--- rxvt-unicode/doc/rxvt.7.man.in 2005/07/13 03:08:57 1.23 +++ rxvt-unicode/doc/rxvt.7.man.in 2006/01/12 05:37:34 1.42 @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ .\" ======================================================================== .\" .IX Title "rxvt 7" -.TH rxvt 7 "2005-07-13" "5.7" "RXVT-UNICODE" +.TH rxvt 7 "2006-01-12" "7.0" "RXVT-UNICODE" .SH "NAME" RXVT REFERENCE \- FAQ, command sequences and other background information .SH "SYNOPSIS" @@ -158,10 +158,126 @@ . .SH "FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS" .IX Header "FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS" +.IP "I don't like the new selection/popups/hotkeys/perl, how do I change/disable it?" 4 +.IX Item "I don't like the new selection/popups/hotkeys/perl, how do I change/disable it?" +You can disable the perl extension completely by setting the +\&\fBperl-ext-common\fR resource to the empty string, which also keeps +rxvt-unicode from initialising perl, saving memory. +.Sp +If you only want to disable specific features, you first have to +identify which perl extension is responsible. For this, read the section +\&\fB\s-1PREPACKAGED\s0 \s-1EXTENSIONS\s0\fR in the @@RXVT_NAME@@\fIperl\fR\|(3) manpage. For +example, to disable the \fBselection-popup\fR and \fBoption-popup\fR, specify +this \fBperl-ext-common\fR resource: +.Sp +.Vb 1 +\& URxvt.perl-ext-common: default,-selection-popup,-option-popup +.Ve +.Sp +This will keep the default extensions, but disable the two popup +extensions. Some extensions can also be configured, for example, +scrollback search mode is triggered by \fBM\-s\fR. You can move it to any +other combination either by setting the \fBsearchable-scrollback\fR resource: +.Sp +.Vb 1 +\& URxvt.searchable-scrollback: CM-s +.Ve +.IP "Isn't rxvt supposed to be small? Don't all those features bloat?" 4 +.IX Item "Isn't rxvt supposed to be small? Don't all those features bloat?" +I often get asked about this, and I think, no, they didn't cause extra +bloat. If you compare a minimal rxvt and a minimal urxvt, you can see +that the urxvt binary is larger (due to some encoding tables always being +compiled in), but it actually uses less memory (\s-1RSS\s0) after startup. Even +with \f(CW\*(C`\-\-disable\-everything\*(C'\fR, this comparison is a bit unfair, as many +features unique to urxvt (locale, encoding conversion, iso14755 etc.) are +already in use in this mode. +.Sp +.Vb 3 +\& text data bss drs rss filename +\& 98398 1664 24 15695 1824 rxvt --disable-everything +\& 188985 9048 66616 18222 1788 urxvt --disable-everything +.Ve +.Sp +When you \f(CW\*(C`\-\-enable\-everything\*(C'\fR (which _is_ unfair, as this involves xft +and full locale/XIM support which are quite bloaty inside libX11 and my +libc), the two diverge, but not unreasnobaly so. +.Sp +.Vb 3 +\& text data bss drs rss filename +\& 163431 2152 24 20123 2060 rxvt --enable-everything +\& 1035683 49680 66648 29096 3680 urxvt --enable-everything +.Ve +.Sp +The very large size of the text section is explained by the east-asian +encoding tables, which, if unused, take up disk space but nothing else +and can be compiled out unless you rely on X11 core fonts that use those +encodings. The \s-1BSS\s0 size comes from the 64k emergency buffer that my c++ +compiler allocates (but of course doesn't use unless you are out of +memory). Also, using an xft font instead of a core font immediately adds a +few megabytes of \s-1RSS\s0. Xft indeed is responsible for a lot of \s-1RSS\s0 even when +not used. +.Sp +Of course, due to every character using two or four bytes instead of one, +a large scrollback buffer will ultimately make rxvt-unicode use more +memory. +.Sp +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 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 +.IX Item "Why , isn't that unportable/bloated/uncool?" +Is this a question? :) It comes up very often. The simple answer is: I had +to write it, and \*(C+ allowed me to write and maintain it in a fraction +of the time and effort (which is a scarce resource for me). Put even +shorter: It simply wouldn't exist without \*(C+. +.Sp +My personal stance on this is that \*(C+ is less portable than C, but in +the case of rxvt-unicode this hardly matters, as its portability limits +are defined by things like X11, pseudo terminals, locale support and unix +domain sockets, which are all less portable than \*(C+ itself. +.Sp +Regarding the bloat, see the above question: It's easy to write programs +in C that use gobs of memory, an certainly possible to write programs in +\&\*(C+ that don't. \*(C+ also often comes with large libraries, but this is +not necessarily the case with \s-1GCC\s0. Here is what rxvt links against on my +system with a minimal config: +.Sp +.Vb 4 +\& libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x00002aaaaabc3000) +\& libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00002aaaaadde000) +\& libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00002aaaab01d000) +\& /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00002aaaaaaab000) +.Ve +.Sp +And here is rxvt\-unicode: +.Sp +.Vb 5 +\& libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x00002aaaaabc3000) +\& libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00002aaaaada2000) +\& libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00002aaaaaeb0000) +\& libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00002aaaab0ee000) +\& /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00002aaaaaaab000) +.Ve +.Sp +No large bloated libraries (of course, none were linked in statically), +except maybe libX11 :) +.IP "Does it support tabs, can I have a tabbed rxvt\-unicode?" 4 +.IX Item "Does it support tabs, can I have a tabbed rxvt-unicode?" +rxvt-unicode does not directly support tabs. It will work fine with +tabbing functionality of many window managers or similar tabbing programs, +and its embedding-features allow it to be embedded into other programs, +as witnessed by \fIdoc/rxvt\-tabbed\fR or the upcoming \f(CW\*(C`Gtk2::URxvt\*(C'\fR perl +module, which features a tabbed urxvt (murxvt) terminal as an example +embedding application. .IP "How do I know which rxvt-unicode version I'm using?" 4 .IX Item "How do I know which rxvt-unicode version I'm using?" The version number is displayed with the usage (\-h). Also the escape -sequence \f(CW\*(C`ESC [ 8 n\*(C'\fR sets the window title to the version number. +sequence \f(CW\*(C`ESC [ 8 n\*(C'\fR sets the window title to the version number. When +using the @@RXVT_NAME@@c client, the version displayed is that of the +daemon. .IP "I am using Debian GNU/Linux and have a problem..." 4 .IX Item "I am using Debian GNU/Linux and have a problem..." The Debian GNU/Linux package of rxvt-unicode in sarge contains large @@ -177,6 +293,43 @@ 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 + perl + ... + 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. Besides, with the embedded perl +interpreter the possibility for security problems easily multiplies. +.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). It is planned to mvoe this into +a forked handler process, but this is not yet done. +.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 @@ -639,7 +792,7 @@ .IX Item "Can I speed up Xft rendering somehow?" Yes, the most obvious way to speed it up is to avoid Xft entirely, as it is simply slow. If you still want Xft fonts you might try to disable -antialiasing (by appending \f(CW\*(C`:antialiasing=false\*(C'\fR), which saves lots of +antialiasing (by appending \f(CW\*(C`:antialias=false\*(C'\fR), which saves lots of memory and also speeds up rendering considerably. .IP "Rxvt-unicode doesn't seem to anti-alias its fonts, what is wrong?" 4 .IX Item "Rxvt-unicode doesn't seem to anti-alias its fonts, what is wrong?" @@ -1584,6 +1737,15 @@ l Don't scroll to bottom when a key is pressed .TE +.ie n .IP "\fB\fB""Ps = 1021""\fB\fR (\fBrxvt\fR)" 4 +.el .IP "\fB\f(CBPs = 1021\fB\fR (\fBrxvt\fR)" 4 +.IX Item "Ps = 1021 (rxvt)" +.TS +l l . +h Bold/italic implies high intensity (see option -is) +l Font styles have no effect on intensity (Compile styles) +.TE + .ie n .IP "\fB\fB""Ps = 1047""\fB\fR" 4 .el .IP "\fB\f(CBPs = 1047\fB\fR" 4 .IX Item "Ps = 1047" @@ -1638,8 +1800,8 @@ 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 @@ -1650,12 +1812,15 @@ 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). Ps = 713 Set bold-italic fontset to Pt. Similar to Ps = 50 (Compile styles). Ps = 720 Move viewing window up by Pt lines, or clear scrollback buffer if Pt = 0 (Compile frills). Ps = 721 Move viewing window down by Pt lines, or clear scrollback buffer if Pt = 0 (Compile frills). +Ps = 777 Call the perl extension with the given string, which should be of the form extension:parameters (Compile perl). .TE .PP @@ -2193,28 +2358,34 @@ .SH "CONFIGURE OPTIONS" .IX Header "CONFIGURE OPTIONS" General hint: if you get compile errors, then likely your configuration -hasn't been tested well. Either try with \-\-enable\-everything or use the -\&./reconf script as a base for experiments. ./reconf is used by myself, -so it should generally be a working config. Of course, you should always -report when a combination doesn't work, so it can be fixed. Marc Lehmann -. +hasn't been tested well. Either try with \f(CW\*(C`\-\-enable\-everything\*(C'\fR or use +the \fI./reconf\fR script as a base for experiments. \fI./reconf\fR is used by +myself, so it should generally be a working config. Of course, you should +always report when a combination doesn't work, so it can be fixed. Marc +Lehmann . +.PP +All .IP "\-\-enable\-everything" 4 .IX Item "--enable-everything" -Add support for all non-multichoice options listed in \*(L"./configure -\&\-\-help\*(R". Note that unlike other enable options this is order dependant. -You can specify this and then disable options which this enables by -\&\fIfollowing\fR this with the appropriate commands. -.IP "\-\-enable\-xft" 4 -.IX Item "--enable-xft" +Add (or remove) support for all non-multichoice options listed in \*(L"./configure +\&\-\-help\*(R". +.Sp +You can specify this and then disable options you do not like by +\&\fIfollowing\fR this with the appropriate \f(CW\*(C`\-\-disable\-...\*(C'\fR arguments, +or you can start with a minimal configuration by specifying +\&\f(CW\*(C`\-\-disable\-everything\*(C'\fR and than adding just the \f(CW\*(C`\-\-enable\-...\*(C'\fR arguments +you want. +.IP "\-\-enable\-xft (default: enabled)" 4 +.IX Item "--enable-xft (default: enabled)" Add support for Xft (anti\-aliases, among others) fonts. Xft fonts are slower and require lots of memory, but as long as you don't use them, you don't pay for them. -.IP "\-\-enable\-font\-styles" 4 -.IX Item "--enable-font-styles" +.IP "\-\-enable\-font\-styles (default: on)" 4 +.IX Item "--enable-font-styles (default: on)" Add support for \fBbold\fR, \fIitalic\fR and \fB\f(BIbold italic\fB\fR font styles. The fonts can be set manually or automatically. -.IP "\-\-with\-codesets=NAME,..." 4 -.IX Item "--with-codesets=NAME,..." +.IP "\-\-with\-codesets=NAME,... (default: all)" 4 +.IX Item "--with-codesets=NAME,... (default: all)" Compile in support for additional codeset (encoding) groups (\f(CW\*(C`eu\*(C'\fR, \f(CW\*(C`vn\*(C'\fR are always compiled in, which includes most 8\-bit character sets). These codeset tables are used for driving X11 core fonts, they are not required @@ -2232,13 +2403,13 @@ kr korean encodings .TE -.IP "\-\-enable\-xim" 4 -.IX Item "--enable-xim" +.IP "\-\-enable\-xim (default: on)" 4 +.IX Item "--enable-xim (default: on)" Add support for \s-1XIM\s0 (X Input Method) protocol. This allows using alternative input methods (e.g. kinput2) and will also correctly set up the input for people using dead keys or compose keys. -.IP "\-\-enable\-unicode3" 4 -.IX Item "--enable-unicode3" +.IP "\-\-enable\-unicode3 (default: off)" 4 +.IX Item "--enable-unicode3 (default: off)" Enable direct support for displaying unicode codepoints above 65535 (the basic multilingual page). This increases storage requirements per character from 2 to 4 bytes. X11 fonts do not yet @@ -2249,8 +2420,8 @@ limited to a view thousand (shared with combining characters, see next switch), and right now rxvt-unicode cannot display them (input/output and cut&paste still work, though). -.IP "\-\-enable\-combining" 4 -.IX Item "--enable-combining" +.IP "\-\-enable\-combining (default: on)" 4 +.IX Item "--enable-combining (default: on)" Enable automatic composition of combining characters into composite characters. This is required for proper viewing of text where accents are encoded as seperate unicode characters. This is @@ -2268,94 +2439,84 @@ The combining table also contains entries for arabic presentation forms, but these are not currently used. Bug me if you want these to be used (and tell me how these are to be used...). -.IP "\-\-enable\-fallback(=CLASS)" 4 -.IX Item "--enable-fallback(=CLASS)" -When reading resource settings, also read settings for class \s-1CLASS\s0 -(default: Rxvt). To disable resource fallback use \-\-disable\-fallback. -.IP "\-\-with\-res\-name=NAME" 4 -.IX Item "--with-res-name=NAME" -Use the given name (default: urxvt) as default application name when +.IP "\-\-enable\-fallback(=CLASS) (default: Rxvt)" 4 +.IX Item "--enable-fallback(=CLASS) (default: Rxvt)" +When reading resource settings, also read settings for class \s-1CLASS\s0. To disable resource fallback use \-\-disable\-fallback. +.IP "\-\-with\-res\-name=NAME (default: urxvt)" 4 +.IX Item "--with-res-name=NAME (default: urxvt)" +Use the given name as default application name when reading resources. Specify \-\-with\-res\-name=rxvt to replace rxvt. -.IP "\-\-with\-res\-class=CLASS" 4 -.IX Item "--with-res-class=CLASS" -Use the given class (default: URxvt) as default application class -when reading resources. Specify \-\-with\-res\-class=Rxvt to replace +.IP "\-\-with\-res\-class=CLASS /default: URxvt)" 4 +.IX Item "--with-res-class=CLASS /default: URxvt)" +Use the given class as default application class +when reading resources. Specify \-\-with\-res\-class=Rxvt to replace rxvt. -.IP "\-\-enable\-utmp" 4 -.IX Item "--enable-utmp" +.IP "\-\-enable\-utmp (default: on)" 4 +.IX Item "--enable-utmp (default: on)" Write user and tty to utmp file (used by programs like \fIw\fR) at start of rxvt execution and delete information when rxvt exits. -.IP "\-\-enable\-wtmp" 4 -.IX Item "--enable-wtmp" +.IP "\-\-enable\-wtmp (default: on)" 4 +.IX Item "--enable-wtmp (default: on)" Write user and tty to wtmp file (used by programs like \fIlast\fR) at start of rxvt execution and write logout when rxvt exits. This option requires \-\-enable\-utmp to also be specified. -.IP "\-\-enable\-lastlog" 4 -.IX Item "--enable-lastlog" +.IP "\-\-enable\-lastlog (default: on)" 4 +.IX Item "--enable-lastlog (default: on)" 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" 4 -.IX Item "--enable-xpm-background" +.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" 4 -.IX Item "--enable-transparency" +.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" 4 -.IX Item "--enable-fading" -Add support for fading the text when focus is lost. -.IP "\-\-enable\-tinting" 4 -.IX Item "--enable-tinting" -Add support for tinting of transparent backgrounds. -.IP "\-\-enable\-menubar" 4 -.IX Item "--enable-menubar" -Add support for our menu bar system (this interacts badly with -dynamic locale switching currently). -.IP "\-\-enable\-rxvt\-scroll" 4 -.IX Item "--enable-rxvt-scroll" +.IP "\-\-enable\-fading (default: on)" 4 +.IX Item "--enable-fading (default: on)" +Add support for fading the text when focus is lost (requires \f(CW\*(C`\-\-enable\-transparency\*(C'\fR). +.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) [\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. -.IP "\-\-enable\-next\-scroll" 4 -.IX Item "--enable-next-scroll" +.IP "\-\-enable\-next\-scroll (default: on)" 4 +.IX Item "--enable-next-scroll (default: on)" Add support for a NeXT-like scrollbar. -.IP "\-\-enable\-xterm\-scroll" 4 -.IX Item "--enable-xterm-scroll" +.IP "\-\-enable\-xterm\-scroll (default: on)" 4 +.IX Item "--enable-xterm-scroll (default: on)" Add support for an Xterm-like scrollbar. -.IP "\-\-enable\-plain\-scroll" 4 -.IX Item "--enable-plain-scroll" +.IP "\-\-enable\-plain\-scroll (default: on)" 4 +.IX Item "--enable-plain-scroll (default: on)" Add support for a very unobtrusive, plain-looking scrollbar that is the favourite of the rxvt-unicode author, having used it for many years. -.IP "\-\-enable\-half\-shadow" 4 -.IX Item "--enable-half-shadow" +.IP "\-\-enable\-half\-shadow (default: off)" 4 +.IX Item "--enable-half-shadow (default: off)" Make shadows on the scrollbar only half the normal width & height. only applicable to rxvt scrollbars. -.IP "\-\-enable\-ttygid" 4 -.IX Item "--enable-ttygid" +.IP "\-\-enable\-ttygid (default: off)" 4 +.IX Item "--enable-ttygid (default: off)" Change tty device setting to group \*(L"tty\*(R" \- only use this if your system uses this type of security. .IP "\-\-disable\-backspace\-key" 4 .IX Item "--disable-backspace-key" -Disable any handling of the backspace key by us \- let the X server -do it. +Removes any handling of the backspace key by us \- let the X server do it. .IP "\-\-disable\-delete\-key" 4 .IX Item "--disable-delete-key" -Disable any handling of the delete key by us \- let the X server +Removes any handling of the delete key by us \- let the X server do it. .IP "\-\-disable\-resources" 4 .IX Item "--disable-resources" -Remove all resources checking. -.IP "\-\-enable\-xgetdefault" 4 -.IX Item "--enable-xgetdefault" -Make resources checking via \fIXGetDefault()\fR instead of our small -version which only checks ~/.Xdefaults, or if that doesn't exist then -~/.Xresources. -.Sp -Please note that nowadays, things like \s-1XIM\s0 will automatically pull in and -use the full X resource manager, so the overhead of using it might be very -small, if nonexistant. -.IP "\-\-enable\-strings" 4 -.IX Item "--enable-strings" +Removes any support for resource checking. +.IP "\-\-enable\-strings (default: off)" 4 +.IX Item "--enable-strings (default: off)" Add support for our possibly faster \fImemset()\fR function and other various routines, overriding your system's versions which may have been hand-crafted in assembly or may require extra libraries @@ -2363,9 +2524,9 @@ GNU/Linux systems). .IP "\-\-disable\-swapscreen" 4 .IX Item "--disable-swapscreen" -Remove support for swap screen. -.IP "\-\-enable\-frills" 4 -.IX Item "--enable-frills" +Remove support for secondary/swap screen. +.IP "\-\-enable\-frills (default: on)" 4 +.IX Item "--enable-frills (default: on)" Add support for many small features that are not essential but nice to have. Normally you want this, but for very small binaries you may want to disable this. @@ -2373,44 +2534,48 @@ 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 and -pty-fd 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" 4 -.IX Item "--enable-iso14755" +.IP "\-\-enable\-iso14755 (default: on)" 4 +.IX Item "--enable-iso14755 (default: on)" Enable extended \s-1ISO\s0 14755 support (see @@RXVT_NAME@@(1), or \&\fIdoc/rxvt.1.txt\fR). Basic support (section 5.1) is enabled by \&\f(CW\*(C`\-\-enable\-frills\*(C'\fR, while support for 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4 is enabled with this switch. -.IP "\-\-enable\-keepscrolling" 4 -.IX Item "--enable-keepscrolling" +.IP "\-\-enable\-keepscrolling (default: on)" 4 +.IX Item "--enable-keepscrolling (default: on)" Add support for continual scrolling of the display when you hold the mouse button down on a scrollbar arrow. -.IP "\-\-enable\-mousewheel" 4 -.IX Item "--enable-mousewheel" +.IP "\-\-enable\-mousewheel (default: on)" 4 +.IX Item "--enable-mousewheel (default: on)" Add support for scrolling via mouse wheel or buttons 4 & 5. -.IP "\-\-enable\-slipwheeling" 4 -.IX Item "--enable-slipwheeling" +.IP "\-\-enable\-slipwheeling (default: on)" 4 +.IX Item "--enable-slipwheeling (default: on)" Add support for continual scrolling (using the mouse wheel as an accelerator) while the control key is held down. This option requires \-\-enable\-mousewheel to also be specified. .IP "\-\-disable\-new\-selection" 4 .IX Item "--disable-new-selection" Remove support for mouse selection style like that of xterm. -.IP "\-\-enable\-dmalloc" 4 -.IX Item "--enable-dmalloc" +.IP "\-\-enable\-dmalloc (default: off)" 4 +.IX Item "--enable-dmalloc (default: off)" Use Gray Watson's malloc \- which is good for debugging See http://www.letters.com/dmalloc/ for details If you use either this or the next option, you may need to edit src/Makefile after compiling to point @@ -2418,27 +2583,33 @@ .Sp You can only use either this option and the following (should you use either) . -.IP "\-\-enable\-dlmalloc" 4 -.IX Item "--enable-dlmalloc" +.IP "\-\-enable\-dlmalloc (default: off)" 4 +.IX Item "--enable-dlmalloc (default: off)" Use Doug Lea's malloc \- which is good for a production version See for details. -.IP "\-\-enable\-smart\-resize" 4 -.IX Item "--enable-smart-resize" -Add smart growth/shrink behaviour when changing font size via from hot -keys. This should keep in a fixed position the rxvt corner which is -closest to a corner of the screen. -.IP "\-\-enable\-pointer\-blank" 4 -.IX Item "--enable-pointer-blank" +.IP "\-\-enable\-smart\-resize (default: on)" 4 +.IX Item "--enable-smart-resize (default: on)" +Add smart growth/shrink behaviour when changing font size via hot +keys. This should keep the window corner which is closest to a corner of +the screen in a fixed position. +.IP "\-\-enable\-pointer\-blank (default: on)" 4 +.IX Item "--enable-pointer-blank (default: on)" Add support to have the pointer disappear when typing or inactive. -.IP "\-\-with\-name=NAME" 4 -.IX Item "--with-name=NAME" -Set the basename for the installed binaries (default: \f(CW\*(C`urxvt\*(C'\fR, resulting +.IP "\-\-enable\-perl (default: off)" 4 +.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. 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 in \f(CW\*(C`urxvt\*(C'\fR, \f(CW\*(C`urxvtd\*(C'\fR etc.). Specify \f(CW\*(C`\-\-with\-name=rxvt\*(C'\fR to replace with \&\f(CW\*(C`rxvt\*(C'\fR. -.IP "\-\-with\-term=NAME" 4 -.IX Item "--with-term=NAME" -Change the environmental variable for the terminal to \s-1NAME\s0 (default -\&\f(CW\*(C`rxvt\-unicode\*(C'\fR) +.IP "\-\-with\-term=NAME (default: rxvt\-unicode)" 4 +.IX Item "--with-term=NAME (default: rxvt-unicode)" +Change the environmental variable for the terminal to \s-1NAME\s0. .IP "\-\-with\-terminfo=PATH" 4 .IX Item "--with-terminfo=PATH" Change the environmental variable for the path to the terminfo tree to