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62 | memory. |
62 | memory. |
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63 | |
64 | Compared to e.g. Eterm (5112k), aterm (3132k) and xterm (4680k), this |
64 | 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 |
65 | still fares rather well. And compared to some monsters like gnome-terminal |
66 | (21152k + extra 4204k in separate processes) or konsole (22200k + extra |
66 | (21152k + extra 4204k in separate processes) or konsole (22200k + extra |
67 | 43180k in daemons that stay around after exit, plus half aminute of |
67 | 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 |
68 | startup time, including the hundreds of warnings it spits out), it fares |
69 | extremely well *g*. |
69 | extremely well *g*. |
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71 | =item Why C++, isn't that unportable/bloated/uncool? |
71 | =item Why C++, isn't that unportable/bloated/uncool? |
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132 | For other problems that also affect the Debian package, you can and |
132 | For other problems that also affect the Debian package, you can and |
133 | probably should use the Debian BTS, too, because, after all, it's also a |
133 | probably should use the Debian BTS, too, because, after all, it's also a |
134 | bug in the Debian version and it serves as a reminder for other users that |
134 | bug in the Debian version and it serves as a reminder for other users that |
135 | might encounter the same issue. |
135 | might encounter the same issue. |
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137 | =item I am maintaining rxvt-unicode for distribution/OS XXX, any recommendation? |
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139 | You should build one binary with the default options. F<configure> |
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140 | now enables most useful options, and the trend goes to making them |
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141 | runtime-switchable, too, so there is usually no drawback to enbaling them, |
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142 | except higher disk and possibly memory usage. The perl interpreter should |
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143 | be enabled, as important functionality (menus, selection, likely more in |
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144 | the future) depends on it. |
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146 | You should not overwrite the C<perl-ext-common> snd C<perl-ext> resources |
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147 | system-wide (except maybe with C<defaults>). This will result in useful |
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148 | behaviour. If your distribution aims at low memory, add an empty |
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149 | C<perl-ext-common> resource to the app-defaults file. This will keep the |
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150 | perl interpreter disabled until the user enables it. |
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152 | If you can/want build more binaries, I recommend building a minimal |
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153 | one with C<--disable-everything> (very useful) and a maximal one with |
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154 | C<--enable-everything> (less useful, it will be very big due to a lot of |
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155 | encodings built-in that increase download times and are rarely used). |
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157 | =item I need to make it setuid/setgid to support utmp/ptys on my OS, is this safe? |
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159 | Likely not. While I honestly try to make it secure, and am probably not |
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160 | bad at it, I think it is simply unreasonable to expect all of freetype |
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161 | + fontconfig + xft + xlib + perl + ... + rxvt-unicode itself to all be |
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162 | secure. Also, rxvt-unicode disables some options when it detects that it |
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163 | runs setuid or setgid, which is not nice. Besides, with the embedded perl |
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164 | interpreter the possibility for security problems easily multiplies. |
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166 | Elevated privileges are only required for utmp and pty operations on some |
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167 | systems (for example, GNU/Linux doesn't need any extra privileges for |
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168 | ptys, but some need it for utmp support). It is planned to mvoe this into |
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169 | a forked handler process, but this is not yet done. |
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171 | So, while setuid/setgid operation is supported and not a problem on your |
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172 | typical single-user-no-other-logins unix desktop, always remember that |
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173 | its an awful lot of code, most of which isn't checked for security issues |
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174 | regularly. |
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175 | |
137 | =item When I log-in to another system it tells me about missing terminfo data? |
176 | =item When I log-in to another system it tells me about missing terminfo data? |
138 | |
177 | |
139 | The terminal description used by rxvt-unicode is not as widely available |
178 | 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). |
179 | as that for xterm, or even rxvt (for which the same problem often arises). |
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1597 | B<< C<Ps = 10> >> Change colour of text foreground to B<< C<Pt> >> B<(NB: may change in future)> |
1636 | B<< C<Ps = 10> >> Change colour of text foreground to B<< C<Pt> >> B<(NB: may change in future)> |
1598 | B<< C<Ps = 11> >> Change colour of text background to B<< C<Pt> >> B<(NB: may change in future)> |
1637 | B<< C<Ps = 11> >> Change colour of text background to B<< C<Pt> >> B<(NB: may change in future)> |
1599 | B<< C<Ps = 12> >> Change colour of text cursor foreground to B<< C<Pt> >> |
1638 | B<< C<Ps = 12> >> Change colour of text cursor foreground to B<< C<Pt> >> |
1600 | B<< C<Ps = 13> >> Change colour of mouse foreground to B<< C<Pt> >> |
1639 | B<< C<Ps = 13> >> Change colour of mouse foreground to B<< C<Pt> >> |
1601 | B<< C<Ps = 17> >> Change colour of highlight characters to B<< C<Pt> >> |
1640 | B<< C<Ps = 17> >> Change colour of highlight characters to B<< C<Pt> >> |
1602 | B<< C<Ps = 18> >> Change colour of bold characters to B<< C<Pt> >> |
1641 | B<< C<Ps = 18> >> Change colour of bold characters to B<< C<Pt> >> [deprecated, see 706] |
1603 | B<< C<Ps = 19> >> Change colour of underlined characters to B<< C<Pt> >> |
1642 | B<< C<Ps = 19> >> Change colour of underlined characters to B<< C<Pt> >> [deprecated, see 707] |
1604 | B<< C<Ps = 20> >> Change default background to B<< C<Pt> >> |
1643 | B<< C<Ps = 20> >> Change default background to B<< C<Pt> >> |
1605 | B<< C<Ps = 39> >> Change default foreground colour to B<< C<Pt> >>. |
1644 | B<< C<Ps = 39> >> Change default foreground colour to B<< C<Pt> >>. |
1606 | B<< C<Ps = 46> >> Change Log File to B<< C<Pt> >> I<unimplemented> |
1645 | B<< C<Ps = 46> >> Change Log File to B<< C<Pt> >> I<unimplemented> |
1607 | B<< C<Ps = 49> >> Change default background colour to B<< C<Pt> >>. |
1646 | B<< C<Ps = 49> >> Change default background colour to B<< C<Pt> >>. |
1608 | 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> >> |
1647 | 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> >> |
1609 | B<< C<Ps = 55> >> Log all scrollback buffer and all of screen to B<< C<Pt> >> |
1648 | B<< C<Ps = 55> >> Log all scrollback buffer and all of screen to B<< C<Pt> >> |
1610 | 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). |
1649 | 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). |
1611 | B<< C<Ps = 703> >> Menubar command B<< C<Pt> >> (Compile menubar). |
1650 | B<< C<Ps = 703> >> Menubar command B<< C<Pt> >> (Compile menubar). |
1612 | B<< C<Ps = 704> >> Change colour of italic characters to B<< C<Pt> >> |
1651 | B<< C<Ps = 704> >> Change colour of italic characters to B<< C<Pt> >> |
1613 | B<< C<Ps = 705> >> Change background pixmap tint colour to B<< C<Pt> >> (Compile transparency). |
1652 | B<< C<Ps = 705> >> Change background pixmap tint colour to B<< C<Pt> >> (Compile transparency). |
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1653 | B<< C<Ps = 706> >> Change colour of bold characters to B<< C<Pt> >> |
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1654 | B<< C<Ps = 707> >> Change colour of underlined characters to B<< C<Pt> >> |
1614 | B<< C<Ps = 710> >> Set normal fontset to B<< C<Pt> >>. Same as C<Ps = 50>. |
1655 | B<< C<Ps = 710> >> Set normal fontset to B<< C<Pt> >>. Same as C<Ps = 50>. |
1615 | B<< C<Ps = 711> >> Set bold fontset to B<< C<Pt> >>. Similar to C<Ps = 50> (Compile styles). |
1656 | B<< C<Ps = 711> >> Set bold fontset to B<< C<Pt> >>. Similar to C<Ps = 50> (Compile styles). |
1616 | B<< C<Ps = 712> >> Set italic fontset to B<< C<Pt> >>. Similar to C<Ps = 50> (Compile styles). |
1657 | B<< C<Ps = 712> >> Set italic fontset to B<< C<Pt> >>. Similar to C<Ps = 50> (Compile styles). |
1617 | B<< C<Ps = 713> >> Set bold-italic fontset to B<< C<Pt> >>. Similar to C<Ps = 50> (Compile styles). |
1658 | B<< C<Ps = 713> >> Set bold-italic fontset to B<< C<Pt> >>. Similar to C<Ps = 50> (Compile styles). |
1618 | B<< C<Ps = 720> >> Move viewing window up by B<< C<Pt> >> lines, or clear scrollback buffer if C<Pt = 0> (Compile frills). |
1659 | B<< C<Ps = 720> >> Move viewing window up by B<< C<Pt> >> lines, or clear scrollback buffer if C<Pt = 0> (Compile frills). |
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2406 | |
2447 | |
2407 | Write user and tty to lastlog file (used by programs like |
2448 | Write user and tty to lastlog file (used by programs like |
2408 | F<lastlogin>) at start of rxvt execution. This option requires |
2449 | F<lastlogin>) at start of rxvt execution. This option requires |
2409 | --enable-utmp to also be specified. |
2450 | --enable-utmp to also be specified. |
2410 | |
2451 | |
2411 | =item --enable-xpm-background (default: off) |
2452 | =item --enable-xpm-background (default: on) |
2412 | |
2453 | |
2413 | Add support for XPM background pixmaps. |
2454 | Add support for XPM background pixmaps. |
2414 | |
2455 | |
2415 | =item --enable-transparency (default: off) |
2456 | =item --enable-transparency (default: on) |
2416 | |
2457 | |
2417 | Add support for inheriting parent backgrounds thus giving a fake |
2458 | Add support for inheriting parent backgrounds thus giving a fake |
2418 | transparency to the term. |
2459 | transparency to the term. |
2419 | |
2460 | |
2420 | =item --enable-fading (default: on) |
2461 | =item --enable-fading (default: on) |
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2423 | |
2464 | |
2424 | =item --enable-tinting (default: on) |
2465 | =item --enable-tinting (default: on) |
2425 | |
2466 | |
2426 | Add support for tinting of transparent backgrounds (requires C<--enable-transparency>). |
2467 | Add support for tinting of transparent backgrounds (requires C<--enable-transparency>). |
2427 | |
2468 | |
2428 | =item --enable-menubar (default: off) |
2469 | =item --enable-menubar (default: off) [DEPRECATED] |
2429 | |
2470 | |
2430 | Add support for our menu bar system (this interacts badly with |
2471 | Add support for our menu bar system (this interacts badly with dynamic |
2431 | dynamic locale switching currently). |
2472 | locale switching currently). This option is DEPRECATED and will be removed |
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2473 | in the future. |
2432 | |
2474 | |
2433 | =item --enable-rxvt-scroll (default: on) |
2475 | =item --enable-rxvt-scroll (default: on) |
2434 | |
2476 | |
2435 | Add support for the original rxvt scrollbar. |
2477 | Add support for the original rxvt scrollbar. |
2436 | |
2478 | |