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13 <ul>
14
15 <li><a href="#name">NAME</a></li>
16 <li><a href="#synopsis">SYNOPSIS</a></li>
17 <li><a href="#description">DESCRIPTION</a></li>
18 <li><a href="#frequently_asked_questions">FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS</a></li>
19 <ul>
20
21 <li><a href="#the_new_selection_selects_pieces_that_are_too_big__how_can_i_select">The new selection selects pieces that are too big, how can I select</a></li>
22 <li><a href="#i_don_t_like_the_new_selection_popups_hotkeys_perl__how_do_i">I don't like the new selection/popups/hotkeys/perl, how do I</a></li>
23 <li><a href="#the_cursor_moves_when_selecting_text_in_the_current_input_line__how">The cursor moves when selecting text in the current input line, how</a></li>
24 <li><a href="#during_rlogin_ssh_telnet_etc__sessions__clicking_near_the_cursor">During rlogin/ssh/telnet/etc. sessions, clicking near the cursor</a></li>
25 <li><a href="#why_doesn_t_rxvtunicode_read_my_resources">Why doesn't rxvt-unicode read my resources?</a></li>
26 <li><a href="#i_can_t_get_transparency_working__what_am_i_doing_wrong">I can't get transparency working, what am I doing wrong?</a></li>
27 <li><a href="#isn_t_rxvt_supposed_to_be_small_don_t_all_those_features_bloat">Isn't rxvt supposed to be small? Don't all those features bloat?</a></li>
28 <li><a href="#why_c____isn_t_that_unportable_bloated_uncool">Why C++, isn't that unportable/bloated/uncool?</a></li>
29 <li><a href="#does_it_support_tabs__can_i_have_a_tabbed_rxvtunicode">Does it support tabs, can I have a tabbed rxvt-unicode?</a></li>
30 <li><a href="#how_do_i_know_which_rxvtunicode_version_i_m_using">How do I know which rxvt-unicode version I'm using?</a></li>
31 <li><a href="#i_am_using_debian_gnu_linux_and_have_a_problem___">I am using Debian GNU/Linux and have a problem...</a></li>
32 <li><a href="#i_am_maintaining_rxvtunicode_for_distribution_os_xxx__any">I am maintaining rxvt-unicode for distribution/OS XXX, any</a></li>
33 <li><a href="#i_need_to_make_it_setuid_setgid_to_support_utmp_ptys_on_my_os__is_this_safe">I need to make it setuid/setgid to support utmp/ptys on my OS, is this safe?</a></li>
34 <li><a href="#when_i_login_to_another_system_it_tells_me_about_missing_terminfo_data">When I log-in to another system it tells me about missing terminfo data?</a></li>
35 <li><a href="#tic_outputs_some_error_when_compiling_the_terminfo_entry_"><code>tic</code> outputs some error when compiling the terminfo entry.</a></li>
36 <li><a href="#bash_s_readline_does_not_work_correctly_under_rxvt_"><code>bash</code>'s readline does not work correctly under rxvt.</a></li>
37 <li><a href="#i_need_a_termcap_file_entry_">I need a termcap file entry.</a></li>
38 <li><a href="#why_does_ls_no_longer_have_coloured_output">Why does <code>ls</code> no longer have coloured output?</a></li>
39 <li><a href="#why_doesn_t_vim_emacs_etc__use_the_88_colour_mode">Why doesn't vim/emacs etc. use the 88 colour mode?</a></li>
40 <li><a href="#why_doesn_t_vim_emacs_etc__make_use_of_italic">Why doesn't vim/emacs etc. make use of italic?</a></li>
41 <li><a href="#why_are_the_secondary_screenrelated_options_not_working_properly">Why are the secondary screen-related options not working properly?</a></li>
42 <li><a href="#my_numerical_keypad_acts_weird_and_generates_differing_output">My numerical keypad acts weird and generates differing output?</a></li>
43 <li><a href="#rxvtunicode_does_not_seem_to_understand_the_selected_encoding">Rxvt-unicode does not seem to understand the selected encoding?</a></li>
44 <li><a href="#unicode_does_not_seem_to_work">Unicode does not seem to work?</a></li>
45 <li><a href="#why_do_some_characters_look_so_much_different_than_others">Why do some characters look so much different than others?</a></li>
46 <li><a href="#how_does_rxvtunicode_choose_fonts">How does rxvt-unicode choose fonts?</a></li>
47 <li><a href="#why_do_some_chinese_characters_look_so_different_than_others">Why do some chinese characters look so different than others?</a></li>
48 <li><a href="#why_does_rxvtunicode_sometimes_leave_pixel_droppings">Why does rxvt-unicode sometimes leave pixel droppings?</a></li>
49 <li><a href="#on_solaris_9__many_linedrawing_characters_are_too_wide_">On Solaris 9, many line-drawing characters are too wide.</a></li>
50 <li><a href="#my_compose__multi_key__key_is_no_longer_working_">My Compose (Multi_key) key is no longer working.</a></li>
51 <li><a href="#i_cannot_type_ctrlshift2_to_get_an_ascii_nul_character_due_to_iso_14755">I cannot type <code>Ctrl-Shift-2</code> to get an ASCII NUL character due to ISO 14755</a></li>
52 <li><a href="#how_can_i_keep_rxvtunicode_from_using_reverse_video_so_much">How can I keep rxvt-unicode from using reverse video so much?</a></li>
53 <li><a href="#some_programs_assume_totally_weird_colours__red_instead_of_blue___how_can_i_fix_that">Some programs assume totally weird colours (red instead of blue), how can I fix that?</a></li>
54 <li><a href="#i_am_on_freebsd_and_rxvtunicode_does_not_seem_to_work_at_all_">I am on FreeBSD and rxvt-unicode does not seem to work at all.</a></li>
55 <li><a href="#i_use_solaris_9_and_it_doesn_t_compile_work_etc_">I use Solaris 9 and it doesn't compile/work/etc.</a></li>
56 <li><a href="#how_can_i_use_rxvtunicode_under_cygwin">How can I use rxvt-unicode under cygwin?</a></li>
57 <li><a href="#how_does_rxvtunicode_determine_the_encoding_to_use">How does rxvt-unicode determine the encoding to use?</a></li>
58 <li><a href="#is_there_an_option_to_switch_encodings">Is there an option to switch encodings?</a></li>
59 <li><a href="#can_i_switch_locales_at_runtime">Can I switch locales at runtime?</a></li>
60 <li><a href="#can_i_switch_the_fonts_at_runtime">Can I switch the fonts at runtime?</a></li>
61 <li><a href="#why_do_italic_characters_look_as_if_clipped">Why do italic characters look as if clipped?</a></li>
62 <li><a href="#my_input_method_wants__some_encoding__but_i_want_utf8__what_can_i_do">My input method wants &lt;some encoding&gt; but I want UTF-8, what can I do?</a></li>
63 <li><a href="#rxvtunicode_crashes_when_the_x_input_method_changes_or_exits_">Rxvt-unicode crashes when the X Input Method changes or exits.</a></li>
64 <li><a href="#rxvtunicode_uses_gobs_of_memory__how_can_i_reduce_that">Rxvt-unicode uses gobs of memory, how can I reduce that?</a></li>
65 <li><a href="#can_i_speed_up_xft_rendering_somehow">Can I speed up Xft rendering somehow?</a></li>
66 <li><a href="#rxvtunicode_doesn_t_seem_to_antialias_its_fonts__what_is_wrong">Rxvt-unicode doesn't seem to anti-alias its fonts, what is wrong?</a></li>
67 <li><a href="#mouse_cut_paste_suddenly_no_longer_works_">Mouse cut/paste suddenly no longer works.</a></li>
68 <li><a href="#what_s_with_this_bold_blink_stuff">What's with this bold/blink stuff?</a></li>
69 <li><a href="#i_don_t_like_the_screen_colors__how_do_i_change_them">I don't like the screen colors. How do I change them?</a></li>
70 <li><a href="#how_can_i_start_rxvtd_in_a_racefree_way">How can I start rxvtd in a race-free way?</a></li>
71 <li><a href="#what_s_with_the_strange_backspace_delete_key_behaviour">What's with the strange Backspace/Delete key behaviour?</a></li>
72 <li><a href="#i_don_t_like_the_keybindings__how_do_i_change_them">I don't like the key-bindings. How do I change them?</a></li>
73 <li><a href="#i_m_using_keyboard_model_xxx_that_has_extra_prior_next_insert_keys_">I'm using keyboard model XXX that has extra Prior/Next/Insert keys.</a></li>
74 <li><a href="#how_do_i_distinguish_wether_i_m_running_rxvtunicode_or_a_regular_xterm">How do I distinguish wether I'm running rxvt-unicode or a regular xterm?</a></li>
75 <li><a href="#how_do_i_set_the_correct__full_ip_address_for_the_display_variable">How do I set the correct, full IP address for the DISPLAY variable?</a></li>
76 <li><a href="#how_do_i_compile_the_manual_pages_for_myself">How do I compile the manual pages for myself?</a></li>
77 <li><a href="#my_question_isn_t_answered_here__can_i_ask_a_human">My question isn't answered here, can I ask a human?</a></li>
78 </ul>
79
80 <li><a href="#rxvt_technical_reference">RXVT TECHNICAL REFERENCE</a></li>
81 <li><a href="#description">DESCRIPTION</a></li>
82 <li><a href="#definitions">Definitions</a></li>
83 <li><a href="#values">Values</a></li>
84 <li><a href="#escape_sequences">Escape Sequences</a></li>
85 <li><a href="#csi__command_sequence_introducer__sequences">CSI (Command Sequence Introducer) Sequences</a></li>
86 <li><a href="#dec_private_modes">DEC Private Modes</a></li>
87 <li><a href="#xterm_operating_system_commands">XTerm Operating System Commands</a></li>
88 <li><a href="#xpm">XPM</a></li>
89 <li><a href="#mouse_reporting">Mouse Reporting</a></li>
90 <li><a href="#key_codes">Key Codes</a></li>
91 <li><a href="#configure_options">CONFIGURE OPTIONS</a></li>
92 <li><a href="#authors">AUTHORS</a></li>
93 </ul>
94 <!-- INDEX END -->
95
96 <hr />
97 <p>
98 </p>
99 <h1><a name="name">NAME</a></h1>
100 <p>RXVT REFERENCE - FAQ, command sequences and other background information</p>
101 <p>
102 </p>
103 <hr />
104 <h1><a name="synopsis">SYNOPSIS</a></h1>
105 <pre>
106 # set a new font set
107 printf '\33]50;%s\007' 9x15,xft:Kochi&quot; Mincho&quot;</pre>
108 <pre>
109 # change the locale and tell rxvt-unicode about it
110 export LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.EUC-JP; printf &quot;\33]701;$LC_CTYPE\007&quot;</pre>
111 <pre>
112 # set window title
113 printf '\33]2;%s\007' &quot;new window title&quot;</pre>
114 <p>
115 </p>
116 <hr />
117 <h1><a name="description">DESCRIPTION</a></h1>
118 <p>This document contains the FAQ, the RXVT TECHNICAL REFERENCE documenting
119 all escape sequences, and other background information.</p>
120 <p>The newest version of this document is also available on the World Wide Web at
121 <a href="http://cvs.schmorp.de/browse/*checkout*/rxvt-unicode/doc/rxvt.7.html">http://cvs.schmorp.de/browse/*checkout*/rxvt-unicode/doc/rxvt.7.html</a>.</p>
122 <p>
123 </p>
124 <hr />
125 <h1><a name="frequently_asked_questions">FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS</a></h1>
126 <p>
127 </p>
128 <h2><a name="the_new_selection_selects_pieces_that_are_too_big__how_can_i_select_single_words">The new selection selects pieces that are too big, how can I select
129 single words?</a></h2>
130 <p>If you want to select e.g. alphanumeric words, you can use the following
131 setting:</p>
132 <pre>
133 URxvt.selection.pattern-0: ([[:word:]]+)</pre>
134 <p>If you click more than twice, the selection will be extended
135 more and more.</p>
136 <p>To get a selection that is very similar to the old code, try this pattern:</p>
137 <pre>
138 URxvt.selection.pattern-0: ([^&quot;&amp;'()*,;&lt;=&gt;?@[\\\\]^`{|})]+)</pre>
139 <p>Please also note that the <em>LeftClick Shift-LeftClik</em> combination also
140 selects words like the old code.</p>
141 <p>
142 </p>
143 <h2><a name="i_don_t_like_the_new_selection_popups_hotkeys_perl__how_do_i_change_disable_it">I don't like the new selection/popups/hotkeys/perl, how do I
144 change/disable it?</a></h2>
145 <p>You can disable the perl extension completely by setting the
146 <strong>perl-ext-common</strong> resource to the empty string, which also keeps
147 rxvt-unicode from initialising perl, saving memory.</p>
148 <p>If you only want to disable specific features, you first have to
149 identify which perl extension is responsible. For this, read the section
150 <strong>PREPACKAGED EXTENSIONS</strong> in the <code>rxvtperl(3)</code> manpage. For
151 example, to disable the <strong>selection-popup</strong> and <strong>option-popup</strong>, specify
152 this <strong>perl-ext-common</strong> resource:</p>
153 <pre>
154 URxvt.perl-ext-common: default,-selection-popup,-option-popup</pre>
155 <p>This will keep the default extensions, but disable the two popup
156 extensions. Some extensions can also be configured, for example,
157 scrollback search mode is triggered by <strong>M-s</strong>. You can move it to any
158 other combination either by setting the <strong>searchable-scrollback</strong> resource:</p>
159 <pre>
160 URxvt.searchable-scrollback: CM-s</pre>
161 <p>
162 </p>
163 <h2><a name="the_cursor_moves_when_selecting_text_in_the_current_input_line__how_do_i_switch_this_off">The cursor moves when selecting text in the current input line, how
164 do I switch this off?</a></h2>
165 <p>
166 </p>
167 <h2><a name="during_rlogin_ssh_telnet_etc__sessions__clicking_near_the_cursor_outputs_strange_escape_sequences__how_do_i_fix_this">During rlogin/ssh/telnet/etc. sessions, clicking near the cursor
168 outputs strange escape sequences, how do I fix this?</a></h2>
169 <p>These are caused by the <code>readline</code> perl extension. Under normal
170 circumstances, it will move your cursor around when you click into the
171 line that contains it. It tries hard not to do this at the wrong moment,
172 but when running a program that doesn't parse cursor movements or in some
173 cases during rlogin sessions, it fails to detect this properly.</p>
174 <p>You can permamently switch this feature off by disabling the <code>readline</code>
175 extension:</p>
176 <pre>
177 URxvt.perl-ext-common: default,-readline</pre>
178 <p>
179 </p>
180 <h2><a name="why_doesn_t_rxvtunicode_read_my_resources">Why doesn't rxvt-unicode read my resources?</a></h2>
181 <p>Well, why, indeed? It does, in a way very similar to other X
182 applications. Most importantly, this means that if you or your OS loads
183 resources into the X display (the right way to do it), rxvt-unicode will
184 ignore any resource files in your home directory. It will only read
185 <em>$HOME/.Xdefaults</em> when no resources are attached to the display.</p>
186 <p>If you have or use an <em>$HOME/.Xresources</em> file, chances are that
187 resources are loaded into your X-server. In this case, you have to
188 re-login after every change (or run <em>xrdb -merge $HOME/.Xresources</em>).</p>
189 <p>Also consider the form resources have to use:</p>
190 <pre>
191 URxvt.resource: value</pre>
192 <p>If you want to use another form (there are lots of different ways of
193 specifying resources), make sure you understand wether and why it
194 works. If unsure, use the form above.</p>
195 <p>
196 </p>
197 <h2><a name="i_can_t_get_transparency_working__what_am_i_doing_wrong">I can't get transparency working, what am I doing wrong?</a></h2>
198 <p>First of all, transparency isn't officially supported in rxvt-unicode, so
199 you are mostly on your own. Do not bug the author about it (but you may
200 bug everybody else). Also, if you can't get it working consider it a rite
201 of passage: ... and you failed.</p>
202 <p>Here are four ways to get transparency. <strong>Do</strong> read the manpage and option
203 descriptions for the programs mentioned and rxvt-unicode. Really, do it!</p>
204 <p>1. Use inheritPixmap:</p>
205 <pre>
206 Esetroot wallpaper.jpg
207 rxvt -ip -tint red -sh 40</pre>
208 <p>That works. If you think it doesn't, you lack transparency and tinting
209 support, or you are unable to read.</p>
210 <p>2. Use a simple pixmap and emulate pseudo-transparency. This enables you
211 to use effects other than tinting and shading: Just shade/tint/whatever
212 your picture with gimp:</p>
213 <pre>
214 convert wallpaper.jpg -blur 20x20 -modulate 30 background.xpm
215 rxvt -pixmap background.xpm -pe automove-background</pre>
216 <p>That works. If you think it doesn't, you lack XPM and Perl support, or you
217 are unable to read.</p>
218 <p>3. Use an ARGB visual:</p>
219 <pre>
220 rxvt -depth 32 -fg grey90 -bg rgba:0000/0000/4444/cccc</pre>
221 <p>This requires XFT support, and the support of your X-server. If that
222 doesn't work for you, blame Xorg and Keith Packard. ARGB visuals aren't
223 there yet, no matter what they claim. Rxvt-Unicode contains the neccessary
224 bugfixes and workarounds for Xft and Xlib to make it work, but that
225 doesn't mean that your WM has the required kludges in place.</p>
226 <p>4. Use xcompmgr and let it do the job:</p>
227 <pre>
228 xprop -frame -f _NET_WM_WINDOW_OPACITY 32c \
229 -set _NET_WM_WINDOW_OPACITY 0xc0000000</pre>
230 <p>Then click on a window you want to make transparent. Replace <code>0xc0000000</code>
231 by other values to change the degree of opacity. If it doesn't work and
232 your server crashes, you got to keep the pieces.</p>
233 <p>
234 </p>
235 <h2><a name="isn_t_rxvt_supposed_to_be_small_don_t_all_those_features_bloat">Isn't rxvt supposed to be small? Don't all those features bloat?</a></h2>
236 <p>I often get asked about this, and I think, no, they didn't cause extra
237 bloat. If you compare a minimal rxvt and a minimal urxvt, you can see
238 that the urxvt binary is larger (due to some encoding tables always being
239 compiled in), but it actually uses less memory (RSS) after startup. Even
240 with <code>--disable-everything</code>, this comparison is a bit unfair, as many
241 features unique to urxvt (locale, encoding conversion, iso14755 etc.) are
242 already in use in this mode.</p>
243 <pre>
244 text data bss drs rss filename
245 98398 1664 24 15695 1824 rxvt --disable-everything
246 188985 9048 66616 18222 1788 urxvt --disable-everything</pre>
247 <p>When you <a href="#item__2d_2denable_2deverything"><code>--enable-everything</code></a> (which _is_ unfair, as this involves xft
248 and full locale/XIM support which are quite bloaty inside libX11 and my
249 libc), the two diverge, but not unreasnobaly so.</p>
250 <pre>
251 text data bss drs rss filename
252 163431 2152 24 20123 2060 rxvt --enable-everything
253 1035683 49680 66648 29096 3680 urxvt --enable-everything</pre>
254 <p>The very large size of the text section is explained by the east-asian
255 encoding tables, which, if unused, take up disk space but nothing else
256 and can be compiled out unless you rely on X11 core fonts that use those
257 encodings. The BSS size comes from the 64k emergency buffer that my c++
258 compiler allocates (but of course doesn't use unless you are out of
259 memory). Also, using an xft font instead of a core font immediately adds a
260 few megabytes of RSS. Xft indeed is responsible for a lot of RSS even when
261 not used.</p>
262 <p>Of course, due to every character using two or four bytes instead of one,
263 a large scrollback buffer will ultimately make rxvt-unicode use more
264 memory.</p>
265 <p>Compared to e.g. Eterm (5112k), aterm (3132k) and xterm (4680k), this
266 still fares rather well. And compared to some monsters like gnome-terminal
267 (21152k + extra 4204k in separate processes) or konsole (22200k + extra
268 43180k in daemons that stay around after exit, plus half a minute of
269 startup time, including the hundreds of warnings it spits out), it fares
270 extremely well *g*.</p>
271 <p>
272 </p>
273 <h2><a name="why_c____isn_t_that_unportable_bloated_uncool">Why C++, isn't that unportable/bloated/uncool?</a></h2>
274 <p>Is this a question? :) It comes up very often. The simple answer is: I had
275 to write it, and C++ allowed me to write and maintain it in a fraction
276 of the time and effort (which is a scarce resource for me). Put even
277 shorter: It simply wouldn't exist without C++.</p>
278 <p>My personal stance on this is that C++ is less portable than C, but in
279 the case of rxvt-unicode this hardly matters, as its portability limits
280 are defined by things like X11, pseudo terminals, locale support and unix
281 domain sockets, which are all less portable than C++ itself.</p>
282 <p>Regarding the bloat, see the above question: It's easy to write programs
283 in C that use gobs of memory, an certainly possible to write programs in
284 C++ that don't. C++ also often comes with large libraries, but this is
285 not necessarily the case with GCC. Here is what rxvt links against on my
286 system with a minimal config:</p>
287 <pre>
288 libX11.so.6 =&gt; /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x00002aaaaabc3000)
289 libc.so.6 =&gt; /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00002aaaaadde000)
290 libdl.so.2 =&gt; /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00002aaaab01d000)
291 /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00002aaaaaaab000)</pre>
292 <p>And here is rxvt-unicode:</p>
293 <pre>
294 libX11.so.6 =&gt; /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x00002aaaaabc3000)
295 libgcc_s.so.1 =&gt; /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00002aaaaada2000)
296 libc.so.6 =&gt; /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00002aaaaaeb0000)
297 libdl.so.2 =&gt; /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00002aaaab0ee000)
298 /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00002aaaaaaab000)</pre>
299 <p>No large bloated libraries (of course, none were linked in statically),
300 except maybe libX11 :)</p>
301 <p>
302 </p>
303 <h2><a name="does_it_support_tabs__can_i_have_a_tabbed_rxvtunicode">Does it support tabs, can I have a tabbed rxvt-unicode?</a></h2>
304 <p>Beginning with version 7.3, there is a perl extension that implements a
305 simple tabbed terminal. It is installed by default, so any of these should
306 give you tabs:</p>
307 <pre>
308 rxvt -pe tabbed</pre>
309 <pre>
310 URxvt.perl-ext-common: default,tabbed</pre>
311 <p>It will also work fine with tabbing functionality of many window managers
312 or similar tabbing programs, and its embedding-features allow it to be
313 embedded into other programs, as witnessed by <em>doc/rxvt-tabbed</em> or
314 the upcoming <code>Gtk2::URxvt</code> perl module, which features a tabbed urxvt
315 (murxvt) terminal as an example embedding application.</p>
316 <p>
317 </p>
318 <h2><a name="how_do_i_know_which_rxvtunicode_version_i_m_using">How do I know which rxvt-unicode version I'm using?</a></h2>
319 <p>The version number is displayed with the usage (-h). Also the escape
320 sequence <code>ESC [ 8 n</code> sets the window title to the version number. When
321 using the rxvtc client, the version displayed is that of the
322 daemon.</p>
323 <p>
324 </p>
325 <h2><a name="i_am_using_debian_gnu_linux_and_have_a_problem___">I am using Debian GNU/Linux and have a problem...</a></h2>
326 <p>The Debian GNU/Linux package of rxvt-unicode in sarge contains large
327 patches that considerably change the behaviour of rxvt-unicode (but
328 unfortunately this notice has been removed). Before reporting a bug to
329 the original rxvt-unicode author please download and install the genuine
330 version (<a href="http://software.schmorp.de#rxvt-unicode">http://software.schmorp.de#rxvt-unicode</a>) and try to reproduce
331 the problem. If you cannot, chances are that the problems are specific to
332 Debian GNU/Linux, in which case it should be reported via the Debian Bug
333 Tracking System (use <code>reportbug</code> to report the bug).</p>
334 <p>For other problems that also affect the Debian package, you can and
335 probably should use the Debian BTS, too, because, after all, it's also a
336 bug in the Debian version and it serves as a reminder for other users that
337 might encounter the same issue.</p>
338 <p>
339 </p>
340 <h2><a name="i_am_maintaining_rxvtunicode_for_distribution_os_xxx__any_recommendation">I am maintaining rxvt-unicode for distribution/OS XXX, any
341 recommendation?</a></h2>
342 <p>You should build one binary with the default options. <em>configure</em>
343 now enables most useful options, and the trend goes to making them
344 runtime-switchable, too, so there is usually no drawback to enbaling them,
345 except higher disk and possibly memory usage. The perl interpreter should
346 be enabled, as important functionality (menus, selection, likely more in
347 the future) depends on it.</p>
348 <p>You should not overwrite the <code>perl-ext-common</code> snd <code>perl-ext</code> resources
349 system-wide (except maybe with <code>defaults</code>). This will result in useful
350 behaviour. If your distribution aims at low memory, add an empty
351 <code>perl-ext-common</code> resource to the app-defaults file. This will keep the
352 perl interpreter disabled until the user enables it.</p>
353 <p>If you can/want build more binaries, I recommend building a minimal
354 one with <code>--disable-everything</code> (very useful) and a maximal one with
355 <a href="#item__2d_2denable_2deverything"><code>--enable-everything</code></a> (less useful, it will be very big due to a lot of
356 encodings built-in that increase download times and are rarely used).</p>
357 <p>
358 </p>
359 <h2><a name="i_need_to_make_it_setuid_setgid_to_support_utmp_ptys_on_my_os__is_this_safe">I need to make it setuid/setgid to support utmp/ptys on my OS, is this safe?</a></h2>
360 <p>It should be, starting with release 7.1. You are encouraged to properly
361 install urxvt with privileges necessary for your OS now.</p>
362 <p>When rxvt-unicode detects that it runs setuid or setgid, it will fork
363 into a helper process for privileged operations (pty handling on some
364 systems, utmp/wtmp/lastlog handling on others) and drop privileges
365 immediately. This is much safer than most other terminals that keep
366 privileges while running (but is more relevant to urxvt, as it contains
367 things as perl interpreters, which might be ``helpful'' to attackers).</p>
368 <p>This forking is done as the very first within main(), which is very early
369 and reduces possible bugs to initialisation code run before main(), or
370 things like the dynamic loader of your system, which should result in very
371 little risk.</p>
372 <p>
373 </p>
374 <h2><a name="when_i_login_to_another_system_it_tells_me_about_missing_terminfo_data">When I log-in to another system it tells me about missing terminfo data?</a></h2>
375 <p>The terminal description used by rxvt-unicode is not as widely available
376 as that for xterm, or even rxvt (for which the same problem often arises).</p>
377 <p>The correct solution for this problem is to install the terminfo, this can
378 be done like this (with ncurses' infocmp):</p>
379 <pre>
380 REMOTE=remotesystem.domain
381 infocmp rxvt-unicode | ssh $REMOTE &quot;cat &gt;/tmp/ti &amp;&amp; tic /tmp/ti&quot;</pre>
382 <p>... or by installing rxvt-unicode normally on the remote system,</p>
383 <p>If you cannot or do not want to do this, then you can simply set
384 <code>TERM=rxvt</code> or even <code>TERM=xterm</code>, and live with the small number of
385 problems arising, which includes wrong keymapping, less and different
386 colours and some refresh errors in fullscreen applications. It's a nice
387 quick-and-dirty workaround for rare cases, though.</p>
388 <p>If you always want to do this (and are fine with the consequences) you
389 can either recompile rxvt-unicode with the desired TERM value or use a
390 resource to set it:</p>
391 <pre>
392 URxvt.termName: rxvt</pre>
393 <p>If you don't plan to use <strong>rxvt</strong> (quite common...) you could also replace
394 the rxvt terminfo file with the rxvt-unicode one.</p>
395 <p>
396 </p>
397 <h2><a name="tic_outputs_some_error_when_compiling_the_terminfo_entry_"><code>tic</code> outputs some error when compiling the terminfo entry.</a></h2>
398 <p>Most likely it's the empty definition for <code>enacs=</code>. Just replace it by
399 <code>enacs=\E[0@</code> and try again.</p>
400 <p>
401 </p>
402 <h2><a name="bash_s_readline_does_not_work_correctly_under_rxvt_"><code>bash</code>'s readline does not work correctly under rxvt.</a></h2>
403 <p>
404 </p>
405 <h2><a name="i_need_a_termcap_file_entry_">I need a termcap file entry.</a></h2>
406 <p>One reason you might want this is that some distributions or operating
407 systems still compile some programs using the long-obsoleted termcap
408 library (Fedora Core's bash is one example) and rely on a termcap entry
409 for <code>rxvt-unicode</code>.</p>
410 <p>You could use rxvt's termcap entry with resonable results in many cases.
411 You can also create a termcap entry by using terminfo's infocmp program
412 like this:</p>
413 <pre>
414 infocmp -C rxvt-unicode</pre>
415 <p>Or you could use this termcap entry, generated by the command above:</p>
416 <pre>
417 rxvt-unicode|rxvt-unicode terminal (X Window System):\
418 :am:bw:eo:km:mi:ms:xn:xo:\
419 :co#80:it#8:li#24:lm#0:\
420 :AL=\E[%dL:DC=\E[%dP:DL=\E[%dM:DO=\E[%dB:IC=\E[%d@:\
421 :K1=\EOw:K2=\EOu:K3=\EOy:K4=\EOq:K5=\EOs:LE=\E[%dD:\
422 :RI=\E[%dC:SF=\E[%dS:SR=\E[%dT:UP=\E[%dA:ae=\E(B:al=\E[L:\
423 :as=\E(0:bl=^G:cd=\E[J:ce=\E[K:cl=\E[H\E[2J:\
424 :cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:cr=^M:cs=\E[%i%d;%dr:ct=\E[3g:dc=\E[P:\
425 :dl=\E[M:do=^J:ec=\E[%dX:ei=\E[4l:ho=\E[H:\
426 :i1=\E[?47l\E=\E[?1l:ic=\E[@:im=\E[4h:\
427 :is=\E[r\E[m\E[2J\E[H\E[?7h\E[?1;3;4;6l\E[4l:\
428 :k1=\E[11~:k2=\E[12~:k3=\E[13~:k4=\E[14~:k5=\E[15~:\
429 :k6=\E[17~:k7=\E[18~:k8=\E[19~:k9=\E[20~:kD=\E[3~:\
430 :kI=\E[2~:kN=\E[6~:kP=\E[5~:kb=\177:kd=\EOB:ke=\E[?1l\E&gt;:\
431 :kh=\E[7~:kl=\EOD:kr=\EOC:ks=\E[?1h\E=:ku=\EOA:le=^H:\
432 :mb=\E[5m:md=\E[1m:me=\E[m\017:mr=\E[7m:nd=\E[C:rc=\E8:\
433 :sc=\E7:se=\E[27m:sf=^J:so=\E[7m:sr=\EM:st=\EH:ta=^I:\
434 :te=\E[r\E[?1049l:ti=\E[?1049h:ue=\E[24m:up=\E[A:\
435 :us=\E[4m:vb=\E[?5h\E[?5l:ve=\E[?25h:vi=\E[?25l:\
436 :vs=\E[?25h:</pre>
437 <p>
438 </p>
439 <h2><a name="why_does_ls_no_longer_have_coloured_output">Why does <code>ls</code> no longer have coloured output?</a></h2>
440 <p>The <code>ls</code> in the GNU coreutils unfortunately doesn't use terminfo to
441 decide wether a terminal has colour, but uses it's own configuration
442 file. Needless to say, <code>rxvt-unicode</code> is not in it's default file (among
443 with most other terminals supporting colour). Either add:</p>
444 <pre>
445 TERM rxvt-unicode</pre>
446 <p>to <code>/etc/DIR_COLORS</code> or simply add:</p>
447 <pre>
448 alias ls='ls --color=auto'</pre>
449 <p>to your <code>.profile</code> or <code>.bashrc</code>.</p>
450 <p>
451 </p>
452 <h2><a name="why_doesn_t_vim_emacs_etc__use_the_88_colour_mode">Why doesn't vim/emacs etc. use the 88 colour mode?</a></h2>
453 <p>
454 </p>
455 <h2><a name="why_doesn_t_vim_emacs_etc__make_use_of_italic">Why doesn't vim/emacs etc. make use of italic?</a></h2>
456 <p>
457 </p>
458 <h2><a name="why_are_the_secondary_screenrelated_options_not_working_properly">Why are the secondary screen-related options not working properly?</a></h2>
459 <p>Make sure you are using <code>TERM=rxvt-unicode</code>. Some pre-packaged
460 distributions (most notably Debian GNU/Linux) break rxvt-unicode
461 by setting <code>TERM</code> to <code>rxvt</code>, which doesn't have these extra
462 features. Unfortunately, some of these (most notably, again, Debian
463 GNU/Linux) furthermore fail to even install the <code>rxvt-unicode</code> terminfo
464 file, so you will need to install it on your own (See the question <strong>When
465 I log-in to another system it tells me about missing terminfo data?</strong> on
466 how to do this).</p>
467 <p>
468 </p>
469 <h2><a name="my_numerical_keypad_acts_weird_and_generates_differing_output">My numerical keypad acts weird and generates differing output?</a></h2>
470 <p>Some Debian GNUL/Linux users seem to have this problem, although no
471 specific details were reported so far. It is possible that this is caused
472 by the wrong <code>TERM</code> setting, although the details of wether and how
473 this can happen are unknown, as <code>TERM=rxvt</code> should offer a compatible
474 keymap. See the answer to the previous question, and please report if that
475 helped.</p>
476 <p>
477 </p>
478 <h2><a name="rxvtunicode_does_not_seem_to_understand_the_selected_encoding">Rxvt-unicode does not seem to understand the selected encoding?</a></h2>
479 <p>
480 </p>
481 <h2><a name="unicode_does_not_seem_to_work">Unicode does not seem to work?</a></h2>
482 <p>If you encounter strange problems like typing an accented character but
483 getting two unrelated other characters or similar, or if program output is
484 subtly garbled, then you should check your locale settings.</p>
485 <p>Rxvt-unicode must be started with the same <code>LC_CTYPE</code> setting as the
486 programs. Often rxvt-unicode is started in the <a href="#item_c"><code>C</code></a> locale, while the
487 login script running within the rxvt-unicode window changes the locale to
488 something else, e.g. <code>en_GB.UTF-8</code>. Needless to say, this is not going to work.</p>
489 <p>The best thing is to fix your startup environment, as you will likely run
490 into other problems. If nothing works you can try this in your .profile.</p>
491 <pre>
492 printf '\e]701;%s\007' &quot;$LC_CTYPE&quot;</pre>
493 <p>If this doesn't work, then maybe you use a <code>LC_CTYPE</code> specification not
494 supported on your systems. Some systems have a <code>locale</code> command which
495 displays this (also, <code>perl -e0</code> can be used to check locale settings, as
496 it will complain loudly if it cannot set the locale). If it displays something
497 like:</p>
498 <pre>
499 locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: ...</pre>
500 <p>Then the locale you specified is not supported on your system.</p>
501 <p>If nothing works and you are sure that everything is set correctly then
502 you will need to remember a little known fact: Some programs just don't
503 support locales :(</p>
504 <p>
505 </p>
506 <h2><a name="why_do_some_characters_look_so_much_different_than_others">Why do some characters look so much different than others?</a></h2>
507 <p>
508 </p>
509 <h2><a name="how_does_rxvtunicode_choose_fonts">How does rxvt-unicode choose fonts?</a></h2>
510 <p>Most fonts do not contain the full range of Unicode, which is
511 fine. Chances are that the font you (or the admin/package maintainer of
512 your system/os) have specified does not cover all the characters you want
513 to display.</p>
514 <p><strong>rxvt-unicode</strong> makes a best-effort try at finding a replacement
515 font. Often the result is fine, but sometimes the chosen font looks
516 bad/ugly/wrong. Some fonts have totally strange characters that don't
517 resemble the correct glyph at all, and rxvt-unicode lacks the artificial
518 intelligence to detect that a specific glyph is wrong: it has to believe
519 the font that the characters it claims to contain indeed look correct.</p>
520 <p>In that case, select a font of your taste and add it to the font list,
521 e.g.:</p>
522 <pre>
523 rxvt -fn basefont,font2,font3...</pre>
524 <p>When rxvt-unicode sees a character, it will first look at the base
525 font. If the base font does not contain the character, it will go to the
526 next font, and so on. Specifying your own fonts will also speed up this
527 search and use less resources within rxvt-unicode and the X-server.</p>
528 <p>The only limitation is that none of the fonts may be larger than the base
529 font, as the base font defines the terminal character cell size, which
530 must be the same due to the way terminals work.</p>
531 <p>
532 </p>
533 <h2><a name="why_do_some_chinese_characters_look_so_different_than_others">Why do some chinese characters look so different than others?</a></h2>
534 <p>This is because there is a difference between script and language --
535 rxvt-unicode does not know which language the text that is output is,
536 as it only knows the unicode character codes. If rxvt-unicode first
537 sees a japanese/chinese character, it might choose a japanese font for
538 display. Subsequent japanese characters will use that font. Now, many
539 chinese characters aren't represented in japanese fonts, so when the first
540 non-japanese character comes up, rxvt-unicode will look for a chinese font
541 -- unfortunately at this point, it will still use the japanese font for
542 chinese characters that are also in the japanese font.</p>
543 <p>The workaround is easy: just tag a chinese font at the end of your font
544 list (see the previous question). The key is to view the font list as
545 a preference list: If you expect more japanese, list a japanese font
546 first. If you expect more chinese, put a chinese font first.</p>
547 <p>In the future it might be possible to switch language preferences at
548 runtime (the internal data structure has no problem with using different
549 fonts for the same character at the same time, but no interface for this
550 has been designed yet).</p>
551 <p>Until then, you might get away with switching fonts at runtime (see <a href="#can_i_switch_the_fonts_at_runtime">Can I switch the fonts at runtime?</a> later in this document).</p>
552 <p>
553 </p>
554 <h2><a name="why_does_rxvtunicode_sometimes_leave_pixel_droppings">Why does rxvt-unicode sometimes leave pixel droppings?</a></h2>
555 <p>Most fonts were not designed for terminal use, which means that character
556 size varies a lot. A font that is otherwise fine for terminal use might
557 contain some characters that are simply too wide. Rxvt-unicode will avoid
558 these characters. For characters that are just ``a bit'' too wide a special
559 ``careful'' rendering mode is used that redraws adjacent characters.</p>
560 <p>All of this requires that fonts do not lie about character sizes,
561 however: Xft fonts often draw glyphs larger than their acclaimed bounding
562 box, and rxvt-unicode has no way of detecting this (the correct way is to
563 ask for the character bounding box, which unfortunately is wrong in these
564 cases).</p>
565 <p>It's not clear (to me at least), wether this is a bug in Xft, freetype,
566 or the respective font. If you encounter this problem you might try using
567 the <code>-lsp</code> option to give the font more height. If that doesn't work, you
568 might be forced to use a different font.</p>
569 <p>All of this is not a problem when using X11 core fonts, as their bounding
570 box data is correct.</p>
571 <p>
572 </p>
573 <h2><a name="on_solaris_9__many_linedrawing_characters_are_too_wide_">On Solaris 9, many line-drawing characters are too wide.</a></h2>
574 <p>Seems to be a known bug, read
575 <a href="http://nixdoc.net/files/forum/about34198.html">http://nixdoc.net/files/forum/about34198.html</a>. Some people use the
576 following ugly workaround to get non-double-wide-characters working:</p>
577 <pre>
578 #define wcwidth(x) wcwidth(x) &gt; 1 ? 1 : wcwidth(x)</pre>
579 <p>
580 </p>
581 <h2><a name="my_compose__multi_key__key_is_no_longer_working_">My Compose (Multi_key) key is no longer working.</a></h2>
582 <p>The most common causes for this are that either your locale is not set
583 correctly, or you specified a <strong>preeditStyle</strong> that is not supported by
584 your input method. For example, if you specified <strong>OverTheSpot</strong> and
585 your input method (e.g. the default input method handling Compose keys)
586 does not support this (for instance because it is not visual), then
587 rxvt-unicode will continue without an input method.</p>
588 <p>In this case either do not specify a <strong>preeditStyle</strong> or specify more than
589 one pre-edit style, such as <strong>OverTheSpot,Root,None</strong>.</p>
590 <p>
591 </p>
592 <h2><a name="i_cannot_type_ctrlshift2_to_get_an_ascii_nul_character_due_to_iso_14755">I cannot type <code>Ctrl-Shift-2</code> to get an ASCII NUL character due to ISO 14755</a></h2>
593 <p>Either try <code>Ctrl-2</code> alone (it often is mapped to ASCII NUL even on
594 international keyboards) or simply use ISO 14755 support to your
595 advantage, typing &lt;Ctrl-Shift-0&gt; to get a ASCII NUL. This works for other
596 codes, too, such as <code>Ctrl-Shift-1-d</code> to type the default telnet escape
597 character and so on.</p>
598 <p>
599 </p>
600 <h2><a name="how_can_i_keep_rxvtunicode_from_using_reverse_video_so_much">How can I keep rxvt-unicode from using reverse video so much?</a></h2>
601 <p>First of all, make sure you are running with the right terminal settings
602 (<code>TERM=rxvt-unicode</code>), which will get rid of most of these effects. Then
603 make sure you have specified colours for italic and bold, as otherwise
604 rxvt-unicode might use reverse video to simulate the effect:</p>
605 <pre>
606 URxvt.colorBD: white
607 URxvt.colorIT: green</pre>
608 <p>
609 </p>
610 <h2><a name="some_programs_assume_totally_weird_colours__red_instead_of_blue___how_can_i_fix_that">Some programs assume totally weird colours (red instead of blue), how can I fix that?</a></h2>
611 <p>For some unexplainable reason, some rare programs assume a very weird
612 colour palette when confronted with a terminal with more than the standard
613 8 colours (rxvt-unicode supports 88). The right fix is, of course, to fix
614 these programs not to assume non-ISO colours without very good reasons.</p>
615 <p>In the meantime, you can either edit your <code>rxvt-unicode</code> terminfo
616 definition to only claim 8 colour support or use <code>TERM=rxvt</code>, which will
617 fix colours but keep you from using other rxvt-unicode features.</p>
618 <p>
619 </p>
620 <h2><a name="i_am_on_freebsd_and_rxvtunicode_does_not_seem_to_work_at_all_">I am on FreeBSD and rxvt-unicode does not seem to work at all.</a></h2>
621 <p>Rxvt-unicode requires the symbol <code>__STDC_ISO_10646__</code> to be defined
622 in your compile environment, or an implementation that implements it,
623 wether it defines the symbol or not. <code>__STDC_ISO_10646__</code> requires that
624 <strong>wchar_t</strong> is represented as unicode.</p>
625 <p>As you might have guessed, FreeBSD does neither define this symobl nor
626 does it support it. Instead, it uses it's own internal representation of
627 <strong>wchar_t</strong>. This is, of course, completely fine with respect to standards.</p>
628 <p>However, that means rxvt-unicode only works in <code>POSIX</code>, <code>ISO-8859-1</code> and
629 <code>UTF-8</code> locales under FreeBSD (which all use Unicode as <strong>wchar_t</strong>.</p>
630 <p><code>__STDC_ISO_10646__</code> is the only sane way to support multi-language
631 apps in an OS, as using a locale-dependent (and non-standardized)
632 representation of <strong>wchar_t</strong> makes it impossible to convert between
633 <strong>wchar_t</strong> (as used by X11 and your applications) and any other encoding
634 without implementing OS-specific-wrappers for each and every locale. There
635 simply are no APIs to convert <strong>wchar_t</strong> into anything except the current
636 locale encoding.</p>
637 <p>Some applications (such as the formidable <strong>mlterm</strong>) work around this
638 by carrying their own replacement functions for character set handling
639 with them, and either implementing OS-dependent hacks or doing multiple
640 conversions (which is slow and unreliable in case the OS implements
641 encodings slightly different than the terminal emulator).</p>
642 <p>The rxvt-unicode author insists that the right way to fix this is in the
643 system libraries once and for all, instead of forcing every app to carry
644 complete replacements for them :)</p>
645 <p>
646 </p>
647 <h2><a name="i_use_solaris_9_and_it_doesn_t_compile_work_etc_">I use Solaris 9 and it doesn't compile/work/etc.</a></h2>
648 <p>Try the diff in <em>doc/solaris9.patch</em> as a base. It fixes the worst
649 problems with <code>wcwidth</code> and a compile problem.</p>
650 <p>
651 </p>
652 <h2><a name="how_can_i_use_rxvtunicode_under_cygwin">How can I use rxvt-unicode under cygwin?</a></h2>
653 <p>rxvt-unicode should compile and run out of the box on cygwin, using
654 the X11 libraries that come with cygwin. libW11 emulation is no
655 longer supported (and makes no sense, either, as it only supported a
656 single font). I recommend starting the X-server in <code>-multiwindow</code> or
657 <code>-rootless</code> mode instead, which will result in similar look&amp;feel as the
658 old libW11 emulation.</p>
659 <p>At the time of this writing, cygwin didn't seem to support any multi-byte
660 encodings (you might try <code>LC_CTYPE=C-UTF-8</code>), so you are likely limited
661 to 8-bit encodings.</p>
662 <p>
663 </p>
664 <h2><a name="how_does_rxvtunicode_determine_the_encoding_to_use">How does rxvt-unicode determine the encoding to use?</a></h2>
665 <p>
666 </p>
667 <h2><a name="is_there_an_option_to_switch_encodings">Is there an option to switch encodings?</a></h2>
668 <p>Unlike some other terminals, rxvt-unicode has no encoding switch, and no
669 specific ``utf-8'' mode, such as xterm. In fact, it doesn't even know about
670 UTF-8 or any other encodings with respect to terminal I/O.</p>
671 <p>The reasons is that there exists a perfectly fine mechanism for selecting
672 the encoding, doing I/O and (most important) communicating this to all
673 applications so everybody agrees on character properties such as width
674 and code number. This mechanism is the <em>locale</em>. Applications not using
675 that info will have problems (for example, <code>xterm</code> gets the width of
676 characters wrong as it uses it's own, locale-independent table under all
677 locales).</p>
678 <p>Rxvt-unicode uses the <code>LC_CTYPE</code> locale category to select encoding. All
679 programs doing the same (that is, most) will automatically agree in the
680 interpretation of characters.</p>
681 <p>Unfortunately, there is no system-independent way to select locales, nor
682 is there a standard on how locale specifiers will look like.</p>
683 <p>On most systems, the content of the <code>LC_CTYPE</code> environment variable
684 contains an arbitrary string which corresponds to an already-installed
685 locale. Common names for locales are <code>en_US.UTF-8</code>, <code>de_DE.ISO-8859-15</code>,
686 <code>ja_JP.EUC-JP</code>, i.e. <code>language_country.encoding</code>, but other forms
687 (i.e. <code>de</code> or <code>german</code>) are also common.</p>
688 <p>Rxvt-unicode ignores all other locale categories, and except for
689 the encoding, ignores country or language-specific settings,
690 i.e. <code>de_DE.UTF-8</code> and <code>ja_JP.UTF-8</code> are the normally same to
691 rxvt-unicode.</p>
692 <p>If you want to use a specific encoding you have to make sure you start
693 rxvt-unicode with the correct <code>LC_CTYPE</code> category.</p>
694 <p>
695 </p>
696 <h2><a name="can_i_switch_locales_at_runtime">Can I switch locales at runtime?</a></h2>
697 <p>Yes, using an escape sequence. Try something like this, which sets
698 rxvt-unicode's idea of <code>LC_CTYPE</code>.</p>
699 <pre>
700 printf '\e]701;%s\007' ja_JP.SJIS</pre>
701 <p>See also the previous answer.</p>
702 <p>Sometimes this capability is rather handy when you want to work in
703 one locale (e.g. <code>de_DE.UTF-8</code>) but some programs don't support it
704 (e.g. UTF-8). For example, I use this script to start <code>xjdic</code>, which
705 first switches to a locale supported by xjdic and back later:</p>
706 <pre>
707 printf '\e]701;%s\007' ja_JP.SJIS
708 xjdic -js
709 printf '\e]701;%s\007' de_DE.UTF-8</pre>
710 <p>You can also use xterm's <code>luit</code> program, which usually works fine, except
711 for some locales where character width differs between program- and
712 rxvt-unicode-locales.</p>
713 <p>
714 </p>
715 <h2><a name="can_i_switch_the_fonts_at_runtime">Can I switch the fonts at runtime?</a></h2>
716 <p>Yes, using an escape sequence. Try something like this, which has the same
717 effect as using the <code>-fn</code> switch, and takes effect immediately:</p>
718 <pre>
719 printf '\e]50;%s\007' &quot;9x15bold,xft:Kochi Gothic&quot;</pre>
720 <p>This is useful if you e.g. work primarily with japanese (and prefer a
721 japanese font), but you have to switch to chinese temporarily, where
722 japanese fonts would only be in your way.</p>
723 <p>You can think of this as a kind of manual ISO-2022 switching.</p>
724 <p>
725 </p>
726 <h2><a name="why_do_italic_characters_look_as_if_clipped">Why do italic characters look as if clipped?</a></h2>
727 <p>Many fonts have difficulties with italic characters and hinting. For
728 example, the otherwise very nicely hinted font <code>xft:Bitstream Vera Sans
729 Mono</code> completely fails in it's italic face. A workaround might be to
730 enable freetype autohinting, i.e. like this:</p>
731 <pre>
732 URxvt.italicFont: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:italic:autohint=true
733 URxvt.boldItalicFont: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:bold:italic:autohint=true</pre>
734 <p>
735 </p>
736 <h2><a name="my_input_method_wants__some_encoding__but_i_want_utf8__what_can_i_do">My input method wants &lt;some encoding&gt; but I want UTF-8, what can I do?</a></h2>
737 <p>You can specify separate locales for the input method and the rest of the
738 terminal, using the resource <code>imlocale</code>:</p>
739 <pre>
740 URxvt.imlocale: ja_JP.EUC-JP</pre>
741 <p>Now you can start your terminal with <code>LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8</code> and still
742 use your input method. Please note, however, that you will not be able to
743 input characters outside <code>EUC-JP</code> in a normal way then, as your input
744 method limits you.</p>
745 <p>
746 </p>
747 <h2><a name="rxvtunicode_crashes_when_the_x_input_method_changes_or_exits_">Rxvt-unicode crashes when the X Input Method changes or exits.</a></h2>
748 <p>Unfortunately, this is unavoidable, as the XIM protocol is racy by
749 design. Applications can avoid some crashes at the expense of memory
750 leaks, and Input Methods can avoid some crashes by careful ordering at
751 exit time. <strong>kinput2</strong> (and derived input methods) generally succeeds,
752 while <strong>SCIM</strong> (or similar input methods) fails. In the end, however,
753 crashes cannot be completely avoided even if both sides cooperate.</p>
754 <p>So the only workaround is not to kill your Input Method Servers.</p>
755 <p>
756 </p>
757 <h2><a name="rxvtunicode_uses_gobs_of_memory__how_can_i_reduce_that">Rxvt-unicode uses gobs of memory, how can I reduce that?</a></h2>
758 <p>Rxvt-unicode tries to obey the rule of not charging you for something you
759 don't use. One thing you should try is to configure out all settings that
760 you don't need, for example, Xft support is a resource hog by design,
761 when used. Compiling it out ensures that no Xft font will be loaded
762 accidentally when rxvt-unicode tries to find a font for your characters.</p>
763 <p>Also, many people (me included) like large windows and even larger
764 scrollback buffers: Without <code>--enable-unicode3</code>, rxvt-unicode will use
765 6 bytes per screen cell. For a 160x?? window this amounts to almost a
766 kilobyte per line. A scrollback buffer of 10000 lines will then (if full)
767 use 10 Megabytes of memory. With <code>--enable-unicode3</code> it gets worse, as
768 rxvt-unicode then uses 8 bytes per screen cell.</p>
769 <p>
770 </p>
771 <h2><a name="can_i_speed_up_xft_rendering_somehow">Can I speed up Xft rendering somehow?</a></h2>
772 <p>Yes, the most obvious way to speed it up is to avoid Xft entirely, as
773 it is simply slow. If you still want Xft fonts you might try to disable
774 antialiasing (by appending <code>:antialias=false</code>), which saves lots of
775 memory and also speeds up rendering considerably.</p>
776 <p>
777 </p>
778 <h2><a name="rxvtunicode_doesn_t_seem_to_antialias_its_fonts__what_is_wrong">Rxvt-unicode doesn't seem to anti-alias its fonts, what is wrong?</a></h2>
779 <p>Rxvt-unicode will use whatever you specify as a font. If it needs to
780 fall back to it's default font search list it will prefer X11 core
781 fonts, because they are small and fast, and then use Xft fonts. It has
782 antialiasing disabled for most of them, because the author thinks they
783 look best that way.</p>
784 <p>If you want antialiasing, you have to specify the fonts manually.</p>
785 <p>
786 </p>
787 <h2><a name="mouse_cut_paste_suddenly_no_longer_works_">Mouse cut/paste suddenly no longer works.</a></h2>
788 <p>Make sure that mouse reporting is actually turned off since killing
789 some editors prematurely may leave the mouse in mouse report mode. I've
790 heard that tcsh may use mouse reporting unless it otherwise specified. A
791 quick check is to see if cut/paste works when the Alt or Shift keys are
792 depressed.</p>
793 <p>
794 </p>
795 <h2><a name="what_s_with_this_bold_blink_stuff">What's with this bold/blink stuff?</a></h2>
796 <p>If no bold colour is set via <code>colorBD:</code>, bold will invert text using the
797 standard foreground colour.</p>
798 <p>For the standard background colour, blinking will actually make the
799 text blink when compiled with <code>--enable-blinking</code>. with standard
800 colours. Without <code>--enable-blinking</code>, the blink attribute will be
801 ignored.</p>
802 <p>On ANSI colours, bold/blink attributes are used to set high-intensity
803 foreground/background colors.</p>
804 <p>color0-7 are the low-intensity colors.</p>
805 <p>color8-15 are the corresponding high-intensity colors.</p>
806 <p>
807 </p>
808 <h2><a name="i_don_t_like_the_screen_colors__how_do_i_change_them">I don't like the screen colors. How do I change them?</a></h2>
809 <p>You can change the screen colors at run-time using <em>~/.Xdefaults</em>
810 resources (or as long-options).</p>
811 <p>Here are values that are supposed to resemble a VGA screen,
812 including the murky brown that passes for low-intensity yellow:</p>
813 <pre>
814 URxvt.color0: #000000
815 URxvt.color1: #A80000
816 URxvt.color2: #00A800
817 URxvt.color3: #A8A800
818 URxvt.color4: #0000A8
819 URxvt.color5: #A800A8
820 URxvt.color6: #00A8A8
821 URxvt.color7: #A8A8A8</pre>
822 <pre>
823 URxvt.color8: #000054
824 URxvt.color9: #FF0054
825 URxvt.color10: #00FF54
826 URxvt.color11: #FFFF54
827 URxvt.color12: #0000FF
828 URxvt.color13: #FF00FF
829 URxvt.color14: #00FFFF
830 URxvt.color15: #FFFFFF</pre>
831 <p>And here is a more complete set of non-standard colors described (not by
832 me) as ``pretty girly''.</p>
833 <pre>
834 URxvt.cursorColor: #dc74d1
835 URxvt.pointerColor: #dc74d1
836 URxvt.background: #0e0e0e
837 URxvt.foreground: #4ad5e1
838 URxvt.color0: #000000
839 URxvt.color8: #8b8f93
840 URxvt.color1: #dc74d1
841 URxvt.color9: #dc74d1
842 URxvt.color2: #0eb8c7
843 URxvt.color10: #0eb8c7
844 URxvt.color3: #dfe37e
845 URxvt.color11: #dfe37e
846 URxvt.color5: #9e88f0
847 URxvt.color13: #9e88f0
848 URxvt.color6: #73f7ff
849 URxvt.color14: #73f7ff
850 URxvt.color7: #e1dddd
851 URxvt.color15: #e1dddd</pre>
852 <p>
853 </p>
854 <h2><a name="how_can_i_start_rxvtd_in_a_racefree_way">How can I start rxvtd in a race-free way?</a></h2>
855 <p>Try <code>rxvtd -f -o</code>, which tells rxvtd to open the
856 display, create the listening socket and then fork.</p>
857 <p>
858 </p>
859 <h2><a name="what_s_with_the_strange_backspace_delete_key_behaviour">What's with the strange Backspace/Delete key behaviour?</a></h2>
860 <p>Assuming that the physical Backspace key corresponds to the
861 BackSpace keysym (not likely for Linux ... see the following
862 question) there are two standard values that can be used for
863 Backspace: <code>^H</code> and <code>^?</code>.</p>
864 <p>Historically, either value is correct, but rxvt-unicode adopts the debian
865 policy of using <code>^?</code> when unsure, because it's the one only only correct
866 choice :).</p>
867 <p>Rxvt-unicode tries to inherit the current stty settings and uses the value
868 of `erase' to guess the value for backspace. If rxvt-unicode wasn't
869 started from a terminal (say, from a menu or by remote shell), then the
870 system value of `erase', which corresponds to CERASE in &lt;termios.h&gt;, will
871 be used (which may not be the same as your stty setting).</p>
872 <p>For starting a new rxvt-unicode:</p>
873 <pre>
874 # use Backspace = ^H
875 $ stty erase ^H
876 $ rxvt</pre>
877 <pre>
878 # use Backspace = ^?
879 $ stty erase ^?
880 $ rxvt</pre>
881 <p>Toggle with <code>ESC [ 36 h</code> / <code>ESC [ 36 l</code>.</p>
882 <p>For an existing rxvt-unicode:</p>
883 <pre>
884 # use Backspace = ^H
885 $ stty erase ^H
886 $ echo -n &quot;^[[36h&quot;</pre>
887 <pre>
888 # use Backspace = ^?
889 $ stty erase ^?
890 $ echo -n &quot;^[[36l&quot;</pre>
891 <p>This helps satisfy some of the Backspace discrepancies that occur, but
892 if you use Backspace = <code>^H</code>, make sure that the termcap/terminfo value
893 properly reflects that.</p>
894 <p>The Delete key is a another casualty of the ill-defined Backspace problem.
895 To avoid confusion between the Backspace and Delete keys, the Delete
896 key has been assigned an escape sequence to match the vt100 for Execute
897 (<code>ESC [ 3 ~</code>) and is in the supplied termcap/terminfo.</p>
898 <p>Some other Backspace problems:</p>
899 <p>some editors use termcap/terminfo,
900 some editors (vim I'm told) expect Backspace = ^H,
901 GNU Emacs (and Emacs-like editors) use ^H for help.</p>
902 <p>Perhaps someday this will all be resolved in a consistent manner.</p>
903 <p>
904 </p>
905 <h2><a name="i_don_t_like_the_keybindings__how_do_i_change_them">I don't like the key-bindings. How do I change them?</a></h2>
906 <p>There are some compile-time selections available via configure. Unless
907 you have run ``configure'' with the <a href="#item__2d_2ddisable_2dresources"><code>--disable-resources</code></a> option you can
908 use the `keysym' resource to alter the keystrings associated with keysyms.</p>
909 <p>Here's an example for a URxvt session started using <code>rxvt -name URxvt</code></p>
910 <pre>
911 URxvt.keysym.Home: \033[1~
912 URxvt.keysym.End: \033[4~
913 URxvt.keysym.C-apostrophe: \033&lt;C-'&gt;
914 URxvt.keysym.C-slash: \033&lt;C-/&gt;
915 URxvt.keysym.C-semicolon: \033&lt;C-;&gt;
916 URxvt.keysym.C-grave: \033&lt;C-`&gt;
917 URxvt.keysym.C-comma: \033&lt;C-,&gt;
918 URxvt.keysym.C-period: \033&lt;C-.&gt;
919 URxvt.keysym.C-0x60: \033&lt;C-`&gt;
920 URxvt.keysym.C-Tab: \033&lt;C-Tab&gt;
921 URxvt.keysym.C-Return: \033&lt;C-Return&gt;
922 URxvt.keysym.S-Return: \033&lt;S-Return&gt;
923 URxvt.keysym.S-space: \033&lt;S-Space&gt;
924 URxvt.keysym.M-Up: \033&lt;M-Up&gt;
925 URxvt.keysym.M-Down: \033&lt;M-Down&gt;
926 URxvt.keysym.M-Left: \033&lt;M-Left&gt;
927 URxvt.keysym.M-Right: \033&lt;M-Right&gt;
928 URxvt.keysym.M-C-0: list \033&lt;M-C- 0123456789 &gt;
929 URxvt.keysym.M-C-a: list \033&lt;M-C- abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz &gt;
930 URxvt.keysym.F12: command:\033]701;zh_CN.GBK\007</pre>
931 <p>See some more examples in the documentation for the <strong>keysym</strong> resource.</p>
932 <p>
933 </p>
934 <h2><a name="i_m_using_keyboard_model_xxx_that_has_extra_prior_next_insert_keys__how_do_i_make_use_of_them_for_example__the_sun_keyboard_type_4_has_the_following_mappings_that_rxvtunicode_doesn_t_recognize_">I'm using keyboard model XXX that has extra Prior/Next/Insert keys.
935 How do I make use of them? For example, the Sun Keyboard type 4
936 has the following mappings that rxvt-unicode doesn't recognize.</a></h2>
937 <pre>
938 KP_Insert == Insert
939 F22 == Print
940 F27 == Home
941 F29 == Prior
942 F33 == End
943 F35 == Next</pre>
944 <p>Rather than have rxvt-unicode try to accommodate all the various possible
945 keyboard mappings, it is better to use `xmodmap' to remap the keys as
946 required for your particular machine.</p>
947 <p>
948 </p>
949 <h2><a name="how_do_i_distinguish_wether_i_m_running_rxvtunicode_or_a_regular_xterm_i_need_this_to_decide_about_setting_colors_etc_">How do I distinguish wether I'm running rxvt-unicode or a regular xterm?
950 I need this to decide about setting colors etc.</a></h2>
951 <p>rxvt and rxvt-unicode always export the variable ``COLORTERM'', so you can
952 check and see if that is set. Note that several programs, JED, slrn,
953 Midnight Commander automatically check this variable to decide whether or
954 not to use color.</p>
955 <p>
956 </p>
957 <h2><a name="how_do_i_set_the_correct__full_ip_address_for_the_display_variable">How do I set the correct, full IP address for the DISPLAY variable?</a></h2>
958 <p>If you've compiled rxvt-unicode with DISPLAY_IS_IP and have enabled
959 insecure mode then it is possible to use the following shell script
960 snippets to correctly set the display. If your version of rxvt-unicode
961 wasn't also compiled with ESCZ_ANSWER (as assumed in these snippets) then
962 the COLORTERM variable can be used to distinguish rxvt-unicode from a
963 regular xterm.</p>
964 <p>Courtesy of Chuck Blake &lt;<a href="mailto:cblake@BBN.COM">cblake@BBN.COM</a>&gt; with the following shell script
965 snippets:</p>
966 <pre>
967 # Bourne/Korn/POSIX family of shells:
968 [ ${TERM:-foo} = foo ] &amp;&amp; TERM=xterm # assume an xterm if we don't know
969 if [ ${TERM:-foo} = xterm ]; then
970 stty -icanon -echo min 0 time 15 # see if enhanced rxvt or not
971 echo -n '^[Z'
972 read term_id
973 stty icanon echo
974 if [ &quot;&quot;${term_id} = '^[[?1;2C' -a ${DISPLAY:-foo} = foo ]; then
975 echo -n '^[[7n' # query the rxvt we are in for the DISPLAY string
976 read DISPLAY # set it in our local shell
977 fi
978 fi</pre>
979 <p>
980 </p>
981 <h2><a name="how_do_i_compile_the_manual_pages_for_myself">How do I compile the manual pages for myself?</a></h2>
982 <p>You need to have a recent version of perl installed as <em>/usr/bin/perl</em>,
983 one that comes with <em>pod2man</em>, <em>pod2text</em> and <em>pod2html</em>. Then go to
984 the doc subdirectory and enter <code>make alldoc</code>.</p>
985 <p>
986 </p>
987 <h2><a name="my_question_isn_t_answered_here__can_i_ask_a_human">My question isn't answered here, can I ask a human?</a></h2>
988 <p>Before sending me mail, you could go to IRC: <code>irc.freenode.net</code>,
989 channel <code>#rxvt-unicode</code> has some rxvt-unicode enthusiasts that might be
990 interested in learning about new and exciting problems (but not FAQs :).</p>
991 <p>
992 </p>
993 <hr />
994 <h1><a name="rxvt_technical_reference">RXVT TECHNICAL REFERENCE</a></h1>
995 <p>
996 </p>
997 <hr />
998 <h1><a name="description">DESCRIPTION</a></h1>
999 <p>The rest of this document describes various technical aspects of
1000 <strong>rxvt-unicode</strong>. First the description of supported command sequences,
1001 followed by pixmap support and last by a description of all features
1002 selectable at <code>configure</code> time.</p>
1003 <p>
1004 </p>
1005 <hr />
1006 <h1><a name="definitions">Definitions</a></h1>
1007 <dl>
1008 <dt><strong><a name="item_c"><strong><code>c</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1009 </dt>
1010 <dd>
1011 The literal character c.
1012 </dd>
1013 <p></p>
1014 <dt><strong><a name="item_c"><strong><code>C</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1015 </dt>
1016 <dd>
1017 A single (required) character.
1018 </dd>
1019 <p></p>
1020 <dt><strong><a name="item_ps"><strong><code>Ps</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1021 </dt>
1022 <dd>
1023 A single (usually optional) numeric parameter, composed of one or more
1024 digits.
1025 </dd>
1026 <p></p>
1027 <dt><strong><a name="item_pm"><strong><code>Pm</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1028 </dt>
1029 <dd>
1030 A multiple numeric parameter composed of any number of single numeric
1031 parameters, separated by <code>;</code> character(s).
1032 </dd>
1033 <p></p>
1034 <dt><strong><a name="item_pt"><strong><code>Pt</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1035 </dt>
1036 <dd>
1037 A text parameter composed of printable characters.
1038 </dd>
1039 <p></p></dl>
1040 <p>
1041 </p>
1042 <hr />
1043 <h1><a name="values">Values</a></h1>
1044 <dl>
1045 <dt><strong><a name="item_enq"><strong><code>ENQ</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1046 </dt>
1047 <dd>
1048 Enquiry (Ctrl-E) = Send Device Attributes (DA)
1049 request attributes from terminal. See <strong><a href="#item_esc__5b_ps_c"><code>ESC [ Ps c</code></a> </strong>&gt;.
1050 </dd>
1051 <p></p>
1052 <dt><strong><a name="item_bel"><strong><code>BEL</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1053 </dt>
1054 <dd>
1055 Bell (Ctrl-G)
1056 </dd>
1057 <p></p>
1058 <dt><strong><a name="item_bs"><strong><code>BS</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1059 </dt>
1060 <dd>
1061 Backspace (Ctrl-H)
1062 </dd>
1063 <p></p>
1064 <dt><strong><a name="item_tab"><strong><code>TAB</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1065 </dt>
1066 <dd>
1067 Horizontal Tab (HT) (Ctrl-I)
1068 </dd>
1069 <p></p>
1070 <dt><strong><a name="item_lf"><strong><code>LF</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1071 </dt>
1072 <dd>
1073 Line Feed or New Line (NL) (Ctrl-J)
1074 </dd>
1075 <p></p>
1076 <dt><strong><a name="item_vt"><strong><code>VT</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1077 </dt>
1078 <dd>
1079 Vertical Tab (Ctrl-K) same as <strong><a href="#item_lf"><code>LF</code></a> </strong>&gt;
1080 </dd>
1081 <p></p>
1082 <dt><strong><a name="item_ff"><strong><code>FF</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1083 </dt>
1084 <dd>
1085 Form Feed or New Page (NP) (Ctrl-L) same as <strong><a href="#item_lf"><code>LF</code></a> </strong>&gt;
1086 </dd>
1087 <p></p>
1088 <dt><strong><a name="item_cr"><strong><code>CR</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1089 </dt>
1090 <dd>
1091 Carriage Return (Ctrl-M)
1092 </dd>
1093 <p></p>
1094 <dt><strong><a name="item_so"><strong><code>SO</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1095 </dt>
1096 <dd>
1097 Shift Out (Ctrl-N), invokes the G1 character set.
1098 Switch to Alternate Character Set
1099 </dd>
1100 <p></p>
1101 <dt><strong><a name="item_si"><strong><code>SI</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1102 </dt>
1103 <dd>
1104 Shift In (Ctrl-O), invokes the G0 character set (the default).
1105 Switch to Standard Character Set
1106 </dd>
1107 <p></p>
1108 <dt><strong><a name="item_spc"><strong><code>SPC</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1109 </dt>
1110 <dd>
1111 Space Character
1112 </dd>
1113 <p></p></dl>
1114 <p>
1115 </p>
1116 <hr />
1117 <h1><a name="escape_sequences">Escape Sequences</a></h1>
1118 <dl>
1119 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__23_8"><strong><code>ESC # 8</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1120 </dt>
1121 <dd>
1122 DEC Screen Alignment Test (DECALN)
1123 </dd>
1124 <p></p>
1125 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc_7"><strong><code>ESC 7</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1126 </dt>
1127 <dd>
1128 Save Cursor (SC)
1129 </dd>
1130 <p></p>
1131 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc_8"><strong><code>ESC 8</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1132 </dt>
1133 <dd>
1134 Restore Cursor
1135 </dd>
1136 <p></p>
1137 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__3d"><strong><code>ESC =</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1138 </dt>
1139 <dd>
1140 Application Keypad (SMKX). See also next sequence.
1141 </dd>
1142 <p></p>
1143 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc"><strong><code>ESC</code> </strong>&gt;&gt;</a></strong><br />
1144 </dt>
1145 <dd>
1146 Normal Keypad (RMKX)
1147 </dd>
1148 <dd>
1149 <p><strong>Note:</strong> If the numeric keypad is activated, eg, <strong>Num_Lock</strong> has been
1150 pressed, numbers or control functions are generated by the numeric keypad
1151 (see Key Codes).</p>
1152 </dd>
1153 <p></p>
1154 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc_d"><strong><code>ESC D</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1155 </dt>
1156 <dd>
1157 Index (IND)
1158 </dd>
1159 <p></p>
1160 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc_e"><strong><code>ESC E</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1161 </dt>
1162 <dd>
1163 Next Line (NEL)
1164 </dd>
1165 <p></p>
1166 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc_h"><strong><code>ESC H</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1167 </dt>
1168 <dd>
1169 Tab Set (HTS)
1170 </dd>
1171 <p></p>
1172 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc_m"><strong><code>ESC M</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1173 </dt>
1174 <dd>
1175 Reverse Index (RI)
1176 </dd>
1177 <p></p>
1178 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc_n"><strong><code>ESC N</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1179 </dt>
1180 <dd>
1181 Single Shift Select of G2 Character Set (SS2): affects next character
1182 only <em>unimplemented</em>
1183 </dd>
1184 <p></p>
1185 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc_o"><strong><code>ESC O</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1186 </dt>
1187 <dd>
1188 Single Shift Select of G3 Character Set (SS3): affects next character
1189 only <em>unimplemented</em>
1190 </dd>
1191 <p></p>
1192 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc_z"><strong><code>ESC Z</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1193 </dt>
1194 <dd>
1195 Obsolete form of returns: <strong><code>ESC [ ? 1 ; 2 C</code> </strong>&gt; <em>rxvt-unicode compile-time option</em>
1196 </dd>
1197 <p></p>
1198 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc_c"><strong><code>ESC c</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1199 </dt>
1200 <dd>
1201 Full reset (RIS)
1202 </dd>
1203 <p></p>
1204 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc_n"><strong><code>ESC n</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1205 </dt>
1206 <dd>
1207 Invoke the G2 Character Set (LS2)
1208 </dd>
1209 <p></p>
1210 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc_o"><strong><code>ESC o</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1211 </dt>
1212 <dd>
1213 Invoke the G3 Character Set (LS3)
1214 </dd>
1215 <p></p>
1216 <dt><strong><strong><code>ESC ( C</code> </strong>&gt;</strong><br />
1217 </dt>
1218 <dd>
1219 Designate G0 Character Set (ISO 2022), see below for values of <a href="#item_c"><code>C</code></a>.
1220 </dd>
1221 <p></p>
1222 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__29_c"><strong><code>ESC ) C</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1223 </dt>
1224 <dd>
1225 Designate G1 Character Set (ISO 2022), see below for values of <a href="#item_c"><code>C</code></a>.
1226 </dd>
1227 <p></p>
1228 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__2a_c"><strong><code>ESC * C</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1229 </dt>
1230 <dd>
1231 Designate G2 Character Set (ISO 2022), see below for values of <a href="#item_c"><code>C</code></a>.
1232 </dd>
1233 <p></p>
1234 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__2b_c"><strong><code>ESC + C</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1235 </dt>
1236 <dd>
1237 Designate G3 Character Set (ISO 2022), see below for values of <a href="#item_c"><code>C</code></a>.
1238 </dd>
1239 <p></p>
1240 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__24_c"><strong><code>ESC $ C</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1241 </dt>
1242 <dd>
1243 Designate Kanji Character Set
1244 </dd>
1245 <dd>
1246 <p>Where <strong><a href="#item_c"><code>C</code></a> </strong>&gt; is one of:</p>
1247 </dd>
1248 <table>
1249 <tr><td>C = 0 </td><td>DEC Special Character and Line Drawing Set</td></tr>
1250 <tr><td>C = A </td><td>United Kingdom (UK)</td></tr>
1251 <tr><td>C = B </td><td>United States (USASCII)</td></tr>
1252 <tr><td>C = <</td><td>Multinational character set unimplemented</td></tr>
1253 <tr><td>C = 5 </td><td>Finnish character set unimplemented</td></tr>
1254 <tr><td>C = C </td><td>Finnish character set unimplemented</td></tr>
1255 <tr><td>C = K </td><td>German character set unimplemented</td></tr>
1256 </table><p></p></dl>
1257 <p></p>
1258 <p>
1259 </p>
1260 <hr />
1261 <h1><a name="csi__command_sequence_introducer__sequences">CSI (Command Sequence Introducer) Sequences</a></h1>
1262 <dl>
1263 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps__40"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps @</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1264 </dt>
1265 <dd>
1266 Insert <strong><a href="#item_ps"><code>Ps</code></a> </strong>&gt; (Blank) <code>Character(s)</code> [default: 1] (ICH)
1267 </dd>
1268 <p></p>
1269 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_a"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps A</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1270 </dt>
1271 <dd>
1272 Cursor Up <strong><a href="#item_ps"><code>Ps</code></a> </strong>&gt; Times [default: 1] (CUU)
1273 </dd>
1274 <p></p>
1275 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_b"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps B</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1276 </dt>
1277 <dd>
1278 Cursor Down <strong><a href="#item_ps"><code>Ps</code></a> </strong>&gt; Times [default: 1] (CUD)
1279 </dd>
1280 <p></p>
1281 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_c"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps C</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1282 </dt>
1283 <dd>
1284 Cursor Forward <strong><a href="#item_ps"><code>Ps</code></a> </strong>&gt; Times [default: 1] (CUF)
1285 </dd>
1286 <p></p>
1287 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_d"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps D</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1288 </dt>
1289 <dd>
1290 Cursor Backward <strong><a href="#item_ps"><code>Ps</code></a> </strong>&gt; Times [default: 1] (CUB)
1291 </dd>
1292 <p></p>
1293 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_e"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps E</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1294 </dt>
1295 <dd>
1296 Cursor Down <strong><a href="#item_ps"><code>Ps</code></a> </strong>&gt; Times [default: 1] and to first column
1297 </dd>
1298 <p></p>
1299 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_f"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps F</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1300 </dt>
1301 <dd>
1302 Cursor Up <strong><a href="#item_ps"><code>Ps</code></a> </strong>&gt; Times [default: 1] and to first column
1303 </dd>
1304 <p></p>
1305 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_g"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps G</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1306 </dt>
1307 <dd>
1308 Cursor to Column <strong><a href="#item_ps"><code>Ps</code></a> </strong>&gt; (HPA)
1309 </dd>
1310 <p></p>
1311 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_3bps_h"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps;Ps H</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1312 </dt>
1313 <dd>
1314 Cursor Position [row;column] [default: 1;1] (CUP)
1315 </dd>
1316 <p></p>
1317 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_i"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps I</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1318 </dt>
1319 <dd>
1320 Move forward <strong><a href="#item_ps"><code>Ps</code></a> </strong>&gt; tab stops [default: 1]
1321 </dd>
1322 <p></p>
1323 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_j"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps J</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1324 </dt>
1325 <dd>
1326 Erase in Display (ED)
1327 </dd>
1328 <table>
1329 <tr><td>Ps = 0</td><td>Clear Below (default)</td></tr>
1330 <tr><td>Ps = 1</td><td>Clear Above</td></tr>
1331 <tr><td>Ps = 2</td><td>Clear All</td></tr>
1332 </table><p></p>
1333 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_k"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps K</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1334 </dt>
1335 <dd>
1336 Erase in Line (EL)
1337 </dd>
1338 <table>
1339 <tr><td>Ps = 0</td><td>Clear to Right (default)</td></tr>
1340 <tr><td>Ps = 1</td><td>Clear to Left</td></tr>
1341 <tr><td>Ps = 2</td><td>Clear All</td></tr>
1342 </table><p></p>
1343 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_l"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps L</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1344 </dt>
1345 <dd>
1346 Insert <strong><a href="#item_ps"><code>Ps</code></a> </strong>&gt; <code>Line(s)</code> [default: 1] (IL)
1347 </dd>
1348 <p></p>
1349 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_m"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps M</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1350 </dt>
1351 <dd>
1352 Delete <strong><a href="#item_ps"><code>Ps</code></a> </strong>&gt; <code>Line(s)</code> [default: 1] (DL)
1353 </dd>
1354 <p></p>
1355 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_p"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps P</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1356 </dt>
1357 <dd>
1358 Delete <strong><a href="#item_ps"><code>Ps</code></a> </strong>&gt; <code>Character(s)</code> [default: 1] (DCH)
1359 </dd>
1360 <p></p>
1361 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_3bps_3bps_3bps_3bps_t"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps;Ps;Ps;Ps;Ps T</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1362 </dt>
1363 <dd>
1364 Initiate . <em>unimplemented</em> Parameters are
1365 [func;startx;starty;firstrow;lastrow].
1366 </dd>
1367 <p></p>
1368 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_w"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps W</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1369 </dt>
1370 <dd>
1371 Tabulator functions
1372 </dd>
1373 <table>
1374 <tr><td>Ps = 0</td><td>Tab Set (HTS)</td></tr>
1375 <tr><td>Ps = 2</td><td>Tab Clear (TBC), Clear Current Column (default)</td></tr>
1376 <tr><td>Ps = 5</td><td>Tab Clear (TBC), Clear All</td></tr>
1377 </table><p></p>
1378 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_x"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps X</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1379 </dt>
1380 <dd>
1381 Erase <strong><a href="#item_ps"><code>Ps</code></a> </strong>&gt; <code>Character(s)</code> [default: 1] (ECH)
1382 </dd>
1383 <p></p>
1384 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_z"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps Z</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1385 </dt>
1386 <dd>
1387 Move backward <strong><a href="#item_ps"><code>Ps</code></a> </strong>&gt; [default: 1] tab stops
1388 </dd>
1389 <p></p>
1390 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps__27"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps '</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1391 </dt>
1392 <dd>
1393 See <strong><a href="#item_esc__5b_ps_g"><code>ESC [ Ps G</code></a> </strong>&gt;
1394 </dd>
1395 <p></p>
1396 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_a"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps a</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1397 </dt>
1398 <dd>
1399 See <strong><a href="#item_esc__5b_ps_c"><code>ESC [ Ps C</code></a> </strong>&gt;
1400 </dd>
1401 <p></p>
1402 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_c"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps c</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1403 </dt>
1404 <dd>
1405 Send Device Attributes (DA)
1406 <strong><code>Ps = 0</code> </strong>&gt; (or omitted): request attributes from terminal
1407 returns: <strong><code>ESC [ ? 1 ; 2 c</code> </strong>&gt; (``I am a VT100 with Advanced Video
1408 Option'')
1409 </dd>
1410 <p></p>
1411 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_d"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps d</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1412 </dt>
1413 <dd>
1414 Cursor to Line <strong><a href="#item_ps"><code>Ps</code></a> </strong>&gt; (VPA)
1415 </dd>
1416 <p></p>
1417 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_e"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps e</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1418 </dt>
1419 <dd>
1420 See <strong><a href="#item_esc__5b_ps_a"><code>ESC [ Ps A</code></a> </strong>&gt;
1421 </dd>
1422 <p></p>
1423 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_3bps_f"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps;Ps f</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1424 </dt>
1425 <dd>
1426 Horizontal and Vertical Position [row;column] (HVP) [default: 1;1]
1427 </dd>
1428 <p></p>
1429 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_g"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps g</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1430 </dt>
1431 <dd>
1432 Tab Clear (TBC)
1433 </dd>
1434 <table>
1435 <tr><td>Ps = 0</td><td>Clear Current Column (default)</td></tr>
1436 <tr><td>Ps = 3</td><td>Clear All (TBC)</td></tr>
1437 </table><p></p>
1438 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_pm_h"><strong><code>ESC [ Pm h</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1439 </dt>
1440 <dd>
1441 Set Mode (SM). See <strong><a href="#item_esc__5b_pm_l"><code>ESC [ Pm l</code></a> </strong>&gt; sequence for description of <a href="#item_pm"><code>Pm</code></a>.
1442 </dd>
1443 <p></p>
1444 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_i"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps i</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1445 </dt>
1446 <dd>
1447 Printing. See also the <code>print-pipe</code> resource.
1448 </dd>
1449 <table>
1450 <tr><td>Ps = 0</td><td>print screen (MC0)</td></tr>
1451 <tr><td>Ps = 4</td><td>disable transparent print mode (MC4)</td></tr>
1452 <tr><td>Ps = 5</td><td>enable transparent print mode (MC5)</td></tr>
1453 </table><p></p>
1454 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_pm_l"><strong><code>ESC [ Pm l</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1455 </dt>
1456 <dd>
1457 Reset Mode (RM)
1458 </dd>
1459 <dl>
1460 <dt><strong><a name="item_ps__3d_4"><strong><code>Ps = 4</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1461 </dt>
1462 <table>
1463 <tr><td>h</td><td>Insert Mode (SMIR)</td></tr>
1464 <tr><td>l</td><td>Replace Mode (RMIR)</td></tr>
1465 </table><dt><strong><a name="item_20"><strong><code>Ps = 20</code> </strong>&gt; (partially implemented)</a></strong><br />
1466 </dt>
1467 <table>
1468 <tr><td>h</td><td>Automatic Newline (LNM)</td></tr>
1469 <tr><td>l</td><td>Normal Linefeed (LNM)</td></tr>
1470 </table></dl>
1471 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_pm_m"><strong><code>ESC [ Pm m</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1472 </dt>
1473 <dd>
1474 Character Attributes (SGR)
1475 </dd>
1476 <table>
1477 <tr><td>Ps = 0</td><td>Normal (default)</td></tr>
1478 <tr><td>Ps = 1 / 21</td><td>On / Off Bold (bright fg)</td></tr>
1479 <tr><td>Ps = 3 / 23</td><td>On / Off Italic</td></tr>
1480 <tr><td>Ps = 4 / 24</td><td>On / Off Underline</td></tr>
1481 <tr><td>Ps = 5 / 25</td><td>On / Off Slow Blink (bright bg)</td></tr>
1482 <tr><td>Ps = 6 / 26</td><td>On / Off Rapid Blink (bright bg)</td></tr>
1483 <tr><td>Ps = 7 / 27</td><td>On / Off Inverse</td></tr>
1484 <tr><td>Ps = 8 / 27</td><td>On / Off Invisible (NYI)</td></tr>
1485 <tr><td>Ps = 30 / 40</td><td>fg/bg Black</td></tr>
1486 <tr><td>Ps = 31 / 41</td><td>fg/bg Red</td></tr>
1487 <tr><td>Ps = 32 / 42</td><td>fg/bg Green</td></tr>
1488 <tr><td>Ps = 33 / 43</td><td>fg/bg Yellow</td></tr>
1489 <tr><td>Ps = 34 / 44</td><td>fg/bg Blue</td></tr>
1490 <tr><td>Ps = 35 / 45</td><td>fg/bg Magenta</td></tr>
1491 <tr><td>Ps = 36 / 46</td><td>fg/bg Cyan</td></tr>
1492 <tr><td>Ps = 38;5 / 48;5</td><td>set fg/bg to color #m (ISO 8613-6)</td></tr>
1493 <tr><td>Ps = 37 / 47</td><td>fg/bg White</td></tr>
1494 <tr><td>Ps = 39 / 49</td><td>fg/bg Default</td></tr>
1495 <tr><td>Ps = 90 / 100</td><td>fg/bg Bright Black</td></tr>
1496 <tr><td>Ps = 91 / 101</td><td>fg/bg Bright Red</td></tr>
1497 <tr><td>Ps = 92 / 102</td><td>fg/bg Bright Green</td></tr>
1498 <tr><td>Ps = 93 / 103</td><td>fg/bg Bright Yellow</td></tr>
1499 <tr><td>Ps = 94 / 104</td><td>fg/bg Bright Blue</td></tr>
1500 <tr><td>Ps = 95 / 105</td><td>fg/bg Bright Magenta</td></tr>
1501 <tr><td>Ps = 96 / 106</td><td>fg/bg Bright Cyan</td></tr>
1502 <tr><td>Ps = 97 / 107</td><td>fg/bg Bright White</td></tr>
1503 <tr><td>Ps = 99 / 109</td><td>fg/bg Bright Default</td></tr>
1504 </table><p></p>
1505 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_n"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps n</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1506 </dt>
1507 <dd>
1508 Device Status Report (DSR)
1509 </dd>
1510 <table>
1511 <tr><td>Ps = 5</td><td>Status Report ESC [ 0 n (``OK'')</td></tr>
1512 <tr><td>Ps = 6</td><td>Report Cursor Position (CPR) [row;column] as ESC [ r ; c R</td></tr>
1513 <tr><td>Ps = 7</td><td>Request Display Name</td></tr>
1514 <tr><td>Ps = 8</td><td>Request Version Number (place in window title)</td></tr>
1515 </table><p></p>
1516 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_3bps_r"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps;Ps r</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1517 </dt>
1518 <dd>
1519 Set Scrolling Region [top;bottom]
1520 [default: full size of window] (CSR)
1521 </dd>
1522 <p></p>
1523 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_s"><strong><code>ESC [ s</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1524 </dt>
1525 <dd>
1526 Save Cursor (SC)
1527 </dd>
1528 <p></p>
1529 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_3bpt_t"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps;Pt t</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1530 </dt>
1531 <dd>
1532 Window Operations
1533 </dd>
1534 <table>
1535 <tr><td>Ps = 1</td><td>Deiconify (map) window</td></tr>
1536 <tr><td>Ps = 2</td><td>Iconify window</td></tr>
1537 <tr><td>Ps = 3</td><td>ESC [ 3 ; X ; Y t Move window to (X|Y)</td></tr>
1538 <tr><td>Ps = 4</td><td>ESC [ 4 ; H ; W t Resize to WxH pixels</td></tr>
1539 <tr><td>Ps = 5</td><td>Raise window</td></tr>
1540 <tr><td>Ps = 6</td><td>Lower window</td></tr>
1541 <tr><td>Ps = 7</td><td>Refresh screen once</td></tr>
1542 <tr><td>Ps = 8</td><td>ESC [ 8 ; R ; C t Resize to R rows and C columns</td></tr>
1543 <tr><td>Ps = 11</td><td>Report window state (responds with Ps = 1 or Ps = 2)</td></tr>
1544 <tr><td>Ps = 13</td><td>Report window position (responds with Ps = 3)</td></tr>
1545 <tr><td>Ps = 14</td><td>Report window pixel size (responds with Ps = 4)</td></tr>
1546 <tr><td>Ps = 18</td><td>Report window text size (responds with Ps = 7)</td></tr>
1547 <tr><td>Ps = 19</td><td>Currently the same as Ps = 18, but responds with Ps = 9</td></tr>
1548 <tr><td>Ps = 20</td><td>Reports icon label (ESC ] L NAME \234)</td></tr>
1549 <tr><td>Ps = 21</td><td>Reports window title (ESC ] l NAME \234)</td></tr>
1550 <tr><td>Ps = 24..</td><td>Set window height to Ps rows</td></tr>
1551 </table><p></p>
1552 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_u"><strong><code>ESC [ u</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1553 </dt>
1554 <dd>
1555 Restore Cursor
1556 </dd>
1557 <p></p>
1558 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_ps_x"><strong><code>ESC [ Ps x</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1559 </dt>
1560 <dd>
1561 Request Terminal Parameters (DECREQTPARM)
1562 </dd>
1563 <p></p></dl>
1564 <p></p>
1565 <p>
1566 </p>
1567 <hr />
1568 <h1><a name="dec_private_modes">DEC Private Modes</a></h1>
1569 <dl>
1570 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b__3f_pm_h"><strong><code>ESC [ ? Pm h</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1571 </dt>
1572 <dd>
1573 DEC Private Mode Set (DECSET)
1574 </dd>
1575 <p></p>
1576 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b__3f_pm_l"><strong><code>ESC [ ? Pm l</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1577 </dt>
1578 <dd>
1579 DEC Private Mode Reset (DECRST)
1580 </dd>
1581 <p></p>
1582 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b__3f_pm_r"><strong><code>ESC [ ? Pm r</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1583 </dt>
1584 <dd>
1585 Restore previously saved DEC Private Mode Values.
1586 </dd>
1587 <p></p>
1588 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b__3f_pm_s"><strong><code>ESC [ ? Pm s</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1589 </dt>
1590 <dd>
1591 Save DEC Private Mode Values.
1592 </dd>
1593 <p></p>
1594 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b__3f_pm_t"><strong><code>ESC [ ? Pm t</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1595 </dt>
1596 <dd>
1597 Toggle DEC Private Mode Values (rxvt extension). <em>where</em>
1598 </dd>
1599 <dl>
1600 <dt><strong><a name="item_1"><strong><code>Ps = 1</code> </strong>&gt; (DECCKM)</a></strong><br />
1601 </dt>
1602 <table>
1603 <tr><td>h</td><td>Application Cursor Keys</td></tr>
1604 <tr><td>l</td><td>Normal Cursor Keys</td></tr>
1605 </table><dt><strong><a name="item_2"><strong><code>Ps = 2</code> </strong>&gt; (ANSI/VT52 mode)</a></strong><br />
1606 </dt>
1607 <table>
1608 <tr><td>h</td><td>Enter VT52 mode</td></tr>
1609 <tr><td>l</td><td>Enter VT52 mode</td></tr>
1610 </table><dt><strong><a name="item_ps__3d_3"><strong><code>Ps = 3</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1611 </dt>
1612 <table>
1613 <tr><td>h</td><td>132 Column Mode (DECCOLM)</td></tr>
1614 <tr><td>l</td><td>80 Column Mode (DECCOLM)</td></tr>
1615 </table><dt><strong><strong><code>Ps = 4</code> </strong>&gt;</strong><br />
1616 </dt>
1617 <table>
1618 <tr><td>h</td><td>Smooth (Slow) Scroll (DECSCLM)</td></tr>
1619 <tr><td>l</td><td>Jump (Fast) Scroll (DECSCLM)</td></tr>
1620 </table><dt><strong><a name="item_ps__3d_5"><strong><code>Ps = 5</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1621 </dt>
1622 <table>
1623 <tr><td>h</td><td>Reverse Video (DECSCNM)</td></tr>
1624 <tr><td>l</td><td>Normal Video (DECSCNM)</td></tr>
1625 </table><dt><strong><a name="item_ps__3d_6"><strong><code>Ps = 6</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1626 </dt>
1627 <table>
1628 <tr><td>h</td><td>Origin Mode (DECOM)</td></tr>
1629 <tr><td>l</td><td>Normal Cursor Mode (DECOM)</td></tr>
1630 </table><dt><strong><a name="item_ps__3d_7"><strong><code>Ps = 7</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1631 </dt>
1632 <table>
1633 <tr><td>h</td><td>Wraparound Mode (DECAWM)</td></tr>
1634 <tr><td>l</td><td>No Wraparound Mode (DECAWM)</td></tr>
1635 </table><dt><strong><a name="item_ps__3d_8_unimplemented"><strong><code>Ps = 8</code> </strong>&gt; <em>unimplemented</em></a></strong><br />
1636 </dt>
1637 <table>
1638 <tr><td>h</td><td>Auto-repeat Keys (DECARM)</td></tr>
1639 <tr><td>l</td><td>No Auto-repeat Keys (DECARM)</td></tr>
1640 </table><dt><strong><a name="item_ps__3d_9_x10_xterm"><strong><code>Ps = 9</code> </strong>&gt; X10 XTerm</a></strong><br />
1641 </dt>
1642 <table>
1643 <tr><td>h</td><td>Send Mouse X & Y on button press.</td></tr>
1644 <tr><td>l</td><td>No mouse reporting.</td></tr>
1645 </table><dt><strong><a name="item_ps__3d_25"><strong><code>Ps = 25</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1646 </dt>
1647 <table>
1648 <tr><td>h</td><td>Visible cursor {cnorm/cvvis}</td></tr>
1649 <tr><td>l</td><td>Invisible cursor {civis}</td></tr>
1650 </table><dt><strong><a name="item_ps__3d_30"><strong><code>Ps = 30</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1651 </dt>
1652 <table>
1653 <tr><td>h</td><td>scrollBar visisble</td></tr>
1654 <tr><td>l</td><td>scrollBar invisisble</td></tr>
1655 </table><dt><strong><a name="item_35"><strong><code>Ps = 35</code> </strong>&gt; (<strong>rxvt</strong>)</a></strong><br />
1656 </dt>
1657 <table>
1658 <tr><td>h</td><td>Allow XTerm Shift+key sequences</td></tr>
1659 <tr><td>l</td><td>Disallow XTerm Shift+key sequences</td></tr>
1660 </table><dt><strong><a name="item_ps__3d_38_unimplemented"><strong><code>Ps = 38</code> </strong>&gt; <em>unimplemented</em></a></strong><br />
1661 </dt>
1662 <dd>
1663 Enter Tektronix Mode (DECTEK)
1664 </dd>
1665 <p></p>
1666 <dt><strong><a name="item_ps__3d_40"><strong><code>Ps = 40</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1667 </dt>
1668 <table>
1669 <tr><td>h</td><td>Allow 80/132 Mode</td></tr>
1670 <tr><td>l</td><td>Disallow 80/132 Mode</td></tr>
1671 </table><dt><strong><a name="item_ps__3d_44_unimplemented"><strong><code>Ps = 44</code> </strong>&gt; <em>unimplemented</em></a></strong><br />
1672 </dt>
1673 <table>
1674 <tr><td>h</td><td>Turn On Margin Bell</td></tr>
1675 <tr><td>l</td><td>Turn Off Margin Bell</td></tr>
1676 </table><dt><strong><a name="item_ps__3d_45_unimplemented"><strong><code>Ps = 45</code> </strong>&gt; <em>unimplemented</em></a></strong><br />
1677 </dt>
1678 <table>
1679 <tr><td>h</td><td>Reverse-wraparound Mode</td></tr>
1680 <tr><td>l</td><td>No Reverse-wraparound Mode</td></tr>
1681 </table><dt><strong><a name="item_ps__3d_46_unimplemented"><strong><code>Ps = 46</code> </strong>&gt; <em>unimplemented</em></a></strong><br />
1682 </dt>
1683 <dt><strong><a name="item_ps__3d_47"><strong><code>Ps = 47</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1684 </dt>
1685 <table>
1686 <tr><td>h</td><td>Use Alternate Screen Buffer</td></tr>
1687 <tr><td>l</td><td>Use Normal Screen Buffer</td></tr>
1688 </table><p></p>
1689 <dt><strong><a name="item_ps__3d_66"><strong><code>Ps = 66</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1690 </dt>
1691 <table>
1692 <tr><td>h</td><td>Application Keypad (DECPAM) == ESC =</td></tr>
1693 <tr><td>l</td><td>Normal Keypad (DECPNM) == ESC ></td></tr>
1694 </table><dt><strong><a name="item_ps__3d_67"><strong><code>Ps = 67</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1695 </dt>
1696 <table>
1697 <tr><td>h</td><td>Backspace key sends BS (DECBKM)</td></tr>
1698 <tr><td>l</td><td>Backspace key sends DEL</td></tr>
1699 </table><dt><strong><a name="item_1000"><strong><code>Ps = 1000</code> </strong>&gt; (X11 XTerm)</a></strong><br />
1700 </dt>
1701 <table>
1702 <tr><td>h</td><td>Send Mouse X & Y on button press and release.</td></tr>
1703 <tr><td>l</td><td>No mouse reporting.</td></tr>
1704 </table><dt><strong><a name="item_1001"><strong><code>Ps = 1001</code> </strong>&gt; (X11 XTerm) <em>unimplemented</em></a></strong><br />
1705 </dt>
1706 <table>
1707 <tr><td>h</td><td>Use Hilite Mouse Tracking.</td></tr>
1708 <tr><td>l</td><td>No mouse reporting.</td></tr>
1709 </table><dt><strong><a name="item_1010"><strong><code>Ps = 1010</code> </strong>&gt; (<strong>rxvt</strong>)</a></strong><br />
1710 </dt>
1711 <table>
1712 <tr><td>h</td><td>Don't scroll to bottom on TTY output</td></tr>
1713 <tr><td>l</td><td>Scroll to bottom on TTY output</td></tr>
1714 </table><dt><strong><a name="item_1011"><strong><code>Ps = 1011</code> </strong>&gt; (<strong>rxvt</strong>)</a></strong><br />
1715 </dt>
1716 <table>
1717 <tr><td>h</td><td>Scroll to bottom when a key is pressed</td></tr>
1718 <tr><td>l</td><td>Don't scroll to bottom when a key is pressed</td></tr>
1719 </table><dt><strong><a name="item_1021"><strong><code>Ps = 1021</code> </strong>&gt; (<strong>rxvt</strong>)</a></strong><br />
1720 </dt>
1721 <table>
1722 <tr><td>h</td><td>Bold/italic implies high intensity (see option -is)</td></tr>
1723 <tr><td>l</td><td>Font styles have no effect on intensity (Compile styles)</td></tr>
1724 </table><dt><strong><a name="item_ps__3d_1047"><strong><code>Ps = 1047</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1725 </dt>
1726 <table>
1727 <tr><td>h</td><td>Use Alternate Screen Buffer</td></tr>
1728 <tr><td>l</td><td>Use Normal Screen Buffer - clear Alternate Screen Buffer if returning from it</td></tr>
1729 </table><dt><strong><a name="item_ps__3d_1048"><strong><code>Ps = 1048</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1730 </dt>
1731 <table>
1732 <tr><td>h</td><td>Save cursor position</td></tr>
1733 <tr><td>l</td><td>Restore cursor position</td></tr>
1734 </table><dt><strong><a name="item_ps__3d_1049"><strong><code>Ps = 1049</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1735 </dt>
1736 <table>
1737 <tr><td>h</td><td>Use Alternate Screen Buffer - clear Alternate Screen Buffer if switching to it</td></tr>
1738 <tr><td>l</td><td>Use Normal Screen Buffer</td></tr>
1739 </table></dl>
1740 </dl>
1741 <p></p>
1742 <p>
1743 </p>
1744 <hr />
1745 <h1><a name="xterm_operating_system_commands">XTerm Operating System Commands</a></h1>
1746 <dl>
1747 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5d_ps_3bpt_st"><strong><code>ESC ] Ps;Pt ST</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1748 </dt>
1749 <dd>
1750 Set XTerm Parameters. 8-bit ST: 0x9c, 7-bit ST sequence: ESC \ (0x1b,
1751 0x5c), backwards compatible terminator BEL (0x07) is also accepted. any
1752 <strong>octet</strong> can be escaped by prefixing it with SYN (0x16, ^V).
1753 </dd>
1754 <table>
1755 <tr><td>Ps = 0</td><td>Change Icon Name and Window Title to Pt</td></tr>
1756 <tr><td>Ps = 1</td><td>Change Icon Name to Pt</td></tr>
1757 <tr><td>Ps = 2</td><td>Change Window Title to Pt</td></tr>
1758 <tr><td>Ps = 3</td><td>If Pt starts with a ?, query the (STRING) property of the window and return it. If Pt contains a =, set the named property to the given value, else delete the specified property.</td></tr>
1759 <tr><td>Ps = 4</td><td>Pt is a semi-colon separated sequence of one or more semi-colon separated number/name pairs, where number is an index to a colour and name is the name of a colour. Each pair causes the numbered colour to be changed to name. Numbers 0-7 corresponds to low-intensity (normal) colours and 8-15 corresponds to high-intensity colours. 0=black, 1=red, 2=green, 3=yellow, 4=blue, 5=magenta, 6=cyan, 7=white</td></tr>
1760 <tr><td>Ps = 10</td><td>Change colour of text foreground to Pt (NB: may change in future)</td></tr>
1761 <tr><td>Ps = 11</td><td>Change colour of text background to Pt (NB: may change in future)</td></tr>
1762 <tr><td>Ps = 12</td><td>Change colour of text cursor foreground to Pt</td></tr>
1763 <tr><td>Ps = 13</td><td>Change colour of mouse foreground to Pt</td></tr>
1764 <tr><td>Ps = 17</td><td>Change colour of highlight characters to Pt</td></tr>
1765 <tr><td>Ps = 18</td><td>Change colour of bold characters to Pt [deprecated, see 706]</td></tr>
1766 <tr><td>Ps = 19</td><td>Change colour of underlined characters to Pt [deprecated, see 707]</td></tr>
1767 <tr><td>Ps = 20</td><td>Change background pixmap parameters (see section XPM) (Compile XPM).</td></tr>
1768 <tr><td>Ps = 39</td><td>Change default foreground colour to Pt.</td></tr>
1769 <tr><td>Ps = 46</td><td>Change Log File to Pt unimplemented</td></tr>
1770 <tr><td>Ps = 49</td><td>Change default background colour to Pt.</td></tr>
1771 <tr><td>Ps = 50</td><td>Set fontset to Pt, with the following special values of Pt (rxvt) #+n change up n #-n change down n if n is missing of 0, a value of 1 is used empty change to font0 n change to font n</td></tr>
1772 <tr><td>Ps = 55</td><td>Log all scrollback buffer and all of screen to Pt</td></tr>
1773 <tr><td>Ps = 701</td><td>Change current locale to Pt, or, if Pt is ?, return the current locale (Compile frills).</td></tr>
1774 <tr><td>Ps = 702</td><td>Request version if Pt is ?, returning rxvt-unicode, the resource name, the major and minor version numbers, e.g. ESC ] 702 ; rxvt-unicode ; urxvt ; 7 ; 4 ST.</td></tr>
1775 <tr><td>Ps = 704</td><td>Change colour of italic characters to Pt</td></tr>
1776 <tr><td>Ps = 705</td><td>Change background pixmap tint colour to Pt (Compile transparency).</td></tr>
1777 <tr><td>Ps = 706</td><td>Change colour of bold characters to Pt</td></tr>
1778 <tr><td>Ps = 707</td><td>Change colour of underlined characters to Pt</td></tr>
1779 <tr><td>Ps = 710</td><td>Set normal fontset to Pt. Same as Ps = 50.</td></tr>
1780 <tr><td>Ps = 711</td><td>Set bold fontset to Pt. Similar to Ps = 50 (Compile styles).</td></tr>
1781 <tr><td>Ps = 712</td><td>Set italic fontset to Pt. Similar to Ps = 50 (Compile styles).</td></tr>
1782 <tr><td>Ps = 713</td><td>Set bold-italic fontset to Pt. Similar to Ps = 50 (Compile styles).</td></tr>
1783 <tr><td>Ps = 720</td><td>Move viewing window up by Pt lines, or clear scrollback buffer if Pt = 0 (Compile frills).</td></tr>
1784 <tr><td>Ps = 721</td><td>Move viewing window down by Pt lines, or clear scrollback buffer if Pt = 0 (Compile frills).</td></tr>
1785 <tr><td>Ps = 777</td><td>Call the perl extension with the given string, which should be of the form extension:parameters (Compile perl).</td></tr>
1786 </table><p></p></dl>
1787 <p></p>
1788 <p>
1789 </p>
1790 <hr />
1791 <h1><a name="xpm">XPM</a></h1>
1792 <p>For the XPM XTerm escape sequence <strong><code>ESC ] 20 ; Pt ST</code> </strong>&gt; then value
1793 of <strong><a href="#item_pt"><code>Pt</code></a> </strong>&gt; can be the name of the background pixmap followed by a
1794 sequence of scaling/positioning commands separated by semi-colons. The
1795 scaling/positioning commands are as follows:</p>
1796 <dl>
1797 <dt><strong><a name="item_query_scale_2fposition">query scale/position</a></strong><br />
1798 </dt>
1799 <dd>
1800 <strong>?</strong>
1801 </dd>
1802 <p></p>
1803 <dt><strong><a name="item_change_scale_and_position">change scale and position</a></strong><br />
1804 </dt>
1805 <dd>
1806 <strong>WxH+X+Y</strong>
1807 </dd>
1808 <dd>
1809 <p><strong>WxH+X</strong> (== <strong>WxH+X+X</strong>)</p>
1810 </dd>
1811 <dd>
1812 <p><strong>WxH</strong> (same as <strong>WxH+50+50</strong>)</p>
1813 </dd>
1814 <dd>
1815 <p><strong>W+X+Y</strong> (same as <strong>WxW+X+Y</strong>)</p>
1816 </dd>
1817 <dd>
1818 <p><strong>W+X</strong> (same as <strong>WxW+X+X</strong>)</p>
1819 </dd>
1820 <dd>
1821 <p><strong>W</strong> (same as <strong>WxW+50+50</strong>)</p>
1822 </dd>
1823 <p></p>
1824 <dt><strong><a name="item_position">change position (absolute)</a></strong><br />
1825 </dt>
1826 <dd>
1827 <strong>=+X+Y</strong>
1828 </dd>
1829 <dd>
1830 <p><strong>=+X</strong> (same as <strong>=+X+Y</strong>)</p>
1831 </dd>
1832 <p></p>
1833 <dt><strong>change position (relative)</strong><br />
1834 </dt>
1835 <dd>
1836 <strong>+X+Y</strong>
1837 </dd>
1838 <dd>
1839 <p><strong>+X</strong> (same as <strong>+X+Y</strong>)</p>
1840 </dd>
1841 <p></p>
1842 <dt><strong><a name="item_rescale">rescale (relative)</a></strong><br />
1843 </dt>
1844 <dd>
1845 <strong>Wx0</strong> -&gt; <strong>W *= (W/100)</strong>
1846 </dd>
1847 <dd>
1848 <p><strong>0xH</strong> -&gt; <strong>H *= (H/100)</strong></p>
1849 </dd>
1850 <p></p></dl>
1851 <p>For example:</p>
1852 <dl>
1853 <dt><strong><a name="item__5ce_5d20_3bfunky_5ca"><strong>\E]20;funky\a</strong></a></strong><br />
1854 </dt>
1855 <dd>
1856 load <strong>funky.xpm</strong> as a tiled image
1857 </dd>
1858 <p></p>
1859 <dt><strong><a name="item__5ce_5d20_3bmona_3b100_5ca"><strong>\E]20;mona;100\a</strong></a></strong><br />
1860 </dt>
1861 <dd>
1862 load <strong>mona.xpm</strong> with a scaling of 100%
1863 </dd>
1864 <p></p>
1865 <dt><strong><a name="item__5ce_5d20_3b_3b200_3b_3f_5ca"><strong>\E]20;;200;?\a</strong></a></strong><br />
1866 </dt>
1867 <dd>
1868 rescale the current pixmap to 200% and display the image geometry in
1869 the title
1870 </dd>
1871 <p></p></dl>
1872 <p>
1873 </p>
1874 <hr />
1875 <h1><a name="mouse_reporting">Mouse Reporting</a></h1>
1876 <dl>
1877 <dt><strong><a name="item_esc__5b_m__3cb_3e__3cx_3e__3cy_3e"><strong><code>ESC [ M &lt;b&gt; &lt;x&gt; &lt;y&gt;</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1878 </dt>
1879 <dd>
1880 report mouse position
1881 </dd>
1882 <p></p></dl>
1883 <p>The lower 2 bits of <strong><code>&lt;b&gt;</code> </strong>&gt; indicate the button:</p>
1884 <dl>
1885 <dt><strong><a name="item_button__3d__28_3cb_3e__2d_space_29__26_3">Button = <strong><code>(&lt;b&gt; - SPACE) &amp; 3</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1886 </dt>
1887 <table>
1888 <tr><td>0</td><td>Button1 pressed</td></tr>
1889 <tr><td>1</td><td>Button2 pressed</td></tr>
1890 <tr><td>2</td><td>Button3 pressed</td></tr>
1891 <tr><td>3</td><td>button released (X11 mouse report)</td></tr>
1892 </table></dl>
1893 <p>The upper bits of <strong><code>&lt;b&gt;</code> </strong>&gt; indicate the modifiers when the
1894 button was pressed and are added together (X11 mouse report only):</p>
1895 <dl>
1896 <dt><strong><a name="item_state__3d__28_3cb_3e__2d_space_29__26_60">State = <strong><code>(&lt;b&gt; - SPACE) &amp; 60</code> </strong>&gt;</a></strong><br />
1897 </dt>
1898 <table>
1899 <tr><td>4</td><td>Shift</td></tr>
1900 <tr><td>8</td><td>Meta</td></tr>
1901 <tr><td>16</td><td>Control</td></tr>
1902 <tr><td>32</td><td>Double Click (Rxvt extension)</td></tr>
1903 </table><p>Col = <strong><code>&lt;x&gt; - SPACE</code> </strong>&gt;</p>
1904 <p>Row = <strong><code>&lt;y&gt; - SPACE</code> </strong>&gt;</p>
1905 </dl>
1906 <p>
1907 </p>
1908 <hr />
1909 <h1><a name="key_codes">Key Codes</a></h1>
1910 <p>Note: <strong>Shift</strong> + <strong>F1</strong>-<strong>F10</strong> generates <strong>F11</strong>-<strong>F20</strong></p>
1911 <p>For the keypad, use <strong>Shift</strong> to temporarily override Application-Keypad
1912 setting use <strong>Num_Lock</strong> to toggle Application-Keypad setting if
1913 <strong>Num_Lock</strong> is off, toggle Application-Keypad setting. Also note that
1914 values of <strong>Home</strong>, <strong>End</strong>, <strong>Delete</strong> may have been compiled differently on
1915 your system.</p>
1916 <table>
1917 <tr><td></td><td>Normal</td><td>Shift</td><td>Control</td><td>Ctrl+Shift</td></tr>
1918 <tr><td>Tab</td><td>^I</td><td>ESC [ Z</td><td>^I</td><td>ESC [ Z</td></tr>
1919 <tr><td>BackSpace</td><td>^H</td><td>^?</td><td>^?</td><td>^?</td></tr>
1920 <tr><td>Find</td><td>ESC [ 1 ~</td><td>ESC [ 1 $</td><td>ESC [ 1 ^</td><td>ESC [ 1 @</td></tr>
1921 <tr><td>Insert</td><td>ESC [ 2 ~</td><td>paste</td><td>ESC [ 2 ^</td><td>ESC [ 2 @</td></tr>
1922 <tr><td>Execute</td><td>ESC [ 3 ~</td><td>ESC [ 3 $</td><td>ESC [ 3 ^</td><td>ESC [ 3 @</td></tr>
1923 <tr><td>Select</td><td>ESC [ 4 ~</td><td>ESC [ 4 $</td><td>ESC [ 4 ^</td><td>ESC [ 4 @</td></tr>
1924 <tr><td>Prior</td><td>ESC [ 5 ~</td><td>scroll-up</td><td>ESC [ 5 ^</td><td>ESC [ 5 @</td></tr>
1925 <tr><td>Next</td><td>ESC [ 6 ~</td><td>scroll-down</td><td>ESC [ 6 ^</td><td>ESC [ 6 @</td></tr>
1926 <tr><td>Home</td><td>ESC [ 7 ~</td><td>ESC [ 7 $</td><td>ESC [ 7 ^</td><td>ESC [ 7 @</td></tr>
1927 <tr><td>End</td><td>ESC [ 8 ~</td><td>ESC [ 8 $</td><td>ESC [ 8 ^</td><td>ESC [ 8 @</td></tr>
1928 <tr><td>Delete</td><td>ESC [ 3 ~</td><td>ESC [ 3 $</td><td>ESC [ 3 ^</td><td>ESC [ 3 @</td></tr>
1929 <tr><td>F1</td><td>ESC [ 11 ~</td><td>ESC [ 23 ~</td><td>ESC [ 11 ^</td><td>ESC [ 23 ^</td></tr>
1930 <tr><td>F2</td><td>ESC [ 12 ~</td><td>ESC [ 24 ~</td><td>ESC [ 12 ^</td><td>ESC [ 24 ^</td></tr>
1931 <tr><td>F3</td><td>ESC [ 13 ~</td><td>ESC [ 25 ~</td><td>ESC [ 13 ^</td><td>ESC [ 25 ^</td></tr>
1932 <tr><td>F4</td><td>ESC [ 14 ~</td><td>ESC [ 26 ~</td><td>ESC [ 14 ^</td><td>ESC [ 26 ^</td></tr>
1933 <tr><td>F5</td><td>ESC [ 15 ~</td><td>ESC [ 28 ~</td><td>ESC [ 15 ^</td><td>ESC [ 28 ^</td></tr>
1934 <tr><td>F6</td><td>ESC [ 17 ~</td><td>ESC [ 29 ~</td><td>ESC [ 17 ^</td><td>ESC [ 29 ^</td></tr>
1935 <tr><td>F7</td><td>ESC [ 18 ~</td><td>ESC [ 31 ~</td><td>ESC [ 18 ^</td><td>ESC [ 31 ^</td></tr>
1936 <tr><td>F8</td><td>ESC [ 19 ~</td><td>ESC [ 32 ~</td><td>ESC [ 19 ^</td><td>ESC [ 32 ^</td></tr>
1937 <tr><td>F9</td><td>ESC [ 20 ~</td><td>ESC [ 33 ~</td><td>ESC [ 20 ^</td><td>ESC [ 33 ^</td></tr>
1938 <tr><td>F10</td><td>ESC [ 21 ~</td><td>ESC [ 34 ~</td><td>ESC [ 21 ^</td><td>ESC [ 34 ^</td></tr>
1939 <tr><td>F11</td><td>ESC [ 23 ~</td><td>ESC [ 23 $</td><td>ESC [ 23 ^</td><td>ESC [ 23 @</td></tr>
1940 <tr><td>F12</td><td>ESC [ 24 ~</td><td>ESC [ 24 $</td><td>ESC [ 24 ^</td><td>ESC [ 24 @</td></tr>
1941 <tr><td>F13</td><td>ESC [ 25 ~</td><td>ESC [ 25 $</td><td>ESC [ 25 ^</td><td>ESC [ 25 @</td></tr>
1942 <tr><td>F14</td><td>ESC [ 26 ~</td><td>ESC [ 26 $</td><td>ESC [ 26 ^</td><td>ESC [ 26 @</td></tr>
1943 <tr><td>F15 (Help)</td><td>ESC [ 28 ~</td><td>ESC [ 28 $</td><td>ESC [ 28 ^</td><td>ESC [ 28 @</td></tr>
1944 <tr><td>F16 (Menu)</td><td>ESC [ 29 ~</td><td>ESC [ 29 $</td><td>ESC [ 29 ^</td><td>ESC [ 29 @</td></tr>
1945 <tr><td>F17</td><td>ESC [ 31 ~</td><td>ESC [ 31 $</td><td>ESC [ 31 ^</td><td>ESC [ 31 @</td></tr>
1946 <tr><td>F18</td><td>ESC [ 32 ~</td><td>ESC [ 32 $</td><td>ESC [ 32 ^</td><td>ESC [ 32 @</td></tr>
1947 <tr><td>F19</td><td>ESC [ 33 ~</td><td>ESC [ 33 $</td><td>ESC [ 33 ^</td><td>ESC [ 33 @</td></tr>
1948 <tr><td>F20</td><td>ESC [ 34 ~</td><td>ESC [ 34 $</td><td>ESC [ 34 ^</td><td>ESC [ 34 @</td></tr>
1949 <tr><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>Application</td></tr>
1950 <tr><td>Up</td><td>ESC [ A</td><td>ESC [ a</td><td>ESC O a</td><td>ESC O A</td></tr>
1951 <tr><td>Down</td><td>ESC [ B</td><td>ESC [ b</td><td>ESC O b</td><td>ESC O B</td></tr>
1952 <tr><td>Right</td><td>ESC [ C</td><td>ESC [ c</td><td>ESC O c</td><td>ESC O C</td></tr>
1953 <tr><td>Left</td><td>ESC [ D</td><td>ESC [ d</td><td>ESC O d</td><td>ESC O D</td></tr>
1954 <tr><td>KP_Enter</td><td>^M</td><td></td><td></td><td>ESC O M</td></tr>
1955 <tr><td>KP_F1</td><td>ESC O P</td><td></td><td></td><td>ESC O P</td></tr>
1956 <tr><td>KP_F2</td><td>ESC O Q</td><td></td><td></td><td>ESC O Q</td></tr>
1957 <tr><td>KP_F3</td><td>ESC O R</td><td></td><td></td><td>ESC O R</td></tr>
1958 <tr><td>KP_F4</td><td>ESC O S</td><td></td><td></td><td>ESC O S</td></tr>
1959 <tr><td>XK_KP_Multiply</td><td>*</td><td></td><td></td><td>ESC O j</td></tr>
1960 <tr><td>XK_KP_Add</td><td>+</td><td></td><td></td><td>ESC O k</td></tr>
1961 <tr><td>XK_KP_Separator</td><td>,</td><td></td><td></td><td>ESC O l</td></tr>
1962 <tr><td>XK_KP_Subtract</td><td>-</td><td></td><td></td><td>ESC O m</td></tr>
1963 <tr><td>XK_KP_Decimal</td><td>.</td><td></td><td></td><td>ESC O n</td></tr>
1964 <tr><td>XK_KP_Divide</td><td>/</td><td></td><td></td><td>ESC O o</td></tr>
1965 <tr><td>XK_KP_0</td><td>0</td><td></td><td></td><td>ESC O p</td></tr>
1966 <tr><td>XK_KP_1</td><td>1</td><td></td><td></td><td>ESC O q</td></tr>
1967 <tr><td>XK_KP_2</td><td>2</td><td></td><td></td><td>ESC O r</td></tr>
1968 <tr><td>XK_KP_3</td><td>3</td><td></td><td></td><td>ESC O s</td></tr>
1969 <tr><td>XK_KP_4</td><td>4</td><td></td><td></td><td>ESC O t</td></tr>
1970 <tr><td>XK_KP_5</td><td>5</td><td></td><td></td><td>ESC O u</td></tr>
1971 <tr><td>XK_KP_6</td><td>6</td><td></td><td></td><td>ESC O v</td></tr>
1972 <tr><td>XK_KP_7</td><td>7</td><td></td><td></td><td>ESC O w</td></tr>
1973 <tr><td>XK_KP_8</td><td>8</td><td></td><td></td><td>ESC O x</td></tr>
1974 <tr><td>XK_KP_9</td><td>9</td><td></td><td></td><td>ESC O y</td></tr>
1975 </table><p>
1976 </p>
1977 <hr />
1978 <h1><a name="configure_options">CONFIGURE OPTIONS</a></h1>
1979 <p>General hint: if you get compile errors, then likely your configuration
1980 hasn't been tested well. Either try with <a href="#item__2d_2denable_2deverything"><code>--enable-everything</code></a> or use
1981 the <em>./reconf</em> script as a base for experiments. <em>./reconf</em> is used by
1982 myself, so it should generally be a working config. Of course, you should
1983 always report when a combination doesn't work, so it can be fixed. Marc
1984 Lehmann &lt;<a href="mailto:rxvt@schmorp.de">rxvt@schmorp.de</a>&gt;.</p>
1985 <p>All</p>
1986 <dl>
1987 <dt><strong><a name="item__2d_2denable_2deverything">--enable-everything</a></strong><br />
1988 </dt>
1989 <dd>
1990 Add (or remove) support for all non-multichoice options listed in ``./configure
1991 --help''.
1992 </dd>
1993 <dd>
1994 <p>You can specify this and then disable options you do not like by
1995 <em>following</em> this with the appropriate <code>--disable-...</code> arguments,
1996 or you can start with a minimal configuration by specifying
1997 <code>--disable-everything</code> and than adding just the <code>--enable-...</code> arguments
1998 you want.</p>
1999 </dd>
2000 <p></p>
2001 <dt><strong><a name="item_xft">--enable-xft (default: enabled)</a></strong><br />
2002 </dt>
2003 <dd>
2004 Add support for Xft (anti-aliases, among others) fonts. Xft fonts are
2005 slower and require lots of memory, but as long as you don't use them, you
2006 don't pay for them.
2007 </dd>
2008 <p></p>
2009 <dt><strong><a name="item_styles">--enable-font-styles (default: on)</a></strong><br />
2010 </dt>
2011 <dd>
2012 Add support for <strong>bold</strong>, <em>italic</em> and <strong><em>bold italic</em> </strong>&gt; font
2013 styles. The fonts can be set manually or automatically.
2014 </dd>
2015 <p></p>
2016 <dt><strong><a name="item__2d_2dwith_2dcodesets_3dname_2c_2e_2e_2e__28defaul">--with-codesets=NAME,... (default: all)</a></strong><br />
2017 </dt>
2018 <dd>
2019 Compile in support for additional codeset (encoding) groups (<code>eu</code>, <code>vn</code>
2020 are always compiled in, which includes most 8-bit character sets). These
2021 codeset tables are used for driving X11 core fonts, they are not required
2022 for Xft fonts, although having them compiled in lets rxvt-unicode choose
2023 replacement fonts more intelligently. Compiling them in will make your
2024 binary bigger (all of together cost about 700kB), but it doesn't increase
2025 memory usage unless you use a font requiring one of these encodings.
2026 </dd>
2027 <table>
2028 <tr><td>all</td><td>all available codeset groups</td></tr>
2029 <tr><td>zh</td><td>common chinese encodings</td></tr>
2030 <tr><td>zh_ext</td><td>rarely used but very big chinese encodigs</td></tr>
2031 <tr><td>jp</td><td>common japanese encodings</td></tr>
2032 <tr><td>jp_ext</td><td>rarely used but big japanese encodings</td></tr>
2033 <tr><td>kr</td><td>korean encodings</td></tr>
2034 </table><p></p>
2035 <dt><strong><a name="item_xim">--enable-xim (default: on)</a></strong><br />
2036 </dt>
2037 <dd>
2038 Add support for XIM (X Input Method) protocol. This allows using
2039 alternative input methods (e.g. kinput2) and will also correctly
2040 set up the input for people using dead keys or compose keys.
2041 </dd>
2042 <p></p>
2043 <dt><strong><a name="item_unicode3">--enable-unicode3 (default: off)</a></strong><br />
2044 </dt>
2045 <dd>
2046 Recommended to stay off unless you really need non-BMP characters.
2047 </dd>
2048 <dd>
2049 <p>Enable direct support for displaying unicode codepoints above
2050 65535 (the basic multilingual page). This increases storage
2051 requirements per character from 2 to 4 bytes. X11 fonts do not yet
2052 support these extra characters, but Xft does.</p>
2053 </dd>
2054 <dd>
2055 <p>Please note that rxvt-unicode can store unicode code points &gt;65535
2056 even without this flag, but the number of such characters is
2057 limited to a view thousand (shared with combining characters,
2058 see next switch), and right now rxvt-unicode cannot display them
2059 (input/output and cut&amp;paste still work, though).</p>
2060 </dd>
2061 <p></p>
2062 <dt><strong><a name="item_combining">--enable-combining (default: on)</a></strong><br />
2063 </dt>
2064 <dd>
2065 Enable automatic composition of combining characters into
2066 composite characters. This is required for proper viewing of text
2067 where accents are encoded as seperate unicode characters. This is
2068 done by using precomposited characters when available or creating
2069 new pseudo-characters when no precomposed form exists.
2070 </dd>
2071 <dd>
2072 <p>Without --enable-unicode3, the number of additional precomposed
2073 characters is somewhat limited (the 6400 private use characters will be
2074 (ab-)used). With --enable-unicode3, no practical limit exists.</p>
2075 </dd>
2076 <dd>
2077 <p>This option will also enable storage (but not display) of characters
2078 beyond plane 0 (&gt;65535) when --enable-unicode3 was not specified.</p>
2079 </dd>
2080 <dd>
2081 <p>The combining table also contains entries for arabic presentation forms,
2082 but these are not currently used. Bug me if you want these to be used (and
2083 tell me how these are to be used...).</p>
2084 </dd>
2085 <p></p>
2086 <dt><strong><a name="item_fallback">--enable-fallback(=CLASS) (default: Rxvt)</a></strong><br />
2087 </dt>
2088 <dd>
2089 When reading resource settings, also read settings for class CLASS. To
2090 disable resource fallback use --disable-fallback.
2091 </dd>
2092 <p></p>
2093 <dt><strong><a name="item_name">--with-res-name=NAME (default: urxvt)</a></strong><br />
2094 </dt>
2095 <dd>
2096 Use the given name as default application name when
2097 reading resources. Specify --with-res-name=rxvt to replace rxvt.
2098 </dd>
2099 <p></p>
2100 <dt><strong><a name="item__2d_2dwith_2dres_2dclass_3dclass__2fdefault_3a_urx">--with-res-class=CLASS /default: URxvt)</a></strong><br />
2101 </dt>
2102 <dd>
2103 Use the given class as default application class
2104 when reading resources. Specify --with-res-class=Rxvt to replace
2105 rxvt.
2106 </dd>
2107 <p></p>
2108 <dt><strong><a name="item_utmp">--enable-utmp (default: on)</a></strong><br />
2109 </dt>
2110 <dd>
2111 Write user and tty to utmp file (used by programs like <em>w</em>) at
2112 start of rxvt execution and delete information when rxvt exits.
2113 </dd>
2114 <p></p>
2115 <dt><strong><a name="item_wtmp">--enable-wtmp (default: on)</a></strong><br />
2116 </dt>
2117 <dd>
2118 Write user and tty to wtmp file (used by programs like <em>last</em>) at
2119 start of rxvt execution and write logout when rxvt exits. This
2120 option requires --enable-utmp to also be specified.
2121 </dd>
2122 <p></p>
2123 <dt><strong><a name="item_lastlog">--enable-lastlog (default: on)</a></strong><br />
2124 </dt>
2125 <dd>
2126 Write user and tty to lastlog file (used by programs like
2127 <em>lastlogin</em>) at start of rxvt execution. This option requires
2128 --enable-utmp to also be specified.
2129 </dd>
2130 <p></p>
2131 <dt><strong><a name="item_background">--enable-xpm-background (default: on)</a></strong><br />
2132 </dt>
2133 <dd>
2134 Add support for XPM background pixmaps.
2135 </dd>
2136 <p></p>
2137 <dt><strong><a name="item_transparency">--enable-transparency (default: on)</a></strong><br />
2138 </dt>
2139 <dd>
2140 Add support for inheriting parent backgrounds thus giving a fake
2141 transparency to the term.
2142 </dd>
2143 <p></p>
2144 <dt><strong><a name="item_fading">--enable-fading (default: on)</a></strong><br />
2145 </dt>
2146 <dd>
2147 Add support for fading the text when focus is lost (requires <code>--enable-transparency</code>).
2148 </dd>
2149 <p></p>
2150 <dt><strong><a name="item_tinting">--enable-tinting (default: on)</a></strong><br />
2151 </dt>
2152 <dd>
2153 Add support for tinting of transparent backgrounds (requires <code>--enable-transparency</code>).
2154 </dd>
2155 <p></p>
2156 <dt><strong><a name="item_scroll">--enable-rxvt-scroll (default: on)</a></strong><br />
2157 </dt>
2158 <dd>
2159 Add support for the original rxvt scrollbar.
2160 </dd>
2161 <p></p>
2162 <dt><strong>--enable-next-scroll (default: on)</strong><br />
2163 </dt>
2164 <dd>
2165 Add support for a NeXT-like scrollbar.
2166 </dd>
2167 <p></p>
2168 <dt><strong>--enable-xterm-scroll (default: on)</strong><br />
2169 </dt>
2170 <dd>
2171 Add support for an Xterm-like scrollbar.
2172 </dd>
2173 <p></p>
2174 <dt><strong>--enable-plain-scroll (default: on)</strong><br />
2175 </dt>
2176 <dd>
2177 Add support for a very unobtrusive, plain-looking scrollbar that
2178 is the favourite of the rxvt-unicode author, having used it for
2179 many years.
2180 </dd>
2181 <p></p>
2182 <dt><strong><a name="item_ttygid">--enable-ttygid (default: off)</a></strong><br />
2183 </dt>
2184 <dd>
2185 Change tty device setting to group ``tty'' - only use this if
2186 your system uses this type of security.
2187 </dd>
2188 <p></p>
2189 <dt><strong><a name="item__2d_2ddisable_2dbackspace_2dkey">--disable-backspace-key</a></strong><br />
2190 </dt>
2191 <dd>
2192 Removes any handling of the backspace key by us - let the X server do it.
2193 </dd>
2194 <p></p>
2195 <dt><strong><a name="item__2d_2ddisable_2ddelete_2dkey">--disable-delete-key</a></strong><br />
2196 </dt>
2197 <dd>
2198 Removes any handling of the delete key by us - let the X server
2199 do it.
2200 </dd>
2201 <p></p>
2202 <dt><strong><a name="item__2d_2ddisable_2dresources">--disable-resources</a></strong><br />
2203 </dt>
2204 <dd>
2205 Removes any support for resource checking.
2206 </dd>
2207 <p></p>
2208 <dt><strong><a name="item__2d_2ddisable_2dswapscreen">--disable-swapscreen</a></strong><br />
2209 </dt>
2210 <dd>
2211 Remove support for secondary/swap screen.
2212 </dd>
2213 <p></p>
2214 <dt><strong><a name="item_frills">--enable-frills (default: on)</a></strong><br />
2215 </dt>
2216 <dd>
2217 Add support for many small features that are not essential but nice to
2218 have. Normally you want this, but for very small binaries you may want to
2219 disable this.
2220 </dd>
2221 <dd>
2222 <p>A non-exhaustive list of features enabled by <code>--enable-frills</code> (possibly
2223 in combination with other switches) is:</p>
2224 </dd>
2225 <dd>
2226 <pre>
2227 MWM-hints
2228 EWMH-hints (pid, utf8 names) and protocols (ping)
2229 seperate underline colour (-underlineColor)
2230 settable border widths and borderless switch (-w, -b, -bl)
2231 visual depth selection (-depth)
2232 settable extra linespacing /-lsp)
2233 iso-14755-2 and -3, and visual feedback
2234 tripleclickwords (-tcw)
2235 settable insecure mode (-insecure)
2236 keysym remapping support
2237 cursor blinking and underline cursor (-cb, -uc)
2238 XEmbed support (-embed)
2239 user-pty (-pty-fd)
2240 hold on exit (-hold)
2241 skip builtin block graphics (-sbg)</pre>
2242 </dd>
2243 <dd>
2244 <p>It also enabled some non-essential features otherwise disabled, such as:</p>
2245 </dd>
2246 <dd>
2247 <pre>
2248 some round-trip time optimisations
2249 nearest color allocation on pseudocolor screens
2250 UTF8_STRING supporr for selection
2251 sgr modes 90..97 and 100..107
2252 backindex and forwardindex escape sequences
2253 view change/zero scorllback esacpe sequences
2254 locale switching escape sequence
2255 window op and some xterm/OSC escape sequences
2256 rectangular selections
2257 trailing space removal for selections
2258 verbose X error handling</pre>
2259 </dd>
2260 <p></p>
2261 <dt><strong><a name="item_iso14755">--enable-iso14755 (default: on)</a></strong><br />
2262 </dt>
2263 <dd>
2264 Enable extended ISO 14755 support (see rxvt(1), or
2265 <em>doc/rxvt.1.txt</em>). Basic support (section 5.1) is enabled by
2266 <code>--enable-frills</code>, while support for 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4 is enabled with
2267 this switch.
2268 </dd>
2269 <p></p>
2270 <dt><strong><a name="item_keepscrolling">--enable-keepscrolling (default: on)</a></strong><br />
2271 </dt>
2272 <dd>
2273 Add support for continual scrolling of the display when you hold
2274 the mouse button down on a scrollbar arrow.
2275 </dd>
2276 <p></p>
2277 <dt><strong><a name="item_mousewheel">--enable-mousewheel (default: on)</a></strong><br />
2278 </dt>
2279 <dd>
2280 Add support for scrolling via mouse wheel or buttons 4 &amp; 5.
2281 </dd>
2282 <p></p>
2283 <dt><strong><a name="item_slipwheeling">--enable-slipwheeling (default: on)</a></strong><br />
2284 </dt>
2285 <dd>
2286 Add support for continual scrolling (using the mouse wheel as an
2287 accelerator) while the control key is held down. This option
2288 requires --enable-mousewheel to also be specified.
2289 </dd>
2290 <p></p>
2291 <dt><strong><a name="item__2d_2ddisable_2dnew_2dselection">--disable-new-selection</a></strong><br />
2292 </dt>
2293 <dd>
2294 Remove support for mouse selection style like that of xterm.
2295 </dd>
2296 <p></p>
2297 <dt><strong><a name="item_dmalloc">--enable-dmalloc (default: off)</a></strong><br />
2298 </dt>
2299 <dd>
2300 Use Gray Watson's malloc - which is good for debugging See
2301 <a href="http://www.letters.com/dmalloc/">http://www.letters.com/dmalloc/</a> for details If you use either this or the
2302 next option, you may need to edit src/Makefile after compiling to point
2303 DINCLUDE and DLIB to the right places.
2304 </dd>
2305 <dd>
2306 <p>You can only use either this option and the following (should
2307 you use either) .</p>
2308 </dd>
2309 <p></p>
2310 <dt><strong><a name="item_dlmalloc">--enable-dlmalloc (default: off)</a></strong><br />
2311 </dt>
2312 <dd>
2313 Use Doug Lea's malloc - which is good for a production version
2314 See <a href="http://g.oswego.edu/dl/html/malloc.html">http://g.oswego.edu/dl/html/malloc.html</a> for details.
2315 </dd>
2316 <p></p>
2317 <dt><strong><a name="item_resize">--enable-smart-resize (default: on)</a></strong><br />
2318 </dt>
2319 <dd>
2320 Add smart growth/shrink behaviour when changing font size via hot
2321 keys. This should keep the window corner which is closest to a corner of
2322 the screen in a fixed position.
2323 </dd>
2324 <p></p>
2325 <dt><strong><a name="item_blank">--enable-pointer-blank (default: on)</a></strong><br />
2326 </dt>
2327 <dd>
2328 Add support to have the pointer disappear when typing or inactive.
2329 </dd>
2330 <p></p>
2331 <dt><strong><a name="item_perl">--enable-perl (default: on)</a></strong><br />
2332 </dt>
2333 <dd>
2334 Enable an embedded perl interpreter. See the <strong>rxvtperl(3)</strong>
2335 manpage (<em>doc/rxvtperl.txt</em>) for more info on this feature, or the files
2336 in <em>src/perl-ext/</em> for the extensions that are installed by default. The
2337 perl interpreter that is used can be specified via the <code>PERL</code> environment
2338 variable when running configure.
2339 </dd>
2340 <p></p>
2341 <dt><strong>--with-name=NAME (default: urxvt)</strong><br />
2342 </dt>
2343 <dd>
2344 Set the basename for the installed binaries, resulting
2345 in <code>urxvt</code>, <code>urxvtd</code> etc.). Specify <code>--with-name=rxvt</code> to replace with
2346 <code>rxvt</code>.
2347 </dd>
2348 <p></p>
2349 <dt><strong>--with-term=NAME (default: rxvt-unicode)</strong><br />
2350 </dt>
2351 <dd>
2352 Change the environmental variable for the terminal to NAME.
2353 </dd>
2354 <p></p>
2355 <dt><strong><a name="item__2d_2dwith_2dterminfo_3dpath">--with-terminfo=PATH</a></strong><br />
2356 </dt>
2357 <dd>
2358 Change the environmental variable for the path to the terminfo tree to
2359 PATH.
2360 </dd>
2361 <p></p>
2362 <dt><strong><a name="item__2d_2dwith_2dx">--with-x</a></strong><br />
2363 </dt>
2364 <dd>
2365 Use the X Window System (pretty much default, eh?).
2366 </dd>
2367 <p></p>
2368 <dt><strong><a name="item__2d_2dwith_2dxpm_2dincludes_3ddir">--with-xpm-includes=DIR</a></strong><br />
2369 </dt>
2370 <dd>
2371 Look for the XPM includes in DIR.
2372 </dd>
2373 <p></p>
2374 <dt><strong><a name="item__2d_2dwith_2dxpm_2dlibrary_3ddir">--with-xpm-library=DIR</a></strong><br />
2375 </dt>
2376 <dd>
2377 Look for the XPM library in DIR.
2378 </dd>
2379 <p></p>
2380 <dt><strong><a name="item__2d_2dwith_2dxpm">--with-xpm</a></strong><br />
2381 </dt>
2382 <dd>
2383 Not needed - define via --enable-xpm-background.
2384 </dd>
2385 <p></p></dl>
2386 <p>
2387 </p>
2388 <hr />
2389 <h1><a name="authors">AUTHORS</a></h1>
2390 <p>Marc Lehmann &lt;<a href="mailto:rxvt@schmorp.de">rxvt@schmorp.de</a>&gt; converted this document to pod and
2391 reworked it from the original Rxvt documentation, which was done by Geoff
2392 Wing &lt;<a href="mailto:gcw@pobox.com">gcw@pobox.com</a>&gt;, who in turn used the XTerm documentation and other
2393 sources.</p>
2394
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