--- rxvt-unicode/doc/rxvt.7.man.in 2006/01/04 00:12:12 1.33 +++ rxvt-unicode/doc/rxvt.7.man.in 2006/01/11 05:29:40 1.39 @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ .\" ======================================================================== .\" .IX Title "rxvt 7" -.TH rxvt 7 "2006-01-04" "6.2" "RXVT-UNICODE" +.TH rxvt 7 "2006-01-11" "6.3" "RXVT-UNICODE" .SH "NAME" RXVT REFERENCE \- FAQ, command sequences and other background information .SH "SYNOPSIS" @@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ Compared to e.g. Eterm (5112k), aterm (3132k) and xterm (4680k), this still fares rather well. And compared to some monsters like gnome-terminal (21152k + extra 4204k in separate processes) or konsole (22200k + extra -43180k in daemons that stay around after exit, plus half aminute of +43180k in daemons that stay around after exit, plus half a minute of startup time, including the hundreds of warnings it spits out), it fares extremely well *g*. .IP "Why \*(C+, isn't that unportable/bloated/uncool?" 4 @@ -269,6 +269,43 @@ probably should use the Debian \s-1BTS\s0, too, because, after all, it's also a bug in the Debian version and it serves as a reminder for other users that might encounter the same issue. +.IP "I am maintaining rxvt-unicode for distribution/OS \s-1XXX\s0, any recommendation?" 4 +.IX Item "I am maintaining rxvt-unicode for distribution/OS XXX, any recommendation?" +You should build one binary with the default options. \fIconfigure\fR +now enables most useful options, and the trend goes to making them +runtime\-switchable, too, so there is usually no drawback to enbaling them, +except higher disk and possibly memory usage. The perl interpreter should +be enabled, as important functionality (menus, selection, likely more in +the future) depends on it. +.Sp +You should not overwrite the \f(CW\*(C`perl\-ext\-common\*(C'\fR snd \f(CW\*(C`perl\-ext\*(C'\fR resources +system-wide (except maybe with \f(CW\*(C`defaults\*(C'\fR). This will result in useful +behaviour. If your distribution aims at low memory, add an empty +\&\f(CW\*(C`perl\-ext\-common\*(C'\fR resource to the app-defaults file. This will keep the +perl interpreter disabled until the user enables it. +.Sp +If you can/want build more binaries, I recommend building a minimal +one with \f(CW\*(C`\-\-disable\-everything\*(C'\fR (very useful) and a maximal one with +\&\f(CW\*(C`\-\-enable\-everything\*(C'\fR (less useful, it will be very big due to a lot of +encodings built-in that increase download times and are rarely used). +.IP "I need to make it setuid/setgid to support utmp/ptys on my \s-1OS\s0, is this safe?" 4 +.IX Item "I need to make it setuid/setgid to support utmp/ptys on my OS, is this safe?" +Likely not. While I honestly try to make it secure, and am probably +not bad at it, I think it is simply unreasonable to expect all of +freetype + fontconfig + xft + xlib + ... + rxvt-unicode itself to all be +secure. Also, rxvt-unicode disables some options when it detects that it +runs setuid or setgid, which is not nice. +.Sp +Elevated privileges are only required for utmp and pty operations on some +systems (for example, GNU/Linux doesn't need any extra privileges for +ptys, but some need it for utmp support). If rxvt-unicode doesn't support +the library/setuid helper that your \s-1OS\s0 needs I'll be happy to assist you +in implementing support for it. +.Sp +So, while setuid/setgid operation is supported and not a problem on your +typical single-user-no-other-logins unix desktop, always remember that +its an awful lot of code, most of which isn't checked for security issues +regularly. .IP "When I log-in to another system it tells me about missing terminfo data?" 4 .IX Item "When I log-in to another system it tells me about missing terminfo data?" The terminal description used by rxvt-unicode is not as widely available @@ -1739,8 +1776,8 @@ Ps = 12 Change colour of text cursor foreground to Pt Ps = 13 Change colour of mouse foreground to Pt Ps = 17 Change colour of highlight characters to Pt -Ps = 18 Change colour of bold characters to Pt -Ps = 19 Change colour of underlined characters to Pt +Ps = 18 Change colour of bold characters to Pt [deprecated, see 706] +Ps = 19 Change colour of underlined characters to Pt [deprecated, see 707] Ps = 20 Change default background to Pt Ps = 39 Change default foreground colour to Pt. Ps = 46 Change Log File to Pt unimplemented @@ -1751,6 +1788,8 @@ Ps = 703 Menubar command Pt (Compile menubar). Ps = 704 Change colour of italic characters to Pt Ps = 705 Change background pixmap tint colour to Pt (Compile transparency). +Ps = 706 Change colour of bold characters to Pt +Ps = 707 Change colour of underlined characters to Pt Ps = 710 Set normal fontset to Pt. Same as Ps = 50. Ps = 711 Set bold fontset to Pt. Similar to Ps = 50 (Compile styles). Ps = 712 Set italic fontset to Pt. Similar to Ps = 50 (Compile styles). @@ -2402,11 +2441,11 @@ Write user and tty to lastlog file (used by programs like \&\fIlastlogin\fR) at start of rxvt execution. This option requires \&\-\-enable\-utmp to also be specified. -.IP "\-\-enable\-xpm\-background (default: off)" 4 -.IX Item "--enable-xpm-background (default: off)" +.IP "\-\-enable\-xpm\-background (default: on)" 4 +.IX Item "--enable-xpm-background (default: on)" Add support for \s-1XPM\s0 background pixmaps. -.IP "\-\-enable\-transparency (default: off)" 4 -.IX Item "--enable-transparency (default: off)" +.IP "\-\-enable\-transparency (default: on)" 4 +.IX Item "--enable-transparency (default: on)" Add support for inheriting parent backgrounds thus giving a fake transparency to the term. .IP "\-\-enable\-fading (default: on)" 4 @@ -2415,10 +2454,11 @@ .IP "\-\-enable\-tinting (default: on)" 4 .IX Item "--enable-tinting (default: on)" Add support for tinting of transparent backgrounds (requires \f(CW\*(C`\-\-enable\-transparency\*(C'\fR). -.IP "\-\-enable\-menubar (default: off)" 4 -.IX Item "--enable-menubar (default: off)" -Add support for our menu bar system (this interacts badly with -dynamic locale switching currently). +.IP "\-\-enable\-menubar (default: off) [\s-1DEPRECATED\s0]" 4 +.IX Item "--enable-menubar (default: off) [DEPRECATED]" +Add support for our menu bar system (this interacts badly with dynamic +locale switching currently). This option is \s-1DEPRECATED\s0 and will be removed +in the future. .IP "\-\-enable\-rxvt\-scroll (default: on)" 4 .IX Item "--enable-rxvt-scroll (default: on)" Add support for the original rxvt scrollbar. @@ -2479,20 +2519,24 @@ A non-exhaustive list of features enabled by \f(CW\*(C`\-\-enable\-frills\*(C'\fR (possibly in combination with other switches) is: .Sp -.Vb 13 +.Vb 17 \& MWM-hints \& EWMH-hints (pid, utf8 names) and protocols (ping) -\& seperate underline colour -\& settable border widths and borderless switch -\& settable extra linespacing +\& seperate underline colour (-underlineColor) +\& settable border widths and borderless switch (-w, -b, -bl) +\& settable extra linespacing /-lsp) \& iso-14755-2 and -3, and visual feedback \& backindex and forwardindex escape sequence \& window op and some xterm/OSC escape sequences -\& tripleclickwords -\& settable insecure mode +\& tripleclickwords (-tcw) +\& settable insecure mode (-insecure) \& keysym remapping support -\& cursor blinking and underline cursor -\& -embed, -pty-fd and -hold options +\& cursor blinking and underline cursor (-cb, -uc) +\& XEmbed support (-embed) +\& user-pty (-pty-fd) +\& hold on exit (-hold) +\& skip builtin block graphics (-sbg) +\& sgr modes 90..97 and 100..107 .Ve .IP "\-\-enable\-iso14755 (default: on)" 4 .IX Item "--enable-iso14755 (default: on)" @@ -2540,7 +2584,9 @@ .IX Item "--enable-perl (default: off)" Enable an embedded perl interpreter. See the \fB@@RXVT_NAME@@\f(BIperl\fB\|(3)\fR manpage (\fIdoc/rxvtperl.txt\fR) for more info on this feature, or the files -in \fIsrc/perl\-ext/\fR for the extensions that are installed by default. +in \fIsrc/perl\-ext/\fR for the extensions that are installed by default. The +perl interpreter that is used can be specified via the \f(CW\*(C`PERL\*(C'\fR environment +variable when running configure. .IP "\-\-with\-name=NAME (default: urxvt)" 4 .IX Item "--with-name=NAME (default: urxvt)" Set the basename for the installed binaries, resulting