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		1	=head1 NAME
		2
		3	RXVT REFERENCE - FAQ, command sequences and other background information
		4
		5	=head1 SYNOPSIS
		6
		7	# set a new font set
		8	printf '\33]50;%s\007' 9x15,xft:Kochi" Mincho"
		9
		10	# change the locale and tell rxvt-unicode about it
		11	export LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.EUC-JP; printf "\33]701;$LC_CTYPE\007"
		12
		13	# set window title
		14	printf '\33]2;%s\007' "new window title"
		15
		16	=head1 DESCRIPTION
		17
		18	This document contains the FAQ, the RXVT TECHNICAL REFERENCE documenting
		19	all escape sequences, and other background information.
		20
		21	The newest version of this document is
		22	also available on the World Wide Web at
		23	L<http://cvs.schmorp.de/browse/checkout/rxvt-unicode/doc/rxvt.7.html>.
		24
		25	=head1 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
		26
		27	=over 4
		28
		29	=item How do I know which rxvt-unicode version I'm using?
		30
		31	The version number is displayed with the usage (-h). Also the escape
		32	sequence C<ESC [ 8 n> sets the window title to the version number.
		33
		34	=item I am using Debian GNU/Linux and have a problem...
		35
		36	The Debian GNU/Linux package of rxvt-unicode contains large patches that
		37	considerably change the behaviour of rxvt-unicode. Before reporting a
		38	bug to the original rxvt-unicode author please download and install the
		39	genuine version (L<http://software.schmorp.de#rxvt-unicode>) and try to
		40	reproduce the problem. If you cannot, chances are that the problems are
		41	specific to Debian GNU/Linux, in which case it should be reported via the
		42	Debian Bug Tracking System (use C<reportbug> to report the bug).
		43
		44	For other problems that also affect the Debian package, you can and
		45	probably should use the Debian BTS, too, because, after all, it's also a
		46	bug in the Debian version and it serves as a reminder for other users that
		47	might encounter the same issue.
		48
		49	=item When I log-in to another system it tells me about missing terminfo data?
		50
		51	The terminal description used by rxvt-unicode is not as widely available
		52	as that for xterm, or even rxvt (for which the same problem often arises).
		53
		54	The correct solution for this problem is to install the terminfo, this can
		55	be done like this (with ncurses' infocmp):
		56
		57	REMOTE=remotesystem.domain
		58	infocmp rxvt-unicode \| ssh $REMOTE "cat >/tmp/ti && tic /tmp/ti"
		59
		60	... or by installing rxvt-unicode normally on the remote system,
		61
		62	If you cannot or do not want to do this, then you can simply set
		63	C<TERM=rxvt> or even C<TERM=xterm>, and live with the small number of
		64	problems arising, which includes wrong keymapping, less and different
		65	colours and some refresh errors in fullscreen applications. It's a nice
		66	quick-and-dirty workaround for rare cases, though.
		67
		68	If you always want to do this (and are fine with the consequences) you
		69	can either recompile rxvt-unicode with the desired TERM value or use a
		70	resource to set it:
		71
		72	URxvt.termName: rxvt
		73
		74	If you don't plan to use B<rxvt> (quite common...) you could also replace
		75	the rxvt terminfo file with the rxvt-unicode one.
		76
		77	=item C<bash>'s readline does not work correctly under @@RXVT_NAME@@.
		78
		79	=item I need a termcap file entry.
		80
		81	One reason you might want this is that some distributions or operating
		82	systems still compile some programs using the long-obsoleted termcap
		83	(Fedora Core's bash is one example) and rely on a termcap entry for
		84	C<rxvt-unicode>.
		85
		86	You could use rxvt's termcap entry with resonable results in many cases.
		87	You can also create a termcap entry by using terminfo's infocmp program
		88	like this:
		89
		90	infocmp -C rxvt-unicode
		91
		92	Or you could use this termcap entry, generated by the command above:
		93
		94	rxvt-unicode\|rxvt-unicode terminal (X Window System):\
		95	:am:bw:eo:km:mi:ms:xn:xo:\
		96	:co#80:it#8:li#24:\
		97	:AL=\E[%dL:DC=\E[%dP:DL=\E[%dM:DO=\E[%dB:IC=\E[%d@:\
		98	:K1=\EOw:K2=\EOu:K3=\EOy:K4=\EOq:K5=\EOs:LE=\E[%dD:\
		99	:RI=\E[%dC:SF=\E[%dS:SR=\E[%dT:UP=\E[%dA:ae=^O:al=\E[L:\
		100	:as=^N:bl=^G:cd=\E[J:ce=\E[K:cl=\E[H\E[2J:cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:\
		101	:cr=^M:cs=\E[%i%d;%dr:ct=\E[3g:dc=\E[P:dl=\E[M:do=^J:\
		102	:ec=\E[%dX:ei=\E[4l:ho=\E[H:i1=\E[?47l\E=\E[?1l:ic=\E[@:\
		103	:im=\E[4h:is=\E[r\E[m\E[2J\E[H\E[?7h\E[?1;3;4;6l\E[4l:\
		104	:k0=\E[21~:k1=\E[11~:k2=\E[12~:k3=\E[13~:k4=\E[14~:\
		105	:k5=\E[15~:k6=\E[17~:k7=\E[18~:k8=\E[19~:k9=\E[20~:\
		106	:kD=\E[3~:kI=\E[2~:kN=\E[6~:kP=\E[5~:kb=\177:kd=\EOB:\
		107	:ke=\E[?1l\E>:kh=\E[7~:kl=\EOD:kr=\EOC:ks=\E[?1h\E=:\
		108	:ku=\EOA:le=^H:mb=\E[5m:md=\E[1m:me=\E[m\017:mr=\E[7m:\
		109	:nd=\E[C:rc=\E8:sc=\E7:se=\E[27m:sf=^J:so=\E[7m:sr=\EM:\
		110	:st=\EH:ta=^I:te=\E[r\E[?1049l:ti=\E[?1049h:ue=\E[24m:\
		111	:up=\E[A:us=\E[4m:vb=\E[?5h\E[?5l:ve=\E[?25h:vi=\E[?25l:\
		112	:vs=\E[?25h:
		113
		114	=item Why does C<ls> no longer have coloured output?
		115
		116	The C<ls> in the GNU coreutils unfortunately doesn't use terminfo to
		117	decide wether a terminal has colour, but uses it's own configuration
		118	file. Needless to say, C<rxvt-unicode> is not in it's default file (among
		119	with most other terminals supporting colour). Either add:
		120
		121	TERM rxvt-unicode
		122
		123	to C</etc/DIR_COLORS> or simply add:
		124
		125	alias ls='ls --color=auto'
		126
		127	to your C<.profile> or C<.bashrc>.
		128
		129	=item Why doesn't vim/emacs etc. use the 88 colour mode?
		130
		131	=item Why doesn't vim/emacs etc. make use of italic?
		132
		133	=item Why are the secondary screen-related options not working properly?
		134
		135	Make sure you are using C<TERM=rxvt-unicode>. Some pre-packaged
		136	distributions (most notably Debian GNU/Linux) break rxvt-unicode
		137	by setting C<TERM> to C<rxvt>, which doesn't have these extra
		138	features. Unfortunately, some of these (most notably, again, Debian
		139	GNU/Linux) furthermore fail to even install the C<rxvt-unicode> terminfo
		140	file, so you will need to install it on your own (See the question B<When
		141	I log-in to another system it tells me about missing terminfo data?> on
		142	how to do this).
		143
		144	=item My numerical keypad acts weird and generates differing output?
		145
		146	Some Debian GNUL/Linux users seem to have this problem, although no
		147	specific details were reported so far. It is possible that this is caused
		148	by the wrong C<TERM> setting, although the details of wether and how
		149	this can happen are unknown, as C<TERM=rxvt> should offer a compatible
		150	keymap. See the answer to the previous question, and please report if that
		151	helped.
		152
		153	=item Rxvt-unicode does not seem to understand the selected encoding?
		154
		155	=item Unicode does not seem to work?
		156
		157	If you encounter strange problems like typing an accented character but
		158	getting two unrelated other characters or similar, or if program output is
		159	subtly garbled, then you should check your locale settings.
		160
		161	Rxvt-unicode must be started with the same C<LC_CTYPE> setting as the
		162	programs. Often rxvt-unicode is started in the C<C> locale, while the
		163	login script running within the rxvt-unicode window changes the locale to
		164	something else, e.g. C<en_GB.UTF-8>. Needless to say, this is not going to work.
		165
		166	The best thing is to fix your startup environment, as you will likely run
		167	into other problems. If nothing works you can try this in your .profile.
		168
		169	printf '\e]701;%s\007' "$LC_CTYPE"
		170
		171	If this doesn't work, then maybe you use a C<LC_CTYPE> specification not
		172	supported on your systems. Some systems have a C<locale> command which
		173	displays this (also, C<perl -e0> can be used to check locale settings, as
		174	it will complain loudly if it cannot set the locale). If it displays something
		175	like:
		176
		177	locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: ...
		178
		179	Then the locale you specified is not supported on your system.
		180
		181	If nothing works and you are sure that everything is set correctly then
		182	you will need to remember a little known fact: Some programs just don't
		183	support locales :(
		184
		185	=item Why do some characters look so much different than others?
		186
		187	=item How does rxvt-unicode choose fonts?
		188
		189	Most fonts do not contain the full range of Unicode, which is
		190	fine. Chances are that the font you (or the admin/package maintainer of
		191	your system/os) have specified does not cover all the characters you want
		192	to display.
		193
		194	B<rxvt-unicode> makes a best-effort try at finding a replacement
		195	font. Often the result is fine, but sometimes the chosen font looks
		196	bad/ugly/wrong. Some fonts have totally strange characters that don't
		197	resemble the correct glyph at all, and rxvt-unicode lacks the artificial
		198	intelligence to detect that a specific glyph is wrong: it has to believe
		199	the font that the characters it claims to contain indeed look correct.
		200
		201	In that case, select a font of your taste and add it to the font list,
		202	e.g.:
		203
		204	@@RXVT_NAME@@ -fn basefont,font2,font3...
		205
		206	When rxvt-unicode sees a character, it will first look at the base
		207	font. If the base font does not contain the character, it will go to the
		208	next font, and so on. Specifying your own fonts will also speed up this
		209	search and use less resources within rxvt-unicode and the X-server.
		210
		211	The only limitation is that none of the fonts may be larger than the base
		212	font, as the base font defines the terminal character cell size, which
		213	must be the same due to the way terminals work.
		214
		215	=item Why do some chinese characters look so different than others?
		216
		217	This is because there is a difference between script and language --
		218	rxvt-unicode does not know which language the text that is output is,
		219	as it only knows the unicode character codes. If rxvt-unicode first
		220	sees a japanese/chinese character, it might choose a japanese font for
		221	display. Subsequent japanese characters will use that font. Now, many
		222	chinese characters aren't represented in japanese fonts, so when the first
		223	non-japanese character comes up, rxvt-unicode will look for a chinese font
		224	-- unfortunately at this point, it will still use the japanese font for
		225	chinese characters that are also in the japanese font.
		226
		227	The workaround is easy: just tag a chinese font at the end of your font
		228	list (see the previous question). The key is to view the font list as
		229	a preference list: If you expect more japanese, list a japanese font
		230	first. If you expect more chinese, put a chinese font first.
		231
		232	In the future it might be possible to switch language preferences at
		233	runtime (the internal data structure has no problem with using different
		234	fonts for the same character at the same time, but no interface for this
		235	has been designed yet).
		236
		237	Until then, you might get away with switching fonts at runtime (see L<Can
		238	I switch the fonts at runtime?> later in this document).
		239
		240	=item Why does rxvt-unicode sometimes leave pixel droppings?
		241
		242	Most fonts were not designed for terminal use, which means that character
		243	size varies a lot. A font that is otherwise fine for terminal use might
		244	contain some characters that are simply too wide. Rxvt-unicode will avoid
		245	these characters. For characters that are just "a bit" too wide a special
		246	"careful" rendering mode is used that redraws adjacent characters.
		247
		248	All of this requires that fonts do not lie about character sizes,
		249	however: Xft fonts often draw glyphs larger than their acclaimed bounding
		250	box, and rxvt-unicode has no way of detecting this (the correct way is to
		251	ask for the character bounding box, which unfortunately is wrong in these
		252	cases).
		253
		254	It's not clear (to me at least), wether this is a bug in Xft, freetype,
		255	or the respective font. If you encounter this problem you might try using
		256	the C<-lsp> option to give the font more height. If that doesn't work, you
		257	might be forced to use a different font.
		258
		259	All of this is not a problem when using X11 core fonts, as their bounding
		260	box data is correct.
		261
		262	=item My Compose (Multi_key) key is no longer working.
		263
		264	The most common causes for this are that either your locale is not set
		265	correctly, or you specified a B<preeditStyle> that is not supported by
		266	your input method. For example, if you specified B<OverTheSpot> and
		267	your input method (e.g. the default input method handling Compose keys)
		268	does not support this (for instance because it is not visual), then
		269	rxvt-unicode will continue without an input method.
		270
		271	In this case either do not specify a B<preeditStyle> or specify more than
		272	one pre-edit style, such as B<OverTheSpot,Root,None>.
		273
		274	=item I cannot type C<Ctrl-Shift-2> to get an ASCII NUL character due to ISO 14755
		275
		276	Either try C<Ctrl-2> alone (it often is mapped to ASCII NUL even on
		277	international keyboards) or simply use ISO 14755 support to your
		278	advantage, typing <Ctrl-Shift-0> to get a ASCII NUL. This works for other
		279	codes, too, such as C<Ctrl-Shift-1-d> to type the default telnet escape
		280	character and so on.
		281
		282	=item How can I keep rxvt-unicode from using reverse video so much?
		283
		284	First of all, make sure you are running with the right terminal settings
		285	(C<TERM=rxvt-unicode>), which will get rid of most of these effects. Then
		286	make sure you have specified colours for italic and bold, as otherwise
		287	rxvt-unicode might use reverse video to simulate the effect:
		288
		289	URxvt.colorBD: white
		290	URxvt.colorIT: green
		291
		292	=item Some programs assume totally weird colours (red instead of blue), how can I fix that?
		293
		294	For some unexplainable reason, some rare programs assume a very weird
		295	colour palette when confronted with a terminal with more than the standard
		296	8 colours (rxvt-unicode supports 88). The right fix is, of course, to fix
		297	these programs not to assume non-ISO colours without very good reasons.
		298
		299	In the meantime, you can either edit your C<rxvt-unicode> terminfo
		300	definition to only claim 8 colour support or use C<TERM=rxvt>, which will
		301	fix colours but keep you from using other rxvt-unicode features.
		302
		303	=item I am on FreeBSD and rxvt-unicode does not seem to work at all.
		304
		305	Rxvt-unicode requires the symbol C<__STDC_ISO_10646__> to be defined
		306	in your compile environment, or an implementation that implements it,
		307	wether it defines the symbol or not. C<__STDC_ISO_10646__> requires that
		308	B<wchar_t> is represented as unicode.
		309
		310	As you might have guessed, FreeBSD does neither define this symobl nor
		311	does it support it. Instead, it uses it's own internal representation of
		312	B<wchar_t>. This is, of course, completely fine with respect to standards.
		313
		314	However, C<__STDC_ISO_10646__> is the only sane way to support
		315	multi-language apps in an OS, as using a locale-dependent (and
		316	non-standardized) representation of B<wchar_t> makes it impossible to
		317	convert between B<wchar_t> (as used by X11 and your applications) and any
		318	other encoding without implementing OS-specific-wrappers for each and
		319	every locale. There simply are no APIs to convert B<wchar_t> into anything
		320	except the current locale encoding.
		321
		322	Some applications (such as the formidable B<mlterm>) work around this
		323	by carrying their own replacement functions for character set handling
		324	with them, and either implementing OS-dependent hacks or doing multiple
		325	conversions (which is slow and unreliable in case the OS implements
		326	encodings slightly different than the terminal emulator).
		327
		328	The rxvt-unicode author insists that the right way to fix this is in the
		329	system libraries once and for all, instead of forcing every app to carry
		330	complete replacements for them :)
		331
		332	=item How does rxvt-unicode determine the encoding to use?
		333
		334	=item Is there an option to switch encodings?
		335
		336	Unlike some other terminals, rxvt-unicode has no encoding switch, and no
		337	specific "utf-8" mode, such as xterm. In fact, it doesn't even know about
		338	UTF-8 or any other encodings with respect to terminal I/O.
		339
		340	The reasons is that there exists a perfectly fine mechanism for selecting
		341	the encoding, doing I/O and (most important) communicating this to all
		342	applications so everybody agrees on character properties such as width
		343	and code number. This mechanism is the I<locale>. Applications not using
		344	that info will have problems (for example, C<xterm> gets the width of
		345	characters wrong as it uses it's own, locale-independent table under all
		346	locales).
		347
		348	Rxvt-unicode uses the C<LC_CTYPE> locale category to select encoding. All
		349	programs doing the same (that is, most) will automatically agree in the
		350	interpretation of characters.
		351
		352	Unfortunately, there is no system-independent way to select locales, nor
		353	is there a standard on how locale specifiers will look like.
		354
		355	On most systems, the content of the C<LC_CTYPE> environment variable
		356	contains an arbitrary string which corresponds to an already-installed
		357	locale. Common names for locales are C<en_US.UTF-8>, C<de_DE.ISO-8859-15>,
		358	C<ja_JP.EUC-JP>, i.e. C<language_country.encoding>, but other forms
		359	(i.e. C<de> or C<german>) are also common.
		360
		361	Rxvt-unicode ignores all other locale categories, and except for
		362	the encoding, ignores country or language-specific settings,
		363	i.e. C<de_DE.UTF-8> and C<ja_JP.UTF-8> are the normally same to
		364	rxvt-unicode.
		365
		366	If you want to use a specific encoding you have to make sure you start
		367	rxvt-unicode with the correct C<LC_CTYPE> category.
		368
		369	=item Can I switch locales at runtime?
		370
		371	Yes, using an escape sequence. Try something like this, which sets
		372	rxvt-unicode's idea of C<LC_CTYPE>.
		373
		374	printf '\e]701;%s\007' ja_JP.SJIS
		375
		376	See also the previous answer.
		377
		378	Sometimes this capability is rather handy when you want to work in
		379	one locale (e.g. C<de_DE.UTF-8>) but some programs don't support it
		380	(e.g. UTF-8). For example, I use this script to start C<xjdic>, which
		381	first switches to a locale supported by xjdic and back later:
		382
		383	printf '\e]701;%s\007' ja_JP.SJIS
		384	xjdic -js
		385	printf '\e]701;%s\007' de_DE.UTF-8
		386
		387	You can also use xterm's C<luit> program, which usually works fine, except
		388	for some locales where character width differs between program- and
		389	rxvt-unicode-locales.
		390
		391	=item Can I switch the fonts at runtime?
		392
		393	Yes, using an escape sequence. Try something like this, which has the same
		394	effect as using the C<-fn> switch, and takes effect immediately:
		395
		396	printf '\e]50;%s\007' "9x15bold,xft:Kochi Gothic"
		397
		398	This is useful if you e.g. work primarily with japanese (and prefer a
		399	japanese font), but you have to switch to chinese temporarily, where
		400	japanese fonts would only be in your way.
		401
		402	You can think of this as a kind of manual ISO-2022 switching.
		403
		404	=item Why do italic characters look as if clipped?
		405
		406	Many fonts have difficulties with italic characters and hinting. For
		407	example, the otherwise very nicely hinted font C<xft:Bitstream Vera Sans
		408	Mono> completely fails in it's italic face. A workaround might be to
		409	enable freetype autohinting, i.e. like this:
		410
		411	URxvt.italicFont: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:italic:autohint=true
		412	URxvt.boldItalicFont: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:bold:italic:autohint=true
		413
		414	=item My input method wants <some encoding> but I want UTF-8, what can I do?
		415
		416	You can specify separate locales for the input method and the rest of the
		417	terminal, using the resource C<imlocale>:
		418
		419	URxvt*imlocale: ja_JP.EUC-JP
		420
		421	Now you can start your terminal with C<LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8> and still
		422	use your input method. Please note, however, that you will not be able to
		423	input characters outside C<EUC-JP> in a normal way then, as your input
		424	method limits you.
		425
		426	=item Rxvt-unicode uses gobs of memory, how can I reduce that?
		427
		428	Rxvt-unicode tries to obey the rule of not charging you for something you
		429	don't use. One thing you should try is to configure out all settings that
		430	you don't need, for example, Xft support is a resource hog by design,
		431	when used. Compiling it out ensures that no Xft font will be loaded
		432	accidentally when rxvt-unicode tries to find a font for your characters.
		433
		434	Also, many people (me included) like large windows and even larger
		435	scrollback buffers: Without C<--enable-unicode3>, rxvt-unicode will use
		436	6 bytes per screen cell. For a 160x?? window this amounts to almost a
		437	kilobyte per line. A scrollback buffer of 10000 lines will then (if full)
		438	use 10 Megabytes of memory. With C<--enable-unicode3> it gets worse, as
		439	rxvt-unicode then uses 8 bytes per screen cell.
		440
		441	=item Can I speed up Xft rendering somehow?
		442
		443	Yes, the most obvious way to speed it up is to avoid Xft entirely, as
		444	it is simply slow. If you still want Xft fonts you might try to disable
		445	antialiasing (by appending C<:antialiasing=false>), which saves lots of
		446	memory and also speeds up rendering considerably.
		447
		448	=item Rxvt-unicode doesn't seem to anti-alias its fonts, what is wrong?
		449
		450	Rxvt-unicode will use whatever you specify as a font. If it needs to
		451	fall back to it's default font search list it will prefer X11 core
		452	fonts, because they are small and fast, and then use Xft fonts. It has
		453	antialiasing disabled for most of them, because the author thinks they
		454	look best that way.
		455
		456	If you want antialiasing, you have to specify the fonts manually.
		457
		458	=item Mouse cut/paste suddenly no longer works.
		459
		460	Make sure that mouse reporting is actually turned off since killing
		461	some editors prematurely may leave the mouse in mouse report mode. I've
		462	heard that tcsh may use mouse reporting unless it otherwise specified. A
		463	quick check is to see if cut/paste works when the Alt or Shift keys are
		464	depressed. See @@RXVT_NAME@@(7)
		465
		466	=item What's with this bold/blink stuff?
		467
		468	If no bold colour is set via C<colorBD:>, bold will invert text using the
		469	standard foreground colour.
		470
		471	For the standard background colour, blinking will actually make the
		472	text blink when compiled with C<--enable-blinking>. with standard
		473	colours. Without C<--enable-blinking>, the blink attribute will be
		474	ignored.
		475
		476	On ANSI colours, bold/blink attributes are used to set high-intensity
		477	foreground/background colors.
		478
		479	color0-7 are the low-intensity colors.
		480
		481	color8-15 are the corresponding high-intensity colors.
		482
		483	=item I don't like the screen colors. How do I change them?
		484
		485	You can change the screen colors at run-time using F<~/.Xdefaults>
		486	resources (or as long-options).
		487
		488	Here are values that are supposed to resemble a VGA screen,
		489	including the murky brown that passes for low-intensity yellow:
		490
		491	URxvt.color0: #000000
		492	URxvt.color1: #A80000
		493	URxvt.color2: #00A800
		494	URxvt.color3: #A8A800
		495	URxvt.color4: #0000A8
		496	URxvt.color5: #A800A8
		497	URxvt.color6: #00A8A8
		498	URxvt.color7: #A8A8A8
		499
		500	URxvt.color8: #000054
		501	URxvt.color9: #FF0054
		502	URxvt.color10: #00FF54
		503	URxvt.color11: #FFFF54
		504	URxvt.color12: #0000FF
		505	URxvt.color13: #FF00FF
		506	URxvt.color14: #00FFFF
		507	URxvt.color15: #FFFFFF
		508
		509	And here is a more complete set of non-standard colors described (not by
		510	me) as "pretty girly".
		511
		512	URxvt.cursorColor: #dc74d1
		513	URxvt.pointerColor: #dc74d1
		514	URxvt.background: #0e0e0e
		515	URxvt.foreground: #4ad5e1
		516	URxvt.color0: #000000
		517	URxvt.color8: #8b8f93
		518	URxvt.color1: #dc74d1
		519	URxvt.color9: #dc74d1
		520	URxvt.color2: #0eb8c7
		521	URxvt.color10: #0eb8c7
		522	URxvt.color3: #dfe37e
		523	URxvt.color11: #dfe37e
		524	URxvt.color5: #9e88f0
		525	URxvt.color13: #9e88f0
		526	URxvt.color6: #73f7ff
		527	URxvt.color14: #73f7ff
		528	URxvt.color7: #e1dddd
		529	URxvt.color15: #e1dddd
		530
		531	=item How can I start @@RXVT_NAME@@d in a race-free way?
		532
		533	Despite it's name, @@RXVT_NAME@@d is not a real daemon, but more like a
		534	server that answers @@RXVT_NAME@@c's requests, so it doesn't background
		535	itself.
		536
		537	To ensure @@RXVT_NAME@@d is listening on it's socket, you can use the
		538	following method to wait for the startup message before continuing:
		539
		540	{ @@RXVT_NAME@@d & } \| read
		541
		542	=item What's with the strange Backspace/Delete key behaviour?
		543
		544	Assuming that the physical Backspace key corresponds to the
		545	BackSpace keysym (not likely for Linux ... see the following
		546	question) there are two standard values that can be used for
		547	Backspace: C<^H> and C<^?>.
		548
		549	Historically, either value is correct, but rxvt-unicode adopts the debian
		550	policy of using C<^?> when unsure, because it's the one only only correct
		551	choice :).
		552
		553	Rxvt-unicode tries to inherit the current stty settings and uses the value
		554	of `erase' to guess the value for backspace. If rxvt-unicode wasn't
		555	started from a terminal (say, from a menu or by remote shell), then the
		556	system value of `erase', which corresponds to CERASE in <termios.h>, will
		557	be used (which may not be the same as your stty setting).
		558
		559	For starting a new rxvt-unicode:
		560
		561	# use Backspace = ^H
		562	$ stty erase ^H
		563	$ @@RXVT_NAME@@
		564
		565	# use Backspace = ^?
		566	$ stty erase ^?
		567	$ @@RXVT_NAME@@
		568
		569	Toggle with C<ESC [ 36 h> / C<ESC [ 36 l> as documented in @@RXVT_NAME@@(7).
		570
		571	For an existing rxvt-unicode:
		572
		573	# use Backspace = ^H
		574	$ stty erase ^H
		575	$ echo -n "^[[36h"
		576
		577	# use Backspace = ^?
		578	$ stty erase ^?
		579	$ echo -n "^[[36l"
		580
		581	This helps satisfy some of the Backspace discrepancies that occur, but
		582	if you use Backspace = C<^H>, make sure that the termcap/terminfo value
		583	properly reflects that.
		584
		585	The Delete key is a another casualty of the ill-defined Backspace problem.
		586	To avoid confusion between the Backspace and Delete keys, the Delete
		587	key has been assigned an escape sequence to match the vt100 for Execute
		588	(C<ESC [ 3 ~>) and is in the supplied termcap/terminfo.
		589
		590	Some other Backspace problems:
		591
		592	some editors use termcap/terminfo,
		593	some editors (vim I'm told) expect Backspace = ^H,
		594	GNU Emacs (and Emacs-like editors) use ^H for help.
		595
		596	Perhaps someday this will all be resolved in a consistent manner.
		597
		598	=item I don't like the key-bindings. How do I change them?
		599
		600	There are some compile-time selections available via configure. Unless
		601	you have run "configure" with the C<--disable-resources> option you can
		602	use the `keysym' resource to alter the keystrings associated with keysyms.
		603
		604	Here's an example for a URxvt session started using C<@@RXVT_NAME@@ -name URxvt>
		605
		606	URxvt.keysym.Home: \033[1~
		607	URxvt.keysym.End: \033[4~
		608	URxvt.keysym.C-apostrophe: \033<C-'>
		609	URxvt.keysym.C-slash: \033<C-/>
		610	URxvt.keysym.C-semicolon: \033<C-;>
		611	URxvt.keysym.C-grave: \033<C-`>
		612	URxvt.keysym.C-comma: \033<C-,>
		613	URxvt.keysym.C-period: \033<C-.>
		614	URxvt.keysym.C-0x60: \033<C-`>
		615	URxvt.keysym.C-Tab: \033<C-Tab>
		616	URxvt.keysym.C-Return: \033<C-Return>
		617	URxvt.keysym.S-Return: \033<S-Return>
		618	URxvt.keysym.S-space: \033<S-Space>
		619	URxvt.keysym.M-Up: \033<M-Up>
		620	URxvt.keysym.M-Down: \033<M-Down>
		621	URxvt.keysym.M-Left: \033<M-Left>
		622	URxvt.keysym.M-Right: \033<M-Right>
		623	URxvt.keysym.M-C-0: list \033<M-C- 0123456789 >
		624	URxvt.keysym.M-C-a: list \033<M-C- abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz >
		625	URxvt.keysym.F12: command:\033]701;zh_CN.GBK\007
		626
		627	See some more examples in the documentation for the B<keysym> resource.
		628
		629	=item I'm using keyboard model XXX that has extra Prior/Next/Insert keys.
		630	How do I make use of them? For example, the Sun Keyboard type 4
		631	has the following mappings that rxvt-unicode doesn't recognize.
		632
		633	KP_Insert == Insert
		634	F22 == Print
		635	F27 == Home
		636	F29 == Prior
		637	F33 == End
		638	F35 == Next
		639
		640	Rather than have rxvt-unicode try to accommodate all the various possible
		641	keyboard mappings, it is better to use `xmodmap' to remap the keys as
		642	required for your particular machine.
		643
		644	=item How do I distinguish wether I'm running rxvt-unicode or a regular xterm?
		645	I need this to decide about setting colors etc.
		646
		647	rxvt and rxvt-unicode always export the variable "COLORTERM", so you can
		648	check and see if that is set. Note that several programs, JED, slrn,
		649	Midnight Commander automatically check this variable to decide whether or
		650	not to use color.
		651
		652	=item How do I set the correct, full IP address for the DISPLAY variable?
		653
		654	If you've compiled rxvt-unicode with DISPLAY_IS_IP and have enabled
		655	insecure mode then it is possible to use the following shell script
		656	snippets to correctly set the display. If your version of rxvt-unicode
		657	wasn't also compiled with ESCZ_ANSWER (as assumed in these snippets) then
		658	the COLORTERM variable can be used to distinguish rxvt-unicode from a
		659	regular xterm.
		660
		661	Courtesy of Chuck Blake <cblake@BBN.COM> with the following shell script
		662	snippets:
		663
		664	# Bourne/Korn/POSIX family of shells:
		665	[ ${TERM:-foo} = foo ] && TERM=xterm # assume an xterm if we don't know
		666	if [ ${TERM:-foo} = xterm ]; then
		667	stty -icanon -echo min 0 time 15 # see if enhanced rxvt or not
		668	echo -n '^[Z'
		669	read term_id
		670	stty icanon echo
		671	if [ ""${term_id} = '^[[?1;2C' -a ${DISPLAY:-foo} = foo ]; then
		672	echo -n '^[[7n' # query the rxvt we are in for the DISPLAY string
		673	read DISPLAY # set it in our local shell
		674	fi
		675	fi
		676
		677	=item How do I compile the manual pages for myself?
		678
		679	You need to have a recent version of perl installed as F</usr/bin/perl>,
		680	one that comes with F<pod2man>, F<pod2text> and F<pod2html>. Then go to
		681	the doc subdirectory and enter C<make alldoc>.
		682
		683	=item My question isn't answered here, can I ask a human?
		684
		685	Before sending me mail, you could go to IRC: C<irc.freenode.net>,
		686	channel C<#rxvt-unicode> has some rxvt-unicode enthusiasts that might be
		687	interested in learning about new and exciting problems (but not FAQs :).
		688
		689	=back
		690
1	=head1 RXVT TECHNICAL REFERENCE	691	=head1 RXVT TECHNICAL REFERENCE
		692
		693	=head1 DESCRIPTION
		694
		695	The rest of this document describes various technical aspects of
		696	B<rxvt-unicode>. First the description of supported command sequences,
		697	followed by menu and pixmap support and last by a description of all
		698	features selectable at C<configure> time.
2		699
3	=head1 Definitions	700	=head1 Definitions
4		701
5	=over 4	702	=over 4
6		703
135	Single Shift Select of G3 Character Set (SS3): affects next character	832	Single Shift Select of G3 Character Set (SS3): affects next character
136	only I<unimplemented>	833	only I<unimplemented>
137		834
138	=item B<< C<ESC Z> >>	835	=item B<< C<ESC Z> >>
139		836
140	Obsolete form of returns: B<< C<ESC[?1;2C> >> I<rxvt-unicode compile-time option>	837	Obsolete form of returns: B<< C<ESC [ ? 1 ; 2 C> >> I<rxvt-unicode compile-time option>
141		838
142	=item B<< C<ESC c> >>	839	=item B<< C<ESC c> >>
143		840
144	Full reset (RIS)	841	Full reset (RIS)
145		842
…		…
149		846
150	=item B<< C<ESC o> >>	847	=item B<< C<ESC o> >>
151		848
152	Invoke the G3 Character Set (LS3)	849	Invoke the G3 Character Set (LS3)
153		850
154	=item B<< C<ESC>(C<C> >>	851	=item B<< C<ESC ( C> >>
155		852
156	Designate G0 Character Set (ISO 2022), see below for values of C<C>.	853	Designate G0 Character Set (ISO 2022), see below for values of C<C>.
157		854
158	=item B<< C<ESC>)C<C> >>	855	=item B<< C<ESC ) C> >>
159		856
160	Designate G1 Character Set (ISO 2022), see below for values of C<C>.	857	Designate G1 Character Set (ISO 2022), see below for values of C<C>.
161		858
162	=item B<< C<ESC * C> >>	859	=item B<< C<ESC * C> >>
163		860
…		…
187		884
188	=back	885	=back
189		886
190	X<CSI>	887	X<CSI>
191		888
192	=head1 CSI (Code Sequence Introducer) Sequences	889	=head1 CSI (Command Sequence Introducer) Sequences
193		890
194	=over 4	891	=over 4
195		892
196	=item B<< C<ESC [ Ps @> >>	893	=item B<< C<ESC [ Ps @> >>
197		894
…		…
304		1001
305	=item B<< C<ESC [ Ps c> >>	1002	=item B<< C<ESC [ Ps c> >>
306		1003
307	Send Device Attributes (DA)	1004	Send Device Attributes (DA)
308	B<< C<Ps = 0> >> (or omitted): request attributes from terminal	1005	B<< C<Ps = 0> >> (or omitted): request attributes from terminal
309	returns: B<< C<ESC[?1;2c> >> (``I am a VT100 with Advanced Video	1006	returns: B<< C<ESC [ ? 1 ; 2 c> >> (``I am a VT100 with Advanced Video
310	Option'')	1007	Option'')
311		1008
312	=item B<< C<ESC [ Ps d> >>	1009	=item B<< C<ESC [ Ps d> >>
313		1010
314	Cursor to Line B<< C<Ps> >> (VPA)	1011	Cursor to Line B<< C<Ps> >> (VPA)
…		…
330	B<< C<Ps = 0> >> Clear Current Column (default)	1027	B<< C<Ps = 0> >> Clear Current Column (default)
331	B<< C<Ps = 3> >> Clear All (TBC)	1028	B<< C<Ps = 3> >> Clear All (TBC)
332		1029
333	=end table	1030	=end table
334		1031
		1032	=item B<< C<ESC [ Pm h> >>
		1033
		1034	Set Mode (SM). See B<< C<ESC [ Pm l> >> sequence for description of C<Pm>.
		1035
335	=item B<< C<ESC [ Ps i> >>	1036	=item B<< C<ESC [ Ps i> >>
336		1037
337	Printing	1038	Printing. See also the C<print-pipe> resource.
338		1039
339	=begin table	1040	=begin table
340		1041
		1042	B<< C<Ps = 0> >> print screen (MC0)
341	B<< C<Ps = 4> >> disable transparent print mode (MC4)	1043	B<< C<Ps = 4> >> disable transparent print mode (MC4)
342	B<< C<Ps = 5> >> enable transparent print mode (MC5) I<unimplemented>	1044	B<< C<Ps = 5> >> enable transparent print mode (MC5)
343		1045
344	=end table	1046	=end table
345
346	=item B<< C<ESC [ Pm h> >>
347
348	Set Mode (SM). See next sequence for description of C<Pm>.
349		1047
350	=item B<< C<ESC [ Pm l> >>	1048	=item B<< C<ESC [ Pm l> >>
351		1049
352	Reset Mode (RM)	1050	Reset Mode (RM)
353		1051
…		…
360	B<< C<h> >> Insert Mode (SMIR)	1058	B<< C<h> >> Insert Mode (SMIR)
361	B<< C<l> >> Replace Mode (RMIR)	1059	B<< C<l> >> Replace Mode (RMIR)
362		1060
363	=end table	1061	=end table
364		1062
365	=item B<< C<Ps = 20> >> I<unimplemented>	1063	=item B<< C<Ps = 20> >> (partially implemented)
366		1064
367	=begin table	1065	=begin table
368		1066
369	B<< C<h> >> Automatic Newline (LNM)	1067	B<< C<h> >> Automatic Newline (LNM)
370	B<< C<h> >> Normal Linefeed (LNM)	1068	B<< C<l> >> Normal Linefeed (LNM)
371		1069
372	=end table	1070	=end table
373		1071
374	=back	1072	=back
375		1073
…		…
378	Character Attributes (SGR)	1076	Character Attributes (SGR)
379		1077
380	=begin table	1078	=begin table
381		1079
382	B<< C<Ps = 0> >> Normal (default)	1080	B<< C<Ps = 0> >> Normal (default)
383	B<< C<Ps = 1 / 22> >> On / Off Bold (bright fg)	1081	B<< C<Ps = 1 / 21> >> On / Off Bold (bright fg)
		1082	B<< C<Ps = 3 / 23> >> On / Off Italic
384	B<< C<Ps = 4 / 24> >> On / Off Underline	1083	B<< C<Ps = 4 / 24> >> On / Off Underline
385	B<< C<Ps = 5 / 25> >> On / Off Blink (bright bg)	1084	B<< C<Ps = 5 / 25> >> On / Off Slow Blink (bright bg)
		1085	B<< C<Ps = 6 / 26> >> On / Off Rapid Blink (bright bg)
386	B<< C<Ps = 7 / 27> >> On / Off Inverse	1086	B<< C<Ps = 7 / 27> >> On / Off Inverse
		1087	B<< C<Ps = 8 / 27> >> On / Off Invisible (NYI)
387	B<< C<Ps = 30 / 40> >> fg/bg Black	1088	B<< C<Ps = 30 / 40> >> fg/bg Black
388	B<< C<Ps = 31 / 41> >> fg/bg Red	1089	B<< C<Ps = 31 / 41> >> fg/bg Red
389	B<< C<Ps = 32 / 42> >> fg/bg Green	1090	B<< C<Ps = 32 / 42> >> fg/bg Green
390	B<< C<Ps = 33 / 43> >> fg/bg Yellow	1091	B<< C<Ps = 33 / 43> >> fg/bg Yellow
391	B<< C<Ps = 34 / 44> >> fg/bg Blue	1092	B<< C<Ps = 34 / 44> >> fg/bg Blue
392	B<< C<Ps = 35 / 45> >> fg/bg Magenta	1093	B<< C<Ps = 35 / 45> >> fg/bg Magenta
393	B<< C<Ps = 36 / 46> >> fg/bg Cyan	1094	B<< C<Ps = 36 / 46> >> fg/bg Cyan
		1095	B<< C<Ps = 38;5 / 48;5> >> set fg/bg to color #m (ISO 8613-6)
394	B<< C<Ps = 37 / 47> >> fg/bg White	1096	B<< C<Ps = 37 / 47> >> fg/bg White
395	B<< C<Ps = 39 / 49> >> fg/bg Default	1097	B<< C<Ps = 39 / 49> >> fg/bg Default
		1098	B<< C<Ps = 90 / 100> >> fg/bg Bright Black
		1099	B<< C<Ps = 91 / 101> >> fg/bg Bright Red
		1100	B<< C<Ps = 92 / 102> >> fg/bg Bright Green
		1101	B<< C<Ps = 93 / 103> >> fg/bg Bright Yellow
		1102	B<< C<Ps = 94 / 104> >> fg/bg Bright Blue
		1103	B<< C<Ps = 95 / 105> >> fg/bg Bright Magenta
		1104	B<< C<Ps = 96 / 106> >> fg/bg Bright Cyan
		1105	B<< C<Ps = 97 / 107> >> fg/bg Bright White
		1106	B<< C<Ps = 99 / 109> >> fg/bg Bright Default
396		1107
397	=end table	1108	=end table
398		1109
399	=item B<< C<ESC [ Ps n> >>	1110	=item B<< C<ESC [ Ps n> >>
400		1111
…		…
416		1127
417	=item B<< C<ESC [ s> >>	1128	=item B<< C<ESC [ s> >>
418		1129
419	Save Cursor (SC)	1130	Save Cursor (SC)
420		1131
		1132	=item B<< C<ESC [ Ps;Pt t> >>
		1133
		1134	Window Operations
		1135
		1136	=begin table
		1137
		1138	B<< C<Ps = 1> >> Deiconify (map) window
		1139	B<< C<Ps = 2> >> Iconify window
		1140	B<< C<Ps = 3> >> B<< C<ESC [ 3 ; X ; Y t> >> Move window to (X\|Y)
		1141	B<< C<Ps = 4> >> B<< C<ESC [ 4 ; H ; W t> >> Resize to WxH pixels
		1142	B<< C<Ps = 5> >> Raise window
		1143	B<< C<Ps = 6> >> Lower window
		1144	B<< C<Ps = 7> >> Refresh screen once
		1145	B<< C<Ps = 8> >> B<< C<ESC [ 8 ; R ; C t> >> Resize to R rows and C columns
		1146	B<< C<Ps = 11> >> Report window state (responds with C<Ps = 1> or C<Ps = 2>)
		1147	B<< C<Ps = 13> >> Report window position (responds with C<Ps = 3>)
		1148	B<< C<Ps = 14> >> Report window pixel size (responds with C<Ps = 4>)
		1149	B<< C<Ps = 18> >> Report window text size (responds with C<Ps = 7>)
		1150	B<< C<Ps = 19> >> Currently the same as C<Ps = 18>, but responds with C<Ps = 9>
		1151	B<< C<Ps = 20> >> Reports icon label (B<< C<ESC ] L NAME \234> >>)
		1152	B<< C<Ps = 21> >> Reports window title (B<< C<ESC ] l NAME \234> >>)
		1153	B<< C<Ps = 24..> >> Set window height to C<Ps> rows
		1154
		1155	=end table
		1156
		1157	=item B<< C<ESC [ u> >>
		1158
		1159	Restore Cursor
		1160
421	=item B<< C<ESC [ Ps x> >>	1161	=item B<< C<ESC [ Ps x> >>
422		1162
423	Request Terminal Parameters (DECREQTPARM)	1163	Request Terminal Parameters (DECREQTPARM)
424
425	=item B<< C<ESC [ u> >>
426
427	Restore Cursor
428		1164
429	=back	1165	=back
430		1166
431	X<PrivateModes>	1167	X<PrivateModes>
432		1168
…		…
535	B<< C<h> >> Send Mouse X & Y on button press.	1271	B<< C<h> >> Send Mouse X & Y on button press.
536	B<< C<l> >> No mouse reporting.	1272	B<< C<l> >> No mouse reporting.
537		1273
538	=end table	1274	=end table
539		1275
540	X<Priv10>
541
542	=item B<< C<Ps = 10> >> (B<rxvt>)	1276	=item B<< C<Ps = 10> >> (B<rxvt>)
543		1277
544	=begin table	1278	=begin table
545		1279
546	B<< C<h> >> visible	1280	B<< C<h> >> menuBar visible
547	B<< C<l> >> invisible	1281	B<< C<l> >> menuBar invisible
548		1282
549	=end table	1283	=end table
550		1284
551	=item B<< C<Ps = 25> >>	1285	=item B<< C<Ps = 25> >>
552		1286
…		…
653	B<< C<h> >> Use Hilite Mouse Tracking.	1387	B<< C<h> >> Use Hilite Mouse Tracking.
654	B<< C<l> >> No mouse reporting.	1388	B<< C<l> >> No mouse reporting.
655		1389
656	=end table	1390	=end table
657		1391
658	=item B<< C<Ps = 1010> >>	1392	=item B<< C<Ps = 1010> >> (B<rxvt>)
659		1393
660	=begin table	1394	=begin table
661		1395
662	B<< C<h> >> Don't scroll to bottom on TTY output	1396	B<< C<h> >> Don't scroll to bottom on TTY output
663	B<< C<l> >> Scroll to bottom on TTY output	1397	B<< C<l> >> Scroll to bottom on TTY output
664		1398
665	=end table	1399	=end table
666		1400
667	=item B<< C<Ps = 1011> >>	1401	=item B<< C<Ps = 1011> >> (B<rxvt>)
668		1402
669	=begin table	1403	=begin table
670		1404
671	B<< C<h> >> Scroll to bottom when a key is pressed	1405	B<< C<h> >> Scroll to bottom when a key is pressed
672	B<< C<l> >> Don't scroll to bottom when a key is pressed	1406	B<< C<l> >> Don't scroll to bottom when a key is pressed
…		…
686		1420
687	=begin table	1421	=begin table
688		1422
689	B<< C<h> >> Save cursor position	1423	B<< C<h> >> Save cursor position
690	B<< C<l> >> Restore cursor position	1424	B<< C<l> >> Restore cursor position
		1425
		1426	=end table
		1427
		1428	=item B<< C<Ps = 1049> >>
		1429
		1430	=begin table
		1431
		1432	B<< C<h> >> Use Alternate Screen Buffer - clear Alternate Screen Buffer if switching to it
		1433	B<< C<l> >> Use Normal Screen Buffer
691		1434
692	=end table	1435	=end table
693		1436
694	=back	1437	=back
695		1438
…		…
726	B<< C<Ps = 46> >> Change Log File to B<< C<Pt> >> I<unimplemented>	1469	B<< C<Ps = 46> >> Change Log File to B<< C<Pt> >> I<unimplemented>
727	B<< C<Ps = 49> >> Change default background colour to B<< C<Pt> >> I<rxvt compile-time option>	1470	B<< C<Ps = 49> >> Change default background colour to B<< C<Pt> >> I<rxvt compile-time option>
728	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> >>	1471	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> >>
729	B<< C<Ps = 55> >> Log all scrollback buffer and all of screen to B<< C<Pt> >>	1472	B<< C<Ps = 55> >> Log all scrollback buffer and all of screen to B<< C<Pt> >>
730	B<< C<Ps = 701> >> Change current locale to B<< C<Pt> >>, or, if B<< C<Pt> >> is B<< C<?> >>, return the current locale (@@RXVT_NAME@@ extension)	1473	B<< C<Ps = 701> >> Change current locale to B<< C<Pt> >>, or, if B<< C<Pt> >> is B<< C<?> >>, return the current locale (@@RXVT_NAME@@ extension)
731	B<< C<Ps = 702> >> find font for character, used for debugging (@@RXVT_NAME@@ extension)
732	B<< C<Ps = 703> >> command B<< C<Pt> >> I<rxvt compile-time option> (@@RXVT_NAME@@ extension)	1474	B<< C<Ps = 703> >> Menubar command B<< C<Pt> >> I<rxvt compile-time option> (rxvt-unicode extension)
		1475	B<< C<Ps = 704> >> Change colour of italic characters to B<< C<Pt> >>
		1476	B<< C<Ps = 705> >> Change background pixmap tint colour to B<< C<Pt> >>
		1477	B<< C<Ps = 710> >> Set normal fontset to B<< C<Pt> >>. Same as C<Ps = 50>.
		1478	B<< C<Ps = 711> >> Set bold fontset to B<< C<Pt> >>. Similar to C<Ps = 50>.
		1479	B<< C<Ps = 712> >> Set italic fontset to B<< C<Pt> >>. Similar to C<Ps = 50>.
		1480	B<< C<Ps = 713> >> Set bold-italic fontset to B<< C<Pt> >>. Similar to C<Ps = 50>.
733		1481
734	=end table	1482	=end table
735		1483
736	=back	1484	=back
737		1485
…		…
947		1695
948	As a convenience for the many Emacs-type editors, I<action> may start	1696	As a convenience for the many Emacs-type editors, I<action> may start
949	with B<M-> (eg, B<M-$> is equivalent to B<\E$>) and a B<CR> will be	1697	with B<M-> (eg, B<M-$> is equivalent to B<\E$>) and a B<CR> will be
950	appended if missed from B<M-x> commands.	1698	appended if missed from B<M-x> commands.
951		1699
952	As a convenience for issuing XTerm B<ESC]> sequences from a menubar (or	1700	As a convenience for issuing XTerm B<ESC ]> sequences from a menubar (or
953	quick arrow), a B<BEL> (B<^G>) will be appended if needed.	1701	quick arrow), a B<BEL> (B<^G>) will be appended if needed.
954		1702
955	=over 4	1703	=over 4
956		1704
957	=item For example,	1705	=item For example,
…		…
1390	XK_KP_8 8 ESC O x	2138	XK_KP_8 8 ESC O x
1391	XK_KP_9 9 ESC O y	2139	XK_KP_9 9 ESC O y
1392		2140
1393	=end table	2141	=end table
1394		2142
		2143	=head1 CONFIGURE OPTIONS
		2144
		2145	General hint: if you get compile errors, then likely your configuration
		2146	hasn't been tested well. Either try with --enable-everything or use the
		2147	./reconf script as a base for experiments. ./reconf is used by myself,
		2148	so it should generally be a working config. Of course, you should always
		2149	report when a combination doesn't work, so it can be fixed. Marc Lehmann
		2150	<rxvt@schmorp.de>.
		2151
		2152	=over 4
		2153
		2154	=item --enable-everything
		2155
		2156	Add support for all non-multichoice options listed in "./configure
		2157	--help". Note that unlike other enable options this is order dependant.
		2158	You can specify this and then disable options which this enables by
		2159	I<following> this with the appropriate commands.
		2160
		2161	=item --enable-xft
		2162
		2163	Add support for Xft (anti-aliases, among others) fonts. Xft fonts are
		2164	slower and require lots of memory, but as long as you don't use them, you
		2165	don't pay for them.
		2166
		2167	=item --enable-font-styles
		2168
		2169	Add support for B<bold>, I<italic> and B<< I<bold italic> >> font
		2170	styles. The fonts can be set manually or automatically.
		2171
		2172	=item --with-codesets=NAME,...
		2173
		2174	Compile in support for additional codeset (encoding) groups (eu, vn are
		2175	always compiled in, which includes most 8-bit character sets). These
		2176	codeset tables are currently only used for driving X11 core fonts, they
		2177	are not required for Xft fonts. Compiling them in will make your binary
		2178	bigger (together about 700kB), but it doesn't increase memory usage unless
		2179	you use an X11 font requiring one of these encodings.
		2180
		2181	=begin table
		2182
		2183	all all available codeset groups
		2184	zh common chinese encodings
		2185	zh_ext rarely used but very big chinese encodigs
		2186	jp common japanese encodings
		2187	jp_ext rarely used but big japanese encodings
		2188	kr korean encodings
		2189
		2190	=end table
		2191
		2192	=item --enable-xim
		2193
		2194	Add support for XIM (X Input Method) protocol. This allows using
		2195	alternative input methods (e.g. kinput2) and will also correctly
		2196	set up the input for people using dead keys or compose keys.
		2197
		2198	=item --enable-unicode3
		2199
		2200	Enable direct support for displaying unicode codepoints above
		2201	65535 (the basic multilingual page). This increases storage
		2202	requirements per character from 2 to 4 bytes. X11 fonts do not yet
		2203	support these extra characters, but Xft does.
		2204
		2205	Please note that rxvt-unicode can store unicode code points >65535
		2206	even without this flag, but the number of such characters is
		2207	limited to a view thousand (shared with combining characters,
		2208	see next switch), and right now rxvt-unicode cannot display them
		2209	(input/output and cut&paste still work, though).
		2210
		2211	=item --enable-combining
		2212
		2213	Enable automatic composition of combining characters into
		2214	composite characters. This is required for proper viewing of text
		2215	where accents are encoded as seperate unicode characters. This is
		2216	done by using precomposited characters when available or creating
		2217	new pseudo-characters when no precomposed form exists.
		2218
		2219	Without --enable-unicode3, the number of additional precomposed
		2220	characters is rather limited (2048, if this is full, rxvt will use the
		2221	private use area, extending the number of combinations to 8448). With
		2222	--enable-unicode3, no practical limit exists. This will also enable
		2223	storage of characters >65535.
		2224
		2225	The combining table also contains entries for arabic presentation forms,
		2226	but these are not currently used. Bug me if you want these to be used.
		2227
		2228	=item --enable-fallback(=CLASS)
		2229
		2230	When reading resource settings, also read settings for class CLASS
		2231	(default: Rxvt). To disable resource fallback use --disable-fallback.
		2232
		2233	=item --with-res-name=NAME
		2234
		2235	Use the given name (default: urxvt) as default application name when
		2236	reading resources. Specify --with-res-name=rxvt to replace rxvt.
		2237
		2238	=item --with-res-class=CLASS
		2239
		2240	Use the given class (default: URxvt) as default application class
		2241	when reading resources. Specify --with-res-class=Rxvt to replace
		2242	rxvt.
		2243
		2244	=item --enable-utmp
		2245
		2246	Write user and tty to utmp file (used by programs like F<w>) at
		2247	start of rxvt execution and delete information when rxvt exits.
		2248
		2249	=item --enable-wtmp
		2250
		2251	Write user and tty to wtmp file (used by programs like F<last>) at
		2252	start of rxvt execution and write logout when rxvt exits. This
		2253	option requires --enable-utmp to also be specified.
		2254
		2255	=item --enable-lastlog
		2256
		2257	Write user and tty to lastlog file (used by programs like
		2258	F<lastlogin>) at start of rxvt execution. This option requires
		2259	--enable-utmp to also be specified.
		2260
		2261	=item --enable-xpm-background
		2262
		2263	Add support for XPM background pixmaps.
		2264
		2265	=item --enable-transparency
		2266
		2267	Add support for inheriting parent backgrounds thus giving a fake
		2268	transparency to the term.
		2269
		2270	=item --enable-fading
		2271
		2272	Add support for fading the text when focus is lost.
		2273
		2274	=item --enable-tinting
		2275
		2276	Add support for tinting of transparent backgrounds.
		2277
		2278	=item --enable-menubar
		2279
		2280	Add support for our menu bar system (this interacts badly with
		2281	dynamic locale switching currently).
		2282
		2283	=item --enable-rxvt-scroll
		2284
		2285	Add support for the original rxvt scrollbar.
		2286
		2287	=item --enable-next-scroll
		2288
		2289	Add support for a NeXT-like scrollbar.
		2290
		2291	=item --enable-xterm-scroll
		2292
		2293	Add support for an Xterm-like scrollbar.
		2294
		2295	=item --enable-plain-scroll
		2296
		2297	Add support for a very unobtrusive, plain-looking scrollbar that
		2298	is the favourite of the rxvt-unicode author, having used it for
		2299	many years.
		2300
		2301	=item --enable-half-shadow
		2302
		2303	Make shadows on the scrollbar only half the normal width & height.
		2304	only applicable to rxvt scrollbars.
		2305
		2306	=item --enable-ttygid
		2307
		2308	Change tty device setting to group "tty" - only use this if
		2309	your system uses this type of security.
		2310
		2311	=item --disable-backspace-key
		2312
		2313	Disable any handling of the backspace key by us - let the X server
		2314	do it.
		2315
		2316	=item --disable-delete-key
		2317
		2318	Disable any handling of the delete key by us - let the X server
		2319	do it.
		2320
		2321	=item --disable-resources
		2322
		2323	Remove all resources checking.
		2324
		2325	=item --enable-xgetdefault
		2326
		2327	Make resources checking via XGetDefault() instead of our small
		2328	version which only checks ~/.Xdefaults, or if that doesn't exist then
		2329	~/.Xresources.
		2330
		2331	Please note that nowadays, things like XIM will automatically pull in and
		2332	use the full X resource manager, so the overhead of using it might be very
		2333	small, if nonexistant.
		2334
		2335	=item --enable-strings
		2336
		2337	Add support for our possibly faster memset() function and other
		2338	various routines, overriding your system's versions which may
		2339	have been hand-crafted in assembly or may require extra libraries
		2340	to link in. (this breaks ANSI-C rules and has problems on many
		2341	GNU/Linux systems).
		2342
		2343	=item --disable-swapscreen
		2344
		2345	Remove support for swap screen.
		2346
		2347	=item --enable-frills
		2348
		2349	Add support for many small features that are not essential but nice to
		2350	have. Normally you want this, but for very small binaries you may want to
		2351	disable this.
		2352
		2353	A non-exhaustive list of features enabled by C<--enable-frills> (possibly
		2354	in combination with other switches) is:
		2355
		2356	MWM-hints
		2357	seperate underline colour
		2358	settable border widths and borderless switch
		2359	settable extra linespacing
		2360	extra window properties (e.g. UTF-8 window names and PID)
		2361	iso-14755-2 and -3, and visual feedback
		2362	backindex and forwardindex escape sequence
		2363	window op and locale change escape sequences
		2364	tripleclickwords
		2365	settable insecure mode
		2366	keysym remapping support
		2367
		2368	=item --enable-iso14755
		2369
		2370	Enable extended ISO 14755 support (see @@RXVT_NAME@@(1), or
		2371	F<doc/rxvt.1.txt>). Basic support (section 5.1) is enabled by
		2372	C<--enable-frills>, while support for 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4 is enabled with
		2373	this switch.
		2374
		2375	=item --enable-keepscrolling
		2376
		2377	Add support for continual scrolling of the display when you hold
		2378	the mouse button down on a scrollbar arrow.
		2379
		2380	=item --enable-mousewheel
		2381
		2382	Add support for scrolling via mouse wheel or buttons 4 & 5.
		2383
		2384	=item --enable-slipwheeling
		2385
		2386	Add support for continual scrolling (using the mouse wheel as an
		2387	accelerator) while the control key is held down. This option
		2388	requires --enable-mousewheel to also be specified.
		2389
		2390	=item --disable-new-selection
		2391
		2392	Remove support for mouse selection style like that of xterm.
		2393
		2394	=item --enable-dmalloc
		2395
		2396	Use Gray Watson's malloc - which is good for debugging See
		2397	http://www.letters.com/dmalloc/ for details If you use either this or the
		2398	next option, you may need to edit src/Makefile after compiling to point
		2399	DINCLUDE and DLIB to the right places.
		2400
		2401	You can only use either this option and the following (should
		2402	you use either) .
		2403
		2404	=item --enable-dlmalloc
		2405
		2406	Use Doug Lea's malloc - which is good for a production version
		2407	See L<http://g.oswego.edu/dl/html/malloc.html> for details.
		2408
		2409	=item --enable-smart-resize
		2410
		2411	Add smart growth/shrink behaviour when changing font size via from hot
		2412	keys. This should keep in a fixed position the rxvt corner which is
		2413	closest to a corner of the screen.
		2414
		2415	=item --enable-cursor-blink
		2416
		2417	Add support for a blinking cursor.
		2418
		2419	=item --enable-pointer-blank
		2420
		2421	Add support to have the pointer disappear when typing or inactive.
		2422
		2423	=item --with-name=NAME
		2424
		2425	Set the basename for the installed binaries (default: C<urxvt>, resulting
		2426	in C<urxvt>, C<urxvtd> etc.). Specify C<--with-name=rxvt> to replace with
		2427	C<rxvt>.
		2428
		2429	=item --with-term=NAME
		2430
		2431	Change the environmental variable for the terminal to NAME (default
		2432	C<rxvt-unicode>)
		2433
		2434	=item --with-terminfo=PATH
		2435
		2436	Change the environmental variable for the path to the terminfo tree to
		2437	PATH.
		2438
		2439	=item --with-x
		2440
		2441	Use the X Window System (pretty much default, eh?).
		2442
		2443	=item --with-xpm-includes=DIR
		2444
		2445	Look for the XPM includes in DIR.
		2446
		2447	=item --with-xpm-library=DIR
		2448
		2449	Look for the XPM library in DIR.
		2450
		2451	=item --with-xpm
		2452
		2453	Not needed - define via --enable-xpm-background.
		2454
		2455	=back
		2456
1395	=head1 AUTHORS	2457	=head1 AUTHORS
1396		2458
1397	Marc Lehmann <rxvt@schmorp.de> converted this document to pod and	2459	Marc Lehmann <rxvt@schmorp.de> converted this document to pod and
1398	reworked it from the original Rxvt documentation, which was done by Geoff	2460	reworked it from the original Rxvt documentation, which was done by Geoff
1399	Wing <gcw@pobox.com>, who in turn used the XTerm documentation and other	2461	Wing <gcw@pobox.com>, who in turn used the XTerm documentation and other

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