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 daemon.
 =item I am using Debian GNU/Linux and have a problem...
 The Debian GNU/Linux package of rxvt-unicode in sarge contains large
-patches that considerably change the behaviour of rxvt-unicode. Before
+patches that considerably change the behaviour of rxvt-unicode (but
-reporting a bug to the original rxvt-unicode author please download and
+unfortunately this notice has been removed). Before reporting a bug to
-install the genuine version (L<http://software.schmorp.de#rxvt-unicode>)
+the original rxvt-unicode author please download and install the genuine
-and try to reproduce the problem. If you cannot, chances are that the
+version (L<http://software.schmorp.de#rxvt-unicode>) and try to reproduce
-problems are specific to Debian GNU/Linux, in which case it should be
+the problem. If you cannot, chances are that the problems are specific to
-reported via the Debian Bug Tracking System (use C<reportbug> to report
+Debian GNU/Linux, in which case it should be reported via the Debian Bug
-the bug).
+Tracking System (use C<reportbug> to report the bug).
 For other problems that also affect the Debian package, you can and
 probably should use the Debian BTS, too, because, after all, it's also a
 bug in the Debian version and it serves as a reminder for other users that
 might encounter the same issue.
-=item I am maintaining rxvt-unicode for distribution/OS XXX, any recommendation?
+=item I am maintaining rxvt-unicode for distribution/OS XXX, any
+recommendation?
 You should build one binary with the default options. F<configure>
 now enables most useful options, and the trend goes to making them
 runtime-switchable, too, so there is usually no drawback to enbaling them,
 except higher disk and possibly memory usage. The perl interpreter should
 C<--enable-everything> (less useful, it will be very big due to a lot of
 encodings built-in that increase download times and are rarely used).
 =item I need to make it setuid/setgid to support utmp/ptys on my OS, is this safe?
-Likely not. While I honestly try to make it secure, and am probably not
+It should be, starting with release 7.1. You are encouraged to properly
-bad at it, I think it is simply unreasonable to expect all of freetype
+install urxvt with privileges necessary for your OS now.
-+ fontconfig + xft + xlib + perl + ... + rxvt-unicode itself to all be
-secure. Also, rxvt-unicode disables some options when it detects that it
-runs setuid or setgid, which is not nice. Besides, with the embedded perl
-interpreter the possibility for security problems easily multiplies.
-Elevated privileges are only required for utmp and pty operations on some
+When rxvt-unicode detects that it runs setuid or setgid, it will fork
-systems (for example, GNU/Linux doesn't need any extra privileges for
+into a helper process for privileged operations (pty handling on some
-ptys, but some need it for utmp support). It is planned to mvoe this into
+systems, utmp/wtmp/lastlog handling on others) and drop privileges
-a forked handler process, but this is not yet done.
+immediately. This is much safer than most other terminals that keep
+privileges while running (but is more relevant to urxvt, as it contains
+things as perl interpreters, which might be "helpful" to attackers).
-So, while setuid/setgid operation is supported and not a problem on your
+This forking is done as the very first within main(), which is very early
-typical single-user-no-other-logins unix desktop, always remember that
+and reduces possible bugs to initialisation code run before main(), or
-its an awful lot of code, most of which isn't checked for security issues
+things like the dynamic loader of your system, which should result in very
-regularly.
+little risk.
 =item When I log-in to another system it tells me about missing terminfo data?
 The terminal description used by rxvt-unicode is not as widely available
 as that for xterm, or even rxvt (for which the same problem often arises).
 =item My input method wants <some encoding> but I want UTF-8, what can I do?
 You can specify separate locales for the input method and the rest of the
 terminal, using the resource C<imlocale>:
-   URxvt*imlocale: ja_JP.EUC-JP
+   URxvt.imlocale: ja_JP.EUC-JP
 Now you can start your terminal with C<LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8> and still
 use your input method. Please note, however, that you will not be able to
 input characters outside C<EUC-JP> in a normal way then, as your input
 method limits you.
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 The rest of this document describes various technical aspects of
 B<rxvt-unicode>. First the description of supported command sequences,
-followed by menu and pixmap support and last by a description of all
+followed by pixmap support and last by a description of all features
-features selectable at C<configure> time.
+selectable at C<configure> time.
 =head1 Definitions
 =over 4
 	B<< C<Ps = 12> >>	Change colour of text cursor foreground to B<< C<Pt> >>
 	B<< C<Ps = 13> >>	Change colour of mouse foreground to B<< C<Pt> >>
 	B<< C<Ps = 17> >>	Change colour of highlight characters to B<< C<Pt> >>
 	B<< C<Ps = 18> >>	Change colour of bold characters to B<< C<Pt> >> [deprecated, see 706]
 	B<< C<Ps = 19> >>	Change colour of underlined characters to B<< C<Pt> >> [deprecated, see 707]
-	B<< C<Ps = 20> >>	Change default background to B<< C<Pt> >>
+	B<< C<Ps = 20> >>	Change background pixmap parameters (see section XPM) (Compile XPM).
 	B<< C<Ps = 39> >>	Change default foreground colour to B<< C<Pt> >>.
 	B<< C<Ps = 46> >>	Change Log File to B<< C<Pt> >> I<unimplemented>
 	B<< C<Ps = 49> >>	Change default background colour to B<< C<Pt> >>.
 	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> >>
 	B<< C<Ps = 55> >>	Log all scrollback buffer and all of screen to B<< C<Pt> >>
 alternative input methods (e.g. kinput2) and will also correctly
 set up the input for people using dead keys or compose keys.
 =item --enable-unicode3 (default: off)
+Recommended to stay off unless you really need non-BMP characters.
 Enable direct support for displaying unicode codepoints above
 65535 (the basic multilingual page). This increases storage
 requirements per character from 2 to 4 bytes. X11 fonts do not yet
 support these extra characters, but Xft does.
 composite characters. This is required for proper viewing of text
 where accents are encoded as seperate unicode characters. This is
 done by using precomposited characters when available or creating
 new pseudo-characters when no precomposed form exists.
-Without --enable-unicode3, the number of additional precomposed characters
+Without --enable-unicode3, the number of additional precomposed
-is rather limited (2048, if this is full, rxvt-unicode will use the
+characters is somewhat limited (the 6400 private use characters will be
-private use area, extending the number of combinations to 8448). With
---enable-unicode3, no practical limit exists.
+(ab-)used). With --enable-unicode3, no practical limit exists.
 This option will also enable storage (but not display) of characters
 beyond plane 0 (>65535) when --enable-unicode3 was not specified.
 The combining table also contains entries for arabic presentation forms,
 but these are not currently used. Bug me if you want these to be used (and
 tell me how these are to be used...).
 =item --enable-fallback(=CLASS) (default: Rxvt)
-When reading resource settings, also read settings for class CLASS. To disable resource fallback use --disable-fallback.
+When reading resource settings, also read settings for class CLASS. To
+disable resource fallback use --disable-fallback.
 =item --with-res-name=NAME (default: urxvt)
 Use the given name as default application name when
 reading resources. Specify --with-res-name=rxvt to replace rxvt.
 =item --enable-plain-scroll (default: on)
 Add support for a very unobtrusive, plain-looking scrollbar that
 is the favourite of the rxvt-unicode author, having used it for
 many years.
-=item --enable-half-shadow (default: off)
-Make shadows on the scrollbar only half the normal width & height.
-only applicable to rxvt scrollbars.
 =item --enable-ttygid (default: off)
 Change tty device setting to group "tty" - only use this if
 your system uses this type of security.
 =item --enable-pointer-blank (default: on)
 Add support to have the pointer disappear when typing or inactive.
-=item --enable-perl (default: off)
+=item --enable-perl (default: on)
 Enable an embedded perl interpreter. See the B<@@RXVT_NAME@@perl(3)>
 manpage (F<doc/rxvtperl.txt>) for more info on this feature, or the files
 in F<src/perl-ext/> for the extensions that are installed by default. The
 perl interpreter that is used can be specified via the C<PERL> environment

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Comparing rxvt-unicode/doc/rxvt.7.pod (file contents):
Revision 1.83 by root, Mon Jan 16 14:48:39 2006 UTC vs.
Revision 1.90 by root, Mon Jan 23 01:46:55 2006 UTC