397 <p></p>
2398 <dt><strong><a name="item_fallback">--enable-fallback(=CLASS) (default: Rxvt)</a></strong><br />
2399 </dt>
2400 <dd>
2401 When reading resource settings, also read settings for class CLASS. To
2402 disable resource fallback use --disable-fallback.
2403 </dd>
2404 <p></p>
2405 <dt><strong><a name="item_name">--with-res-name=NAME (default: urxvt)</a></strong><br />
2406 </dt>
2407 <dd>
2408 Use the given name as default application name when
2409 reading resources. Specify --with-res-name=rxvt to replace rxvt.
2410 </dd>
2411 <p></p>
2412 <dt><strong><a name="item__2d_2dwith_2dres_2dclass_3dclass__2fdefault_3a_urx">--with-res-class=CLASS /default: URxvt)</a></strong><br />
2413 </dt>
2414 <dd>
2415 Use the given class as default application class
2416 when reading resources. Specify --with-res-class=Rxvt to replace
2417 rxvt.
2418 </dd>
2419 <p></p>
2420 <dt><strong><a name="item_utmp">--enable-utmp (default: on)</a></strong><br />
2421 </dt>
2422 <dd>
2423 Write user and tty to utmp file (used by programs like <em>w</em>) at
2424 start of rxvt execution and delete information when rxvt exits.
2425 </dd>
2426 <p></p>
2427 <dt><strong><a name="item_wtmp">--enable-wtmp (default: on)</a></strong><br />
2428 </dt>
2429 <dd>
2430 Write user and tty to wtmp file (used by programs like <em>last</em>) at
2431 start of rxvt execution and write logout when rxvt exits. This
2432 option requires --enable-utmp to also be specified.
2433 </dd>
2434 <p></p>
2435 <dt><strong><a name="item_lastlog">--enable-lastlog (default: on)</a></strong><br />
2436 </dt>
2437 <dd>
2438 Write user and tty to lastlog file (used by programs like
2439 <em>lastlogin</em>) at start of rxvt execution. This option requires
2440 --enable-utmp to also be specified.
2441 </dd>
2442 <p></p>
2443 <dt><strong><a name="item_background">--enable-xpm-background (default: on)</a></strong><br />
2444 </dt>
2445 <dd>
2446 Add support for XPM background pixmaps.
2447 </dd>
2448 <p></p>
2449 <dt><strong><a name="item_transparency">--enable-transparency (default: on)</a></strong><br />
2450 </dt>
2451 <dd>
2452 Add support for inheriting parent backgrounds thus giving a fake
2453 transparency to the term.
2454 </dd>
2455 <p></p>
2456 <dt><strong><a name="item_fading">--enable-fading (default: on)</a></strong><br />
2457 </dt>
2458 <dd>
2459 Add support for fading the text when focus is lost (requires <code>--enable-transparency</code>).
2460 </dd>
2461 <p></p>
2462 <dt><strong><a name="item_tinting">--enable-tinting (default: on)</a></strong><br />
2463 </dt>
2464 <dd>
2465 Add support for tinting of transparent backgrounds (requires <code>--enable-transparency</code>).
2466 </dd>
2467 <p></p>
2468 <dt><strong><a name="item_scroll">--enable-rxvt-scroll (default: on)</a></strong><br />
2469 </dt>
2470 <dd>
2471 Add support for the original rxvt scrollbar.
2472 </dd>
2473 <p></p>
2474 <dt><strong>--enable-next-scroll (default: on)</strong><br />
2475 </dt>
2476 <dd>
2477 Add support for a NeXT-like scrollbar.
2478 </dd>
2479 <p></p>
2480 <dt><strong>--enable-xterm-scroll (default: on)</strong><br />
2481 </dt>
2482 <dd>
2483 Add support for an Xterm-like scrollbar.
2484 </dd>
2485 <p></p>
2486 <dt><strong>--enable-plain-scroll (default: on)</strong><br />
2487 </dt>
2488 <dd>
2489 Add support for a very unobtrusive, plain-looking scrollbar that
2490 is the favourite of the rxvt-unicode author, having used it for
2491 many years.
2492 </dd>
2493 <p></p>
2494 <dt><strong><a name="item_ttygid">--enable-ttygid (default: off)</a></strong><br />
2495 </dt>
2496 <dd>
2497 Change tty device setting to group ``tty'' - only use this if
2498 your system uses this type of security.
2499 </dd>
2500 <p></p>
2501 <dt><strong><a name="item__2d_2ddisable_2dbackspace_2dkey">--disable-backspace-key</a></strong><br />
2502 </dt>
2503 <dd>
2504 Removes any handling of the backspace key by us - let the X server do it.
2505 </dd>
2506 <p></p>
2507 <dt><strong><a name="item__2d_2ddisable_2ddelete_2dkey">--disable-delete-key</a></strong><br />
2508 </dt>
2509 <dd>
2510 Removes any handling of the delete key by us - let the X server
2511 do it.
2512 </dd>
2513 <p></p>
2514 <dt><strong><a name="item__2d_2ddisable_2dresources">--disable-resources</a></strong><br />
2515 </dt>
2516 <dd>
2517 Removes any support for resource checking.
2518 </dd>
2519 <p></p>
2520 <dt><strong><a name="item__2d_2ddisable_2dswapscreen">--disable-swapscreen</a></strong><br />
2521 </dt>
2522 <dd>
2523 Remove support for secondary/swap screen.
2524 </dd>
2525 <p></p>
2526 <dt><strong><a name="item_frills">--enable-frills (default: on)</a></strong><br />
2527 </dt>
2528 <dd>
2529 Add support for many small features that are not essential but nice to
2530 have. Normally you want this, but for very small binaries you may want to
2531 disable this.
2532 </dd>
2533 <dd>
2534 <p>A non-exhaustive list of features enabled by <code>--enable-frills</code> (possibly
2535 in combination with other switches) is:</p>
2536 </dd>
2537 <dd>
2538 <pre>
2539 MWM-hints
2540 EWMH-hints (pid, utf8 names) and protocols (ping)
2541 seperate underline colour (-underlineColor)
2542 settable border widths and borderless switch (-w, -b, -bl)
2543 visual depth selection (-depth)
2544 settable extra linespacing /-lsp)
2545 iso-14755-2 and -3, and visual feedback
2546 tripleclickwords (-tcw)
2547 settable insecure mode (-insecure)
2548 keysym remapping support
2549 cursor blinking and underline cursor (-cb, -uc)
2550 XEmbed support (-embed)
2551 user-pty (-pty-fd)
2552 hold on exit (-hold)
2553 skip builtin block graphics (-sbg)</pre>
2554 </dd>
2555 <dd>
2556 <p>It also enabled some non-essential features otherwise disabled, such as:</p>
2557 </dd>
2558 <dd>
2559 <pre>
2560 some round-trip time optimisations
2561 nearest color allocation on pseudocolor screens
2562 UTF8_STRING supporr for selection
2563 sgr modes 90..97 and 100..107
2564 backindex and forwardindex escape sequences
2565 view change/zero scorllback esacpe sequences
2566 locale switching escape sequence
2567 window op and some xterm/OSC escape sequences
2568 rectangular selections
2569 trailing space removal for selections
2570 verbose X error handling</pre>
2571 </dd>
2572 <p></p>
2573 <dt><strong><a name="item_iso14755">--enable-iso14755 (default: on)</a></strong><br />
2574 </dt>
2575 <dd>
2576 Enable extended ISO 14755 support (see rxvt(1), or
2577 <em>doc/rxvt.1.txt</em>). Basic support (section 5.1) is enabled by
2578 <code>--enable-frills</code>, while support for 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4 is enabled with
2579 this switch.
2580 </dd>
2581 <p></p>
2582 <dt><strong><a name="item_keepscrolling">--enable-keepscrolling (default: on)</a></strong><br />
2583 </dt>
2584 <dd>
2585 Add support for continual scrolling of the display when you hold
2586 the mouse button down on a scrollbar arrow.
2587 </dd>
2588 <p></p>
2589 <dt><strong><a name="item_mousewheel">--enable-mousewheel (default: on)</a></strong><br />
2590 </dt>
2591 <dd>
2592 Add support for scrolling via mouse wheel or buttons 4 &amp; 5.
2593 </dd>
2594 <p></p>
2595 <dt><strong><a name="item_slipwheeling">--enable-slipwheeling (default: on)</a></strong><br />
2596 </dt>
2597 <dd>
2598 Add support for continual scrolling (using the mouse wheel as an
2599 accelerator) while the control key is held down. This option
2600 requires --enable-mousewheel to also be specified.
2601 </dd>
2602 <p></p>
2603 <dt><strong><a name="item__2d_2ddisable_2dnew_2dselection">--disable-new-selection</a></strong><br />
2604 </dt>
2605 <dd>
2606 Remove support for mouse selection style like that of xterm.
2607 </dd>
2608 <p></p>
2609 <dt><strong><a name="item_dmalloc">--enable-dmalloc (default: off)</a></strong><br />
2610 </dt>
2611 <dd>
2612 Use Gray Watson's malloc - which is good for debugging See
2613 <a href="http://www.letters.com/dmalloc/">http://www.letters.com/dmalloc/</a> for details If you use either this or the
2614 next option, you may need to edit src/Makefile after compiling to point
2615 DINCLUDE and DLIB to the right places.
2616 </dd>
2617 <dd>
2618 <p>You can only use either this option and the following (should
2619 you use either) .</p>
2620 </dd>
2621 <p></p>
2622 <dt><strong><a name="item_dlmalloc">--enable-dlmalloc (default: off)</a></strong><br />
2623 </dt>
2624 <dd>
2625 Use Doug Lea's malloc - which is good for a production version
2626 See <a href="http://g.oswego.edu/dl/html/malloc.html">http://g.oswego.edu/dl/html/malloc.html</a> for details.
2627 </dd>
2628 <p></p>
2629 <dt><strong><a name="item_resize">--enable-smart-resize (default: on)</a></strong><br />
2630 </dt>
2631 <dd>
2632 Add smart growth/shrink behaviour when changing font size via hot
2633 keys. This should keep the window corner which is closest to a corner of
2634 the screen in a fixed position.
2635 </dd>
2636 <p></p>
2637 <dt><strong><a name="item_blank">--enable-pointer-blank (default: on)</a></strong><br />
2638 </dt>
2639 <dd>
2640 Add support to have the pointer disappear when typing or inactive.
2641 </dd>
2642 <p></p>
2643 <dt><strong><a name="item_perl">--enable-perl (default: on)</a></strong><br />
2644 </dt>
2645 <dd>
2646 Enable an embedded perl interpreter. See the <strong>rxvtperl(3)</strong>
2647 manpage (<em>doc/rxvtperl.txt</em>) for more info on this feature, or the files
2648 in <em>src/perl-ext/</em> for the extensions that are installed by default. The
2649 perl interpreter that is used can be specified via the <code>PERL</code> environment
2650 variable when running configure.
2651 </dd>
2652 <p></p>
2653 <dt><strong>--with-name=NAME (default: urxvt)</strong><br />
2654 </dt>
2655 <dd>
2656 Set the basename for the installed binaries, resulting
2657 in <code>urxvt</code>, <code>urxvtd</code> etc.). Specify <code>--with-name=rxvt</code> to replace with
2658 <code>rxvt</code>.
2659 </dd>
2660 <p></p>
2661 <dt><strong>--with-term=NAME (default: rxvt-unicode)</strong><br />
2662 </dt>
2663 <dd>
2664 Change the environmental variable for the terminal to NAME.
2665 </dd>
2666 <p></p>
2667 <dt><strong><a name="item__2d_2dwith_2dterminfo_3dpath">--with-terminfo=PATH</a></strong><br />
2668 </dt>
2669 <dd>
2670 Change the environmental variable for the path to the terminfo tree to
2671 PATH.
2672 </dd>
2673 <p></p>
2674 <dt><strong><a name="item__2d_2dwith_2dx">--with-x</a></strong><br />
2675 </dt>
2676 <dd>
2677 Use the X Window System (pretty much default, eh?).
2678 </dd>
2679 <p></p>
2680 <dt><strong><a name="item__2d_2dwith_2dxpm_2dincludes_3ddir">--with-xpm-includes=DIR</a></strong><br />
2681 </dt>
2682 <dd>
2683 Look for the XPM includes in DIR.
2684 </dd>
2685 <p></p>
2686 <dt><strong><a name="item__2d_2dwith_2dxpm_2dlibrary_3ddir">--with-xpm-library=DIR</a></strong><br />
2687 </dt>
2688 <dd>
2689 Look for the XPM library in DIR.
2690 </dd>
2691 <p></p>
2692 <dt><strong><a name="item__2d_2dwith_2dxpm">--with-xpm</a></strong><br />
2693 </dt>
2694 <dd>
2695 Not needed - define via --enable-xpm-background.
2696 </dd>
2697 <p></p></dl>
2698 <p>
2699 </p>
2700 <hr />
2701 <h1><a name="authors">AUTHORS</a></h1>
2702 <p>Marc Lehmann &lt;<a href="mailto:rxvt@schmorp.de">rxvt@schmorp.de</a>&gt; converted this document to pod and
2703 reworked it from the original Rxvt documentation, which was done by Geoff
2704 Wing &lt;<a href="mailto:gcw@pobox.com">gcw@pobox.com</a>&gt;, who in turn used the XTerm documentation and other
2705 sources.</p>
2706
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