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16	=head1 DESCRIPTION	16	=head1 DESCRIPTION
17		17
18	This document contains the FAQ, the RXVT TECHNICAL REFERENCE documenting	18	This document contains the FAQ, the RXVT TECHNICAL REFERENCE documenting
19	all escape sequences, and other background information.	19	all escape sequences, and other background information.
20		20
21	The newest version of this document is	21	The newest version of this document is also available on the World Wide Web at
22	also available on the World Wide Web at
23	L<http://cvs.schmorp.de/browse/*checkout*/rxvt-unicode/doc/rxvt.7.html>.	22	L<http://cvs.schmorp.de/browse/*checkout*/rxvt-unicode/doc/rxvt.7.html>.
24		23
25	=head1 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS	24	=head1 RXVT-UNICODE/URXVT FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
26		25
27	=over 4
28		26
		27	=head2 Meta, Features & Commandline Issues
		28
		29	=head3 My question isn't answered here, can I ask a human?
		30
		31	Before sending me mail, you could go to IRC: C<irc.freenode.net>,
		32	channel C<#rxvt-unicode> has some rxvt-unicode enthusiasts that might be
		33	interested in learning about new and exciting problems (but not FAQs :).
		34
		35	=head3 Does it support tabs, can I have a tabbed rxvt-unicode?
		36
		37	Beginning with version 7.3, there is a perl extension that implements a
		38	simple tabbed terminal. It is installed by default, so any of these should
		39	give you tabs:
		40
		41	@@URXVT_NAME@@ -pe tabbed
		42
		43	URxvt.perl-ext-common: default,tabbed
		44
		45	It will also work fine with tabbing functionality of many window managers
		46	or similar tabbing programs, and its embedding-features allow it to be
		47	embedded into other programs, as witnessed by F<doc/rxvt-tabbed> or
		48	the upcoming C<Gtk2::URxvt> perl module, which features a tabbed urxvt
		49	(murxvt) terminal as an example embedding application.
		50
		51	=head3 How do I know which rxvt-unicode version I'm using?
		52
		53	The version number is displayed with the usage (-h). Also the escape
		54	sequence C<ESC [ 8 n> sets the window title to the version number. When
		55	using the @@URXVT_NAME@@c client, the version displayed is that of the
		56	daemon.
		57
		58	=head3 Rxvt-unicode uses gobs of memory, how can I reduce that?
		59
		60	Rxvt-unicode tries to obey the rule of not charging you for something you
		61	don't use. One thing you should try is to configure out all settings that
		62	you don't need, for example, Xft support is a resource hog by design,
		63	when used. Compiling it out ensures that no Xft font will be loaded
		64	accidentally when rxvt-unicode tries to find a font for your characters.
		65
		66	Also, many people (me included) like large windows and even larger
		67	scrollback buffers: Without C<--enable-unicode3>, rxvt-unicode will use
		68	6 bytes per screen cell. For a 160x?? window this amounts to almost a
		69	kilobyte per line. A scrollback buffer of 10000 lines will then (if full)
		70	use 10 Megabytes of memory. With C<--enable-unicode3> it gets worse, as
		71	rxvt-unicode then uses 8 bytes per screen cell.
		72
		73	=head3 How can I start @@URXVT_NAME@@d in a race-free way?
		74
		75	Try C<@@URXVT_NAME@@d -f -o>, which tells @@URXVT_NAME@@d to open the
		76	display, create the listening socket and then fork.
		77
		78	=head3 How can I start @@URXVT_NAME@@d automatically when I run URXVT_NAME@@c?
		79
		80	If you want to start @@URXVT_NAME@@d automatically whenever you run
		81	@@URXVT_NAME@@c and the daemon isn't running yet, use this script:
		82
		83	#!/bin/sh
		84	@@URXVT_NAME@@c "$@"
		85	if [ $? -eq 2 ]; then
		86	@@URXVT_NAME@@d -q -o -f
		87	@@URXVT_NAME@@c "$@"
		88	fi
		89
		90	This tries to create a new terminal, and if fails with exit status 2,
		91	meaning it couldn't connect to the daemon, it will start the daemon and
		92	re-run the command. Subsequent invocations of the script will re-use the
		93	existing daemon.
		94
		95	=head3 How do I distinguish wether I'm running rxvt-unicode or a regular xterm? I need this to decide about setting colors etc.
		96
		97	The original rxvt and rxvt-unicode always export the variable "COLORTERM",
		98	so you can check and see if that is set. Note that several programs, JED,
		99	slrn, Midnight Commander automatically check this variable to decide
		100	whether or not to use color.
		101
		102	=head3 How do I set the correct, full IP address for the DISPLAY variable?
		103
		104	If you've compiled rxvt-unicode with DISPLAY_IS_IP and have enabled
		105	insecure mode then it is possible to use the following shell script
		106	snippets to correctly set the display. If your version of rxvt-unicode
		107	wasn't also compiled with ESCZ_ANSWER (as assumed in these snippets) then
		108	the COLORTERM variable can be used to distinguish rxvt-unicode from a
		109	regular xterm.
		110
		111	Courtesy of Chuck Blake <cblake@BBN.COM> with the following shell script
		112	snippets:
		113
		114	# Bourne/Korn/POSIX family of shells:
		115	[ ${TERM:-foo} = foo ] && TERM=xterm # assume an xterm if we don't know
		116	if [ ${TERM:-foo} = xterm ]; then
		117	stty -icanon -echo min 0 time 15 # see if enhanced rxvt or not
		118	echo -n '^[Z'
		119	read term_id
		120	stty icanon echo
		121	if [ ""${term_id} = '^[[?1;2C' -a ${DISPLAY:-foo} = foo ]; then
		122	echo -n '^[[7n' # query the rxvt we are in for the DISPLAY string
		123	read DISPLAY # set it in our local shell
		124	fi
		125	fi
		126
		127	=head3 How do I compile the manual pages on my own?
		128
		129	You need to have a recent version of perl installed as F</usr/bin/perl>,
		130	one that comes with F<pod2man>, F<pod2text> and F<pod2html>. Then go to
		131	the doc subdirectory and enter C<make alldoc>.
		132
29	=item Isn't rxvt supposed to be small? Don't all those features bloat?	133	=head3 Isn't rxvt-unicode supposed to be small? Don't all those features bloat?
30		134
31	I often get asked about this, and I think, no, they didn't cause extra	135	I often get asked about this, and I think, no, they didn't cause extra
32	bloat. If you compare a minimal rxvt and a minimal urxvt, you can see	136	bloat. If you compare a minimal rxvt and a minimal urxvt, you can see
33	that the urxvt binary is larger (due to some encoding tables always being	137	that the urxvt binary is larger (due to some encoding tables always being
34	compiled in), but it actually uses less memory (RSS) after startup. Even	138	compiled in), but it actually uses less memory (RSS) after startup. Even
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38		142
39	text data bss drs rss filename	143	text data bss drs rss filename
40	98398 1664 24 15695 1824 rxvt --disable-everything	144	98398 1664 24 15695 1824 rxvt --disable-everything
41	188985 9048 66616 18222 1788 urxvt --disable-everything	145	188985 9048 66616 18222 1788 urxvt --disable-everything
42		146
43	When you C<--enable-everything> (which _is_ unfair, as this involves xft	147	When you C<--enable-everything> (which I<is> unfair, as this involves xft
44	and full locale/XIM support which are quite bloaty inside libX11 and my	148	and full locale/XIM support which are quite bloaty inside libX11 and my
45	libc), the two diverge, but not unreasnobaly so.	149	libc), the two diverge, but not unreasnobaly so.
46		150
47	text data bss drs rss filename	151	text data bss drs rss filename
48	163431 2152 24 20123 2060 rxvt --enable-everything	152	163431 2152 24 20123 2060 rxvt --enable-everything
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62	memory.	166	memory.
63		167
64	Compared to e.g. Eterm (5112k), aterm (3132k) and xterm (4680k), this	168	Compared to e.g. Eterm (5112k), aterm (3132k) and xterm (4680k), this
65	still fares rather well. And compared to some monsters like gnome-terminal	169	still fares rather well. And compared to some monsters like gnome-terminal
66	(21152k + extra 4204k in separate processes) or konsole (22200k + extra	170	(21152k + extra 4204k in separate processes) or konsole (22200k + extra
67	43180k in daemons that stay around after exit, plus half aminute of	171	43180k in daemons that stay around after exit, plus half a minute of
68	startup time, including the hundreds of warnings it spits out), it fares	172	startup time, including the hundreds of warnings it spits out), it fares
69	extremely well *g*.	173	extremely well *g*.
70		174
71	=item Why C++, isn't that unportable/bloated/uncool?	175	=head3 Why C++, isn't that unportable/bloated/uncool?
72		176
73	Is this a question? :) It comes up very often. The simple answer is: I had	177	Is this a question? :) It comes up very often. The simple answer is: I had
74	to write it, and C++ allowed me to write and maintain it in a fraction	178	to write it, and C++ allowed me to write and maintain it in a fraction
75	of the time and effort (which is a scarce resource for me). Put even	179	of the time and effort (which is a scarce resource for me). Put even
76	shorter: It simply wouldn't exist without C++.	180	shorter: It simply wouldn't exist without C++.
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100	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00002aaaaaaab000)	204	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00002aaaaaaab000)
101		205
102	No large bloated libraries (of course, none were linked in statically),	206	No large bloated libraries (of course, none were linked in statically),
103	except maybe libX11 :)	207	except maybe libX11 :)
104		208
105	=item Does it support tabs, can I have a tabbed rxvt-unicode?
106		209
107	rxvt-unicode does not directly support tabs. It will work fine with	210	=head2 Rendering, Font & Look and Feel Issues
108	tabbing functionality of many window managers or similar tabbing programs,
109	and its embedding-features allow it to be embedded into other programs,
110	as witnessed by F<doc/rxvt-tabbed> or the upcoming C<Gtk2::URxvt> perl
111	module, which features a tabbed urxvt (murxvt) terminal as an example
112	embedding application.
113		211
114	=item How do I know which rxvt-unicode version I'm using?	212	=head3 I can't get transparency working, what am I doing wrong?
115		213
116	The version number is displayed with the usage (-h). Also the escape	214	First of all, transparency isn't officially supported in rxvt-unicode, so
117	sequence C<ESC [ 8 n> sets the window title to the version number. When	215	you are mostly on your own. Do not bug the author about it (but you may
118	using the @@RXVT_NAME@@c client, the version displayed is that of the	216	bug everybody else). Also, if you can't get it working consider it a rite
119	daemon.	217	of passage: ... and you failed.
120		218
121	=item I am using Debian GNU/Linux and have a problem...	219	Here are four ways to get transparency. B<Do> read the manpage and option
		220	descriptions for the programs mentioned and rxvt-unicode. Really, do it!
122		221
123	The Debian GNU/Linux package of rxvt-unicode in sarge contains large	222	1. Use inheritPixmap:
124	patches that considerably change the behaviour of rxvt-unicode. Before
125	reporting a bug to the original rxvt-unicode author please download and
126	install the genuine version (L<http://software.schmorp.de#rxvt-unicode>)
127	and try to reproduce the problem. If you cannot, chances are that the
128	problems are specific to Debian GNU/Linux, in which case it should be
129	reported via the Debian Bug Tracking System (use C<reportbug> to report
130	the bug).
131		223
132	For other problems that also affect the Debian package, you can and	224	Esetroot wallpaper.jpg
133	probably should use the Debian BTS, too, because, after all, it's also a	225	@@URXVT_NAME@@ -ip -tint red -sh 40
134	bug in the Debian version and it serves as a reminder for other users that
135	might encounter the same issue.
136		226
		227	That works. If you think it doesn't, you lack transparency and tinting
		228	support, or you are unable to read.
		229
		230	2. Use a simple pixmap and emulate pseudo-transparency. This enables you
		231	to use effects other than tinting and shading: Just shade/tint/whatever
		232	your picture with gimp or any other tool:
		233
		234	convert wallpaper.jpg -blur 20x20 -modulate 30 background.xpm
		235	@@URXVT_NAME@@ -pixmap background.xpm -pe automove-background
		236
		237	That works. If you think it doesn't, you lack XPM and Perl support, or you
		238	are unable to read.
		239
		240	3. Use an ARGB visual:
		241
		242	@@URXVT_NAME@@ -depth 32 -fg grey90 -bg rgba:0000/0000/4444/cccc
		243
		244	This requires XFT support, and the support of your X-server. If that
		245	doesn't work for you, blame Xorg and Keith Packard. ARGB visuals aren't
		246	there yet, no matter what they claim. Rxvt-Unicode contains the neccessary
		247	bugfixes and workarounds for Xft and Xlib to make it work, but that
		248	doesn't mean that your WM has the required kludges in place.
		249
		250	4. Use xcompmgr and let it do the job:
		251
		252	xprop -frame -f _NET_WM_WINDOW_OPACITY 32c \
		253	-set _NET_WM_WINDOW_OPACITY 0xc0000000
		254
		255	Then click on a window you want to make transparent. Replace C<0xc0000000>
		256	by other values to change the degree of opacity. If it doesn't work and
		257	your server crashes, you got to keep the pieces.
		258
		259	=head3 Why does rxvt-unicode sometimes leave pixel droppings?
		260
		261	Most fonts were not designed for terminal use, which means that character
		262	size varies a lot. A font that is otherwise fine for terminal use might
		263	contain some characters that are simply too wide. Rxvt-unicode will avoid
		264	these characters. For characters that are just "a bit" too wide a special
		265	"careful" rendering mode is used that redraws adjacent characters.
		266
		267	All of this requires that fonts do not lie about character sizes,
		268	however: Xft fonts often draw glyphs larger than their acclaimed bounding
		269	box, and rxvt-unicode has no way of detecting this (the correct way is to
		270	ask for the character bounding box, which unfortunately is wrong in these
		271	cases).
		272
		273	It's not clear (to me at least), wether this is a bug in Xft, freetype,
		274	or the respective font. If you encounter this problem you might try using
		275	the C<-lsp> option to give the font more height. If that doesn't work, you
		276	might be forced to use a different font.
		277
		278	All of this is not a problem when using X11 core fonts, as their bounding
		279	box data is correct.
		280
		281	=head3 How can I keep rxvt-unicode from using reverse video so much?
		282
		283	First of all, make sure you are running with the right terminal settings
		284	(C<TERM=rxvt-unicode>), which will get rid of most of these effects. Then
		285	make sure you have specified colours for italic and bold, as otherwise
		286	rxvt-unicode might use reverse video to simulate the effect:
		287
		288	URxvt.colorBD: white
		289	URxvt.colorIT: green
		290
		291	=head3 Some programs assume totally weird colours (red instead of blue), how can I fix that?
		292
		293	For some unexplainable reason, some rare programs assume a very weird
		294	colour palette when confronted with a terminal with more than the standard
		295	8 colours (rxvt-unicode supports 88). The right fix is, of course, to fix
		296	these programs not to assume non-ISO colours without very good reasons.
		297
		298	In the meantime, you can either edit your C<rxvt-unicode> terminfo
		299	definition to only claim 8 colour support or use C<TERM=rxvt>, which will
		300	fix colours but keep you from using other rxvt-unicode features.
		301
		302	=head3 Can I switch the fonts at runtime?
		303
		304	Yes, using an escape sequence. Try something like this, which has the same
		305	effect as using the C<-fn> switch, and takes effect immediately:
		306
		307	printf '\e]50;%s\007' "9x15bold,xft:Kochi Gothic"
		308
		309	This is useful if you e.g. work primarily with japanese (and prefer a
		310	japanese font), but you have to switch to chinese temporarily, where
		311	japanese fonts would only be in your way.
		312
		313	You can think of this as a kind of manual ISO-2022 switching.
		314
		315	=head3 Why do italic characters look as if clipped?
		316
		317	Many fonts have difficulties with italic characters and hinting. For
		318	example, the otherwise very nicely hinted font C<xft:Bitstream Vera Sans
		319	Mono> completely fails in it's italic face. A workaround might be to
		320	enable freetype autohinting, i.e. like this:
		321
		322	URxvt.italicFont: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:italic:autohint=true
		323	URxvt.boldItalicFont: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:bold:italic:autohint=true
		324
		325	=head3 Can I speed up Xft rendering somehow?
		326
		327	Yes, the most obvious way to speed it up is to avoid Xft entirely, as
		328	it is simply slow. If you still want Xft fonts you might try to disable
		329	antialiasing (by appending C<:antialias=false>), which saves lots of
		330	memory and also speeds up rendering considerably.
		331
		332	=head3 Rxvt-unicode doesn't seem to anti-alias its fonts, what is wrong?
		333
		334	Rxvt-unicode will use whatever you specify as a font. If it needs to
		335	fall back to it's default font search list it will prefer X11 core
		336	fonts, because they are small and fast, and then use Xft fonts. It has
		337	antialiasing disabled for most of them, because the author thinks they
		338	look best that way.
		339
		340	If you want antialiasing, you have to specify the fonts manually.
		341
		342	=head3 What's with this bold/blink stuff?
		343
		344	If no bold colour is set via C<colorBD:>, bold will invert text using the
		345	standard foreground colour.
		346
		347	For the standard background colour, blinking will actually make the
		348	text blink when compiled with C<--enable-blinking>. with standard
		349	colours. Without C<--enable-blinking>, the blink attribute will be
		350	ignored.
		351
		352	On ANSI colours, bold/blink attributes are used to set high-intensity
		353	foreground/background colors.
		354
		355	color0-7 are the low-intensity colors.
		356
		357	color8-15 are the corresponding high-intensity colors.
		358
		359	=head3 I don't like the screen colors. How do I change them?
		360
		361	You can change the screen colors at run-time using F<~/.Xdefaults>
		362	resources (or as long-options).
		363
		364	Here are values that are supposed to resemble a VGA screen,
		365	including the murky brown that passes for low-intensity yellow:
		366
		367	URxvt.color0: #000000
		368	URxvt.color1: #A80000
		369	URxvt.color2: #00A800
		370	URxvt.color3: #A8A800
		371	URxvt.color4: #0000A8
		372	URxvt.color5: #A800A8
		373	URxvt.color6: #00A8A8
		374	URxvt.color7: #A8A8A8
		375
		376	URxvt.color8: #000054
		377	URxvt.color9: #FF0054
		378	URxvt.color10: #00FF54
		379	URxvt.color11: #FFFF54
		380	URxvt.color12: #0000FF
		381	URxvt.color13: #FF00FF
		382	URxvt.color14: #00FFFF
		383	URxvt.color15: #FFFFFF
		384
		385	And here is a more complete set of non-standard colors.
		386
		387	URxvt.cursorColor: #dc74d1
		388	URxvt.pointerColor: #dc74d1
		389	URxvt.background: #0e0e0e
		390	URxvt.foreground: #4ad5e1
		391	URxvt.color0: #000000
		392	URxvt.color8: #8b8f93
		393	URxvt.color1: #dc74d1
		394	URxvt.color9: #dc74d1
		395	URxvt.color2: #0eb8c7
		396	URxvt.color10: #0eb8c7
		397	URxvt.color3: #dfe37e
		398	URxvt.color11: #dfe37e
		399	URxvt.color5: #9e88f0
		400	URxvt.color13: #9e88f0
		401	URxvt.color6: #73f7ff
		402	URxvt.color14: #73f7ff
		403	URxvt.color7: #e1dddd
		404	URxvt.color15: #e1dddd
		405
		406	They have been described (not by me) as "pretty girly".
		407
		408	=head3 Why do some characters look so much different than others?
		409
		410	See next entry.
		411
		412	=head3 How does rxvt-unicode choose fonts?
		413
		414	Most fonts do not contain the full range of Unicode, which is
		415	fine. Chances are that the font you (or the admin/package maintainer of
		416	your system/os) have specified does not cover all the characters you want
		417	to display.
		418
		419	B<rxvt-unicode> makes a best-effort try at finding a replacement
		420	font. Often the result is fine, but sometimes the chosen font looks
		421	bad/ugly/wrong. Some fonts have totally strange characters that don't
		422	resemble the correct glyph at all, and rxvt-unicode lacks the artificial
		423	intelligence to detect that a specific glyph is wrong: it has to believe
		424	the font that the characters it claims to contain indeed look correct.
		425
		426	In that case, select a font of your taste and add it to the font list,
		427	e.g.:
		428
		429	@@URXVT_NAME@@ -fn basefont,font2,font3...
		430
		431	When rxvt-unicode sees a character, it will first look at the base
		432	font. If the base font does not contain the character, it will go to the
		433	next font, and so on. Specifying your own fonts will also speed up this
		434	search and use less resources within rxvt-unicode and the X-server.
		435
		436	The only limitation is that none of the fonts may be larger than the base
		437	font, as the base font defines the terminal character cell size, which
		438	must be the same due to the way terminals work.
		439
		440	=head3 Why do some chinese characters look so different than others?
		441
		442	This is because there is a difference between script and language --
		443	rxvt-unicode does not know which language the text that is output is,
		444	as it only knows the unicode character codes. If rxvt-unicode first
		445	sees a japanese/chinese character, it might choose a japanese font for
		446	display. Subsequent japanese characters will use that font. Now, many
		447	chinese characters aren't represented in japanese fonts, so when the first
		448	non-japanese character comes up, rxvt-unicode will look for a chinese font
		449	-- unfortunately at this point, it will still use the japanese font for
		450	chinese characters that are also in the japanese font.
		451
		452	The workaround is easy: just tag a chinese font at the end of your font
		453	list (see the previous question). The key is to view the font list as
		454	a preference list: If you expect more japanese, list a japanese font
		455	first. If you expect more chinese, put a chinese font first.
		456
		457	In the future it might be possible to switch language preferences at
		458	runtime (the internal data structure has no problem with using different
		459	fonts for the same character at the same time, but no interface for this
		460	has been designed yet).
		461
		462	Until then, you might get away with switching fonts at runtime (see L<Can
		463	I switch the fonts at runtime?> later in this document).
		464
		465	=head2 Keyboard, Mouse & User Interaction
		466
		467	=head3 The new selection selects pieces that are too big, how can I select single words?
		468
		469	If you want to select e.g. alphanumeric words, you can use the following
		470	setting:
		471
		472	URxvt.selection.pattern-0: ([[:word:]]+)
		473
		474	If you click more than twice, the selection will be extended
		475	more and more.
		476
		477	To get a selection that is very similar to the old code, try this pattern:
		478
		479	URxvt.selection.pattern-0: ([^"&'()*,;<=>?@[\\\\]^`{|})]+)
		480
		481	Please also note that the I<LeftClick Shift-LeftClik> combination also
		482	selects words like the old code.
		483
		484	=head3 I don't like the new selection/popups/hotkeys/perl, how do I change/disable it?
		485
		486	You can disable the perl extension completely by setting the
		487	B<perl-ext-common> resource to the empty string, which also keeps
		488	rxvt-unicode from initialising perl, saving memory.
		489
		490	If you only want to disable specific features, you first have to
		491	identify which perl extension is responsible. For this, read the section
		492	B<PREPACKAGED EXTENSIONS> in the @@URXVT_NAME@@perl(3) manpage. For
		493	example, to disable the B<selection-popup> and B<option-popup>, specify
		494	this B<perl-ext-common> resource:
		495
		496	URxvt.perl-ext-common: default,-selection-popup,-option-popup
		497
		498	This will keep the default extensions, but disable the two popup
		499	extensions. Some extensions can also be configured, for example,
		500	scrollback search mode is triggered by B<M-s>. You can move it to any
		501	other combination either by setting the B<searchable-scrollback> resource:
		502
		503	URxvt.searchable-scrollback: CM-s
		504
		505	=head3 The cursor moves when selecting text in the current input line, how do I switch this off?
		506
		507	See next entry.
		508
		509	=head3 During rlogin/ssh/telnet/etc. sessions, clicking near the cursor outputs strange escape sequences, how do I fix this?
		510
		511	These are caused by the C<readline> perl extension. Under normal
		512	circumstances, it will move your cursor around when you click into the
		513	line that contains it. It tries hard not to do this at the wrong moment,
		514	but when running a program that doesn't parse cursor movements or in some
		515	cases during rlogin sessions, it fails to detect this properly.
		516
		517	You can permamently switch this feature off by disabling the C<readline>
		518	extension:
		519
		520	URxvt.perl-ext-common: default,-readline
		521
		522	=head3 My numerical keypad acts weird and generates differing output?
		523
		524	Some Debian GNUL/Linux users seem to have this problem, although no
		525	specific details were reported so far. It is possible that this is caused
		526	by the wrong C<TERM> setting, although the details of wether and how
		527	this can happen are unknown, as C<TERM=rxvt> should offer a compatible
		528	keymap. See the answer to the previous question, and please report if that
		529	helped.
		530
		531	=head3 My Compose (Multi_key) key is no longer working.
		532
		533	The most common causes for this are that either your locale is not set
		534	correctly, or you specified a B<preeditStyle> that is not supported by
		535	your input method. For example, if you specified B<OverTheSpot> and
		536	your input method (e.g. the default input method handling Compose keys)
		537	does not support this (for instance because it is not visual), then
		538	rxvt-unicode will continue without an input method.
		539
		540	In this case either do not specify a B<preeditStyle> or specify more than
		541	one pre-edit style, such as B<OverTheSpot,Root,None>.
		542
		543	=head3 I cannot type C<Ctrl-Shift-2> to get an ASCII NUL character due to ISO 14755
		544
		545	Either try C<Ctrl-2> alone (it often is mapped to ASCII NUL even on
		546	international keyboards) or simply use ISO 14755 support to your
		547	advantage, typing <Ctrl-Shift-0> to get a ASCII NUL. This works for other
		548	codes, too, such as C<Ctrl-Shift-1-d> to type the default telnet escape
		549	character and so on.
		550
		551	=head3 Mouse cut/paste suddenly no longer works.
		552
		553	Make sure that mouse reporting is actually turned off since killing
		554	some editors prematurely may leave the mouse in mouse report mode. I've
		555	heard that tcsh may use mouse reporting unless it otherwise specified. A
		556	quick check is to see if cut/paste works when the Alt or Shift keys are
		557	depressed.
		558
		559	=head3 What's with the strange Backspace/Delete key behaviour?
		560
		561	Assuming that the physical Backspace key corresponds to the
		562	BackSpace keysym (not likely for Linux ... see the following
		563	question) there are two standard values that can be used for
		564	Backspace: C<^H> and C<^?>.
		565
		566	Historically, either value is correct, but rxvt-unicode adopts the debian
		567	policy of using C<^?> when unsure, because it's the one only only correct
		568	choice :).
		569
		570	Rxvt-unicode tries to inherit the current stty settings and uses the value
		571	of `erase' to guess the value for backspace. If rxvt-unicode wasn't
		572	started from a terminal (say, from a menu or by remote shell), then the
		573	system value of `erase', which corresponds to CERASE in <termios.h>, will
		574	be used (which may not be the same as your stty setting).
		575
		576	For starting a new rxvt-unicode:
		577
		578	# use Backspace = ^H
		579	$ stty erase ^H
		580	$ @@URXVT_NAME@@
		581
		582	# use Backspace = ^?
		583	$ stty erase ^?
		584	$ @@URXVT_NAME@@
		585
		586	Toggle with C<ESC [ 36 h> / C<ESC [ 36 l>.
		587
		588	For an existing rxvt-unicode:
		589
		590	# use Backspace = ^H
		591	$ stty erase ^H
		592	$ echo -n "^[[36h"
		593
		594	# use Backspace = ^?
		595	$ stty erase ^?
		596	$ echo -n "^[[36l"
		597
		598	This helps satisfy some of the Backspace discrepancies that occur, but
		599	if you use Backspace = C<^H>, make sure that the termcap/terminfo value
		600	properly reflects that.
		601
		602	The Delete key is a another casualty of the ill-defined Backspace problem.
		603	To avoid confusion between the Backspace and Delete keys, the Delete
		604	key has been assigned an escape sequence to match the vt100 for Execute
		605	(C<ESC [ 3 ~>) and is in the supplied termcap/terminfo.
		606
		607	Some other Backspace problems:
		608
		609	some editors use termcap/terminfo,
		610	some editors (vim I'm told) expect Backspace = ^H,
		611	GNU Emacs (and Emacs-like editors) use ^H for help.
		612
		613	Perhaps someday this will all be resolved in a consistent manner.
		614
		615	=head3 I don't like the key-bindings. How do I change them?
		616
		617	There are some compile-time selections available via configure. Unless
		618	you have run "configure" with the C<--disable-resources> option you can
		619	use the `keysym' resource to alter the keystrings associated with keysyms.
		620
		621	Here's an example for a URxvt session started using C<@@URXVT_NAME@@ -name URxvt>
		622
		623	URxvt.keysym.Home: \033[1~
		624	URxvt.keysym.End: \033[4~
		625	URxvt.keysym.C-apostrophe: \033<C-'>
		626	URxvt.keysym.C-slash: \033<C-/>
		627	URxvt.keysym.C-semicolon: \033<C-;>
		628	URxvt.keysym.C-grave: \033<C-`>
		629	URxvt.keysym.C-comma: \033<C-,>
		630	URxvt.keysym.C-period: \033<C-.>
		631	URxvt.keysym.C-0x60: \033<C-`>
		632	URxvt.keysym.C-Tab: \033<C-Tab>
		633	URxvt.keysym.C-Return: \033<C-Return>
		634	URxvt.keysym.S-Return: \033<S-Return>
		635	URxvt.keysym.S-space: \033<S-Space>
		636	URxvt.keysym.M-Up: \033<M-Up>
		637	URxvt.keysym.M-Down: \033<M-Down>
		638	URxvt.keysym.M-Left: \033<M-Left>
		639	URxvt.keysym.M-Right: \033<M-Right>
		640	URxvt.keysym.M-C-0: list \033<M-C- 0123456789 >
		641	URxvt.keysym.M-C-a: list \033<M-C- abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz >
		642	URxvt.keysym.F12: command:\033]701;zh_CN.GBK\007
		643
		644	See some more examples in the documentation for the B<keysym> resource.
		645
		646	=head3 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 map
		647
		648	KP_Insert == Insert
		649	F22 == Print
		650	F27 == Home
		651	F29 == Prior
		652	F33 == End
		653	F35 == Next
		654
		655	Rather than have rxvt-unicode try to accommodate all the various possible
		656	keyboard mappings, it is better to use `xmodmap' to remap the keys as
		657	required for your particular machine.
		658
		659
		660
		661	=head2 Terminal Configuration
		662
		663	=head3 Why doesn't rxvt-unicode read my resources?
		664
		665	Well, why, indeed? It does, in a way very similar to other X
		666	applications. Most importantly, this means that if you or your OS loads
		667	resources into the X display (the right way to do it), rxvt-unicode will
		668	ignore any resource files in your home directory. It will only read
		669	F<$HOME/.Xdefaults> when no resources are attached to the display.
		670
		671	If you have or use an F<$HOME/.Xresources> file, chances are that
		672	resources are loaded into your X-server. In this case, you have to
		673	re-login after every change (or run F<xrdb -merge $HOME/.Xresources>).
		674
		675	Also consider the form resources have to use:
		676
		677	URxvt.resource: value
		678
		679	If you want to use another form (there are lots of different ways of
		680	specifying resources), make sure you understand wether and why it
		681	works. If unsure, use the form above.
		682
137	=item When I log-in to another system it tells me about missing terminfo data?	683	=head3 When I log-in to another system it tells me about missing terminfo data?
138		684
139	The terminal description used by rxvt-unicode is not as widely available	685	The terminal description used by rxvt-unicode is not as widely available
140	as that for xterm, or even rxvt (for which the same problem often arises).	686	as that for xterm, or even rxvt (for which the same problem often arises).
141		687
142	The correct solution for this problem is to install the terminfo, this can	688	The correct solution for this problem is to install the terminfo, this can
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158	resource to set it:	704	resource to set it:
159		705
160	URxvt.termName: rxvt	706	URxvt.termName: rxvt
161		707
162	If you don't plan to use B<rxvt> (quite common...) you could also replace	708	If you don't plan to use B<rxvt> (quite common...) you could also replace
163	the rxvt terminfo file with the rxvt-unicode one.	709	the rxvt terminfo file with the rxvt-unicode one and use C<TERM=rxvt>.
164		710
165	=item C<tic> outputs some error when compiling the terminfo entry.	711	=head3 C<tic> outputs some error when compiling the terminfo entry.
166		712
167	Most likely it's the empty definition for C<enacs=>. Just replace it by	713	Most likely it's the empty definition for C<enacs=>. Just replace it by
168	C<enacs=\E[0@> and try again.	714	C<enacs=\E[0@> and try again.
169		715
170	=item C<bash>'s readline does not work correctly under @@RXVT_NAME@@.	716	=head3 C<bash>'s readline does not work correctly under @@URXVT_NAME@@.
171		717
		718	See next entry.
		719
172	=item I need a termcap file entry.	720	=head3 I need a termcap file entry.
173		721
174	One reason you might want this is that some distributions or operating	722	One reason you might want this is that some distributions or operating
175	systems still compile some programs using the long-obsoleted termcap	723	systems still compile some programs using the long-obsoleted termcap
176	library (Fedora Core's bash is one example) and rely on a termcap entry	724	library (Fedora Core's bash is one example) and rely on a termcap entry
177	for C<rxvt-unicode>.	725	for C<rxvt-unicode>.
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203	:sc=\E7:se=\E[27m:sf=^J:so=\E[7m:sr=\EM:st=\EH:ta=^I:\	751	:sc=\E7:se=\E[27m:sf=^J:so=\E[7m:sr=\EM:st=\EH:ta=^I:\
204	:te=\E[r\E[?1049l:ti=\E[?1049h:ue=\E[24m:up=\E[A:\	752	:te=\E[r\E[?1049l:ti=\E[?1049h:ue=\E[24m:up=\E[A:\
205	:us=\E[4m:vb=\E[?5h\E[?5l:ve=\E[?25h:vi=\E[?25l:\	753	:us=\E[4m:vb=\E[?5h\E[?5l:ve=\E[?25h:vi=\E[?25l:\
206	:vs=\E[?25h:	754	:vs=\E[?25h:
207		755
208	=item Why does C<ls> no longer have coloured output?	756	=head3 Why does C<ls> no longer have coloured output?
209		757
210	The C<ls> in the GNU coreutils unfortunately doesn't use terminfo to	758	The C<ls> in the GNU coreutils unfortunately doesn't use terminfo to
211	decide wether a terminal has colour, but uses it's own configuration	759	decide wether a terminal has colour, but uses it's own configuration
212	file. Needless to say, C<rxvt-unicode> is not in it's default file (among	760	file. Needless to say, C<rxvt-unicode> is not in it's default file (among
213	with most other terminals supporting colour). Either add:	761	with most other terminals supporting colour). Either add:
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218		766
219	alias ls='ls --color=auto'	767	alias ls='ls --color=auto'
220		768
221	to your C<.profile> or C<.bashrc>.	769	to your C<.profile> or C<.bashrc>.
222		770
223	=item Why doesn't vim/emacs etc. use the 88 colour mode?	771	=head3 Why doesn't vim/emacs etc. use the 88 colour mode?
224		772
		773	See next entry.
		774
225	=item Why doesn't vim/emacs etc. make use of italic?	775	=head3 Why doesn't vim/emacs etc. make use of italic?
226		776
		777	See next entry.
		778
227	=item Why are the secondary screen-related options not working properly?	779	=head3 Why are the secondary screen-related options not working properly?
228		780
229	Make sure you are using C<TERM=rxvt-unicode>. Some pre-packaged	781	Make sure you are using C<TERM=rxvt-unicode>. Some pre-packaged
230	distributions (most notably Debian GNU/Linux) break rxvt-unicode	782	distributions (most notably Debian GNU/Linux) break rxvt-unicode
231	by setting C<TERM> to C<rxvt>, which doesn't have these extra	783	by setting C<TERM> to C<rxvt>, which doesn't have these extra
232	features. Unfortunately, some of these (most notably, again, Debian	784	features. Unfortunately, some of these (most notably, again, Debian
233	GNU/Linux) furthermore fail to even install the C<rxvt-unicode> terminfo	785	GNU/Linux) furthermore fail to even install the C<rxvt-unicode> terminfo
234	file, so you will need to install it on your own (See the question B<When	786	file, so you will need to install it on your own (See the question B<When
235	I log-in to another system it tells me about missing terminfo data?> on	787	I log-in to another system it tells me about missing terminfo data?> on
236	how to do this).	788	how to do this).
237		789
238	=item My numerical keypad acts weird and generates differing output?
239		790
240	Some Debian GNUL/Linux users seem to have this problem, although no	791	=head2 Encoding / Locale / Input Method Issues
241	specific details were reported so far. It is possible that this is caused
242	by the wrong C<TERM> setting, although the details of wether and how
243	this can happen are unknown, as C<TERM=rxvt> should offer a compatible
244	keymap. See the answer to the previous question, and please report if that
245	helped.
246		792
247	=item Rxvt-unicode does not seem to understand the selected encoding?	793	=head3 Rxvt-unicode does not seem to understand the selected encoding?
248		794
		795	See next entry.
		796
249	=item Unicode does not seem to work?	797	=head3 Unicode does not seem to work?
250		798
251	If you encounter strange problems like typing an accented character but	799	If you encounter strange problems like typing an accented character but
252	getting two unrelated other characters or similar, or if program output is	800	getting two unrelated other characters or similar, or if program output is
253	subtly garbled, then you should check your locale settings.	801	subtly garbled, then you should check your locale settings.
254		802
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274		822
275	If nothing works and you are sure that everything is set correctly then	823	If nothing works and you are sure that everything is set correctly then
276	you will need to remember a little known fact: Some programs just don't	824	you will need to remember a little known fact: Some programs just don't
277	support locales :(	825	support locales :(
278		826
279	=item Why do some characters look so much different than others?	827	=head3 How does rxvt-unicode determine the encoding to use?
280		828
281	=item How does rxvt-unicode choose fonts?	829	See next entry.
282		830
283	Most fonts do not contain the full range of Unicode, which is	831	=head3 Is there an option to switch encodings?
284	fine. Chances are that the font you (or the admin/package maintainer of
285	your system/os) have specified does not cover all the characters you want
286	to display.
287		832
288	B<rxvt-unicode> makes a best-effort try at finding a replacement	833	Unlike some other terminals, rxvt-unicode has no encoding switch, and no
289	font. Often the result is fine, but sometimes the chosen font looks	834	specific "utf-8" mode, such as xterm. In fact, it doesn't even know about
290	bad/ugly/wrong. Some fonts have totally strange characters that don't	835	UTF-8 or any other encodings with respect to terminal I/O.
291	resemble the correct glyph at all, and rxvt-unicode lacks the artificial
292	intelligence to detect that a specific glyph is wrong: it has to believe
293	the font that the characters it claims to contain indeed look correct.
294		836
295	In that case, select a font of your taste and add it to the font list,	837	The reasons is that there exists a perfectly fine mechanism for selecting
296	e.g.:	838	the encoding, doing I/O and (most important) communicating this to all
297		839	applications so everybody agrees on character properties such as width
298	@@RXVT_NAME@@ -fn basefont,font2,font3...	840	and code number. This mechanism is the I<locale>. Applications not using
299		841	that info will have problems (for example, C<xterm> gets the width of
300	When rxvt-unicode sees a character, it will first look at the base	842	characters wrong as it uses it's own, locale-independent table under all
301	font. If the base font does not contain the character, it will go to the
302	next font, and so on. Specifying your own fonts will also speed up this
303	search and use less resources within rxvt-unicode and the X-server.
304
305	The only limitation is that none of the fonts may be larger than the base
306	font, as the base font defines the terminal character cell size, which
307	must be the same due to the way terminals work.
308
309	=item Why do some chinese characters look so different than others?
310
311	This is because there is a difference between script and language --
312	rxvt-unicode does not know which language the text that is output is,
313	as it only knows the unicode character codes. If rxvt-unicode first
314	sees a japanese/chinese character, it might choose a japanese font for
315	display. Subsequent japanese characters will use that font. Now, many
316	chinese characters aren't represented in japanese fonts, so when the first
317	non-japanese character comes up, rxvt-unicode will look for a chinese font
318	-- unfortunately at this point, it will still use the japanese font for
319	chinese characters that are also in the japanese font.
320
321	The workaround is easy: just tag a chinese font at the end of your font
322	list (see the previous question). The key is to view the font list as
323	a preference list: If you expect more japanese, list a japanese font
324	first. If you expect more chinese, put a chinese font first.
325
326	In the future it might be possible to switch language preferences at
327	runtime (the internal data structure has no problem with using different
328	fonts for the same character at the same time, but no interface for this
329	has been designed yet).
330
331	Until then, you might get away with switching fonts at runtime (see L<Can
332	I switch the fonts at runtime?> later in this document).
333
334	=item Why does rxvt-unicode sometimes leave pixel droppings?
335
336	Most fonts were not designed for terminal use, which means that character
337	size varies a lot. A font that is otherwise fine for terminal use might
338	contain some characters that are simply too wide. Rxvt-unicode will avoid
339	these characters. For characters that are just "a bit" too wide a special
340	"careful" rendering mode is used that redraws adjacent characters.
341
342	All of this requires that fonts do not lie about character sizes,
343	however: Xft fonts often draw glyphs larger than their acclaimed bounding
344	box, and rxvt-unicode has no way of detecting this (the correct way is to
345	ask for the character bounding box, which unfortunately is wrong in these
346	cases).	843	locales).
347		844
348	It's not clear (to me at least), wether this is a bug in Xft, freetype,	845	Rxvt-unicode uses the C<LC_CTYPE> locale category to select encoding. All
349	or the respective font. If you encounter this problem you might try using	846	programs doing the same (that is, most) will automatically agree in the
350	the C<-lsp> option to give the font more height. If that doesn't work, you	847	interpretation of characters.
351	might be forced to use a different font.
352		848
353	All of this is not a problem when using X11 core fonts, as their bounding	849	Unfortunately, there is no system-independent way to select locales, nor
354	box data is correct.	850	is there a standard on how locale specifiers will look like.
355		851
		852	On most systems, the content of the C<LC_CTYPE> environment variable
		853	contains an arbitrary string which corresponds to an already-installed
		854	locale. Common names for locales are C<en_US.UTF-8>, C<de_DE.ISO-8859-15>,
		855	C<ja_JP.EUC-JP>, i.e. C<language_country.encoding>, but other forms
		856	(i.e. C<de> or C<german>) are also common.
		857
		858	Rxvt-unicode ignores all other locale categories, and except for
		859	the encoding, ignores country or language-specific settings,
		860	i.e. C<de_DE.UTF-8> and C<ja_JP.UTF-8> are the normally same to
		861	rxvt-unicode.
		862
		863	If you want to use a specific encoding you have to make sure you start
		864	rxvt-unicode with the correct C<LC_CTYPE> category.
		865
		866	=head3 Can I switch locales at runtime?
		867
		868	Yes, using an escape sequence. Try something like this, which sets
		869	rxvt-unicode's idea of C<LC_CTYPE>.
		870
		871	printf '\e]701;%s\007' ja_JP.SJIS
		872
		873	See also the previous answer.
		874
		875	Sometimes this capability is rather handy when you want to work in
		876	one locale (e.g. C<de_DE.UTF-8>) but some programs don't support it
		877	(e.g. UTF-8). For example, I use this script to start C<xjdic>, which
		878	first switches to a locale supported by xjdic and back later:
		879
		880	printf '\e]701;%s\007' ja_JP.SJIS
		881	xjdic -js
		882	printf '\e]701;%s\007' de_DE.UTF-8
		883
		884	You can also use xterm's C<luit> program, which usually works fine, except
		885	for some locales where character width differs between program- and
		886	rxvt-unicode-locales.
		887
		888	=head3 I have problems getting my input method working.
		889
		890	Try a search engine, as this is slightly different for every input method server.
		891
		892	Here is a checklist:
		893
		894	=over 4
		895
		896	=item - Make sure your locale I<and> the imLocale are supported on your OS.
		897
		898	Try C<locale -a> or check the documentation for your OS.
		899
		900	=item - Make sure your locale or imLocale matches a locale supported by your XIM.
		901
		902	For example, B<kinput2> does not support UTF-8 locales, you should use
		903	C<ja_JP.EUC-JP> or equivalent.
		904
		905	=item - Make sure your XIM server is actually running.
		906
		907	=item - Make sure the C<XMODIFIERS> environment variable is set correctly when I<starting> rxvt-unicode.
		908
		909	When you want to use e.g. B<kinput2>, it must be set to
		910	C<@im=kinput2>. For B<scim>, use C<@im=SCIM>. Youc an see what input
		911	method servers are running with this command:
		912
		913	xprop -root XIM_SERVERS
		914
		915	=item
		916
		917	=back
		918
		919	=head3 My input method wants <some encoding> but I want UTF-8, what can I do?
		920
		921	You can specify separate locales for the input method and the rest of the
		922	terminal, using the resource C<imlocale>:
		923
		924	URxvt.imlocale: ja_JP.EUC-JP
		925
		926	Now you can start your terminal with C<LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8> and still
		927	use your input method. Please note, however, that, depending on your Xlib
		928	version, you may not be able to input characters outside C<EUC-JP> in a
		929	normal way then, as your input method limits you.
		930
		931	=head3 Rxvt-unicode crashes when the X Input Method changes or exits.
		932
		933	Unfortunately, this is unavoidable, as the XIM protocol is racy by
		934	design. Applications can avoid some crashes at the expense of memory
		935	leaks, and Input Methods can avoid some crashes by careful ordering at
		936	exit time. B<kinput2> (and derived input methods) generally succeeds,
		937	while B<SCIM> (or similar input methods) fails. In the end, however,
		938	crashes cannot be completely avoided even if both sides cooperate.
		939
		940	So the only workaround is not to kill your Input Method Servers.
		941
		942
		943	=head2 Operating Systems / Package Maintaining
		944
		945	=head3 I am using Debian GNU/Linux and have a problem...
		946
		947	The Debian GNU/Linux package of rxvt-unicode in sarge contains large
		948	patches that considerably change the behaviour of rxvt-unicode (but
		949	unfortunately this notice has been removed). Before reporting a bug to
		950	the original rxvt-unicode author please download and install the genuine
		951	version (L<http://software.schmorp.de#rxvt-unicode>) and try to reproduce
		952	the problem. If you cannot, chances are that the problems are specific to
		953	Debian GNU/Linux, in which case it should be reported via the Debian Bug
		954	Tracking System (use C<reportbug> to report the bug).
		955
		956	For other problems that also affect the Debian package, you can and
		957	probably should use the Debian BTS, too, because, after all, it's also a
		958	bug in the Debian version and it serves as a reminder for other users that
		959	might encounter the same issue.
		960
		961	=head3 I am maintaining rxvt-unicode for distribution/OS XXX, any recommendation?
		962
		963	You should build one binary with the default options. F<configure>
		964	now enables most useful options, and the trend goes to making them
		965	runtime-switchable, too, so there is usually no drawback to enbaling them,
		966	except higher disk and possibly memory usage. The perl interpreter should
		967	be enabled, as important functionality (menus, selection, likely more in
		968	the future) depends on it.
		969
		970	You should not overwrite the C<perl-ext-common> snd C<perl-ext> resources
		971	system-wide (except maybe with C<defaults>). This will result in useful
		972	behaviour. If your distribution aims at low memory, add an empty
		973	C<perl-ext-common> resource to the app-defaults file. This will keep the
		974	perl interpreter disabled until the user enables it.
		975
		976	If you can/want build more binaries, I recommend building a minimal
		977	one with C<--disable-everything> (very useful) and a maximal one with
		978	C<--enable-everything> (less useful, it will be very big due to a lot of
		979	encodings built-in that increase download times and are rarely used).
		980
		981	=head3 I need to make it setuid/setgid to support utmp/ptys on my OS, is this safe?
		982
		983	It should be, starting with release 7.1. You are encouraged to properly
		984	install urxvt with privileges necessary for your OS now.
		985
		986	When rxvt-unicode detects that it runs setuid or setgid, it will fork
		987	into a helper process for privileged operations (pty handling on some
		988	systems, utmp/wtmp/lastlog handling on others) and drop privileges
		989	immediately. This is much safer than most other terminals that keep
		990	privileges while running (but is more relevant to urxvt, as it contains
		991	things as perl interpreters, which might be "helpful" to attackers).
		992
		993	This forking is done as the very first within main(), which is very early
		994	and reduces possible bugs to initialisation code run before main(), or
		995	things like the dynamic loader of your system, which should result in very
		996	little risk.
		997
356	=item On Solaris 9, many line-drawing characters are too wide.	998	=head3 On Solaris 9, many line-drawing characters are too wide.
357		999
358	Seems to be a known bug, read	1000	Seems to be a known bug, read
359	L<http://nixdoc.net/files/forum/about34198.html>. Some people use the	1001	L<http://nixdoc.net/files/forum/about34198.html>. Some people use the
360	following ugly workaround to get non-double-wide-characters working:	1002	following ugly workaround to get non-double-wide-characters working:
361		1003
362	#define wcwidth(x) wcwidth(x) > 1 ? 1 : wcwidth(x)	1004	#define wcwidth(x) wcwidth(x) > 1 ? 1 : wcwidth(x)
363		1005
364	=item My Compose (Multi_key) key is no longer working.
365
366	The most common causes for this are that either your locale is not set
367	correctly, or you specified a B<preeditStyle> that is not supported by
368	your input method. For example, if you specified B<OverTheSpot> and
369	your input method (e.g. the default input method handling Compose keys)
370	does not support this (for instance because it is not visual), then
371	rxvt-unicode will continue without an input method.
372
373	In this case either do not specify a B<preeditStyle> or specify more than
374	one pre-edit style, such as B<OverTheSpot,Root,None>.
375
376	=item I cannot type C<Ctrl-Shift-2> to get an ASCII NUL character due to ISO 14755
377
378	Either try C<Ctrl-2> alone (it often is mapped to ASCII NUL even on
379	international keyboards) or simply use ISO 14755 support to your
380	advantage, typing <Ctrl-Shift-0> to get a ASCII NUL. This works for other
381	codes, too, such as C<Ctrl-Shift-1-d> to type the default telnet escape
382	character and so on.
383
384	=item How can I keep rxvt-unicode from using reverse video so much?
385
386	First of all, make sure you are running with the right terminal settings
387	(C<TERM=rxvt-unicode>), which will get rid of most of these effects. Then
388	make sure you have specified colours for italic and bold, as otherwise
389	rxvt-unicode might use reverse video to simulate the effect:
390
391	URxvt.colorBD: white
392	URxvt.colorIT: green
393
394	=item Some programs assume totally weird colours (red instead of blue), how can I fix that?
395
396	For some unexplainable reason, some rare programs assume a very weird
397	colour palette when confronted with a terminal with more than the standard
398	8 colours (rxvt-unicode supports 88). The right fix is, of course, to fix
399	these programs not to assume non-ISO colours without very good reasons.
400
401	In the meantime, you can either edit your C<rxvt-unicode> terminfo
402	definition to only claim 8 colour support or use C<TERM=rxvt>, which will
403	fix colours but keep you from using other rxvt-unicode features.
404
405	=item I am on FreeBSD and rxvt-unicode does not seem to work at all.	1006	=head3 I am on FreeBSD and rxvt-unicode does not seem to work at all.
406		1007
407	Rxvt-unicode requires the symbol C<__STDC_ISO_10646__> to be defined	1008	Rxvt-unicode requires the symbol C<__STDC_ISO_10646__> to be defined
408	in your compile environment, or an implementation that implements it,	1009	in your compile environment, or an implementation that implements it,
409	wether it defines the symbol or not. C<__STDC_ISO_10646__> requires that	1010	wether it defines the symbol or not. C<__STDC_ISO_10646__> requires that
410	B<wchar_t> is represented as unicode.	1011	B<wchar_t> is represented as unicode.
…		…
432		1033
433	The rxvt-unicode author insists that the right way to fix this is in the	1034	The rxvt-unicode author insists that the right way to fix this is in the
434	system libraries once and for all, instead of forcing every app to carry	1035	system libraries once and for all, instead of forcing every app to carry
435	complete replacements for them :)	1036	complete replacements for them :)
436		1037
437	=item I use Solaris 9 and it doesn't compile/work/etc.	1038	=head3 I use Solaris 9 and it doesn't compile/work/etc.
438		1039
439	Try the diff in F<doc/solaris9.patch> as a base. It fixes the worst	1040	Try the diff in F<doc/solaris9.patch> as a base. It fixes the worst
440	problems with C<wcwidth> and a compile problem.	1041	problems with C<wcwidth> and a compile problem.
441		1042
442	=item How can I use rxvt-unicode under cygwin?	1043	=head3 How can I use rxvt-unicode under cygwin?
443		1044
444	rxvt-unicode should compile and run out of the box on cygwin, using	1045	rxvt-unicode should compile and run out of the box on cygwin, using
445	the X11 libraries that come with cygwin. libW11 emulation is no	1046	the X11 libraries that come with cygwin. libW11 emulation is no
446	longer supported (and makes no sense, either, as it only supported a	1047	longer supported (and makes no sense, either, as it only supported a
447	single font). I recommend starting the X-server in C<-multiwindow> or	1048	single font). I recommend starting the X-server in C<-multiwindow> or
…		…
450		1051
451	At the time of this writing, cygwin didn't seem to support any multi-byte	1052	At the time of this writing, cygwin didn't seem to support any multi-byte
452	encodings (you might try C<LC_CTYPE=C-UTF-8>), so you are likely limited	1053	encodings (you might try C<LC_CTYPE=C-UTF-8>), so you are likely limited
453	to 8-bit encodings.	1054	to 8-bit encodings.
454		1055
455	=item How does rxvt-unicode determine the encoding to use?
456
457	=item Is there an option to switch encodings?
458
459	Unlike some other terminals, rxvt-unicode has no encoding switch, and no
460	specific "utf-8" mode, such as xterm. In fact, it doesn't even know about
461	UTF-8 or any other encodings with respect to terminal I/O.
462
463	The reasons is that there exists a perfectly fine mechanism for selecting
464	the encoding, doing I/O and (most important) communicating this to all
465	applications so everybody agrees on character properties such as width
466	and code number. This mechanism is the I<locale>. Applications not using
467	that info will have problems (for example, C<xterm> gets the width of
468	characters wrong as it uses it's own, locale-independent table under all
469	locales).
470
471	Rxvt-unicode uses the C<LC_CTYPE> locale category to select encoding. All
472	programs doing the same (that is, most) will automatically agree in the
473	interpretation of characters.
474
475	Unfortunately, there is no system-independent way to select locales, nor
476	is there a standard on how locale specifiers will look like.
477
478	On most systems, the content of the C<LC_CTYPE> environment variable
479	contains an arbitrary string which corresponds to an already-installed
480	locale. Common names for locales are C<en_US.UTF-8>, C<de_DE.ISO-8859-15>,
481	C<ja_JP.EUC-JP>, i.e. C<language_country.encoding>, but other forms
482	(i.e. C<de> or C<german>) are also common.
483
484	Rxvt-unicode ignores all other locale categories, and except for
485	the encoding, ignores country or language-specific settings,
486	i.e. C<de_DE.UTF-8> and C<ja_JP.UTF-8> are the normally same to
487	rxvt-unicode.
488
489	If you want to use a specific encoding you have to make sure you start
490	rxvt-unicode with the correct C<LC_CTYPE> category.
491
492	=item Can I switch locales at runtime?
493
494	Yes, using an escape sequence. Try something like this, which sets
495	rxvt-unicode's idea of C<LC_CTYPE>.
496
497	printf '\e]701;%s\007' ja_JP.SJIS
498
499	See also the previous answer.
500
501	Sometimes this capability is rather handy when you want to work in
502	one locale (e.g. C<de_DE.UTF-8>) but some programs don't support it
503	(e.g. UTF-8). For example, I use this script to start C<xjdic>, which
504	first switches to a locale supported by xjdic and back later:
505
506	printf '\e]701;%s\007' ja_JP.SJIS
507	xjdic -js
508	printf '\e]701;%s\007' de_DE.UTF-8
509
510	You can also use xterm's C<luit> program, which usually works fine, except
511	for some locales where character width differs between program- and
512	rxvt-unicode-locales.
513
514	=item Can I switch the fonts at runtime?
515
516	Yes, using an escape sequence. Try something like this, which has the same
517	effect as using the C<-fn> switch, and takes effect immediately:
518
519	printf '\e]50;%s\007' "9x15bold,xft:Kochi Gothic"
520
521	This is useful if you e.g. work primarily with japanese (and prefer a
522	japanese font), but you have to switch to chinese temporarily, where
523	japanese fonts would only be in your way.
524
525	You can think of this as a kind of manual ISO-2022 switching.
526
527	=item Why do italic characters look as if clipped?
528
529	Many fonts have difficulties with italic characters and hinting. For
530	example, the otherwise very nicely hinted font C<xft:Bitstream Vera Sans
531	Mono> completely fails in it's italic face. A workaround might be to
532	enable freetype autohinting, i.e. like this:
533
534	URxvt.italicFont: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:italic:autohint=true
535	URxvt.boldItalicFont: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:bold:italic:autohint=true
536
537	=item My input method wants <some encoding> but I want UTF-8, what can I do?
538
539	You can specify separate locales for the input method and the rest of the
540	terminal, using the resource C<imlocale>:
541
542	URxvt*imlocale: ja_JP.EUC-JP
543
544	Now you can start your terminal with C<LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8> and still
545	use your input method. Please note, however, that you will not be able to
546	input characters outside C<EUC-JP> in a normal way then, as your input
547	method limits you.
548
549	=item Rxvt-unicode crashes when the X Input Method changes or exits.
550
551	Unfortunately, this is unavoidable, as the XIM protocol is racy by
552	design. Applications can avoid some crashes at the expense of memory
553	leaks, and Input Methods can avoid some crashes by careful ordering at
554	exit time. B<kinput2> (and derived input methods) generally succeeds,
555	while B<SCIM> (or similar input methods) fails. In the end, however,
556	crashes cannot be completely avoided even if both sides cooperate.
557
558	So the only workaround is not to kill your Input Method Servers.
559
560	=item Rxvt-unicode uses gobs of memory, how can I reduce that?
561
562	Rxvt-unicode tries to obey the rule of not charging you for something you
563	don't use. One thing you should try is to configure out all settings that
564	you don't need, for example, Xft support is a resource hog by design,
565	when used. Compiling it out ensures that no Xft font will be loaded
566	accidentally when rxvt-unicode tries to find a font for your characters.
567
568	Also, many people (me included) like large windows and even larger
569	scrollback buffers: Without C<--enable-unicode3>, rxvt-unicode will use
570	6 bytes per screen cell. For a 160x?? window this amounts to almost a
571	kilobyte per line. A scrollback buffer of 10000 lines will then (if full)
572	use 10 Megabytes of memory. With C<--enable-unicode3> it gets worse, as
573	rxvt-unicode then uses 8 bytes per screen cell.
574
575	=item Can I speed up Xft rendering somehow?
576
577	Yes, the most obvious way to speed it up is to avoid Xft entirely, as
578	it is simply slow. If you still want Xft fonts you might try to disable
579	antialiasing (by appending C<:antialias=false>), which saves lots of
580	memory and also speeds up rendering considerably.
581
582	=item Rxvt-unicode doesn't seem to anti-alias its fonts, what is wrong?
583
584	Rxvt-unicode will use whatever you specify as a font. If it needs to
585	fall back to it's default font search list it will prefer X11 core
586	fonts, because they are small and fast, and then use Xft fonts. It has
587	antialiasing disabled for most of them, because the author thinks they
588	look best that way.
589
590	If you want antialiasing, you have to specify the fonts manually.
591
592	=item Mouse cut/paste suddenly no longer works.
593
594	Make sure that mouse reporting is actually turned off since killing
595	some editors prematurely may leave the mouse in mouse report mode. I've
596	heard that tcsh may use mouse reporting unless it otherwise specified. A
597	quick check is to see if cut/paste works when the Alt or Shift keys are
598	depressed. See @@RXVT_NAME@@(7)
599
600	=item What's with this bold/blink stuff?
601
602	If no bold colour is set via C<colorBD:>, bold will invert text using the
603	standard foreground colour.
604
605	For the standard background colour, blinking will actually make the
606	text blink when compiled with C<--enable-blinking>. with standard
607	colours. Without C<--enable-blinking>, the blink attribute will be
608	ignored.
609
610	On ANSI colours, bold/blink attributes are used to set high-intensity
611	foreground/background colors.
612
613	color0-7 are the low-intensity colors.
614
615	color8-15 are the corresponding high-intensity colors.
616
617	=item I don't like the screen colors. How do I change them?
618
619	You can change the screen colors at run-time using F<~/.Xdefaults>
620	resources (or as long-options).
621
622	Here are values that are supposed to resemble a VGA screen,
623	including the murky brown that passes for low-intensity yellow:
624
625	URxvt.color0: #000000
626	URxvt.color1: #A80000
627	URxvt.color2: #00A800
628	URxvt.color3: #A8A800
629	URxvt.color4: #0000A8
630	URxvt.color5: #A800A8
631	URxvt.color6: #00A8A8
632	URxvt.color7: #A8A8A8
633
634	URxvt.color8: #000054
635	URxvt.color9: #FF0054
636	URxvt.color10: #00FF54
637	URxvt.color11: #FFFF54
638	URxvt.color12: #0000FF
639	URxvt.color13: #FF00FF
640	URxvt.color14: #00FFFF
641	URxvt.color15: #FFFFFF
642
643	And here is a more complete set of non-standard colors described (not by
644	me) as "pretty girly".
645
646	URxvt.cursorColor: #dc74d1
647	URxvt.pointerColor: #dc74d1
648	URxvt.background: #0e0e0e
649	URxvt.foreground: #4ad5e1
650	URxvt.color0: #000000
651	URxvt.color8: #8b8f93
652	URxvt.color1: #dc74d1
653	URxvt.color9: #dc74d1
654	URxvt.color2: #0eb8c7
655	URxvt.color10: #0eb8c7
656	URxvt.color3: #dfe37e
657	URxvt.color11: #dfe37e
658	URxvt.color5: #9e88f0
659	URxvt.color13: #9e88f0
660	URxvt.color6: #73f7ff
661	URxvt.color14: #73f7ff
662	URxvt.color7: #e1dddd
663	URxvt.color15: #e1dddd
664
665	=item How can I start @@RXVT_NAME@@d in a race-free way?
666
667	Try C<@@RXVT_NAME@@d -f -o>, which tells @@RXVT_NAME@@d to open the
668	display, create the listening socket and then fork.
669
670	=item What's with the strange Backspace/Delete key behaviour?
671
672	Assuming that the physical Backspace key corresponds to the
673	BackSpace keysym (not likely for Linux ... see the following
674	question) there are two standard values that can be used for
675	Backspace: C<^H> and C<^?>.
676
677	Historically, either value is correct, but rxvt-unicode adopts the debian
678	policy of using C<^?> when unsure, because it's the one only only correct
679	choice :).
680
681	Rxvt-unicode tries to inherit the current stty settings and uses the value
682	of `erase' to guess the value for backspace. If rxvt-unicode wasn't
683	started from a terminal (say, from a menu or by remote shell), then the
684	system value of `erase', which corresponds to CERASE in <termios.h>, will
685	be used (which may not be the same as your stty setting).
686
687	For starting a new rxvt-unicode:
688
689	# use Backspace = ^H
690	$ stty erase ^H
691	$ @@RXVT_NAME@@
692
693	# use Backspace = ^?
694	$ stty erase ^?
695	$ @@RXVT_NAME@@
696
697	Toggle with C<ESC [ 36 h> / C<ESC [ 36 l> as documented in @@RXVT_NAME@@(7).
698
699	For an existing rxvt-unicode:
700
701	# use Backspace = ^H
702	$ stty erase ^H
703	$ echo -n "^[[36h"
704
705	# use Backspace = ^?
706	$ stty erase ^?
707	$ echo -n "^[[36l"
708
709	This helps satisfy some of the Backspace discrepancies that occur, but
710	if you use Backspace = C<^H>, make sure that the termcap/terminfo value
711	properly reflects that.
712
713	The Delete key is a another casualty of the ill-defined Backspace problem.
714	To avoid confusion between the Backspace and Delete keys, the Delete
715	key has been assigned an escape sequence to match the vt100 for Execute
716	(C<ESC [ 3 ~>) and is in the supplied termcap/terminfo.
717
718	Some other Backspace problems:
719
720	some editors use termcap/terminfo,
721	some editors (vim I'm told) expect Backspace = ^H,
722	GNU Emacs (and Emacs-like editors) use ^H for help.
723
724	Perhaps someday this will all be resolved in a consistent manner.
725
726	=item I don't like the key-bindings. How do I change them?
727
728	There are some compile-time selections available via configure. Unless
729	you have run "configure" with the C<--disable-resources> option you can
730	use the `keysym' resource to alter the keystrings associated with keysyms.
731
732	Here's an example for a URxvt session started using C<@@RXVT_NAME@@ -name URxvt>
733
734	URxvt.keysym.Home: \033[1~
735	URxvt.keysym.End: \033[4~
736	URxvt.keysym.C-apostrophe: \033<C-'>
737	URxvt.keysym.C-slash: \033<C-/>
738	URxvt.keysym.C-semicolon: \033<C-;>
739	URxvt.keysym.C-grave: \033<C-`>
740	URxvt.keysym.C-comma: \033<C-,>
741	URxvt.keysym.C-period: \033<C-.>
742	URxvt.keysym.C-0x60: \033<C-`>
743	URxvt.keysym.C-Tab: \033<C-Tab>
744	URxvt.keysym.C-Return: \033<C-Return>
745	URxvt.keysym.S-Return: \033<S-Return>
746	URxvt.keysym.S-space: \033<S-Space>
747	URxvt.keysym.M-Up: \033<M-Up>
748	URxvt.keysym.M-Down: \033<M-Down>
749	URxvt.keysym.M-Left: \033<M-Left>
750	URxvt.keysym.M-Right: \033<M-Right>
751	URxvt.keysym.M-C-0: list \033<M-C- 0123456789 >
752	URxvt.keysym.M-C-a: list \033<M-C- abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz >
753	URxvt.keysym.F12: command:\033]701;zh_CN.GBK\007
754
755	See some more examples in the documentation for the B<keysym> resource.
756
757	=item I'm using keyboard model XXX that has extra Prior/Next/Insert keys.
758	How do I make use of them? For example, the Sun Keyboard type 4
759	has the following mappings that rxvt-unicode doesn't recognize.
760
761	KP_Insert == Insert
762	F22 == Print
763	F27 == Home
764	F29 == Prior
765	F33 == End
766	F35 == Next
767
768	Rather than have rxvt-unicode try to accommodate all the various possible
769	keyboard mappings, it is better to use `xmodmap' to remap the keys as
770	required for your particular machine.
771
772	=item How do I distinguish wether I'm running rxvt-unicode or a regular xterm?
773	I need this to decide about setting colors etc.
774
775	rxvt and rxvt-unicode always export the variable "COLORTERM", so you can
776	check and see if that is set. Note that several programs, JED, slrn,
777	Midnight Commander automatically check this variable to decide whether or
778	not to use color.
779
780	=item How do I set the correct, full IP address for the DISPLAY variable?
781
782	If you've compiled rxvt-unicode with DISPLAY_IS_IP and have enabled
783	insecure mode then it is possible to use the following shell script
784	snippets to correctly set the display. If your version of rxvt-unicode
785	wasn't also compiled with ESCZ_ANSWER (as assumed in these snippets) then
786	the COLORTERM variable can be used to distinguish rxvt-unicode from a
787	regular xterm.
788
789	Courtesy of Chuck Blake <cblake@BBN.COM> with the following shell script
790	snippets:
791
792	# Bourne/Korn/POSIX family of shells:
793	[ ${TERM:-foo} = foo ] && TERM=xterm # assume an xterm if we don't know
794	if [ ${TERM:-foo} = xterm ]; then
795	stty -icanon -echo min 0 time 15 # see if enhanced rxvt or not
796	echo -n '^[Z'
797	read term_id
798	stty icanon echo
799	if [ ""${term_id} = '^[[?1;2C' -a ${DISPLAY:-foo} = foo ]; then
800	echo -n '^[[7n' # query the rxvt we are in for the DISPLAY string
801	read DISPLAY # set it in our local shell
802	fi
803	fi
804
805	=item How do I compile the manual pages for myself?
806
807	You need to have a recent version of perl installed as F</usr/bin/perl>,
808	one that comes with F<pod2man>, F<pod2text> and F<pod2html>. Then go to
809	the doc subdirectory and enter C<make alldoc>.
810
811	=item My question isn't answered here, can I ask a human?
812
813	Before sending me mail, you could go to IRC: C<irc.freenode.net>,
814	channel C<#rxvt-unicode> has some rxvt-unicode enthusiasts that might be
815	interested in learning about new and exciting problems (but not FAQs :).
816
817	=back
818
819	=head1 RXVT TECHNICAL REFERENCE	1056	=head1 RXVT-UNICODE TECHNICAL REFERENCE
820
821	=head1 DESCRIPTION
822		1057
823	The rest of this document describes various technical aspects of	1058	The rest of this document describes various technical aspects of
824	B<rxvt-unicode>. First the description of supported command sequences,	1059	B<rxvt-unicode>. First the description of supported command sequences,
825	followed by menu and pixmap support and last by a description of all	1060	followed by pixmap support and last by a description of all features
826	features selectable at C<configure> time.	1061	selectable at C<configure> time.
827		1062
828	=head1 Definitions	1063	=head2 Definitions
829		1064
830	=over 4	1065	=over 4
831		1066
832	=item B<< C<c> >>	1067	=item B<< C<c> >>
833		1068
…		…
851		1086
852	A text parameter composed of printable characters.	1087	A text parameter composed of printable characters.
853		1088
854	=back	1089	=back
855		1090
856	=head1 Values	1091	=head2 Values
857		1092
858	=over 4	1093	=over 4
859		1094
860	=item B<< C<ENQ> >>	1095	=item B<< C<ENQ> >>
861		1096
…		…
904		1139
905	Space Character	1140	Space Character
906		1141
907	=back	1142	=back
908		1143
909	=head1 Escape Sequences	1144	=head2 Escape Sequences
910		1145
911	=over 4	1146	=over 4
912		1147
913	=item B<< C<ESC # 8> >>	1148	=item B<< C<ESC # 8> >>
914		1149
…		…
1012		1247
1013	=back	1248	=back
1014		1249
1015	X<CSI>	1250	X<CSI>
1016		1251
1017	=head1 CSI (Command Sequence Introducer) Sequences	1252	=head2 CSI (Command Sequence Introducer) Sequences
1018		1253
1019	=over 4	1254	=over 4
1020		1255
1021	=item B<< C<ESC [ Ps @> >>	1256	=item B<< C<ESC [ Ps @> >>
1022		1257
…		…
1292		1527
1293	=back	1528	=back
1294		1529
1295	X<PrivateModes>	1530	X<PrivateModes>
1296		1531
1297	=head1 DEC Private Modes	1532	=head2 DEC Private Modes
1298		1533
1299	=over 4	1534	=over 4
1300		1535
1301	=item B<< C<ESC [ ? Pm h> >>	1536	=item B<< C<ESC [ ? Pm h> >>
1302		1537
…		…
1399	B<< C<h> >> Send Mouse X & Y on button press.	1634	B<< C<h> >> Send Mouse X & Y on button press.
1400	B<< C<l> >> No mouse reporting.	1635	B<< C<l> >> No mouse reporting.
1401		1636
1402	=end table	1637	=end table
1403		1638
1404	=item B<< C<Ps = 10> >> (B<rxvt>)
1405
1406	=begin table
1407
1408	B<< C<h> >> menuBar visible
1409	B<< C<l> >> menuBar invisible
1410
1411	=end table
1412
1413	=item B<< C<Ps = 25> >>	1639	=item B<< C<Ps = 25> >>
1414		1640
1415	=begin table	1641	=begin table
1416		1642
1417	B<< C<h> >> Visible cursor {cnorm/cvvis}	1643	B<< C<h> >> Visible cursor {cnorm/cvvis}
…		…
1533	B<< C<h> >> Scroll to bottom when a key is pressed	1759	B<< C<h> >> Scroll to bottom when a key is pressed
1534	B<< C<l> >> Don't scroll to bottom when a key is pressed	1760	B<< C<l> >> Don't scroll to bottom when a key is pressed
1535		1761
1536	=end table	1762	=end table
1537		1763
		1764	=item B<< C<Ps = 1021> >> (B<rxvt>)
		1765
		1766	=begin table
		1767
		1768	B<< C<h> >> Bold/italic implies high intensity (see option B<-is>)
		1769	B<< C<l> >> Font styles have no effect on intensity (Compile styles)
		1770
		1771	=end table
		1772
1538	=item B<< C<Ps = 1047> >>	1773	=item B<< C<Ps = 1047> >>
1539		1774
1540	=begin table	1775	=begin table
1541		1776
1542	B<< C<h> >> Use Alternate Screen Buffer	1777	B<< C<h> >> Use Alternate Screen Buffer
…		…
1566		1801
1567	=back	1802	=back
1568		1803
1569	X<XTerm>	1804	X<XTerm>
1570		1805
1571	=head1 XTerm Operating System Commands	1806	=head2 XTerm Operating System Commands
1572		1807
1573	=over 4	1808	=over 4
1574		1809
1575	=item B<< C<ESC ] Ps;Pt ST> >>	1810	=item B<< C<ESC ] Ps;Pt ST> >>
1576		1811
…		…
1588	B<< C<Ps = 10> >> Change colour of text foreground to B<< C<Pt> >> B<(NB: may change in future)>	1823	B<< C<Ps = 10> >> Change colour of text foreground to B<< C<Pt> >> B<(NB: may change in future)>
1589	B<< C<Ps = 11> >> Change colour of text background to B<< C<Pt> >> B<(NB: may change in future)>	1824	B<< C<Ps = 11> >> Change colour of text background to B<< C<Pt> >> B<(NB: may change in future)>
1590	B<< C<Ps = 12> >> Change colour of text cursor foreground to B<< C<Pt> >>	1825	B<< C<Ps = 12> >> Change colour of text cursor foreground to B<< C<Pt> >>
1591	B<< C<Ps = 13> >> Change colour of mouse foreground to B<< C<Pt> >>	1826	B<< C<Ps = 13> >> Change colour of mouse foreground to B<< C<Pt> >>
1592	B<< C<Ps = 17> >> Change colour of highlight characters to B<< C<Pt> >>	1827	B<< C<Ps = 17> >> Change colour of highlight characters to B<< C<Pt> >>
1593	B<< C<Ps = 18> >> Change colour of bold characters to B<< C<Pt> >>	1828	B<< C<Ps = 18> >> Change colour of bold characters to B<< C<Pt> >> [deprecated, see 706]
1594	B<< C<Ps = 19> >> Change colour of underlined characters to B<< C<Pt> >>	1829	B<< C<Ps = 19> >> Change colour of underlined characters to B<< C<Pt> >> [deprecated, see 707]
1595	B<< C<Ps = 20> >> Change default background to B<< C<Pt> >>	1830	B<< C<Ps = 20> >> Change background pixmap parameters (see section XPM) (Compile XPM).
1596	B<< C<Ps = 39> >> Change default foreground colour to B<< C<Pt> >>.	1831	B<< C<Ps = 39> >> Change default foreground colour to B<< C<Pt> >>.
1597	B<< C<Ps = 46> >> Change Log File to B<< C<Pt> >> I<unimplemented>	1832	B<< C<Ps = 46> >> Change Log File to B<< C<Pt> >> I<unimplemented>
1598	B<< C<Ps = 49> >> Change default background colour to B<< C<Pt> >>.	1833	B<< C<Ps = 49> >> Change default background colour to B<< C<Pt> >>.
1599	B<< C<Ps = 50> >> Set fontset to B<< C<Pt> >>, with the following special values of B<< C<Pt> >> (B<rxvt>) B<< C<#+n> >> change up B<< C<n> >> B<< C<#-n> >> change down B<< C<n> >> if B<< C<n> >> is missing of 0, a value of 1 is used I<empty> change to font0 B<< C<n> >> change to font B<< C<n> >>	1834	B<< C<Ps = 50> >> Set fontset to B<< C<Pt> >>, with the following special values of B<< C<Pt> >> (B<rxvt>) B<< C<#+n> >> change up B<< C<n> >> B<< C<#-n> >> change down B<< C<n> >> if B<< C<n> >> is missing of 0, a value of 1 is used I<empty> change to font0 B<< C<n> >> change to font B<< C<n> >>
1600	B<< C<Ps = 55> >> Log all scrollback buffer and all of screen to B<< C<Pt> >>	1835	B<< C<Ps = 55> >> Log all scrollback buffer and all of screen to B<< C<Pt> >>
1601	B<< C<Ps = 701> >> Change current locale to B<< C<Pt> >>, or, if B<< C<Pt> >> is B<< C<?> >>, return the current locale (Compile frills).	1836	B<< C<Ps = 701> >> Change current locale to B<< C<Pt> >>, or, if B<< C<Pt> >> is B<< C<?> >>, return the current locale (Compile frills).
1602	B<< C<Ps = 703> >> Menubar command B<< C<Pt> >> (Compile menubar).	1837	B<< C<Ps = 702> >> Request version if B<< C<Pt> >> is B<< C<?> >>, returning C<rxvt-unicode>, the resource name, the major and minor version numbers, e.g. C<ESC ] 702 ; rxvt-unicode ; urxvt ; 7 ; 4 ST>.
1603	B<< C<Ps = 704> >> Change colour of italic characters to B<< C<Pt> >>	1838	B<< C<Ps = 704> >> Change colour of italic characters to B<< C<Pt> >>
1604	B<< C<Ps = 705> >> Change background pixmap tint colour to B<< C<Pt> >> (Compile transparency).	1839	B<< C<Ps = 705> >> Change background pixmap tint colour to B<< C<Pt> >> (Compile transparency).
		1840	B<< C<Ps = 706> >> Change colour of bold characters to B<< C<Pt> >>
		1841	B<< C<Ps = 707> >> Change colour of underlined characters to B<< C<Pt> >>
1605	B<< C<Ps = 710> >> Set normal fontset to B<< C<Pt> >>. Same as C<Ps = 50>.	1842	B<< C<Ps = 710> >> Set normal fontset to B<< C<Pt> >>. Same as C<Ps = 50>.
1606	B<< C<Ps = 711> >> Set bold fontset to B<< C<Pt> >>. Similar to C<Ps = 50> (Compile styles).	1843	B<< C<Ps = 711> >> Set bold fontset to B<< C<Pt> >>. Similar to C<Ps = 50> (Compile styles).
1607	B<< C<Ps = 712> >> Set italic fontset to B<< C<Pt> >>. Similar to C<Ps = 50> (Compile styles).	1844	B<< C<Ps = 712> >> Set italic fontset to B<< C<Pt> >>. Similar to C<Ps = 50> (Compile styles).
1608	B<< C<Ps = 713> >> Set bold-italic fontset to B<< C<Pt> >>. Similar to C<Ps = 50> (Compile styles).	1845	B<< C<Ps = 713> >> Set bold-italic fontset to B<< C<Pt> >>. Similar to C<Ps = 50> (Compile styles).
1609	B<< C<Ps = 720> >> Move viewing window up by B<< C<Pt> >> lines, or clear scrollback buffer if C<Pt = 0> (Compile frills).	1846	B<< C<Ps = 720> >> Move viewing window up by B<< C<Pt> >> lines, or clear scrollback buffer if C<Pt = 0> (Compile frills).
1610	B<< C<Ps = 721> >> Move viewing window down by B<< C<Pt> >> lines, or clear scrollback buffer if C<Pt = 0> (Compile frills).	1847	B<< C<Ps = 721> >> Move viewing window down by B<< C<Pt> >> lines, or clear scrollback buffer if C<Pt = 0> (Compile frills).
		1848	B<< C<Ps = 777> >> Call the perl extension with the given string, which should be of the form C<extension:parameters> (Compile perl).
1611		1849
1612	=end table	1850	=end table
1613		1851
1614	=back	1852	=back
1615
1616	X<menuBar>
1617
1618	=head1 menuBar
1619
1620	B<< The exact syntax used is I<almost> solidified. >>
1621	In the menus, B<DON'T> try to use menuBar commands that add or remove a
1622	menuBar.
1623
1624	Note that in all of the commands, the B<< I</path/> >> I<cannot> be
1625	omitted: use B<./> to specify a menu relative to the current menu.
1626
1627	=head2 Overview of menuBar operation
1628
1629	For the menuBar XTerm escape sequence C<ESC ] 703 ; Pt ST>, the syntax
1630	of C<Pt> can be used for a variety of tasks:
1631
1632	At the top level is the current menuBar which is a member of a circular
1633	linked-list of other such menuBars.
1634
1635	The menuBar acts as a parent for the various drop-down menus, which in
1636	turn, may have labels, separator lines, menuItems and subMenus.
1637
1638	The menuItems are the useful bits: you can use them to mimic keyboard
1639	input or even to send text or escape sequences back to rxvt.
1640
1641	The menuBar syntax is intended to provide a simple yet robust method of
1642	constructing and manipulating menus and navigating through the
1643	menuBars.
1644
1645	The first step is to use the tag B<< [menu:I<name>] >> which creates
1646	the menuBar called I<name> and allows access. You may now or menus,
1647	subMenus, and menuItems. Finally, use the tag B<[done]> to set the
1648	menuBar access as B<readonly> to prevent accidental corruption of the
1649	menus. To re-access the current menuBar for alterations, use the tag
1650	B<[menu]>, make the alterations and then use B<[done]>
1651
1652	X<menuBarCommands>
1653
1654	=head2 Commands
1655
1656	=over 4
1657
1658	=item B<< [menu:+I<name>] >>
1659
1660	access the named menuBar for creation or alteration. If a new menuBar
1661	is created, it is called I<name> (max of 15 chars) and the current
1662	menuBar is pushed onto the stack
1663
1664	=item B<[menu]>
1665
1666	access the current menuBar for alteration
1667
1668	=item B<< [title:+I<string>] >>
1669
1670	set the current menuBar's title to I<string>, which may contain the
1671	following format specifiers:
1672
1673	B<%n> rxvt name (as per the B<-name> command-line option)
1674	B<%v> rxvt version
1675	B<%%> literal B<%> character
1676
1677	=item B<[done]>
1678
1679	set menuBar access as B<readonly>.
1680	End-of-file tag for B<< [read:+I<file>] >> operations.
1681
1682	=item B<< [read:+I<file>] >>
1683
1684	read menu commands directly from I<file> (extension ".menu" will be
1685	appended if required.) Start reading at a line with B<[menu]> or B<<
1686	[menu:+I<name> >> and continuing until B<[done]> is encountered.
1687
1688	Blank and comment lines (starting with B<#>) are ignored. Actually,
1689	since any invalid menu commands are also ignored, almost anything could
1690	be construed as a comment line, but this may be tightened up in the
1691	future ... so don't count on it!.
1692
1693	=item B<< [read:+I<file>;+I<name>] >>
1694
1695	The same as B<< [read:+I<file>] >>, but start reading at a line with
1696	B<< [menu:+I<name>] >> and continuing until B<< [done:+I<name>] >> or
1697	B<[done]> is encountered.
1698
1699	=item B<[dump]>
1700
1701	dump all menuBars to the file B</tmp/rxvt-PID> in a format suitable for
1702	later rereading.
1703
1704	=item B<[rm:name]>
1705
1706	remove the named menuBar
1707
1708	=item B<[rm] [rm:]>
1709
1710	remove the current menuBar
1711
1712	=item B<[rm*] [rm:*]>
1713
1714	remove all menuBars
1715
1716	=item B<[swap]>
1717
1718	swap the top two menuBars
1719
1720	=item B<[prev]>
1721
1722	access the previous menuBar
1723
1724	=item B<[next]>
1725
1726	access the next menuBar
1727
1728	=item B<[show]>
1729
1730	Enable display of the menuBar
1731
1732	=item B<[hide]>
1733
1734	Disable display of the menuBar
1735
1736	=item B<< [pixmap:+I<name>] >>
1737
1738	=item B<< [pixmap:+I<name>;I<scaling>] >>
1739
1740	(set the background pixmap globally
1741
1742	B<< A Future implementation I<may> make this local to the menubar >>)
1743
1744	=item B<< [:+I<command>:] >>
1745
1746	ignore the menu readonly status and issue a I<command> to or a menu or
1747	menuitem or change the ; a useful shortcut for setting the quick arrows
1748	from a menuBar.
1749
1750	=back
1751
1752	X<menuBarAdd>
1753
1754	=head2 Adding and accessing menus
1755
1756	The following commands may also be B<+> prefixed.
1757
1758	=over 4
1759
1760	=item B</+>
1761
1762	access menuBar top level
1763
1764	=item B<./+>
1765
1766	access current menu level
1767
1768	=item B<../+>
1769
1770	access parent menu (1 level up)
1771
1772	=item B<../../>
1773
1774	access parent menu (multiple levels up)
1775
1776	=item B<< I</path/>menu >>
1777
1778	add/access menu
1779
1780	=item B<< I</path/>menu/* >>
1781
1782	add/access menu and clear it if it exists
1783
1784	=item B<< I</path/>{-} >>
1785
1786	add separator
1787
1788	=item B<< I</path/>{item} >>
1789
1790	add B<item> as a label
1791
1792	=item B<< I</path/>{item} action >>
1793
1794	add/alter I<menuitem> with an associated I<action>
1795
1796	=item B<< I</path/>{item}{right-text} >>
1797
1798	add/alter I<menuitem> with B<right-text> as the right-justified text
1799	and as the associated I<action>
1800
1801	=item B<< I</path/>{item}{rtext} action >>
1802
1803	add/alter I<menuitem> with an associated I<action> and with B<rtext> as
1804	the right-justified text.
1805
1806	=back
1807
1808	=over 4
1809
1810	=item Special characters in I<action> must be backslash-escaped:
1811
1812	B<\a \b \E \e \n \r \t \octal>
1813
1814	=item or in control-character notation:
1815
1816	B<^@, ^A .. ^Z .. ^_, ^?>
1817
1818	=back
1819
1820	To send a string starting with a B<NUL> (B<^@>) character to the
1821	program, start I<action> with a pair of B<NUL> characters (B<^@^@>),
1822	the first of which will be stripped off and the balance directed to the
1823	program. Otherwise if I<action> begins with B<NUL> followed by
1824	non-+B<NUL> characters, the leading B<NUL> is stripped off and the
1825	balance is sent back to rxvt.
1826
1827	As a convenience for the many Emacs-type editors, I<action> may start
1828	with B<M-> (eg, B<M-$> is equivalent to B<\E$>) and a B<CR> will be
1829	appended if missed from B<M-x> commands.
1830
1831	As a convenience for issuing XTerm B<ESC ]> sequences from a menubar (or
1832	quick arrow), a B<BEL> (B<^G>) will be appended if needed.
1833
1834	=over 4
1835
1836	=item For example,
1837
1838	B<M-xapropos> is equivalent to B<\Exapropos\r>
1839
1840	=item and
1841
1842	B<\E]703;mona;100> is equivalent to B<\E]703;mona;100\a>
1843
1844	=back
1845
1846	The option B<< {I<right-rtext>} >> will be right-justified. In the
1847	absence of a specified action, this text will be used as the I<action>
1848	as well.
1849
1850	=over 4
1851
1852	=item For example,
1853
1854	B</File/{Open}{^X^F}> is equivalent to B</File/{Open}{^X^F} ^X^F>
1855
1856	=back
1857
1858	The left label I<is> necessary, since it's used for matching, but
1859	implicitly hiding the left label (by using same name for both left and
1860	right labels), or explicitly hiding the left label (by preceeding it
1861	with a dot), makes it possible to have right-justified text only.
1862
1863	=over 4
1864
1865	=item For example,
1866
1867	B</File/{Open}{Open} Open-File-Action>
1868
1869	=item or hiding it
1870
1871	B</File/{.anylabel}{Open} Open-File-Action>
1872
1873	=back
1874
1875	X<menuBarRemove>
1876
1877	=head2 Removing menus
1878
1879	=over 4
1880
1881	=item B<< -/*+ >>
1882
1883	remove all menus from the menuBar, the same as B<[clear]>
1884
1885	=item B<< -+I</path>menu+ >>
1886
1887	remove menu
1888
1889	=item B<< -+I</path>{item}+ >>
1890
1891	remove item
1892
1893	=item B<< -+I</path>{-} >>
1894
1895	remove separator)
1896
1897	=item B<-/path/menu/*>
1898
1899	remove all items, separators and submenus from menu
1900
1901	=back
1902
1903	X<menuBarArrows>
1904
1905	=head2 Quick Arrows
1906
1907	The menus also provide a hook for I<quick arrows> to provide easier
1908	user access. If nothing has been explicitly set, the default is to
1909	emulate the curror keys. The syntax permits each arrow to be altered
1910	individually or all four at once without re-entering their common
1911	beginning/end text. For example, to explicitly associate cursor actions
1912	with the arrows, any of the following forms could be used:
1913
1914	=over 4
1915
1916	=item B<< <r>+I<Right> >>
1917
1918	=item B<< <l>+I<Left> >>
1919
1920	=item B<< <u>+I<Up> >>
1921
1922	=item B<< <d>+I<Down> >>
1923
1924	Define actions for the respective arrow buttons
1925
1926	=item B<< <b>+I<Begin> >>
1927
1928	=item B<< <e>+I<End> >>
1929
1930	Define common beginning/end parts for I<quick arrows> which used in
1931	conjunction with the above <r> <l> <u> <d> constructs
1932
1933	=back
1934
1935	=over 4
1936
1937	=item For example, define arrows individually,
1938
1939	<u>\E[A
1940
1941	<d>\E[B
1942
1943	<r>\E[C
1944
1945	<l>\E[D
1946
1947	=item or all at once
1948
1949	<u>\E[AZ<><d>\E[BZ<><r>\E[CZ<><l>\E[D
1950
1951	=item or more compactly (factoring out common parts)
1952
1953	<b>\E[<u>AZ<><d>BZ<><r>CZ<><l>D
1954
1955	=back
1956
1957	X<menuBarSummary>
1958
1959	=head2 Command Summary
1960
1961	A short summary of the most I<common> commands:
1962
1963	=over 4
1964
1965	=item [menu:name]
1966
1967	use an existing named menuBar or start a new one
1968
1969	=item [menu]
1970
1971	use the current menuBar
1972
1973	=item [title:string]
1974
1975	set menuBar title
1976
1977	=item [done]
1978
1979	set menu access to readonly and, if reading from a file, signal EOF
1980
1981	=item [done:name]
1982
1983	if reading from a file using [read:file;name] signal EOF
1984
1985	=item [rm:name]
1986
1987	remove named menuBar(s)
1988
1989	=item [rm] [rm:]
1990
1991	remove current menuBar
1992
1993	=item [rm*] [rm:*]
1994
1995	remove all menuBar(s)
1996
1997	=item [swap]
1998
1999	swap top two menuBars
2000
2001	=item [prev]
2002
2003	access the previous menuBar
2004
2005	=item [next]
2006
2007	access the next menuBar
2008
2009	=item [show]
2010
2011	map menuBar
2012
2013	=item [hide]
2014
2015	unmap menuBar
2016
2017	=item [pixmap;file]
2018
2019	=item [pixmap;file;scaling]
2020
2021	set a background pixmap
2022
2023	=item [read:file]
2024
2025	=item [read:file;name]
2026
2027	read in a menu from a file
2028
2029	=item [dump]
2030
2031	dump out all menuBars to /tmp/rxvt-PID
2032
2033	=item /
2034
2035	access menuBar top level
2036
2037	=item ./
2038
2039	=item ../
2040
2041	=item ../../
2042
2043	access current or parent menu level
2044
2045	=item /path/menu
2046
2047	add/access menu
2048
2049	=item /path/{-}
2050
2051	add separator
2052
2053	=item /path/{item}{rtext} action
2054
2055	add/alter menu item
2056
2057	=item -/*
2058
2059	remove all menus from the menuBar
2060
2061	=item -/path/menu
2062
2063	remove menu items, separators and submenus from menu
2064
2065	=item -/path/menu
2066
2067	remove menu
2068
2069	=item -/path/{item}
2070
2071	remove item
2072
2073	=item -/path/{-}
2074
2075	remove separator
2076
2077	=item <b>Begin<r>Right<l>Left<u>Up<d>Down<e>End
2078
2079	menu quick arrows
2080
2081	=back
2082	X<XPM>
2083		1853
2084	=head1 XPM	1854	=head1 XPM
2085		1855
2086	For the XPM XTerm escape sequence B<< C<ESC ] 20 ; Pt ST> >> then value	1856	For the XPM XTerm escape sequence B<< C<ESC ] 20 ; Pt ST> >> then value
2087	of B<< C<Pt> >> can be the name of the background pixmap followed by a	1857	of B<< C<Pt> >> can be the name of the background pixmap followed by a
…		…
2185	=begin table	1955	=begin table
2186		1956
2187	4 Shift	1957	4 Shift
2188	8 Meta	1958	8 Meta
2189	16 Control	1959	16 Control
2190	32 Double Click I<(Rxvt extension)>	1960	32 Double Click I<(rxvt extension)>
2191		1961
2192	=end table	1962	=end table
2193		1963
2194	Col = B<< C<< <x> - SPACE >> >>	1964	Col = B<< C<< <x> - SPACE >> >>
2195		1965
…		…
2333	alternative input methods (e.g. kinput2) and will also correctly	2103	alternative input methods (e.g. kinput2) and will also correctly
2334	set up the input for people using dead keys or compose keys.	2104	set up the input for people using dead keys or compose keys.
2335		2105
2336	=item --enable-unicode3 (default: off)	2106	=item --enable-unicode3 (default: off)
2337		2107
		2108	Recommended to stay off unless you really need non-BMP characters.
		2109
2338	Enable direct support for displaying unicode codepoints above	2110	Enable direct support for displaying unicode codepoints above
2339	65535 (the basic multilingual page). This increases storage	2111	65535 (the basic multilingual page). This increases storage
2340	requirements per character from 2 to 4 bytes. X11 fonts do not yet	2112	requirements per character from 2 to 4 bytes. X11 fonts do not yet
2341	support these extra characters, but Xft does.	2113	support these extra characters, but Xft does.
2342		2114
…		…
2352	composite characters. This is required for proper viewing of text	2124	composite characters. This is required for proper viewing of text
2353	where accents are encoded as seperate unicode characters. This is	2125	where accents are encoded as seperate unicode characters. This is
2354	done by using precomposited characters when available or creating	2126	done by using precomposited characters when available or creating
2355	new pseudo-characters when no precomposed form exists.	2127	new pseudo-characters when no precomposed form exists.
2356		2128
2357	Without --enable-unicode3, the number of additional precomposed characters	2129	Without --enable-unicode3, the number of additional precomposed
2358	is rather limited (2048, if this is full, rxvt-unicode will use the	2130	characters is somewhat limited (the 6400 private use characters will be
2359	private use area, extending the number of combinations to 8448). With
2360	--enable-unicode3, no practical limit exists.	2131	(ab-)used). With --enable-unicode3, no practical limit exists.
2361		2132
2362	This option will also enable storage (but not display) of characters	2133	This option will also enable storage (but not display) of characters
2363	beyond plane 0 (>65535) when --enable-unicode3 was not specified.	2134	beyond plane 0 (>65535) when --enable-unicode3 was not specified.
2364		2135
2365	The combining table also contains entries for arabic presentation forms,	2136	The combining table also contains entries for arabic presentation forms,
2366	but these are not currently used. Bug me if you want these to be used (and	2137	but these are not currently used. Bug me if you want these to be used (and
2367	tell me how these are to be used...).	2138	tell me how these are to be used...).
2368		2139
2369	=item --enable-fallback(=CLASS) (default: Rxvt)	2140	=item --enable-fallback(=CLASS) (default: Rxvt)
2370		2141
2371	When reading resource settings, also read settings for class CLASS. To disable resource fallback use --disable-fallback.	2142	When reading resource settings, also read settings for class CLASS. To
		2143	disable resource fallback use --disable-fallback.
2372		2144
2373	=item --with-res-name=NAME (default: urxvt)	2145	=item --with-res-name=NAME (default: urxvt)
2374		2146
2375	Use the given name as default application name when	2147	Use the given name as default application name when
2376	reading resources. Specify --with-res-name=rxvt to replace rxvt.	2148	reading resources. Specify --with-res-name=rxvt to replace rxvt.
…		…
2396		2168
2397	Write user and tty to lastlog file (used by programs like	2169	Write user and tty to lastlog file (used by programs like
2398	F<lastlogin>) at start of rxvt execution. This option requires	2170	F<lastlogin>) at start of rxvt execution. This option requires
2399	--enable-utmp to also be specified.	2171	--enable-utmp to also be specified.
2400		2172
2401	=item --enable-xpm-background (default: off)	2173	=item --enable-xpm-background (default: on)
2402		2174
2403	Add support for XPM background pixmaps.	2175	Add support for XPM background pixmaps.
2404		2176
2405	=item --enable-transparency (default: off)	2177	=item --enable-transparency (default: on)
2406		2178
2407	Add support for inheriting parent backgrounds thus giving a fake	2179	Add support for inheriting parent backgrounds thus giving a fake
2408	transparency to the term.	2180	transparency to the term.
2409		2181
2410	=item --enable-fading (default: on)	2182	=item --enable-fading (default: on)
…		…
2412	Add support for fading the text when focus is lost (requires C<--enable-transparency>).	2184	Add support for fading the text when focus is lost (requires C<--enable-transparency>).
2413		2185
2414	=item --enable-tinting (default: on)	2186	=item --enable-tinting (default: on)
2415		2187
2416	Add support for tinting of transparent backgrounds (requires C<--enable-transparency>).	2188	Add support for tinting of transparent backgrounds (requires C<--enable-transparency>).
2417
2418	=item --enable-menubar (default: off)
2419
2420	Add support for our menu bar system (this interacts badly with
2421	dynamic locale switching currently).
2422		2189
2423	=item --enable-rxvt-scroll (default: on)	2190	=item --enable-rxvt-scroll (default: on)
2424		2191
2425	Add support for the original rxvt scrollbar.	2192	Add support for the original rxvt scrollbar.
2426		2193
…		…
2436		2203
2437	Add support for a very unobtrusive, plain-looking scrollbar that	2204	Add support for a very unobtrusive, plain-looking scrollbar that
2438	is the favourite of the rxvt-unicode author, having used it for	2205	is the favourite of the rxvt-unicode author, having used it for
2439	many years.	2206	many years.
2440		2207
2441	=item --enable-half-shadow (default: off)
2442
2443	Make shadows on the scrollbar only half the normal width & height.
2444	only applicable to rxvt scrollbars.
2445
2446	=item --enable-ttygid (default: off)	2208	=item --enable-ttygid (default: off)
2447		2209
2448	Change tty device setting to group "tty" - only use this if	2210	Change tty device setting to group "tty" - only use this if
2449	your system uses this type of security.	2211	your system uses this type of security.
2450		2212
…		…
2458	do it.	2220	do it.
2459		2221
2460	=item --disable-resources	2222	=item --disable-resources
2461		2223
2462	Removes any support for resource checking.	2224	Removes any support for resource checking.
2463
2464	=item --enable-xgetdefault
2465
2466	Make resources checking via XGetDefault() instead of our small
2467	version which only checks ~/.Xdefaults, or if that doesn't exist then
2468	~/.Xresources.
2469
2470	Please note that nowadays, things like XIM will automatically pull in and
2471	use the full X resource manager, so the overhead of using it might be very
2472	small, if nonexistant.
2473
2474	=item --enable-strings (default: off)
2475
2476	Add support for our possibly faster memset() function and other
2477	various routines, overriding your system's versions which may
2478	have been hand-crafted in assembly or may require extra libraries
2479	to link in. (this breaks ANSI-C rules and has problems on many
2480	GNU/Linux systems).
2481		2225
2482	=item --disable-swapscreen	2226	=item --disable-swapscreen
2483		2227
2484	Remove support for secondary/swap screen.	2228	Remove support for secondary/swap screen.
2485		2229
…		…
2492	A non-exhaustive list of features enabled by C<--enable-frills> (possibly	2236	A non-exhaustive list of features enabled by C<--enable-frills> (possibly
2493	in combination with other switches) is:	2237	in combination with other switches) is:
2494		2238
2495	MWM-hints	2239	MWM-hints
2496	EWMH-hints (pid, utf8 names) and protocols (ping)	2240	EWMH-hints (pid, utf8 names) and protocols (ping)
2497	seperate underline colour	2241	seperate underline colour (-underlineColor)
2498	settable border widths and borderless switch	2242	settable border widths and borderless switch (-w, -b, -bl)
		2243	visual depth selection (-depth)
2499	settable extra linespacing	2244	settable extra linespacing /-lsp)
2500	iso-14755-2 and -3, and visual feedback	2245	iso-14755-2 and -3, and visual feedback
		2246	tripleclickwords (-tcw)
		2247	settable insecure mode (-insecure)
		2248	keysym remapping support
		2249	cursor blinking and underline cursor (-cb, -uc)
		2250	XEmbed support (-embed)
		2251	user-pty (-pty-fd)
		2252	hold on exit (-hold)
		2253	skip builtin block graphics (-sbg)
		2254
		2255	It also enabled some non-essential features otherwise disabled, such as:
		2256
		2257	some round-trip time optimisations
		2258	nearest color allocation on pseudocolor screens
		2259	UTF8_STRING supporr for selection
		2260	sgr modes 90..97 and 100..107
2501	backindex and forwardindex escape sequence	2261	backindex and forwardindex escape sequences
		2262	view change/zero scorllback esacpe sequences
		2263	locale switching escape sequence
2502	window op and some xterm/OSC escape sequences	2264	window op and some xterm/OSC escape sequences
2503	tripleclickwords	2265	rectangular selections
2504	settable insecure mode	2266	trailing space removal for selections
2505	keysym remapping support	2267	verbose X error handling
2506	cursor blinking and underline cursor
2507	-embed, -pty-fd and -hold options
2508		2268
2509	=item --enable-iso14755 (default: on)	2269	=item --enable-iso14755 (default: on)
2510		2270
2511	Enable extended ISO 14755 support (see @@RXVT_NAME@@(1), or	2271	Enable extended ISO 14755 support (see @@RXVT_NAME@@(1), or
2512	F<doc/rxvt.1.txt>). Basic support (section 5.1) is enabled by	2272	F<doc/rxvt.1.txt>). Basic support (section 5.1) is enabled by
…		…
2533	Remove support for mouse selection style like that of xterm.	2293	Remove support for mouse selection style like that of xterm.
2534		2294
2535	=item --enable-dmalloc (default: off)	2295	=item --enable-dmalloc (default: off)
2536		2296
2537	Use Gray Watson's malloc - which is good for debugging See	2297	Use Gray Watson's malloc - which is good for debugging See
2538	http://www.letters.com/dmalloc/ for details If you use either this or the	2298	L<http://www.letters.com/dmalloc/> for details If you use either this or the
2539	next option, you may need to edit src/Makefile after compiling to point	2299	next option, you may need to edit src/Makefile after compiling to point
2540	DINCLUDE and DLIB to the right places.	2300	DINCLUDE and DLIB to the right places.
2541		2301
2542	You can only use either this option and the following (should	2302	You can only use either this option and the following (should
2543	you use either) .	2303	you use either) .
…		…
2554	the screen in a fixed position.	2314	the screen in a fixed position.
2555		2315
2556	=item --enable-pointer-blank (default: on)	2316	=item --enable-pointer-blank (default: on)
2557		2317
2558	Add support to have the pointer disappear when typing or inactive.	2318	Add support to have the pointer disappear when typing or inactive.
		2319
		2320	=item --enable-perl (default: on)
		2321
		2322	Enable an embedded perl interpreter. See the B<@@RXVT_NAME@@perl(3)>
		2323	manpage (F<doc/rxvtperl.txt>) for more info on this feature, or the files
		2324	in F<src/perl-ext/> for the extensions that are installed by default. The
		2325	perl interpreter that is used can be specified via the C<PERL> environment
		2326	variable when running configure.
2559		2327
2560	=item --with-name=NAME (default: urxvt)	2328	=item --with-name=NAME (default: urxvt)
2561		2329
2562	Set the basename for the installed binaries, resulting	2330	Set the basename for the installed binaries, resulting
2563	in C<urxvt>, C<urxvtd> etc.). Specify C<--with-name=rxvt> to replace with	2331	in C<urxvt>, C<urxvtd> etc.). Specify C<--with-name=rxvt> to replace with

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