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-RXVT REFERENCE - FAQ, command sequences and other background information
--
-- # set a new font set - printf '\33]50;%s\007' 9x15,xft:Kochi" Mincho"-
+ +
# set a new font set
+ printf '\33]50;%s\007' 9x15,xft:Kochi" Mincho"
+
# change the locale and tell rxvt-unicode about it
- export LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.EUC-JP; printf "\33]701;$LC_CTYPE\007"
-
+ export LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.EUC-JP; printf "\33]701;$LC_CTYPE\007"
+
# set window title
- printf '\33]2;%s\007' "new window title"
--
-This document contains the FAQ, the RXVT TECHNICAL REFERENCE documenting all escape sequences, and other background information.
The newest version of this document is also available on the World Wide Web at -http://cvs.schmorp.de/browse/*checkout*/rxvt-unicode/doc/rxvt.7.html.
--
--
-If you want to select e.g. alphanumeric words, you can use the following -setting:
-- URxvt.selection.pattern-0: ([[:word:]]+)-
If you click more than twice, the selection will be extended -more and more.
-To get a selection that is very similar to the old code, try this pattern:
-
- URxvt.selection.pattern-0: ([^"&'()*,;<=>?@[\\\\]^`{|})]+)
-Please also note that the LeftClick Shift-LeftClik combination also -selects words like the old code.
--
-You can disable the perl extension completely by setting the -perl-ext-common resource to the empty string, which also keeps -rxvt-unicode from initialising perl, saving memory.
-If you only want to disable specific features, you first have to
-identify which perl extension is responsible. For this, read the section
-PREPACKAGED EXTENSIONS in the rxvtperl(3) manpage. For
-example, to disable the selection-popup and option-popup, specify
-this perl-ext-common resource:
- URxvt.perl-ext-common: default,-selection-popup,-option-popup-
This will keep the default extensions, but disable the two popup -extensions. Some extensions can also be configured, for example, -scrollback search mode is triggered by M-s. You can move it to any -other combination either by setting the searchable-scrollback resource:
-- URxvt.searchable-scrollback: CM-s-
-
-See next entry.
--
-These are caused by the readline perl extension. Under normal
-circumstances, it will move your cursor around when you click into the
-line that contains it. It tries hard not to do this at the wrong moment,
-but when running a program that doesn't parse cursor movements or in some
-cases during rlogin sessions, it fails to detect this properly.
You can permamently switch this feature off by disabling the readline
-extension:
- URxvt.perl-ext-common: default,-readline-
-
-Well, why, indeed? It does, in a way very similar to other X -applications. Most importantly, this means that if you or your OS loads -resources into the X display (the right way to do it), rxvt-unicode will -ignore any resource files in your home directory. It will only read -$HOME/.Xdefaults when no resources are attached to the display.
-If you have or use an $HOME/.Xresources file, chances are that -resources are loaded into your X-server. In this case, you have to -re-login after every change (or run xrdb -merge $HOME/.Xresources).
-Also consider the form resources have to use:
-- URxvt.resource: value-
If you want to use another form (there are lots of different ways of -specifying resources), make sure you understand wether and why it -works. If unsure, use the form above.
--
-First of all, transparency isn't officially supported in rxvt-unicode, so -you are mostly on your own. Do not bug the author about it (but you may -bug everybody else). Also, if you can't get it working consider it a rite -of passage: ... and you failed.
-Here are four ways to get transparency. Do read the manpage and option -descriptions for the programs mentioned and rxvt-unicode. Really, do it!
-1. Use inheritPixmap:
-- Esetroot wallpaper.jpg - rxvt -ip -tint red -sh 40-
That works. If you think it doesn't, you lack transparency and tinting -support, or you are unable to read.
-2. Use a simple pixmap and emulate pseudo-transparency. This enables you -to use effects other than tinting and shading: Just shade/tint/whatever -your picture with gimp:
-- convert wallpaper.jpg -blur 20x20 -modulate 30 background.xpm - rxvt -pixmap background.xpm -pe automove-background-
That works. If you think it doesn't, you lack XPM and Perl support, or you -are unable to read.
-3. Use an ARGB visual:
-- rxvt -depth 32 -fg grey90 -bg rgba:0000/0000/4444/cccc-
This requires XFT support, and the support of your X-server. If that -doesn't work for you, blame Xorg and Keith Packard. ARGB visuals aren't -there yet, no matter what they claim. Rxvt-Unicode contains the neccessary -bugfixes and workarounds for Xft and Xlib to make it work, but that -doesn't mean that your WM has the required kludges in place.
-4. Use xcompmgr and let it do the job:
-- xprop -frame -f _NET_WM_WINDOW_OPACITY 32c \ - -set _NET_WM_WINDOW_OPACITY 0xc0000000-
Then click on a window you want to make transparent. Replace 0xc0000000
-by other values to change the degree of opacity. If it doesn't work and
-your server crashes, you got to keep the pieces.
-
-Before sending me mail, you could go to IRC: irc.freenode.net,
+channel #rxvt-unicode has some rxvt-unicode enthusiasts that might be
+interested in learning about new and exciting problems (but not FAQs :).
Beginning with version 7.3, there is a perl extension that implements a +simple tabbed terminal. It is installed by default, so any of these should +give you tabs:
+urxvt -pe tabbed + + URxvt.perl-ext-common: default,tabbed + ++
It will also work fine with tabbing functionality of many window managers
+or similar tabbing programs, and its embedding-features allow it to be
+embedded into other programs, as witnessed by doc/rxvt-tabbed or
+the upcoming Gtk2::URxvt perl module, which features a tabbed urxvt
+(murxvt) terminal as an example embedding application.
The version number is displayed with the usage (-h). Also the escape
+sequence ESC [ 8 n sets the window title to the version number. When
+using the urxvtc client, the version displayed is that of the
+daemon.
Rxvt-unicode tries to obey the rule of not charging you for something you +don't use. One thing you should try is to configure out all settings that +you don't need, for example, Xft support is a resource hog by design, +when used. Compiling it out ensures that no Xft font will be loaded +accidentally when rxvt-unicode tries to find a font for your characters.
+Also, many people (me included) like large windows and even larger
+scrollback buffers: Without --enable-unicode3, rxvt-unicode will use
+6 bytes per screen cell. For a 160x?? window this amounts to almost a
+kilobyte per line. A scrollback buffer of 10000 lines will then (if full)
+use 10 Megabytes of memory. With --enable-unicode3 it gets worse, as
+rxvt-unicode then uses 8 bytes per screen cell.
Try urxvtd -f -o, which tells urxvtd to open the
+display, create the listening socket and then fork.
If you want to start urxvtd automatically whenever you run +urxvtc and the daemon isn't running yet, use this script:
+#!/bin/sh + urxvtc "$@" + if [ $? -eq 2 ]; then + urxvtd -q -o -f + urxvtc "$@" + fi + ++
This tries to create a new terminal, and if fails with exit status 2, +meaning it couldn't connect to the daemon, it will start the daemon and +re-run the command. Subsequent invocations of the script will re-use the +existing daemon.
+ +The original rxvt and rxvt-unicode always export the variable "COLORTERM", +so you can check and see if that is set. Note that several programs, JED, +slrn, Midnight Commander automatically check this variable to decide +whether or not to use color.
+ +If you've compiled rxvt-unicode with DISPLAY_IS_IP and have enabled +insecure mode then it is possible to use the following shell script +snippets to correctly set the display. If your version of rxvt-unicode +wasn't also compiled with ESCZ_ANSWER (as assumed in these snippets) then +the COLORTERM variable can be used to distinguish rxvt-unicode from a +regular xterm.
+Courtesy of Chuck Blake <cblake@BBN.COM> with the following shell script +snippets:
+ # Bourne/Korn/POSIX family of shells:
+ [ ${TERM:-foo} = foo ] && TERM=xterm # assume an xterm if we don't know
+ if [ ${TERM:-foo} = xterm ]; then
+ stty -icanon -echo min 0 time 15 # see if enhanced rxvt or not
+ echo -n '^[Z'
+ read term_id
+ stty icanon echo
+ if [ ""${term_id} = '^[[?1;2C' -a ${DISPLAY:-foo} = foo ]; then
+ echo -n '^[[7n' # query the rxvt we are in for the DISPLAY string
+ read DISPLAY # set it in our local shell
+ fi
+ fi
+
+
+
+You need to have a recent version of perl installed as /usr/bin/perl,
+one that comes with pod2man, pod2text and pod2xhtml (from
+Pod::Xhtml). Then go to the doc subdirectory and enter make alldoc.
I often get asked about this, and I think, no, they didn't cause extra
bloat. If you compare a minimal rxvt and a minimal urxvt, you can see
that the urxvt binary is larger (due to some encoding tables always being
@@ -237,17 +291,19 @@
with --disable-everything, this comparison is a bit unfair, as many
features unique to urxvt (locale, encoding conversion, iso14755 etc.) are
already in use in this mode.
- text data bss drs rss filename ++text data bss drs rss filename 98398 1664 24 15695 1824 rxvt --disable-everything - 188985 9048 66616 18222 1788 urxvt --disable-everything-When you
--enable-everything(which _is_ unfair, as this involves xft + 188985 9048 66616 18222 1788 urxvt --disable-everything + +
When you --enable-everything (which is unfair, as this involves xft
and full locale/XIM support which are quite bloaty inside libX11 and my
-libc), the two diverge, but not unreasnobaly so.
- text data bss drs rss filename +libc), the two diverge, but not unreasonably so. +text data bss drs rss filename 163431 2152 24 20123 2060 rxvt --enable-everything - 1035683 49680 66648 29096 3680 urxvt --enable-everything+ 1035683 49680 66648 29096 3680 urxvt --enable-everything + +
The very large size of the text section is explained by the east-asian encoding tables, which, if unused, take up disk space but nothing else and can be compiled out unless you rely on X11 core fonts that use those @@ -265,9 +321,10 @@ 43180k in daemons that stay around after exit, plus half a minute of startup time, including the hundreds of warnings it spits out), it fares extremely well *g*.
--
-Is this a question? :) It comes up very often. The simple answer is: I had to write it, and C++ allowed me to write and maintain it in a fraction of the time and effort (which is a scarce resource for me). Put even @@ -281,334 +338,108 @@ C++ that don't. C++ also often comes with large libraries, but this is not necessarily the case with GCC. Here is what rxvt links against on my system with a minimal config:
-
- libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x00002aaaaabc3000)
+ libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x00002aaaaabc3000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00002aaaaadde000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00002aaaab01d000)
- /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00002aaaaaaab000)
+ /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00002aaaaaaab000)
+
+
And here is rxvt-unicode:
-
- libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x00002aaaaabc3000)
+ libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x00002aaaaabc3000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00002aaaaada2000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00002aaaaaeb0000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00002aaaab0ee000)
- /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00002aaaaaaab000)
+ /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00002aaaaaaab000)
+
+
No large bloated libraries (of course, none were linked in statically), except maybe libX11 :)
--
-Beginning with version 7.3, there is a perl extension that implements a -simple tabbed terminal. It is installed by default, so any of these should -give you tabs:
-- rxvt -pe tabbed-
- URxvt.perl-ext-common: default,tabbed-
It will also work fine with tabbing functionality of many window managers
-or similar tabbing programs, and its embedding-features allow it to be
-embedded into other programs, as witnessed by doc/rxvt-tabbed or
-the upcoming Gtk2::URxvt perl module, which features a tabbed urxvt
-(murxvt) terminal as an example embedding application.
-
-The version number is displayed with the usage (-h). Also the escape
-sequence ESC [ 8 n sets the window title to the version number. When
-using the rxvtc client, the version displayed is that of the
-daemon.
-
-The Debian GNU/Linux package of rxvt-unicode in sarge contains large
-patches that considerably change the behaviour of rxvt-unicode (but
-unfortunately this notice has been removed). Before reporting a bug to
-the original rxvt-unicode author please download and install the genuine
-version (http://software.schmorp.de#rxvt-unicode) and try to reproduce
-the problem. If you cannot, chances are that the problems are specific to
-Debian GNU/Linux, in which case it should be reported via the Debian Bug
-Tracking System (use reportbug to report the bug).
For other problems that also affect the Debian package, you can and -probably should use the Debian BTS, too, because, after all, it's also a -bug in the Debian version and it serves as a reminder for other users that -might encounter the same issue.
--
-You should build one binary with the default options. configure -now enables most useful options, and the trend goes to making them -runtime-switchable, too, so there is usually no drawback to enbaling them, -except higher disk and possibly memory usage. The perl interpreter should -be enabled, as important functionality (menus, selection, likely more in -the future) depends on it.
-You should not overwrite the perl-ext-common snd perl-ext resources
-system-wide (except maybe with defaults). This will result in useful
-behaviour. If your distribution aims at low memory, add an empty
-perl-ext-common resource to the app-defaults file. This will keep the
-perl interpreter disabled until the user enables it.
If you can/want build more binaries, I recommend building a minimal
-one with --disable-everything (very useful) and a maximal one with
---enable-everything (less useful, it will be very big due to a lot of
-encodings built-in that increase download times and are rarely used).
-
-It should be, starting with release 7.1. You are encouraged to properly -install urxvt with privileges necessary for your OS now.
-When rxvt-unicode detects that it runs setuid or setgid, it will fork -into a helper process for privileged operations (pty handling on some -systems, utmp/wtmp/lastlog handling on others) and drop privileges -immediately. This is much safer than most other terminals that keep -privileges while running (but is more relevant to urxvt, as it contains -things as perl interpreters, which might be ``helpful'' to attackers).
-This forking is done as the very first within main(), which is very early -and reduces possible bugs to initialisation code run before main(), or -things like the dynamic loader of your system, which should result in very -little risk.
--
-The terminal description used by rxvt-unicode is not as widely available -as that for xterm, or even rxvt (for which the same problem often arises).
-The correct solution for this problem is to install the terminfo, this can -be done like this (with ncurses' infocmp):
-- REMOTE=remotesystem.domain - infocmp rxvt-unicode | ssh $REMOTE "cat >/tmp/ti && tic /tmp/ti"-
... or by installing rxvt-unicode normally on the remote system,
-If you cannot or do not want to do this, then you can simply set
-TERM=rxvt or even TERM=xterm, and live with the small number of
-problems arising, which includes wrong keymapping, less and different
-colours and some refresh errors in fullscreen applications. It's a nice
-quick-and-dirty workaround for rare cases, though.
If you always want to do this (and are fine with the consequences) you -can either recompile rxvt-unicode with the desired TERM value or use a -resource to set it:
-- URxvt.termName: rxvt-
If you don't plan to use rxvt (quite common...) you could also replace -the rxvt terminfo file with the rxvt-unicode one.
--
-tic outputs some error when compiling the terminfo entry.Most likely it's the empty definition for enacs=. Just replace it by
-enacs=\E[0@ and try again.
-
-bash's readline does not work correctly under rxvt.See next entry.
--
-One reason you might want this is that some distributions or operating
-systems still compile some programs using the long-obsoleted termcap
-library (Fedora Core's bash is one example) and rely on a termcap entry
-for rxvt-unicode.
You could use rxvt's termcap entry with resonable results in many cases. -You can also create a termcap entry by using terminfo's infocmp program -like this:
-- infocmp -C rxvt-unicode-
Or you could use this termcap entry, generated by the command above:
-- rxvt-unicode|rxvt-unicode terminal (X Window System):\ - :am:bw:eo:km:mi:ms:xn:xo:\ - :co#80:it#8:li#24:lm#0:\ - :AL=\E[%dL:DC=\E[%dP:DL=\E[%dM:DO=\E[%dB:IC=\E[%d@:\ - :K1=\EOw:K2=\EOu:K3=\EOy:K4=\EOq:K5=\EOs:LE=\E[%dD:\ - :RI=\E[%dC:SF=\E[%dS:SR=\E[%dT:UP=\E[%dA:ae=\E(B:al=\E[L:\ - :as=\E(0:bl=^G:cd=\E[J:ce=\E[K:cl=\E[H\E[2J:\ - :cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:cr=^M:cs=\E[%i%d;%dr:ct=\E[3g:dc=\E[P:\ - :dl=\E[M:do=^J:ec=\E[%dX:ei=\E[4l:ho=\E[H:\ - :i1=\E[?47l\E=\E[?1l:ic=\E[@:im=\E[4h:\ - :is=\E[r\E[m\E[2J\E[H\E[?7h\E[?1;3;4;6l\E[4l:\ - :k1=\E[11~:k2=\E[12~:k3=\E[13~:k4=\E[14~:k5=\E[15~:\ - :k6=\E[17~:k7=\E[18~:k8=\E[19~:k9=\E[20~:kD=\E[3~:\ - :kI=\E[2~:kN=\E[6~:kP=\E[5~:kb=\177:kd=\EOB:ke=\E[?1l\E>:\ - :kh=\E[7~:kl=\EOD:kr=\EOC:ks=\E[?1h\E=:ku=\EOA:le=^H:\ - :mb=\E[5m:md=\E[1m:me=\E[m\017:mr=\E[7m:nd=\E[C:rc=\E8:\ - :sc=\E7:se=\E[27m:sf=^J:so=\E[7m:sr=\EM:st=\EH:ta=^I:\ - :te=\E[r\E[?1049l:ti=\E[?1049h:ue=\E[24m:up=\E[A:\ - :us=\E[4m:vb=\E[?5h\E[?5l:ve=\E[?25h:vi=\E[?25l:\ - :vs=\E[?25h:-
-
-ls no longer have coloured output?The ls in the GNU coreutils unfortunately doesn't use terminfo to
-decide wether a terminal has colour, but uses it's own configuration
-file. Needless to say, rxvt-unicode is not in it's default file (among
-with most other terminals supporting colour). Either add:
- TERM rxvt-unicode-
to /etc/DIR_COLORS or simply add:
- alias ls='ls --color=auto'-
to your .profile or .bashrc.
-
-See next entry.
--
-See next entry.
--
-Make sure you are using TERM=rxvt-unicode. Some pre-packaged
-distributions (most notably Debian GNU/Linux) break rxvt-unicode
-by setting TERM to rxvt, which doesn't have these extra
-features. Unfortunately, some of these (most notably, again, Debian
-GNU/Linux) furthermore fail to even install the rxvt-unicode terminfo
-file, so you will need to install it on your own (See the question When
-I log-in to another system it tells me about missing terminfo data? on
-how to do this).
-
-Some Debian GNUL/Linux users seem to have this problem, although no
-specific details were reported so far. It is possible that this is caused
-by the wrong TERM setting, although the details of wether and how
-this can happen are unknown, as TERM=rxvt should offer a compatible
-keymap. See the answer to the previous question, and please report if that
-helped.
-
-See next entry.
--
-If you encounter strange problems like typing an accented character but -getting two unrelated other characters or similar, or if program output is -subtly garbled, then you should check your locale settings.
-Rxvt-unicode must be started with the same LC_CTYPE setting as the
-programs. Often rxvt-unicode is started in the C locale, while the
-login script running within the rxvt-unicode window changes the locale to
-something else, e.g. en_GB.UTF-8. Needless to say, this is not going to work.
The best thing is to fix your startup environment, as you will likely run -into other problems. If nothing works you can try this in your .profile.
-- printf '\e]701;%s\007' "$LC_CTYPE"-
If this doesn't work, then maybe you use a LC_CTYPE specification not
-supported on your systems. Some systems have a locale command which
-displays this (also, perl -e0 can be used to check locale settings, as
-it will complain loudly if it cannot set the locale). If it displays something
-like:
- locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: ...-
Then the locale you specified is not supported on your system.
-If nothing works and you are sure that everything is set correctly then -you will need to remember a little known fact: Some programs just don't -support locales :(
--
-See next entry.
--
-Most fonts do not contain the full range of Unicode, which is -fine. Chances are that the font you (or the admin/package maintainer of -your system/os) have specified does not cover all the characters you want -to display.
-rxvt-unicode makes a best-effort try at finding a replacement -font. Often the result is fine, but sometimes the chosen font looks -bad/ugly/wrong. Some fonts have totally strange characters that don't -resemble the correct glyph at all, and rxvt-unicode lacks the artificial -intelligence to detect that a specific glyph is wrong: it has to believe -the font that the characters it claims to contain indeed look correct.
-In that case, select a font of your taste and add it to the font list, -e.g.:
-- rxvt -fn basefont,font2,font3...-
When rxvt-unicode sees a character, it will first look at the base -font. If the base font does not contain the character, it will go to the -next font, and so on. Specifying your own fonts will also speed up this -search and use less resources within rxvt-unicode and the X-server.
-The only limitation is that none of the fonts may be larger than the base -font, as the base font defines the terminal character cell size, which -must be the same due to the way terminals work.
--
-This is because there is a difference between script and language -- -rxvt-unicode does not know which language the text that is output is, -as it only knows the unicode character codes. If rxvt-unicode first -sees a japanese/chinese character, it might choose a japanese font for -display. Subsequent japanese characters will use that font. Now, many -chinese characters aren't represented in japanese fonts, so when the first -non-japanese character comes up, rxvt-unicode will look for a chinese font --- unfortunately at this point, it will still use the japanese font for -chinese characters that are also in the japanese font.
-The workaround is easy: just tag a chinese font at the end of your font -list (see the previous question). The key is to view the font list as -a preference list: If you expect more japanese, list a japanese font -first. If you expect more chinese, put a chinese font first.
-In the future it might be possible to switch language preferences at -runtime (the internal data structure has no problem with using different -fonts for the same character at the same time, but no interface for this -has been designed yet).
-Until then, you might get away with switching fonts at runtime (see Can I switch the fonts at runtime? later in this document).
--
-First of all, please address all transparency related issues to Sasha Vasko at +sasha@aftercode.net and do not bug the author about it. Also, if you can't +get it working consider it a rite of passage: ... and you failed.
+Here are four ways to get transparency. Do read the manpage and option +descriptions for the programs mentioned and rxvt-unicode. Really, do it!
+1. Use inheritPixmap:
+Esetroot wallpaper.jpg + urxvt -ip -tint red -sh 40 + ++
That works. If you think it doesn't, you lack transparency and tinting +support, or you are unable to read.
+2. Use a simple pixmap and emulate pseudo-transparency. This enables you +to use effects other than tinting and shading: Just shade/tint/whatever +your picture with gimp or any other tool:
+convert wallpaper.jpg -blur 20x20 -modulate 30 background.jpg + urxvt -pixmap background.jpg -pe automove-background + ++
That works. If you think it doesn't, you lack AfterImage and Perl support, or you +are unable to read.
+3. Use an ARGB visual:
+urxvt -depth 32 -fg grey90 -bg rgba:0000/0000/4444/cccc + ++
This requires XFT support, and the support of your X-server. If that +doesn't work for you, blame Xorg and Keith Packard. ARGB visuals aren't +there yet, no matter what they claim. Rxvt-Unicode contains the necessary +bugfixes and workarounds for Xft and Xlib to make it work, but that +doesn't mean that your WM has the required kludges in place.
+4. Use xcompmgr and let it do the job:
+xprop -frame -f _NET_WM_WINDOW_OPACITY 32c \ + -set _NET_WM_WINDOW_OPACITY 0xc0000000 + ++
Then click on a window you want to make transparent. Replace 0xc0000000
+by other values to change the degree of opacity. If it doesn't work and
+your server crashes, you got to keep the pieces.
Most fonts were not designed for terminal use, which means that character size varies a lot. A font that is otherwise fine for terminal use might contain some characters that are simply too wide. Rxvt-unicode will avoid -these characters. For characters that are just ``a bit'' too wide a special -``careful'' rendering mode is used that redraws adjacent characters.
+these characters. For characters that are just "a bit" too wide a special +"careful" rendering mode is used that redraws adjacent characters.All of this requires that fonts do not lie about character sizes, however: Xft fonts often draw glyphs larger than their acclaimed bounding box, and rxvt-unicode has no way of detecting this (the correct way is to ask for the character bounding box, which unfortunately is wrong in these cases).
-It's not clear (to me at least), wether this is a bug in Xft, freetype, +
It's not clear (to me at least), whether this is a bug in Xft, freetype,
or the respective font. If you encounter this problem you might try using
the -lsp option to give the font more height. If that doesn't work, you
might be forced to use a different font.
All of this is not a problem when using X11 core fonts, as their bounding box data is correct.
--
-Seems to be a known bug, read -http://nixdoc.net/files/forum/about34198.html. Some people use the -following ugly workaround to get non-double-wide-characters working:
-- #define wcwidth(x) wcwidth(x) > 1 ? 1 : wcwidth(x)-
-
-The most common causes for this are that either your locale is not set -correctly, or you specified a preeditStyle that is not supported by -your input method. For example, if you specified OverTheSpot and -your input method (e.g. the default input method handling Compose keys) -does not support this (for instance because it is not visual), then -rxvt-unicode will continue without an input method.
-In this case either do not specify a preeditStyle or specify more than -one pre-edit style, such as OverTheSpot,Root,None.
--
-Ctrl-Shift-2 to get an ASCII NUL character due to ISO 14755Either try Ctrl-2 alone (it often is mapped to ASCII NUL even on
-international keyboards) or simply use ISO 14755 support to your
-advantage, typing <Ctrl-Shift-0> to get a ASCII NUL. This works for other
-codes, too, such as Ctrl-Shift-1-d to type the default telnet escape
-character and so on.
-
-First of all, make sure you are running with the right terminal settings
(TERM=rxvt-unicode), which will get rid of most of these effects. Then
make sure you have specified colours for italic and bold, as otherwise
rxvt-unicode might use reverse video to simulate the effect:
- URxvt.colorBD: white - URxvt.colorIT: green-
-
-URxvt.colorBD: white + URxvt.colorIT: green + ++ +
For some unexplainable reason, some rare programs assume a very weird colour palette when confronted with a terminal with more than the standard 8 colours (rxvt-unicode supports 88). The right fix is, of course, to fix @@ -616,185 +447,53 @@
In the meantime, you can either edit your rxvt-unicode terminfo
definition to only claim 8 colour support or use TERM=rxvt, which will
fix colours but keep you from using other rxvt-unicode features.
-
-Rxvt-unicode requires the symbol __STDC_ISO_10646__ to be defined
-in your compile environment, or an implementation that implements it,
-wether it defines the symbol or not. __STDC_ISO_10646__ requires that
-wchar_t is represented as unicode.
As you might have guessed, FreeBSD does neither define this symobl nor -does it support it. Instead, it uses it's own internal representation of -wchar_t. This is, of course, completely fine with respect to standards.
-However, that means rxvt-unicode only works in POSIX, ISO-8859-1 and
-UTF-8 locales under FreeBSD (which all use Unicode as wchar_t.
__STDC_ISO_10646__ is the only sane way to support multi-language
-apps in an OS, as using a locale-dependent (and non-standardized)
-representation of wchar_t makes it impossible to convert between
-wchar_t (as used by X11 and your applications) and any other encoding
-without implementing OS-specific-wrappers for each and every locale. There
-simply are no APIs to convert wchar_t into anything except the current
-locale encoding.
Some applications (such as the formidable mlterm) work around this -by carrying their own replacement functions for character set handling -with them, and either implementing OS-dependent hacks or doing multiple -conversions (which is slow and unreliable in case the OS implements -encodings slightly different than the terminal emulator).
-The rxvt-unicode author insists that the right way to fix this is in the -system libraries once and for all, instead of forcing every app to carry -complete replacements for them :)
--
-Try the diff in doc/solaris9.patch as a base. It fixes the worst
-problems with wcwidth and a compile problem.
-
-rxvt-unicode should compile and run out of the box on cygwin, using
-the X11 libraries that come with cygwin. libW11 emulation is no
-longer supported (and makes no sense, either, as it only supported a
-single font). I recommend starting the X-server in -multiwindow or
--rootless mode instead, which will result in similar look&feel as the
-old libW11 emulation.
At the time of this writing, cygwin didn't seem to support any multi-byte
-encodings (you might try LC_CTYPE=C-UTF-8), so you are likely limited
-to 8-bit encodings.
-
-See next entry.
--
-Unlike some other terminals, rxvt-unicode has no encoding switch, and no -specific ``utf-8'' mode, such as xterm. In fact, it doesn't even know about -UTF-8 or any other encodings with respect to terminal I/O.
-The reasons is that there exists a perfectly fine mechanism for selecting
-the encoding, doing I/O and (most important) communicating this to all
-applications so everybody agrees on character properties such as width
-and code number. This mechanism is the locale. Applications not using
-that info will have problems (for example, xterm gets the width of
-characters wrong as it uses it's own, locale-independent table under all
-locales).
Rxvt-unicode uses the LC_CTYPE locale category to select encoding. All
-programs doing the same (that is, most) will automatically agree in the
-interpretation of characters.
Unfortunately, there is no system-independent way to select locales, nor -is there a standard on how locale specifiers will look like.
-On most systems, the content of the LC_CTYPE environment variable
-contains an arbitrary string which corresponds to an already-installed
-locale. Common names for locales are en_US.UTF-8, de_DE.ISO-8859-15,
-ja_JP.EUC-JP, i.e. language_country.encoding, but other forms
-(i.e. de or german) are also common.
Rxvt-unicode ignores all other locale categories, and except for
-the encoding, ignores country or language-specific settings,
-i.e. de_DE.UTF-8 and ja_JP.UTF-8 are the normally same to
-rxvt-unicode.
If you want to use a specific encoding you have to make sure you start
-rxvt-unicode with the correct LC_CTYPE category.
-
-Yes, using an escape sequence. Try something like this, which sets
-rxvt-unicode's idea of LC_CTYPE.
- printf '\e]701;%s\007' ja_JP.SJIS-
See also the previous answer.
-Sometimes this capability is rather handy when you want to work in
-one locale (e.g. de_DE.UTF-8) but some programs don't support it
-(e.g. UTF-8). For example, I use this script to start xjdic, which
-first switches to a locale supported by xjdic and back later:
- printf '\e]701;%s\007' ja_JP.SJIS - xjdic -js - printf '\e]701;%s\007' de_DE.UTF-8-
You can also use xterm's luit program, which usually works fine, except
-for some locales where character width differs between program- and
-rxvt-unicode-locales.
-
-Yes, using an escape sequence. Try something like this, which has the same
effect as using the -fn switch, and takes effect immediately:
- printf '\e]50;%s\007' "9x15bold,xft:Kochi Gothic"+
printf '\33]50;%s\007' "9x15bold,xft:Kochi Gothic" + +
This is useful if you e.g. work primarily with japanese (and prefer a japanese font), but you have to switch to chinese temporarily, where japanese fonts would only be in your way.
You can think of this as a kind of manual ISO-2022 switching.
--
-Many fonts have difficulties with italic characters and hinting. For
example, the otherwise very nicely hinted font xft:Bitstream Vera Sans
-Mono completely fails in it's italic face. A workaround might be to
+Mono completely fails in its italic face. A workaround might be to
enable freetype autohinting, i.e. like this:
- URxvt.italicFont: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:italic:autohint=true - URxvt.boldItalicFont: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:bold:italic:autohint=true-
-
-You can specify separate locales for the input method and the rest of the
-terminal, using the resource imlocale:
- URxvt.imlocale: ja_JP.EUC-JP-
Now you can start your terminal with LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 and still
-use your input method. Please note, however, that you will not be able to
-input characters outside EUC-JP in a normal way then, as your input
-method limits you.
-
-Unfortunately, this is unavoidable, as the XIM protocol is racy by -design. Applications can avoid some crashes at the expense of memory -leaks, and Input Methods can avoid some crashes by careful ordering at -exit time. kinput2 (and derived input methods) generally succeeds, -while SCIM (or similar input methods) fails. In the end, however, -crashes cannot be completely avoided even if both sides cooperate.
-So the only workaround is not to kill your Input Method Servers.
--
-Rxvt-unicode tries to obey the rule of not charging you for something you -don't use. One thing you should try is to configure out all settings that -you don't need, for example, Xft support is a resource hog by design, -when used. Compiling it out ensures that no Xft font will be loaded -accidentally when rxvt-unicode tries to find a font for your characters.
-Also, many people (me included) like large windows and even larger
-scrollback buffers: Without --enable-unicode3, rxvt-unicode will use
-6 bytes per screen cell. For a 160x?? window this amounts to almost a
-kilobyte per line. A scrollback buffer of 10000 lines will then (if full)
-use 10 Megabytes of memory. With --enable-unicode3 it gets worse, as
-rxvt-unicode then uses 8 bytes per screen cell.
-
-URxvt.italicFont: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:italic:autohint=true + URxvt.boldItalicFont: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:bold:italic:autohint=true + ++ +
Yes, the most obvious way to speed it up is to avoid Xft entirely, as
it is simply slow. If you still want Xft fonts you might try to disable
antialiasing (by appending :antialias=false), which saves lots of
memory and also speeds up rendering considerably.
-
-Rxvt-unicode will use whatever you specify as a font. If it needs to -fall back to it's default font search list it will prefer X11 core +fall back to its default font search list it will prefer X11 core fonts, because they are small and fast, and then use Xft fonts. It has antialiasing disabled for most of them, because the author thinks they look best that way.
If you want antialiasing, you have to specify the fonts manually.
--
-Make sure that mouse reporting is actually turned off since killing -some editors prematurely may leave the mouse in mouse report mode. I've -heard that tcsh may use mouse reporting unless it otherwise specified. A -quick check is to see if cut/paste works when the Alt or Shift keys are -depressed.
--
-If no bold colour is set via colorBD:, bold will invert text using the
standard foreground colour.
For the standard background colour, blinking will actually make the @@ -805,23 +504,23 @@ foreground/background colors.
color0-7 are the low-intensity colors.
color8-15 are the corresponding high-intensity colors.
--
-You can change the screen colors at run-time using ~/.Xdefaults + +
You can change the screen colors at run-time using ~/.Xdefaults resources (or as long-options).
Here are values that are supposed to resemble a VGA screen, including the murky brown that passes for low-intensity yellow:
-- URxvt.color0: #000000 ++URxvt.color0: #000000 URxvt.color1: #A80000 URxvt.color2: #00A800 URxvt.color3: #A8A800 URxvt.color4: #0000A8 URxvt.color5: #A800A8 URxvt.color6: #00A8A8 - URxvt.color7: #A8A8A8-+ URxvt.color7: #A8A8A8 + URxvt.color8: #000054 URxvt.color9: #FF0054 URxvt.color10: #00FF54 @@ -829,11 +528,11 @@ URxvt.color12: #0000FF URxvt.color13: #FF00FF URxvt.color14: #00FFFF - URxvt.color15: #FFFFFF-And here is a more complete set of non-standard colors described (not by -me) as ``pretty girly''.
-- URxvt.cursorColor: #dc74d1 + URxvt.color15: #FFFFFF + ++And here is a more complete set of non-standard colors.
+URxvt.cursorColor: #dc74d1 URxvt.pointerColor: #dc74d1 URxvt.background: #0e0e0e URxvt.foreground: #4ad5e1 @@ -850,21 +549,186 @@ URxvt.color6: #73f7ff URxvt.color14: #73f7ff URxvt.color7: #e1dddd - URxvt.color15: #e1dddd--
-How can I start rxvtd in a race-free way?
-Try
-rxvtd -f -o, which tells rxvtd to open the -display, create the listening socket and then fork.-
-What's with the strange Backspace/Delete key behaviour?
+ URxvt.color15: #e1dddd + +
They have been described (not by me) as "pretty girly".
+ +See next entry.
+ +Most fonts do not contain the full range of Unicode, which is +fine. Chances are that the font you (or the admin/package maintainer of +your system/os) have specified does not cover all the characters you want +to display.
+rxvt-unicode makes a best-effort try at finding a replacement +font. Often the result is fine, but sometimes the chosen font looks +bad/ugly/wrong. Some fonts have totally strange characters that don't +resemble the correct glyph at all, and rxvt-unicode lacks the artificial +intelligence to detect that a specific glyph is wrong: it has to believe +the font that the characters it claims to contain indeed look correct.
+In that case, select a font of your taste and add it to the font list, +e.g.:
+urxvt -fn basefont,font2,font3... + ++
When rxvt-unicode sees a character, it will first look at the base +font. If the base font does not contain the character, it will go to the +next font, and so on. Specifying your own fonts will also speed up this +search and use less resources within rxvt-unicode and the X-server.
+The only limitation is that none of the fonts may be larger than the base +font, as the base font defines the terminal character cell size, which +must be the same due to the way terminals work.
+ +This is because there is a difference between script and language -- +rxvt-unicode does not know which language the text that is output is, +as it only knows the unicode character codes. If rxvt-unicode first +sees a japanese/chinese character, it might choose a japanese font for +display. Subsequent japanese characters will use that font. Now, many +chinese characters aren't represented in japanese fonts, so when the first +non-japanese character comes up, rxvt-unicode will look for a chinese font +-- unfortunately at this point, it will still use the japanese font for +chinese characters that are also in the japanese font.
+The workaround is easy: just tag a chinese font at the end of your font +list (see the previous question). The key is to view the font list as +a preference list: If you expect more japanese, list a japanese font +first. If you expect more chinese, put a chinese font first.
+In the future it might be possible to switch language preferences at +runtime (the internal data structure has no problem with using different +fonts for the same character at the same time, but no interface for this +has been designed yet).
+Until then, you might get away with switching fonts at runtime (see Can I switch the fonts at runtime? later in this document).
+ +We are working on it, in the meantime, as a workaround, use something like:
+urxvt -b 600 -geometry 20x1 -e sh -c 'mplayer -wid $WINDOWID file...' + + + + ++ +
If you want to select e.g. alphanumeric words, you can use the following +setting:
+URxvt.selection.pattern-0: ([[:word:]]+) + ++
If you click more than twice, the selection will be extended +more and more.
+To get a selection that is very similar to the old code, try this pattern:
+ URxvt.selection.pattern-0: ([^"&'()*,;<=>?@[\\\\]^`{|})]+)
+
+
+Please also note that the LeftClick Shift-LeftClik combination also +selects words like the old code.
+ +You can disable the perl extension completely by setting the +perl-ext-common resource to the empty string, which also keeps +rxvt-unicode from initialising perl, saving memory.
+If you only want to disable specific features, you first have to +identify which perl extension is responsible. For this, read the section +PREPACKAGED EXTENSIONS in the urxvtperl(3) manpage. For +example, to disable the selection-popup and option-popup, specify +this perl-ext-common resource:
+URxvt.perl-ext-common: default,-selection-popup,-option-popup + ++
This will keep the default extensions, but disable the two popup +extensions. Some extensions can also be configured, for example, +scrollback search mode is triggered by M-s. You can move it to any +other combination either by setting the searchable-scrollback resource:
+URxvt.searchable-scrollback: CM-s + ++ +
See next entry.
+ +These are caused by the readline perl extension. Under normal
+circumstances, it will move your cursor around when you click into the
+line that contains it. It tries hard not to do this at the wrong moment,
+but when running a program that doesn't parse cursor movements or in some
+cases during rlogin sessions, it fails to detect this properly.
You can permanently switch this feature off by disabling the readline
+extension:
URxvt.perl-ext-common: default,-readline + ++ +
Some Debian GNUL/Linux users seem to have this problem, although no
+specific details were reported so far. It is possible that this is caused
+by the wrong TERM setting, although the details of whether and how
+this can happen are unknown, as TERM=rxvt should offer a compatible
+keymap. See the answer to the previous question, and please report if that
+helped.
The most common causes for this are that either your locale is not set +correctly, or you specified a preeditStyle that is not supported by +your input method. For example, if you specified OverTheSpot and +your input method (e.g. the default input method handling Compose keys) +does not support this (for instance because it is not visual), then +rxvt-unicode will continue without an input method.
+In this case either do not specify a preeditStyle or specify more than +one pre-edit style, such as OverTheSpot,Root,None.
+ +Ctrl-Shift-2 to get an ASCII NUL character due to ISO 14755Either try Ctrl-2 alone (it often is mapped to ASCII NUL even on
+international keyboards) or simply use ISO 14755 support to your
+advantage, typing <Ctrl-Shift-0> to get a ASCII NUL. This works for other
+codes, too, such as Ctrl-Shift-1-d to type the default telnet escape
+character and so on.
Make sure that mouse reporting is actually turned off since killing +some editors prematurely may leave the mouse in mouse report mode. I've +heard that tcsh may use mouse reporting unless it otherwise specified. A +quick check is to see if cut/paste works when the Alt or Shift keys are +depressed.
+ +Assuming that the physical Backspace key corresponds to the
-BackSpace keysym (not likely for Linux ... see the following
+Backspace keysym (not likely for Linux ... see the following
question) there are two standard values that can be used for
Backspace: ^H and ^?.
Historically, either value is correct, but rxvt-unicode adopts the debian
-policy of using ^? when unsure, because it's the one only only correct
+policy of using ^? when unsure, because it's the one and only correct
choice :).
Rxvt-unicode tries to inherit the current stty settings and uses the value of `erase' to guess the value for backspace. If rxvt-unicode wasn't @@ -872,24 +736,26 @@ system value of `erase', which corresponds to CERASE in <termios.h>, will be used (which may not be the same as your stty setting).
For starting a new rxvt-unicode:
-- # use Backspace = ^H +# use Backspace = ^H $ stty erase ^H - $ rxvt-+ $ urxvt + # use Backspace = ^? $ stty erase ^? - $ rxvt+ $ urxvt + +
Toggle with ESC [ 36 h / ESC [ 36 l.
For an existing rxvt-unicode:
-- # use Backspace = ^H +# use Backspace = ^H $ stty erase ^H - $ echo -n "^[[36h"-+ $ echo -n "^[[36h" + # use Backspace = ^? $ stty erase ^? - $ echo -n "^[[36l"+ $ echo -n "^[[36l" + +
This helps satisfy some of the Backspace discrepancies that occur, but
if you use Backspace = ^H, make sure that the termcap/terminfo value
properly reflects that.
ESC [ 3 ~) and is in the supplied termcap/terminfo.
Some other Backspace problems:
-some editors use termcap/terminfo, +
some editors use termcap/terminfo, some editors (vim I'm told) expect Backspace = ^H, GNU Emacs (and Emacs-like editors) use ^H for help.
Perhaps someday this will all be resolved in a consistent manner.
--
-There are some compile-time selections available via configure. Unless
-you have run ``configure'' with the --disable-resources option you can
+you have run "configure" with the --disable-resources option you can
use the `keysym' resource to alter the keystrings associated with keysyms.
Here's an example for a URxvt session started using rxvt -name URxvt
- URxvt.keysym.Home: \033[1~ +Here's an example for a URxvt session started using
+urxvt -name URxvtURxvt.keysym.Home: \033[1~ URxvt.keysym.End: \033[4~ URxvt.keysym.C-apostrophe: \033<C-'> URxvt.keysym.C-slash: \033<C-/> @@ -929,1307 +795,1276 @@ URxvt.keysym.M-Right: \033<M-Right> URxvt.keysym.M-C-0: list \033<M-C- 0123456789 > URxvt.keysym.M-C-a: list \033<M-C- abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz > - URxvt.keysym.F12: command:\033]701;zh_CN.GBK\007+ URxvt.keysym.F12: command:\033]701;zh_CN.GBK\007 + +
See some more examples in the documentation for the keysym resource.
--
-- KP_Insert == Insert + +
KP_Insert == Insert
F22 == Print
F27 == Home
F29 == Prior
F33 == End
- F35 == Next
+ F35 == Next
+
+
Rather than have rxvt-unicode try to accommodate all the various possible keyboard mappings, it is better to use `xmodmap' to remap the keys as required for your particular machine.
--
-rxvt and rxvt-unicode always export the variable ``COLORTERM'', so you can -check and see if that is set. Note that several programs, JED, slrn, -Midnight Commander automatically check this variable to decide whether or -not to use color.
--
-If you've compiled rxvt-unicode with DISPLAY_IS_IP and have enabled -insecure mode then it is possible to use the following shell script -snippets to correctly set the display. If your version of rxvt-unicode -wasn't also compiled with ESCZ_ANSWER (as assumed in these snippets) then -the COLORTERM variable can be used to distinguish rxvt-unicode from a -regular xterm.
-Courtesy of Chuck Blake <cblake@BBN.COM> with the following shell script -snippets:
-
- # Bourne/Korn/POSIX family of shells:
- [ ${TERM:-foo} = foo ] && TERM=xterm # assume an xterm if we don't know
- if [ ${TERM:-foo} = xterm ]; then
- stty -icanon -echo min 0 time 15 # see if enhanced rxvt or not
- echo -n '^[Z'
- read term_id
- stty icanon echo
- if [ ""${term_id} = '^[[?1;2C' -a ${DISPLAY:-foo} = foo ]; then
- echo -n '^[[7n' # query the rxvt we are in for the DISPLAY string
- read DISPLAY # set it in our local shell
- fi
- fi
--
-You need to have a recent version of perl installed as /usr/bin/perl,
-one that comes with pod2man, pod2text and pod2html. Then go to
-the doc subdirectory and enter make alldoc.
-
-Before sending me mail, you could go to IRC: irc.freenode.net,
-channel #rxvt-unicode has some rxvt-unicode enthusiasts that might be
-interested in learning about new and exciting problems (but not FAQs :).
-
--
-The default configuration tries to be xterm-like, which I don't like that +much, but it's least surprise to regular users.
+As a rxvt or rxvt-unicode user, you are practically supposed to invest +time into customising your terminal. To get you started, here is the +author's .Xdefaults entries, with comments on what they do. It's certainly +not typical, but what's typical...
+ URxvt.cutchars: "()*,<>[]{}|'
+ URxvt.print-pipe: cat >/tmp/xxx
+
+
+These are just for testing stuff.
+URxvt.imLocale: ja_JP.UTF-8 + URxvt.preeditType: OnTheSpot,None + ++
This tells rxvt-unicode to use a special locale when communicating with
+the X Input Method, and also tells it to only use the OnTheSpot pre-edit
+type, which requires the xim-onthespot perl extension but rewards me
+with correct-looking fonts.
URxvt.perl-lib: /root/lib/urxvt + URxvt.perl-ext-common: default,selection-autotransform,selection-pastebin,xim-onthespot,remote-clipboard + URxvt.selection.pattern-0: ( at .*? line \\d+) + URxvt.selection.pattern-1: ^(/[^:]+):\ + URxvt.selection-autotransform.0: s/^([^:[:space:]]+):(\\d+):?$/:e \\Q$1\\E\\x0d:$2\\x0d/ + URxvt.selection-autotransform.1: s/^ at (.*?) line (\\d+)$/:e \\Q$1\\E\\x0d:$2\\x0d/ + ++
This is my perl configuration. The first two set the perl library +directory and also tells urxvt to use a large number of extensions. I +develop for myself mostly, so I actually use most of the extensions I +write.
+The selection stuff mainly makes the selection perl-error-message aware +and tells it to convert perl error messages into vi-commands to load the +relevant file and go tot he error line number.
+URxvt.scrollstyle: plain + URxvt.secondaryScroll: true + ++
As the documentation says: plain is the preferred scrollbar for the
+author. The secondaryScroll configures urxvt to scroll in full-screen
+apps, like screen, so lines scrolled out of screen end up in urxvt's
+scrollback buffer.
URxvt.background: #000000 + URxvt.foreground: gray90 + URxvt.color7: gray90 + URxvt.colorBD: #ffffff + URxvt.cursorColor: #e0e080 + URxvt.throughColor: #8080f0 + URxvt.highlightColor: #f0f0f0 + ++
Some colours. Not sure which ones are being used or even non-defaults, but +these are in my .Xdefaults. Most notably, they set foreground/background +to light gray/black, and also make sure that the colour 7 matches the +default foreground colour.
+URxvt.underlineColor: yellow + ++
Another colour, makes underline lines look different. Sometimes hurts, but +is mostly a nice effect.
+URxvt.geometry: 154x36 + URxvt.loginShell: false + URxvt.meta: ignore + URxvt.utmpInhibit: true + ++
Uh, well, should be mostly self-explanatory. By specifying some defaults +manually, I can quickly switch them for testing.
+URxvt.saveLines: 8192 + ++
A large scrollback buffer is essential. Really.
+URxvt.mapAlert: true + ++
The only case I use it is for my IRC window, which I like to keep +iconified till people msg me (which beeps).
+URxvt.visualBell: true + ++
The audible bell is often annoying, especially when in a crowd.
+URxvt.insecure: true + ++
Please don't hack my mutt! Ooops...
+URxvt.pastableTabs: false + ++
I once thought this is a great idea.
+urxvt.font: 9x15bold,\ + -misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso10646-1,\ + -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso10646-1, \ + [codeset=JISX0208]xft:Kochi Gothic, \ + xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:autohint=true, \ + xft:Code2000:antialias=false + urxvt.boldFont: -xos4-terminus-bold-r-normal--14-140-72-72-c-80-iso8859-15 + urxvt.italicFont: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:italic:autohint=true + urxvt.boldItalicFont: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:bold:italic:autohint=true + ++
I wrote rxvt-unicode to be able to specify fonts exactly. So don't be
+overwhelmed. A special note: the 9x15bold mentioned above is actually
+the version from XFree-3.3, as XFree-4 replaced it by a totally different
+font (different glyphs for ; and many other harmless characters),
+while the second font is actually the 9x15bold from XFree4/XOrg. The
+bold version has less chars than the medium version, so I use it for rare
+characters, too. When editing sources with vim, I use italic for comments
+and other stuff, which looks quite good with Bitstream Vera anti-aliased.
Terminus is a quite bad font (many very wrong glyphs), but for most of my +purposes, it works, and gives a different look, as my normal (Non-bold) +font is already bold, and I want to see a difference between bold and +normal fonts.
+Please note that I used the urxvt instance name and not the URxvt
+class name. Thats because I use different configs for different purposes,
+for example, my IRC window is started with -name IRC, and uses these
+defaults:
IRC*title: IRC + IRC*geometry: 87x12+535+542 + IRC*saveLines: 0 + IRC*mapAlert: true + IRC*font: suxuseuro + IRC*boldFont: suxuseuro + IRC*colorBD: white + IRC*keysym.M-C-1: command:\033]710;suxuseuro\007\033]711;suxuseuro\007 + IRC*keysym.M-C-2: command:\033]710;9x15bold\007\033]711;9x15bold\007 + ++
Alt-Shift-1 and Alt-Shift-2 switch between two different font
+sizes. suxuseuro allows me to keep an eye (and actually read)
+stuff while keeping a very small window. If somebody pastes something
+complicated (e.g. japanese), I temporarily switch to a larger font.
The above is all in my .Xdefaults (I don't use .Xresources nor
+xrdb). I also have some resources in a separate .Xdefaults-hostname
+file for different hosts, for example, on ym main desktop, I use:
URxvt.keysym.C-M-q: command:\033[3;5;5t + URxvt.keysym.C-M-y: command:\033[3;5;606t + URxvt.keysym.C-M-e: command:\033[3;1605;5t + URxvt.keysym.C-M-c: command:\033[3;1605;606t + URxvt.keysym.C-M-p: perl:test + ++
The first for keysym definitions allow me to quickly bring some windows +in the layout I like most. Ion users might start laughing but will stop +immediately when I tell them that I use my own Fvwm2 module for much the +same effect as Ion provides, and I only very rarely use the above key +combinations :->
+ +Well, why, indeed? It does, in a way very similar to other X +applications. Most importantly, this means that if you or your OS loads +resources into the X display (the right way to do it), rxvt-unicode will +ignore any resource files in your home directory. It will only read +$HOME/.Xdefaults when no resources are attached to the display.
+If you have or use an $HOME/.Xresources file, chances are that +resources are loaded into your X-server. In this case, you have to +re-login after every change (or run xrdb -merge $HOME/.Xresources).
+Also consider the form resources have to use:
+URxvt.resource: value + ++
If you want to use another form (there are lots of different ways of +specifying resources), make sure you understand whether and why it +works. If unsure, use the form above.
+ +The terminal description used by rxvt-unicode is not as widely available +as that for xterm, or even rxvt (for which the same problem often arises).
+The correct solution for this problem is to install the terminfo, this can +be done like this (with ncurses' infocmp and works as user and admin):
+REMOTE=remotesystem.domain + infocmp rxvt-unicode | ssh $REMOTE "mkdir -p .terminfo && cat >/tmp/ti && tic /tmp/ti" + ++
... or by installing rxvt-unicode normally on the remote system,
+One some systems you might need to set $TERMINFO to the full path of
+$HOME/.terminfo for this to work.
If you cannot or do not want to do this, then you can simply set
+TERM=rxvt or even TERM=xterm, and live with the small number of
+problems arising, which includes wrong keymapping, less and different
+colours and some refresh errors in fullscreen applications. It's a nice
+quick-and-dirty workaround for rare cases, though.
If you always want to do this (and are fine with the consequences) you +can either recompile rxvt-unicode with the desired TERM value or use a +resource to set it:
+URxvt.termName: rxvt + ++
If you don't plan to use rxvt (quite common...) you could also replace
+the rxvt terminfo file with the rxvt-unicode one and use TERM=rxvt.
tic outputs some error when compiling the terminfo entry.Most likely it's the empty definition for enacs=. Just replace it by
+enacs=\E[0@ and try again.
bash's readline does not work correctly under urxvt.See next entry.
+ +One reason you might want this is that some distributions or operating
+systems still compile some programs using the long-obsoleted termcap
+library (Fedora Core's bash is one example) and rely on a termcap entry
+for rxvt-unicode.
You could use rxvt's termcap entry with reasonable results in many cases. +You can also create a termcap entry by using terminfo's infocmp program +like this:
+infocmp -C rxvt-unicode + ++
Or you could use this termcap entry, generated by the command above:
+rxvt-unicode|rxvt-unicode terminal (X Window System):\ + :am:bw:eo:km:mi:ms:xn:xo:\ + :co#80:it#8:li#24:lm#0:\ + :AL=\E[%dL:DC=\E[%dP:DL=\E[%dM:DO=\E[%dB:IC=\E[%d@:\ + :K1=\EOw:K2=\EOu:K3=\EOy:K4=\EOq:K5=\EOs:LE=\E[%dD:\ + :RI=\E[%dC:SF=\E[%dS:SR=\E[%dT:UP=\E[%dA:ae=\E(B:al=\E[L:\ + :as=\E(0:bl=^G:cd=\E[J:ce=\E[K:cl=\E[H\E[2J:\ + :cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:cr=^M:cs=\E[%i%d;%dr:ct=\E[3g:dc=\E[P:\ + :dl=\E[M:do=^J:ec=\E[%dX:ei=\E[4l:ho=\E[H:\ + :i1=\E[?47l\E=\E[?1l:ic=\E[@:im=\E[4h:\ + :is=\E[r\E[m\E[2J\E[H\E[?7h\E[?1;3;4;6l\E[4l:\ + :k1=\E[11~:k2=\E[12~:k3=\E[13~:k4=\E[14~:k5=\E[15~:\ + :k6=\E[17~:k7=\E[18~:k8=\E[19~:k9=\E[20~:kD=\E[3~:\ + :kI=\E[2~:kN=\E[6~:kP=\E[5~:kb=\177:kd=\EOB:ke=\E[?1l\E>:\ + :kh=\E[7~:kl=\EOD:kr=\EOC:ks=\E[?1h\E=:ku=\EOA:le=^H:\ + :mb=\E[5m:md=\E[1m:me=\E[m\017:mr=\E[7m:nd=\E[C:rc=\E8:\ + :sc=\E7:se=\E[27m:sf=^J:so=\E[7m:sr=\EM:st=\EH:ta=^I:\ + :te=\E[r\E[?1049l:ti=\E[?1049h:ue=\E[24m:up=\E[A:\ + :us=\E[4m:vb=\E[?5h\E[?5l:ve=\E[?25h:vi=\E[?25l:\ + :vs=\E[?25h: + ++ +
ls no longer have coloured output?The ls in the GNU coreutils unfortunately doesn't use terminfo to
+decide whether a terminal has colour, but uses its own configuration
+file. Needless to say, rxvt-unicode is not in its default file (among
+with most other terminals supporting colour). Either add:
TERM rxvt-unicode + ++
to /etc/DIR_COLORS or simply add:
alias ls='ls --color=auto' + ++
to your .profile or .bashrc.
See next entry.
+ +See next entry.
+ +See next entry.
+ +If you encounter strange problems like typing an accented character but +getting two unrelated other characters or similar, or if program output is +subtly garbled, then you should check your locale settings.
+Rxvt-unicode must be started with the same LC_CTYPE setting as the
+programs running in it. Often rxvt-unicode is started in the C locale,
+while the login script running within the rxvt-unicode window changes the
+locale to something else, e.g. en_GB.UTF-8. Needless to say, this is
+not going to work, and is the most common cause for problems.
The best thing is to fix your startup environment, as you will likely run +into other problems. If nothing works you can try this in your .profile.
+printf '\33]701;%s\007' "$LC_CTYPE" # $LANG or $LC_ALL are worth a try, too + ++
If this doesn't work, then maybe you use a LC_CTYPE specification not
+supported on your systems. Some systems have a locale command which
+displays this (also, perl -e0 can be used to check locale settings, as
+it will complain loudly if it cannot set the locale). If it displays something
+like:
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: ... + ++
Then the locale you specified is not supported on your system.
+If nothing works and you are sure that everything is set correctly then +you will need to remember a little known fact: Some programs just don't +support locales :(
+ +See next entry.
+ +Unlike some other terminals, rxvt-unicode has no encoding switch, and no +specific "utf-8" mode, such as xterm. In fact, it doesn't even know about +UTF-8 or any other encodings with respect to terminal I/O.
+The reasons is that there exists a perfectly fine mechanism for selecting
+the encoding, doing I/O and (most important) communicating this to all
+applications so everybody agrees on character properties such as width
+and code number. This mechanism is the locale. Applications not using
+that info will have problems (for example, xterm gets the width of
+characters wrong as it uses its own, locale-independent table under all
+locales).
Rxvt-unicode uses the LC_CTYPE locale category to select encoding. All
+programs doing the same (that is, most) will automatically agree in the
+interpretation of characters.
Unfortunately, there is no system-independent way to select locales, nor +is there a standard on how locale specifiers will look like.
+On most systems, the content of the LC_CTYPE environment variable
+contains an arbitrary string which corresponds to an already-installed
+locale. Common names for locales are en_US.UTF-8, de_DE.ISO-8859-15,
+ja_JP.EUC-JP, i.e. language_country.encoding, but other forms
+(i.e. de or german) are also common.
Rxvt-unicode ignores all other locale categories, and except for
+the encoding, ignores country or language-specific settings,
+i.e. de_DE.UTF-8 and ja_JP.UTF-8 are the normally same to
+rxvt-unicode.
If you want to use a specific encoding you have to make sure you start
+rxvt-unicode with the correct LC_CTYPE category.
Yes, using an escape sequence. Try something like this, which sets
+rxvt-unicode's idea of LC_CTYPE.
printf '\33]701;%s\007' ja_JP.SJIS + ++
See also the previous answer.
+Sometimes this capability is rather handy when you want to work in
+one locale (e.g. de_DE.UTF-8) but some programs don't support it
+(e.g. UTF-8). For example, I use this script to start xjdic, which
+first switches to a locale supported by xjdic and back later:
printf '\33]701;%s\007' ja_JP.SJIS + xjdic -js + printf '\33]701;%s\007' de_DE.UTF-8 + ++
You can also use xterm's luit program, which usually works fine, except
+for some locales where character width differs between program- and
+rxvt-unicode-locales.
Try a search engine, as this is slightly different for every input method server.
+Here is a checklist:
+Try locale -a or check the documentation for your OS.
For example, kinput2 does not support UTF-8 locales, you should use
+ja_JP.EUC-JP or equivalent.
XMODIFIERS environment variable is set correctly when starting rxvt-unicode.When you want to use e.g. kinput2, it must be set to
+@im=kinput2. For scim, use @im=SCIM. You can see what input
+method servers are running with this command:
xprop -root XIM_SERVERS + ++
You can specify separate locales for the input method and the rest of the
+terminal, using the resource imlocale:
URxvt.imlocale: ja_JP.EUC-JP + ++
Now you can start your terminal with LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 and still
+use your input method. Please note, however, that, depending on your Xlib
+version, you may not be able to input characters outside EUC-JP in a
+normal way then, as your input method limits you.
Unfortunately, this is unavoidable, as the XIM protocol is racy by +design. Applications can avoid some crashes at the expense of memory +leaks, and Input Methods can avoid some crashes by careful ordering at +exit time. kinput2 (and derived input methods) generally succeeds, +while SCIM (or similar input methods) fails. In the end, however, +crashes cannot be completely avoided even if both sides cooperate.
+So the only workaround is not to kill your Input Method Servers.
+ + + + + +The Debian GNU/Linux package of rxvt-unicode in sarge contains large
+patches that considerably change the behaviour of rxvt-unicode (but
+unfortunately this notice has been removed). Before reporting a bug to
+the original rxvt-unicode author please download and install the genuine
+version (http://software.schmorp.de#rxvt-unicode) and try to reproduce
+the problem. If you cannot, chances are that the problems are specific to
+Debian GNU/Linux, in which case it should be reported via the Debian Bug
+Tracking System (use reportbug to report the bug).
For other problems that also affect the Debian package, you can and +probably should use the Debian BTS, too, because, after all, it's also a +bug in the Debian version and it serves as a reminder for other users that +might encounter the same issue.
+ +You should build one binary with the default options. configure +now enables most useful options, and the trend goes to making them +runtime-switchable, too, so there is usually no drawback to enabling them, +except higher disk and possibly memory usage. The perl interpreter should +be enabled, as important functionality (menus, selection, likely more in +the future) depends on it.
+You should not overwrite the perl-ext-common snd perl-ext resources
+system-wide (except maybe with defaults). This will result in useful
+behaviour. If your distribution aims at low memory, add an empty
+perl-ext-common resource to the app-defaults file. This will keep the
+perl interpreter disabled until the user enables it.
If you can/want build more binaries, I recommend building a minimal
+one with --disable-everything (very useful) and a maximal one with
+--enable-everything (less useful, it will be very big due to a lot of
+encodings built-in that increase download times and are rarely used).
It should be, starting with release 7.1. You are encouraged to properly +install urxvt with privileges necessary for your OS now.
+When rxvt-unicode detects that it runs setuid or setgid, it will fork +into a helper process for privileged operations (pty handling on some +systems, utmp/wtmp/lastlog handling on others) and drop privileges +immediately. This is much safer than most other terminals that keep +privileges while running (but is more relevant to urxvt, as it contains +things as perl interpreters, which might be "helpful" to attackers).
+This forking is done as the very first within main(), which is very early +and reduces possible bugs to initialisation code run before main(), or +things like the dynamic loader of your system, which should result in very +little risk.
+ +Rxvt-unicode requires the symbol __STDC_ISO_10646__ to be defined
+in your compile environment, or an implementation that implements it,
+whether it defines the symbol or not. __STDC_ISO_10646__ requires that
+wchar_t is represented as unicode.
As you might have guessed, FreeBSD does neither define this symbol nor +does it support it. Instead, it uses its own internal representation of +wchar_t. This is, of course, completely fine with respect to standards.
+However, that means rxvt-unicode only works in POSIX, ISO-8859-1 and
+UTF-8 locales under FreeBSD (which all use Unicode as wchar_t.
__STDC_ISO_10646__ is the only sane way to support multi-language
+apps in an OS, as using a locale-dependent (and non-standardized)
+representation of wchar_t makes it impossible to convert between
+wchar_t (as used by X11 and your applications) and any other encoding
+without implementing OS-specific-wrappers for each and every locale. There
+simply are no APIs to convert wchar_t into anything except the current
+locale encoding.
Some applications (such as the formidable mlterm) work around this +by carrying their own replacement functions for character set handling +with them, and either implementing OS-dependent hacks or doing multiple +conversions (which is slow and unreliable in case the OS implements +encodings slightly different than the terminal emulator).
+The rxvt-unicode author insists that the right way to fix this is in the +system libraries once and for all, instead of forcing every app to carry +complete replacements for them :)
+ +rxvt-unicode should compile and run out of the box on cygwin, using
+the X11 libraries that come with cygwin. libW11 emulation is no
+longer supported (and makes no sense, either, as it only supported a
+single font). I recommend starting the X-server in -multiwindow or
+-rootless mode instead, which will result in similar look&feel as the
+old libW11 emulation.
At the time of this writing, cygwin didn't seem to support any multi-byte
+encodings (you might try LC_CTYPE=C-UTF-8), so you are likely limited
+to 8-bit encodings.
urxvt uses the system wcwidth function to know the information about +the width of characters, so on systems with incorrect locale data you +will likely get bad results. Two notorious examples are Solaris 9, +where single-width characters like U+2514 are reported as double-width, +and Darwin 8, where combining chars are reported having width 1.
+The solution is to upgrade your system or switch to a better one. A +possibly working workaround is to use a wcwidth implementation like
+http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/wcwidth.c
+ +The rest of this document describes various technical aspects of
rxvt-unicode. First the description of supported command sequences,
followed by pixmap support and last by a description of all features
selectable at configure time.
-
-c >C >Ps >Pm >; character(s).
-Pt >-
-cThe literal character c.
+CA single (required) character.
+PsA single (usually optional) numeric parameter, composed of one or more +digits.
+PmA multiple numeric parameter composed of any number of single numeric
+parameters, separated by ; character(s).
PtA text parameter composed of printable characters.
+ENQ >ESC [ Ps c >.
-BEL >BS >TAB >LF >VT >LF >
-FF >LF >
-CR >SO >SI >SPC >-
-ENQEnquiry (Ctrl-E) = Send Device Attributes (DA)
+request attributes from terminal. See ESC [ Ps c.
BELBell (Ctrl-G)
+BSBackspace (Ctrl-H)
+TABHorizontal Tab (HT) (Ctrl-I)
+LFLine Feed or New Line (NL) (Ctrl-J)
+VTVertical Tab (Ctrl-K) same as LF
FFForm Feed or New Page (NP) (Ctrl-L) same as LF
CRCarriage Return (Ctrl-M)
+SOShift Out (Ctrl-N), invokes the G1 character set. +Switch to Alternate Character Set
+SIShift In (Ctrl-O), invokes the G0 character set (the default). +Switch to Standard Character Set
+SPCSpace Character
+ESC # 8 >ESC 7 >ESC 8 >ESC = >ESC >>Note: If the numeric keypad is activated, eg, Num_Lock has been +
ESC # 8DEC Screen Alignment Test (DECALN)
+ESC 7Save Cursor (SC)
+ESC 8Restore Cursor
+ESC =Application Keypad (SMKX). See also next sequence.
+ESCNormal Keypad (RMKX)
+Note: If the numeric keypad is activated, eg, Num_Lock has been pressed, numbers or control functions are generated by the numeric keypad (see Key Codes).
-ESC D >ESC E >ESC H >ESC M >ESC N >ESC O >ESC Z >ESC [ ? 1 ; 2 C > rxvt-unicode compile-time option
-ESC c >ESC n >ESC o >ESC ( C >C.
-ESC ) C >C.
-ESC * C >C.
-ESC + C >C.
-ESC $ C >Where C > is one of:
| C = 0 | DEC Special Character and Line Drawing Set |
| C = A | United Kingdom (UK) |
| C = B | United States (USASCII) |
| C = < | Multinational character set unimplemented |
| C = 5 | Finnish character set unimplemented |
| C = C | Finnish character set unimplemented |
| C = K | German character set unimplemented |
-
-ESC [ Ps @ >Ps > (Blank) Character(s) [default: 1] (ICH)
-ESC [ Ps A >Ps > Times [default: 1] (CUU)
-ESC [ Ps B >Ps > Times [default: 1] (CUD)
-ESC [ Ps C >Ps > Times [default: 1] (CUF)
-ESC [ Ps D >Ps > Times [default: 1] (CUB)
-ESC [ Ps E >Ps > Times [default: 1] and to first column
-ESC [ Ps F >Ps > Times [default: 1] and to first column
-ESC [ Ps G >Ps > (HPA)
-ESC [ Ps;Ps H >ESC [ Ps I >Ps > tab stops [default: 1]
-ESC [ Ps J >| Ps = 0 | Clear Below (default) |
| Ps = 1 | Clear Above |
| Ps = 2 | Clear All |
ESC [ Ps K >| Ps = 0 | Clear to Right (default) |
| Ps = 1 | Clear to Left |
| Ps = 2 | Clear All |
ESC [ Ps L >Ps > Line(s) [default: 1] (IL)
-ESC [ Ps M >Ps > Line(s) [default: 1] (DL)
-ESC [ Ps P >Ps > Character(s) [default: 1] (DCH)
-ESC [ Ps;Ps;Ps;Ps;Ps T >ESC [ Ps W >| Ps = 0 | Tab Set (HTS) |
| Ps = 2 | Tab Clear (TBC), Clear Current Column (default) |
| Ps = 5 | Tab Clear (TBC), Clear All |
ESC [ Ps X >Ps > Character(s) [default: 1] (ECH)
-ESC [ Ps Z >Ps > [default: 1] tab stops
-ESC [ Ps ' >ESC [ Ps G >
-ESC [ Ps a >ESC [ Ps C >
-ESC [ Ps c >Ps = 0 > (or omitted): request attributes from terminal
-returns: ESC [ ? 1 ; 2 c > (``I am a VT100 with Advanced Video
-Option'')
-ESC [ Ps d >Ps > (VPA)
-ESC [ Ps e >ESC [ Ps A >
-ESC [ Ps;Ps f >ESC [ Ps g >| Ps = 0 | Clear Current Column (default) |
| Ps = 3 | Clear All (TBC) |
ESC [ Pm h >ESC [ Pm l > sequence for description of Pm.
-ESC [ Ps i >print-pipe resource.
-| Ps = 0 | print screen (MC0) |
| Ps = 4 | disable transparent print mode (MC4) |
| Ps = 5 | enable transparent print mode (MC5) |
ESC [ Pm l >Ps = 4 >| h | Insert Mode (SMIR) |
| l | Replace Mode (RMIR) |
Ps = 20 > (partially implemented)| h | Automatic Newline (LNM) |
| l | Normal Linefeed (LNM) |
ESC [ Pm m >| Ps = 0 | Normal (default) |
| Ps = 1 / 21 | On / Off Bold (bright fg) |
| Ps = 3 / 23 | On / Off Italic |
| Ps = 4 / 24 | On / Off Underline |
| Ps = 5 / 25 | On / Off Slow Blink (bright bg) |
| Ps = 6 / 26 | On / Off Rapid Blink (bright bg) |
| Ps = 7 / 27 | On / Off Inverse |
| Ps = 8 / 27 | On / Off Invisible (NYI) |
| Ps = 30 / 40 | fg/bg Black |
| Ps = 31 / 41 | fg/bg Red |
| Ps = 32 / 42 | fg/bg Green |
| Ps = 33 / 43 | fg/bg Yellow |
| Ps = 34 / 44 | fg/bg Blue |
| Ps = 35 / 45 | fg/bg Magenta |
| Ps = 36 / 46 | fg/bg Cyan |
| Ps = 38;5 / 48;5 | set fg/bg to color #m (ISO 8613-6) |
| Ps = 37 / 47 | fg/bg White |
| Ps = 39 / 49 | fg/bg Default |
| Ps = 90 / 100 | fg/bg Bright Black |
| Ps = 91 / 101 | fg/bg Bright Red |
| Ps = 92 / 102 | fg/bg Bright Green |
| Ps = 93 / 103 | fg/bg Bright Yellow |
| Ps = 94 / 104 | fg/bg Bright Blue |
| Ps = 95 / 105 | fg/bg Bright Magenta |
| Ps = 96 / 106 | fg/bg Bright Cyan |
| Ps = 97 / 107 | fg/bg Bright White |
| Ps = 99 / 109 | fg/bg Bright Default |
ESC [ Ps n >| Ps = 5 | Status Report ESC [ 0 n (``OK'') |
| Ps = 6 | Report Cursor Position (CPR) [row;column] as ESC [ r ; c R |
| Ps = 7 | Request Display Name |
| Ps = 8 | Request Version Number (place in window title) |
ESC [ Ps;Ps r >ESC [ s >ESC [ Ps;Pt t >| Ps = 1 | Deiconify (map) window |
| Ps = 2 | Iconify window |
| Ps = 3 | ESC [ 3 ; X ; Y t Move window to (X|Y) |
| Ps = 4 | ESC [ 4 ; H ; W t Resize to WxH pixels |
| Ps = 5 | Raise window |
| Ps = 6 | Lower window |
| Ps = 7 | Refresh screen once |
| Ps = 8 | ESC [ 8 ; R ; C t Resize to R rows and C columns |
| Ps = 11 | Report window state (responds with Ps = 1 or Ps = 2) |
| Ps = 13 | Report window position (responds with Ps = 3) |
| Ps = 14 | Report window pixel size (responds with Ps = 4) |
| Ps = 18 | Report window text size (responds with Ps = 7) |
| Ps = 19 | Currently the same as Ps = 18, but responds with Ps = 9 |
| Ps = 20 | Reports icon label (ESC ] L NAME \234) |
| Ps = 21 | Reports window title (ESC ] l NAME \234) |
| Ps = 24.. | Set window height to Ps rows |
ESC [ u >ESC [ Ps x >-
-ESC DIndex (IND)
+ESC ENext Line (NEL)
+ESC HTab Set (HTS)
+ESC MReverse Index (RI)
+ESC NSingle Shift Select of G2 Character Set (SS2): affects next character +only unimplemented
+ESC OSingle Shift Select of G3 Character Set (SS3): affects next character +only unimplemented
+ESC ZObsolete form of returns: ESC [ ? 1 ; 2 C rxvt-unicode compile-time option
ESC cFull reset (RIS)
+ESC nInvoke the G2 Character Set (LS2)
+ESC oInvoke the G3 Character Set (LS3)
+ESC ( CDesignate G0 Character Set (ISO 2022), see below for values of C.
ESC ) CDesignate G1 Character Set (ISO 2022), see below for values of C.
ESC * CDesignate G2 Character Set (ISO 2022), see below for values of C.
ESC + CDesignate G3 Character Set (ISO 2022), see below for values of C.
ESC $ CDesignate Kanji Character Set
+Where C is one of:
| C = 0 | DEC Special Character and Line Drawing Set |
| C = A | United Kingdom (UK) |
| C = B | United States (USASCII) |
| C = < | Multinational character set unimplemented |
| C = 5 | Finnish character set unimplemented |
| C = C | Finnish character set unimplemented |
| C = K | German character set unimplemented |
CSI
+ +ESC [ ? Pm h >ESC [ ? Pm l >ESC [ ? Pm r >ESC [ ? Pm s >ESC [ ? Pm t >ESC [ Ps @Insert Ps (Blank) Character(s) [default: 1] (ICH)ESCOBPsA
ESC [ Ps ACursor Up Ps Times [default: 1] (CUU)
ESC [ Ps BCursor Down Ps Times [default: 1] (CUD)ESCOBPsC
ESC [ Ps CCursor Forward Ps Times [default: 1] (CUF)
ESC [ Ps DCursor Backward Ps Times [default: 1] (CUB)
ESC [ Ps ECursor Down Ps Times [default: 1] and to first column
ESC [ Ps FCursor Up Ps Times [default: 1] and to first columnESCOBPsG
ESC [ Ps GCursor to Column Ps (HPA)
ESC [ Ps;Ps HCursor Position [row;column] [default: 1;1] (CUP)
+ESC [ Ps IMove forward Ps tab stops [default: 1]
ESC [ Ps JErase in Display (ED)
+| Ps = 0 | Clear Below (default) |
| Ps = 1 | Clear Above |
| Ps = 2 | Clear All |
ESC [ Ps KErase in Line (EL)
+| Ps = 0 | Clear to Right (default) |
| Ps = 1 | Clear to Left |
| Ps = 2 | Clear All |
ESC [ Ps LInsert Ps Line(s) [default: 1] (IL)
ESC [ Ps MDelete Ps Line(s) [default: 1] (DL)
ESC [ Ps PDelete Ps Character(s) [default: 1] (DCH)
ESC [ Ps;Ps;Ps;Ps;Ps TInitiate . unimplemented Parameters are +[func;startx;starty;firstrow;lastrow].
+ESC [ Ps WTabulator functions
+| Ps = 0 | Tab Set (HTS) |
| Ps = 2 | Tab Clear (TBC), Clear Current Column (default) |
| Ps = 5 | Tab Clear (TBC), Clear All |
ESC [ Ps XErase Ps Character(s) [default: 1] (ECH)
ESC [ Ps ZMove backward Ps [default: 1] tab stops
ESC [ Ps 'See ESC [ Ps G
ESC [ Ps aSee ESC [ Ps C
ESC [ Ps cSend Device Attributes (DA)
+Ps = 0 (or omitted): request attributes from terminal
+returns: ESC [ ? 1 ; 2 c (``I am a VT100 with Advanced Video
+Option'')
ESC [ Ps dCursor to Line Ps (VPA)
ESC [ Ps eSee ESC [ Ps A
ESC [ Ps;Ps fHorizontal and Vertical Position [row;column] (HVP) [default: 1;1]
+ESC [ Ps gTab Clear (TBC)
+| Ps = 0 | Clear Current Column (default) |
| Ps = 3 | Clear All (TBC) |
ESC [ Pm hSet Mode (SM). See ESC [ Pm l sequence for description of Pm.
ESC [ Ps iPrinting. See also the print-pipe resource.
| Ps = 0 | print screen (MC0) |
| Ps = 4 | disable transparent print mode (MC4) |
| Ps = 5 | enable transparent print mode (MC5) |
ESC [ Pm lReset Mode (RM)
++
Ps = 4| h | Insert Mode (SMIR) |
| l | Replace Mode (RMIR) |
Ps = 20 (partially implemented)| h | Automatic Newline (LNM) |
| l | Normal Linefeed (LNM) |
ESC [ Pm mCharacter Attributes (SGR)
+| Ps = 0 | Normal (default) |
| Ps = 1 / 21 | On / Off Bold (bright fg) |
| Ps = 3 / 23 | On / Off Italic |
| Ps = 4 / 24 | On / Off Underline |
| Ps = 5 / 25 | On / Off Slow Blink (bright bg) |
| Ps = 6 / 26 | On / Off Rapid Blink (bright bg) |
| Ps = 7 / 27 | On / Off Inverse |
| Ps = 8 / 27 | On / Off Invisible (NYI) |
| Ps = 30 / 40 | fg/bg Black |
| Ps = 31 / 41 | fg/bg Red |
| Ps = 32 / 42 | fg/bg Green |
| Ps = 33 / 43 | fg/bg Yellow |
| Ps = 34 / 44 | fg/bg Blue |
| Ps = 35 / 45 | fg/bg Magenta |
| Ps = 36 / 46 | fg/bg Cyan |
| Ps = 38;5 / 48;5 | set fg/bg to color #m (ISO 8613-6) |
| Ps = 37 / 47 | fg/bg White |
| Ps = 39 / 49 | fg/bg Default |
| Ps = 90 / 100 | fg/bg Bright Black |
| Ps = 91 / 101 | fg/bg Bright Red |
| Ps = 92 / 102 | fg/bg Bright Green |
| Ps = 93 / 103 | fg/bg Bright Yellow |
| Ps = 94 / 104 | fg/bg Bright Blue |
| Ps = 95 / 105 | fg/bg Bright Magenta |
| Ps = 96 / 106 | fg/bg Bright Cyan |
| Ps = 97 / 107 | fg/bg Bright White |
| Ps = 99 / 109 | fg/bg Bright Default |
ESC [ Ps nDevice Status Report (DSR)
+| Ps = 5 | Status Report ESC [ 0 n (``OK'') |
| Ps = 6 | Report Cursor Position (CPR) [row;column] as ESC [ r ; c R |
| Ps = 7 | Request Display Name |
| Ps = 8 | Request Version Number (place in window title) |
ESC [ Ps;Ps rSet Scrolling Region [top;bottom] +[default: full size of window] (CSR)
+ESC [ sSave Cursor (SC)
+ESC [ Ps;Pt tWindow Operations
+| Ps = 1 | Deiconify (map) window |
| Ps = 2 | Iconify window |
| Ps = 3 | ESC [ 3 ; X ; Y t Move window to (X|Y) |
| Ps = 4 | ESC [ 4 ; H ; W t Resize to WxH pixels |
| Ps = 5 | Raise window |
| Ps = 6 | Lower window |
| Ps = 7 | Refresh screen once |
| Ps = 8 | ESC [ 8 ; R ; C t Resize to R rows and C columns |
| Ps = 11 | Report window state (responds with Ps = 1 or Ps = 2) |
| Ps = 13 | Report window position (responds with Ps = 3) |
| Ps = 14 | Report window pixel size (responds with Ps = 4) |
| Ps = 18 | Report window text size (responds with Ps = 7) |
| Ps = 19 | Currently the same as Ps = 18, but responds with Ps = 9 |
| Ps = 20 | Reports icon label (ESC ] L NAME \234) |
| Ps = 21 | Reports window title (ESC ] l NAME \234) |
| Ps = 24.. | Set window height to Ps rows |
ESC [ uRestore Cursor
+ESC [ Ps xRequest Terminal Parameters (DECREQTPARM)
+PrivateModes
+ +Ps = 1 > (DECCKM)| h | Application Cursor Keys |
| l | Normal Cursor Keys |
Ps = 2 > (ANSI/VT52 mode)| h | Enter VT52 mode |
| l | Enter VT52 mode |
Ps = 3 >| h | 132 Column Mode (DECCOLM) |
| l | 80 Column Mode (DECCOLM) |
Ps = 4 >| h | Smooth (Slow) Scroll (DECSCLM) |
| l | Jump (Fast) Scroll (DECSCLM) |
Ps = 5 >| h | Reverse Video (DECSCNM) |
| l | Normal Video (DECSCNM) |
Ps = 6 >| h | Origin Mode (DECOM) |
| l | Normal Cursor Mode (DECOM) |
Ps = 7 >| h | Wraparound Mode (DECAWM) |
| l | No Wraparound Mode (DECAWM) |
Ps = 8 > unimplemented| h | Auto-repeat Keys (DECARM) |
| l | No Auto-repeat Keys (DECARM) |
Ps = 9 > X10 XTerm| h | Send Mouse X & Y on button press. |
| l | No mouse reporting. |
Ps = 25 >| h | Visible cursor {cnorm/cvvis} |
| l | Invisible cursor {civis} |
Ps = 30 >| h | scrollBar visisble |
| l | scrollBar invisisble |
Ps = 35 > (rxvt)| h | Allow XTerm Shift+key sequences |
| l | Disallow XTerm Shift+key sequences |
Ps = 38 > unimplementedPs = 40 >| h | Allow 80/132 Mode |
| l | Disallow 80/132 Mode |
Ps = 44 > unimplemented| h | Turn On Margin Bell |
| l | Turn Off Margin Bell |
Ps = 45 > unimplemented| h | Reverse-wraparound Mode |
| l | No Reverse-wraparound Mode |
Ps = 46 > unimplementedPs = 47 >| h | Use Alternate Screen Buffer |
| l | Use Normal Screen Buffer |
Ps = 66 >| h | Application Keypad (DECPAM) == ESC = |
| l | Normal Keypad (DECPNM) == ESC > |
Ps = 67 >| h | Backspace key sends BS (DECBKM) |
| l | Backspace key sends DEL |
Ps = 1000 > (X11 XTerm)| h | Send Mouse X & Y on button press and release. |
| l | No mouse reporting. |
Ps = 1001 > (X11 XTerm) unimplemented| h | Use Hilite Mouse Tracking. |
| l | No mouse reporting. |
Ps = 1010 > (rxvt)| h | Don't scroll to bottom on TTY output |
| l | Scroll to bottom on TTY output |
Ps = 1011 > (rxvt)| h | Scroll to bottom when a key is pressed |
| l | Don't scroll to bottom when a key is pressed |
Ps = 1021 > (rxvt)| h | Bold/italic implies high intensity (see option -is) |
| l | Font styles have no effect on intensity (Compile styles) |
Ps = 1047 >| h | Use Alternate Screen Buffer |
| l | Use Normal Screen Buffer - clear Alternate Screen Buffer if returning from it |
Ps = 1048 >| h | Save cursor position |
| l | Restore cursor position |
Ps = 1049 >| h | Use Alternate Screen Buffer - clear Alternate Screen Buffer if switching to it |
| l | Use Normal Screen Buffer |
ESC [ ? Pm hDEC Private Mode Set (DECSET)
+ESC [ ? Pm lDEC Private Mode Reset (DECRST)
+ESC [ ? Pm rRestore previously saved DEC Private Mode Values.
+ESC [ ? Pm sSave DEC Private Mode Values.
+ESC [ ? Pm tToggle DEC Private Mode Values (rxvt extension). where
++
Pm = 1 (DECCKM)| h | Application Cursor Keys |
| l | Normal Cursor Keys |
Pm = 2 (ANSI/VT52 mode)| h | Enter VT52 mode |
| l | Enter VT52 mode |
Pm = 3| h | 132 Column Mode (DECCOLM) |
| l | 80 Column Mode (DECCOLM) |
Pm = 4| h | Smooth (Slow) Scroll (DECSCLM) |
| l | Jump (Fast) Scroll (DECSCLM) |
Pm = 5| h | Reverse Video (DECSCNM) |
| l | Normal Video (DECSCNM) |
Pm = 6| h | Origin Mode (DECOM) |
| l | Normal Cursor Mode (DECOM) |
Pm = 7| h | Wraparound Mode (DECAWM) |
| l | No Wraparound Mode (DECAWM) |
Pm = 8 unimplemented| h | Auto-repeat Keys (DECARM) |
| l | No Auto-repeat Keys (DECARM) |
Pm = 9 X10 XTerm| h | Send Mouse X & Y on button press. |
| l | No mouse reporting. |
Pm = 25| h | Visible cursor {cnorm/cvvis} |
| l | Invisible cursor {civis} |
Pm = 30| h | scrollBar visisble |
| l | scrollBar invisisble |
Pm = 35 (rxvt)| h | Allow XTerm Shift+key sequences |
| l | Disallow XTerm Shift+key sequences |
Pm = 38 unimplementedEnter Tektronix Mode (DECTEK)
+Pm = 40| h | Allow 80/132 Mode |
| l | Disallow 80/132 Mode |
Pm = 44 unimplemented| h | Turn On Margin Bell |
| l | Turn Off Margin Bell |
Pm = 45 unimplemented| h | Reverse-wraparound Mode |
| l | No Reverse-wraparound Mode |
Pm = 46 unimplementedPm = 47| h | Use Alternate Screen Buffer |
| l | Use Normal Screen Buffer |
Priv66
+Pm = 66| h | Application Keypad (DECPAM) == ESC = |
| l | Normal Keypad (DECPNM) == ESC > |
Pm = 67| h | Backspace key sends BS (DECBKM) |
| l | Backspace key sends DEL |
Pm = 1000 (X11 XTerm)| h | Send Mouse X & Y on button press and release. |
| l | No mouse reporting. |
Pm = 1001 (X11 XTerm) unimplemented| h | Use Hilite Mouse Tracking. |
| l | No mouse reporting. |
Pm = 1002 (X11 XTerm)| h | Send Mouse X & Y on button press and release, and motion with a button pressed. |
| l | No mouse reporting. |
Pm = 1003 (X11 XTerm)| h | Send Mouse X & Y on button press and release, and motion. |
| l | No mouse reporting. |
Pm = 1010 (rxvt)| h | Don't scroll to bottom on TTY output |
| l | Scroll to bottom on TTY output |
Pm = 1011 (rxvt)| h | Scroll to bottom when a key is pressed |
| l | Don't scroll to bottom when a key is pressed |
Pm = 1021 (rxvt)| h | Bold/italic implies high intensity (see option -is) |
| l | Font styles have no effect on intensity (Compile styles) |
Pm = 1047| h | Use Alternate Screen Buffer |
| l | Use Normal Screen Buffer - clear Alternate Screen Buffer if returning from it |
Pm = 1048| h | Save cursor position |
| l | Restore cursor position |
Pm = 1049| h | Use Alternate Screen Buffer - clear Alternate Screen Buffer if switching to it |
| l | Use Normal Screen Buffer |
-
-XTerm
+ +ESC ] Ps;Pt ST >ESC ] Ps;Pt STSet XTerm Parameters. 8-bit ST: 0x9c, 7-bit ST sequence: ESC \ (0x1b, 0x5c), backwards compatible terminator BEL (0x07) is also accepted. any -octet can be escaped by prefixing it with SYN (0x16, ^V). -
| Ps = 0 | Change Icon Name and Window Title to Pt |
| Ps = 1 | Change Icon Name to Pt |
| Ps = 2 | Change Window Title to Pt |
| Ps = 3 | 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. |
| Ps = 4 | 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 |
| Ps = 10 | Change colour of text foreground to Pt (NB: may change in future) |
| Ps = 11 | Change colour of text background to Pt (NB: may change in future) |
| Ps = 12 | Change colour of text cursor foreground to Pt |
| Ps = 13 | Change colour of mouse foreground to Pt |
| Ps = 17 | Change colour of highlight characters to Pt |
| Ps = 18 | Change colour of bold characters to Pt [deprecated, see 706] |
| Ps = 19 | Change colour of underlined characters to Pt [deprecated, see 707] |
| Ps = 20 | Change background pixmap parameters (see section XPM) (Compile XPM). |
| Ps = 39 | Change default foreground colour to Pt. |
| Ps = 46 | Change Log File to Pt unimplemented |
| Ps = 49 | Change default background colour to Pt. |
| Ps = 50 | 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 |
| Ps = 55 | Log all scrollback buffer and all of screen to Pt |
| Ps = 701 | Change current locale to Pt, or, if Pt is ?, return the current locale (Compile frills). |
| Ps = 702 | 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. |
| Ps = 704 | Change colour of italic characters to Pt |
| Ps = 705 | Change background pixmap tint colour to Pt (Compile transparency). |
| Ps = 706 | Change colour of bold characters to Pt |
| Ps = 707 | Change colour of underlined characters to Pt |
| Ps = 710 | Set normal fontset to Pt. Same as Ps = 50. |
| Ps = 711 | Set bold fontset to Pt. Similar to Ps = 50 (Compile styles). |
| Ps = 712 | Set italic fontset to Pt. Similar to Ps = 50 (Compile styles). |
| Ps = 713 | Set bold-italic fontset to Pt. Similar to Ps = 50 (Compile styles). |
| Ps = 720 | Move viewing window up by Pt lines, or clear scrollback buffer if Pt = 0 (Compile frills). |
| Ps = 721 | Move viewing window down by Pt lines, or clear scrollback buffer if Pt = 0 (Compile frills). |
| Ps = 777 | Call the perl extension with the given string, which should be of the form extension:parameters (Compile perl). |
-
-For the XPM XTerm escape sequence ESC ] 20 ; Pt ST > then value
-of Pt > can be the name of the background pixmap followed by a
+octet can be escaped by prefixing it with SYN (0x16, ^V).
| Ps = 0 | Change Icon Name and Window Title to Pt |
| Ps = 1 | Change Icon Name to Pt |
| Ps = 2 | Change Window Title to Pt |
| Ps = 3 | 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. |
| Ps = 4 | 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 |
| Ps = 10 | Change colour of text foreground to Pt (NB: may change in future) |
| Ps = 11 | Change colour of text background to Pt (NB: may change in future) |
| Ps = 12 | Change colour of text cursor foreground to Pt |
| Ps = 13 | Change colour of mouse foreground to Pt |
| Ps = 17 | Change colour of highlight characters to Pt |
| Ps = 18 | Change colour of bold characters to Pt [deprecated, see 706] |
| Ps = 19 | Change colour of underlined characters to Pt [deprecated, see 707] |
| Ps = 20 | Change background pixmap parameters (see section BACKGROUND IMAGE) (Compile AfterImage). |
| Ps = 39 | Change default foreground colour to Pt. |
| Ps = 46 | Change Log File to Pt unimplemented |
| Ps = 49 | Change default background colour to Pt. |
| Ps = 50 | 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 |
| Ps = 55 | Log all scrollback buffer and all of screen to Pt |
| Ps = 701 | Change current locale to Pt, or, if Pt is ?, return the current locale (Compile frills). |
| Ps = 702 | 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. |
| Ps = 704 | Change colour of italic characters to Pt |
| Ps = 705 | Change background pixmap tint colour to Pt (Compile transparency). |
| Ps = 706 | Change colour of bold characters to Pt |
| Ps = 707 | Change colour of underlined characters to Pt |
| Ps = 710 | Set normal fontset to Pt. Same as Ps = 50. |
| Ps = 711 | Set bold fontset to Pt. Similar to Ps = 50 (Compile styles). |
| Ps = 712 | Set italic fontset to Pt. Similar to Ps = 50 (Compile styles). |
| Ps = 713 | Set bold-italic fontset to Pt. Similar to Ps = 50 (Compile styles). |
| Ps = 720 | Move viewing window up by Pt lines, or clear scrollback buffer if Pt = 0 (Compile frills). |
| Ps = 721 | Move viewing window down by Pt lines, or clear scrollback buffer if Pt = 0 (Compile frills). |
| Ps = 777 | Call the perl extension with the given string, which should be of the form extension:parameters (Compile perl). |
For the BACGROUND IMAGE XTerm escape sequence ESC ] 20 ; Pt ST then value
+of Pt can be the name of the background image file followed by a
sequence of scaling/positioning commands separated by semi-colons. The
scaling/positioning commands are as follows:
WxH+X (== WxH+X+X)
-WxH (same as WxH+50+50)
-W+X+Y (same as WxW+X+Y)
-W+X (same as WxW+X+X)
-W (same as WxW+50+50)
-=+X (same as =+X+Y)
-+X (same as +X+Y)
-0xH -> H *= (H/100)
-?
+WxH+X+Y
+WxH+X (== WxH+X+X)
+WxH (same as WxH+50+50)
+W+X+Y (same as WxW+X+Y)
+W+X (same as WxW+X+X)
+W (same as WxW+50+50)
+=+X+Y
+=+X (same as =+X+Y)
++X+Y
++X (same as +X+Y)
+Wx0 -> W *= (W/100)
+0xH -> H *= (H/100)
+For example:
-
-load funky.jpg as a tiled image
+load mona.jpg with a scaling of 100%
+rescale the current pixmap to 200% and display the image geometry in +the title
+ESC [ M <b> <x> <y> >The lower 2 bits of <b> > indicate the button:
ESC [ M <b> <x> <y>report mouse position
+The lower 2 bits of <b> indicate the button:
(<b> - SPACE) & 3 >| 0 | Button1 pressed |
| 1 | Button2 pressed |
| 2 | Button3 pressed |
| 3 | button released (X11 mouse report) |
The upper bits of <b> > indicate the modifiers when the
+
(<b> - SPACE) & 3| 0 | Button1 pressed |
| 1 | Button2 pressed |
| 2 | Button3 pressed |
| 3 | button released (X11 mouse report) |
The upper bits of <b> indicate the modifiers when the
button was pressed and are added together (X11 mouse report only):
(<b> - SPACE) & 60 >| 4 | Shift |
| 8 | Meta |
| 16 | Control |
| 32 | Double Click (Rxvt extension) |
Col = <x> - SPACE >
Row = <y> - SPACE >
(<b> - SPACE) & 60| 4 | Shift |
| 8 | Meta |
| 16 | Control |
| 32 | Double Click (rxvt extension) |
Col = <x> - SPACE
Row = <y> - SPACE
-
-Note: Shift + F1-F10 generates F11-F20
For the keypad, use Shift to temporarily override Application-Keypad setting use Num_Lock to toggle Application-Keypad setting if Num_Lock is off, toggle Application-Keypad setting. Also note that values of Home, End, Delete may have been compiled differently on your system.
-| Normal | Shift | Control | Ctrl+Shift | |
| Tab | ^I | ESC [ Z | ^I | ESC [ Z |
| BackSpace | ^H | ^? | ^? | ^? |
| Find | ESC [ 1 ~ | ESC [ 1 $ | ESC [ 1 ^ | ESC [ 1 @ |
| Insert | ESC [ 2 ~ | paste | ESC [ 2 ^ | ESC [ 2 @ |
| Execute | ESC [ 3 ~ | ESC [ 3 $ | ESC [ 3 ^ | ESC [ 3 @ |
| Select | ESC [ 4 ~ | ESC [ 4 $ | ESC [ 4 ^ | ESC [ 4 @ |
| Prior | ESC [ 5 ~ | scroll-up | ESC [ 5 ^ | ESC [ 5 @ |
| Next | ESC [ 6 ~ | scroll-down | ESC [ 6 ^ | ESC [ 6 @ |
| Home | ESC [ 7 ~ | ESC [ 7 $ | ESC [ 7 ^ | ESC [ 7 @ |
| End | ESC [ 8 ~ | ESC [ 8 $ | ESC [ 8 ^ | ESC [ 8 @ |
| Delete | ESC [ 3 ~ | ESC [ 3 $ | ESC [ 3 ^ | ESC [ 3 @ |
| F1 | ESC [ 11 ~ | ESC [ 23 ~ | ESC [ 11 ^ | ESC [ 23 ^ |
| F2 | ESC [ 12 ~ | ESC [ 24 ~ | ESC [ 12 ^ | ESC [ 24 ^ |
| F3 | ESC [ 13 ~ | ESC [ 25 ~ | ESC [ 13 ^ | ESC [ 25 ^ |
| F4 | ESC [ 14 ~ | ESC [ 26 ~ | ESC [ 14 ^ | ESC [ 26 ^ |
| F5 | ESC [ 15 ~ | ESC [ 28 ~ | ESC [ 15 ^ | ESC [ 28 ^ |
| F6 | ESC [ 17 ~ | ESC [ 29 ~ | ESC [ 17 ^ | ESC [ 29 ^ |
| F7 | ESC [ 18 ~ | ESC [ 31 ~ | ESC [ 18 ^ | ESC [ 31 ^ |
| F8 | ESC [ 19 ~ | ESC [ 32 ~ | ESC [ 19 ^ | ESC [ 32 ^ |
| F9 | ESC [ 20 ~ | ESC [ 33 ~ | ESC [ 20 ^ | ESC [ 33 ^ |
| F10 | ESC [ 21 ~ | ESC [ 34 ~ | ESC [ 21 ^ | ESC [ 34 ^ |
| F11 | ESC [ 23 ~ | ESC [ 23 $ | ESC [ 23 ^ | ESC [ 23 @ |
| F12 | ESC [ 24 ~ | ESC [ 24 $ | ESC [ 24 ^ | ESC [ 24 @ |
| F13 | ESC [ 25 ~ | ESC [ 25 $ | ESC [ 25 ^ | ESC [ 25 @ |
| F14 | ESC [ 26 ~ | ESC [ 26 $ | ESC [ 26 ^ | ESC [ 26 @ |
| F15 (Help) | ESC [ 28 ~ | ESC [ 28 $ | ESC [ 28 ^ | ESC [ 28 @ |
| F16 (Menu) | ESC [ 29 ~ | ESC [ 29 $ | ESC [ 29 ^ | ESC [ 29 @ |
| F17 | ESC [ 31 ~ | ESC [ 31 $ | ESC [ 31 ^ | ESC [ 31 @ |
| F18 | ESC [ 32 ~ | ESC [ 32 $ | ESC [ 32 ^ | ESC [ 32 @ |
| F19 | ESC [ 33 ~ | ESC [ 33 $ | ESC [ 33 ^ | ESC [ 33 @ |
| F20 | ESC [ 34 ~ | ESC [ 34 $ | ESC [ 34 ^ | ESC [ 34 @ |
| Application | ||||
| Up | ESC [ A | ESC [ a | ESC O a | ESC O A |
| Down | ESC [ B | ESC [ b | ESC O b | ESC O B |
| Right | ESC [ C | ESC [ c | ESC O c | ESC O C |
| Left | ESC [ D | ESC [ d | ESC O d | ESC O D |
| KP_Enter | ^M | ESC O M | ||
| KP_F1 | ESC O P | ESC O P | ||
| KP_F2 | ESC O Q | ESC O Q | ||
| KP_F3 | ESC O R | ESC O R | ||
| KP_F4 | ESC O S | ESC O S | ||
| XK_KP_Multiply | * | ESC O j | ||
| XK_KP_Add | + | ESC O k | ||
| XK_KP_Separator | , | ESC O l | ||
| XK_KP_Subtract | - | ESC O m | ||
| XK_KP_Decimal | . | ESC O n | ||
| XK_KP_Divide | / | ESC O o | ||
| XK_KP_0 | 0 | ESC O p | ||
| XK_KP_1 | 1 | ESC O q | ||
| XK_KP_2 | 2 | ESC O r | ||
| XK_KP_3 | 3 | ESC O s | ||
| XK_KP_4 | 4 | ESC O t | ||
| XK_KP_5 | 5 | ESC O u | ||
| XK_KP_6 | 6 | ESC O v | ||
| XK_KP_7 | 7 | ESC O w | ||
| XK_KP_8 | 8 | ESC O x | ||
| XK_KP_9 | 9 | ESC O y |
-
-| Normal | Shift | Control | Ctrl+Shift | |
| Tab | ^I | ESC [ Z | ^I | ESC [ Z |
| BackSpace | ^H | ^? | ^? | ^? |
| Find | ESC [ 1 ~ | ESC [ 1 $ | ESC [ 1 ^ | ESC [ 1 @ |
| Insert | ESC [ 2 ~ | paste | ESC [ 2 ^ | ESC [ 2 @ |
| Execute | ESC [ 3 ~ | ESC [ 3 $ | ESC [ 3 ^ | ESC [ 3 @ |
| Select | ESC [ 4 ~ | ESC [ 4 $ | ESC [ 4 ^ | ESC [ 4 @ |
| Prior | ESC [ 5 ~ | scroll-up | ESC [ 5 ^ | ESC [ 5 @ |
| Next | ESC [ 6 ~ | scroll-down | ESC [ 6 ^ | ESC [ 6 @ |
| Home | ESC [ 7 ~ | ESC [ 7 $ | ESC [ 7 ^ | ESC [ 7 @ |
| End | ESC [ 8 ~ | ESC [ 8 $ | ESC [ 8 ^ | ESC [ 8 @ |
| Delete | ESC [ 3 ~ | ESC [ 3 $ | ESC [ 3 ^ | ESC [ 3 @ |
| F1 | ESC [ 11 ~ | ESC [ 23 ~ | ESC [ 11 ^ | ESC [ 23 ^ |
| F2 | ESC [ 12 ~ | ESC [ 24 ~ | ESC [ 12 ^ | ESC [ 24 ^ |
| F3 | ESC [ 13 ~ | ESC [ 25 ~ | ESC [ 13 ^ | ESC [ 25 ^ |
| F4 | ESC [ 14 ~ | ESC [ 26 ~ | ESC [ 14 ^ | ESC [ 26 ^ |
| F5 | ESC [ 15 ~ | ESC [ 28 ~ | ESC [ 15 ^ | ESC [ 28 ^ |
| F6 | ESC [ 17 ~ | ESC [ 29 ~ | ESC [ 17 ^ | ESC [ 29 ^ |
| F7 | ESC [ 18 ~ | ESC [ 31 ~ | ESC [ 18 ^ | ESC [ 31 ^ |
| F8 | ESC [ 19 ~ | ESC [ 32 ~ | ESC [ 19 ^ | ESC [ 32 ^ |
| F9 | ESC [ 20 ~ | ESC [ 33 ~ | ESC [ 20 ^ | ESC [ 33 ^ |
| F10 | ESC [ 21 ~ | ESC [ 34 ~ | ESC [ 21 ^ | ESC [ 34 ^ |
| F11 | ESC [ 23 ~ | ESC [ 23 $ | ESC [ 23 ^ | ESC [ 23 @ |
| F12 | ESC [ 24 ~ | ESC [ 24 $ | ESC [ 24 ^ | ESC [ 24 @ |
| F13 | ESC [ 25 ~ | ESC [ 25 $ | ESC [ 25 ^ | ESC [ 25 @ |
| F14 | ESC [ 26 ~ | ESC [ 26 $ | ESC [ 26 ^ | ESC [ 26 @ |
| F15 (Help) | ESC [ 28 ~ | ESC [ 28 $ | ESC [ 28 ^ | ESC [ 28 @ |
| F16 (Menu) | ESC [ 29 ~ | ESC [ 29 $ | ESC [ 29 ^ | ESC [ 29 @ |
| F17 | ESC [ 31 ~ | ESC [ 31 $ | ESC [ 31 ^ | ESC [ 31 @ |
| F18 | ESC [ 32 ~ | ESC [ 32 $ | ESC [ 32 ^ | ESC [ 32 @ |
| F19 | ESC [ 33 ~ | ESC [ 33 $ | ESC [ 33 ^ | ESC [ 33 @ |
| F20 | ESC [ 34 ~ | ESC [ 34 $ | ESC [ 34 ^ | ESC [ 34 @ |
| Application | ||||
| Up | ESC [ A | ESC [ a | ESC O a | ESC O A |
| Down | ESC [ B | ESC [ b | ESC O b | ESC O B |
| Right | ESC [ C | ESC [ c | ESC O c | ESC O C |
| Left | ESC [ D | ESC [ d | ESC O d | ESC O D |
| KP_Enter | ^M | ESC O M | ||
| KP_F1 | ESC O P | ESC O P | ||
| KP_F2 | ESC O Q | ESC O Q | ||
| KP_F3 | ESC O R | ESC O R | ||
| KP_F4 | ESC O S | ESC O S | ||
| XK_KP_Multiply | * | ESC O j | ||
| XK_KP_Add | + | ESC O k | ||
| XK_KP_Separator | , | ESC O l | ||
| XK_KP_Subtract | - | ESC O m | ||
| XK_KP_Decimal | . | ESC O n | ||
| XK_KP_Divide | / | ESC O o | ||
| XK_KP_0 | 0 | ESC O p | ||
| XK_KP_1 | 1 | ESC O q | ||
| XK_KP_2 | 2 | ESC O r | ||
| XK_KP_3 | 3 | ESC O s | ||
| XK_KP_4 | 4 | ESC O t | ||
| XK_KP_5 | 5 | ESC O u | ||
| XK_KP_6 | 6 | ESC O v | ||
| XK_KP_7 | 7 | ESC O w | ||
| XK_KP_8 | 8 | ESC O x | ||
| XK_KP_9 | 9 | ESC O y |
General hint: if you get compile errors, then likely your configuration
-hasn't been tested well. Either try with --enable-everything or use
-the ./reconf script as a base for experiments. ./reconf is used by
-myself, so it should generally be a working config. Of course, you should
-always report when a combination doesn't work, so it can be fixed. Marc
-Lehmann <rxvt@schmorp.de>.
--enable-everything or use
+the default configuration (i.e. no --enable-xxx or --disable-xxx
+switches). Of course, you should always report when a combination doesn't
+work, so it can be fixed. Marc Lehmann <rxvt@schmorp.de>.
All
You can specify this and then disable options you do not like by
-following this with the appropriate --disable-... arguments,
+
Add (or remove) support for all non-multichoice options listed in "./configure +--help".
+You can specify this and then disable options you do not like by
+following this with the appropriate --disable-... arguments,
or you can start with a minimal configuration by specifying
--disable-everything and than adding just the --enable-... arguments
you want.
Add support for Xft (anti-aliases, among others) fonts. Xft fonts are slower and require lots of memory, but as long as you don't use them, you -don't pay for them. -
eu, vn
+don't pay for them.
+ Add support for bold, italic and bold italic font +styles. The fonts can be set manually or automatically.
+Compile in support for additional codeset (encoding) groups (eu, vn
are always compiled in, which includes most 8-bit character sets). These
codeset tables are used for driving X11 core fonts, they are not required
for Xft fonts, although having them compiled in lets rxvt-unicode choose
replacement fonts more intelligently. Compiling them in will make your
binary bigger (all of together cost about 700kB), but it doesn't increase
-memory usage unless you use a font requiring one of these encodings.
-
| all | all available codeset groups |
| zh | common chinese encodings |
| zh_ext | rarely used but very big chinese encodigs |
| jp | common japanese encodings |
| jp_ext | rarely used but big japanese encodings |
| kr | korean encodings |
| all | all available codeset groups |
| zh | common chinese encodings |
| zh_ext | rarely used but very big chinese encodings |
| jp | common japanese encodings |
| jp_ext | rarely used but big japanese encodings |
| kr | korean encodings |
Add support for XIM (X Input Method) protocol. This allows using alternative input methods (e.g. kinput2) and will also correctly -set up the input for people using dead keys or compose keys. -
Enable direct support for displaying unicode codepoints above +set up the input for people using dead keys or compose keys.
+Recommended to stay off unless you really need non-BMP characters.
+Enable direct support for displaying unicode codepoints above 65535 (the basic multilingual page). This increases storage requirements per character from 2 to 4 bytes. X11 fonts do not yet support these extra characters, but Xft does.
-Please note that rxvt-unicode can store unicode code points >65535 +
Please note that rxvt-unicode can store unicode code points >65535 even without this flag, but the number of such characters is -limited to a view thousand (shared with combining characters, +limited to a few thousand (shared with combining characters, see next switch), and right now rxvt-unicode cannot display them (input/output and cut&paste still work, though).
-Enable automatic composition of combining characters into composite characters. This is required for proper viewing of text where accents are encoded as seperate unicode characters. This is done by using precomposited characters when available or creating -new pseudo-characters when no precomposed form exists. -
Without --enable-unicode3, the number of additional precomposed +new pseudo-characters when no precomposed form exists.
+Without --enable-unicode3, the number of additional precomposed characters is somewhat limited (the 6400 private use characters will be (ab-)used). With --enable-unicode3, no practical limit exists.
-This option will also enable storage (but not display) of characters +
This option will also enable storage (but not display) of characters beyond plane 0 (>65535) when --enable-unicode3 was not specified.
-The combining table also contains entries for arabic presentation forms, +
The combining table also contains entries for arabic presentation forms, but these are not currently used. Bug me if you want these to be used (and tell me how these are to be used...).
-When reading resource settings, also read settings for class CLASS. To +disable resource fallback use --disable-fallback.
+Use the given name as default application name when +reading resources. Specify --with-res-name=rxvt to replace rxvt.
+Use the given class as default application class when reading resources. Specify --with-res-class=Rxvt to replace -rxvt. -
Write user and tty to utmp file (used by programs like w) at +start of rxvt execution and delete information when rxvt exits.
+Write user and tty to wtmp file (used by programs like last) at start of rxvt execution and write logout when rxvt exits. This -option requires --enable-utmp to also be specified. -
--enable-transparency).
---enable-transparency).
-Write user and tty to lastlog file (used by programs like +lastlogin) at start of rxvt execution. This option requires +--enable-utmp to also be specified.
+Add support for libAfterImage to be used for transparency and background +images. It adds support for many file formats including JPG, PNG, +SVG, TIFF, GIF, XPM, BMP, ICO, XCF, TGA and AfterStep image XML +(http://www.afterstep.org/visualdoc.php?show=asimagexml).
+This option also adds such eye candy as blending an image over the root +background, as well as dynamic scaling and bluring of background images.
+Note that with this option enabled, urxvt's memory footprint might +increase by a few megabytes even if no extra features are used (mostly due +to third-party libraries used by libAI). Memory footprint may somewhat be +lowered if libAfterImage is configured without support for SVG.
+Add support for inheriting parent backgrounds thus giving a fake +transparency to the term.
+Add support for fading the text when focus is lost.
+Add support for the original rxvt scrollbar.
+Add support for a NeXT-like scrollbar.
+Add support for an Xterm-like scrollbar.
+Add support for a very unobtrusive, plain-looking scrollbar that is the favourite of the rxvt-unicode author, having used it for -many years. -
Change tty device setting to group "tty" - only use this if +your system uses this type of security.
+Removes any handling of the backspace key by us - let the X server do it.
+Removes any handling of the delete key by us - let the X server +do it.
+Removes any support for resource checking.
+Remove support for secondary/swap screen.
+Add support for many small features that are not essential but nice to have. Normally you want this, but for very small binaries you may want to -disable this. -
A non-exhaustive list of features enabled by --enable-frills (possibly
+disable this.
A non-exhaustive list of features enabled by --enable-frills (possibly
in combination with other switches) is:
- MWM-hints +MWM-hints EWMH-hints (pid, utf8 names) and protocols (ping) + urgency hint seperate underline colour (-underlineColor) settable border widths and borderless switch (-w, -b, -bl) visual depth selection (-depth) settable extra linespacing /-lsp) - iso-14755-2 and -3, and visual feedback + iso-14755 5.1 (basic) support tripleclickwords (-tcw) settable insecure mode (-insecure) keysym remapping support @@ -2237,160 +2072,106 @@ XEmbed support (-embed) user-pty (-pty-fd) hold on exit (-hold) - skip builtin block graphics (-sbg)-
It also enabled some non-essential features otherwise disabled, such as:
-- some round-trip time optimisations + skip builtin block graphics (-sbg) + separate highlightcolor support (-hc) + ++
It also enables some non-essential features otherwise disabled, such as:
+some round-trip time optimisations nearest color allocation on pseudocolor screens - UTF8_STRING supporr for selection + UTF8_STRING support for selection sgr modes 90..97 and 100..107 backindex and forwardindex escape sequences - view change/zero scorllback esacpe sequences + view change/zero scrollback escape sequences locale switching escape sequence window op and some xterm/OSC escape sequences rectangular selections trailing space removal for selections - verbose X error handling-
Enable extended ISO 14755 support (see urxvt(1), or
+doc/rxvt.1.txt). Basic support (section 5.1) is enabled by
--enable-frills, while support for 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4 is enabled with
-this switch.
-
Add support for continual scrolling of the display when you hold +the mouse button down on a scrollbar arrow.
+Add support for scrolling when the selection moves to the top or +bottom of the screen.
+Add support for scrolling via mouse wheel or buttons 4 & 5.
+Add support for continual scrolling (using the mouse wheel as an accelerator) while the control key is held down. This option -requires --enable-mousewheel to also be specified. -
You can only use either this option and the following (should -you use either) .
-PERL environment
-variable when running configure.
-Add smart growth/shrink behaviour when resizing. +This should keep the window corner which is closest to a corner of +the screen in a fixed position.
+Add support to have the pointer disappear when typing or inactive.
+Enable an embedded perl interpreter. See the urxvtperl(3)
+manpage (doc/rxvtperl.txt) for more info on this feature, or the
+files in src/perl-ext/ for the extensions that are installed by
+default. The perl interpreter that is used can be specified via the
+PERL environment variable when running configure. Even when compiled
+in, perl will not be initialised when all extensions have been disabled
+-pe "" --perl-ext-common "", so it should be safe to enable from a
+resource standpoint.
Look for the libAfterImage config script in DIR.
+Set the basename for the installed binaries, resulting
in urxvt, urxvtd etc.). Specify --with-name=rxvt to replace with
-rxvt.
-
-
-Marc Lehmann <rxvt@schmorp.de> converted this document to pod and
+rxvt.
Change the environmental variable for the terminal to NAME.
+Change the environmental variable for the path to the terminfo tree to +PATH.
+Use the X Window System (pretty much default, eh?).
+Marc Lehmann <rxvt@schmorp.de> converted this document to pod and reworked it from the original Rxvt documentation, which was done by Geoff -Wing <gcw@pobox.com>, who in turn used the XTerm documentation and other +Wing <gcw@pobox.com>, who in turn used the XTerm documentation and other sources.
- - +