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RXVT REFERENCE - FAQ, command sequences and other background information |
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SYNOPSIS |
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# set a new font set |
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printf '\33]50;%s\007' 9x15,xft:Kochi" Mincho" |
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# change the locale and tell rxvt-unicode about it |
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export LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.EUC-JP; printf "\33]701;$LC_CTYPE\007" |
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# set window title |
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printf '\33]2;%s\007' "new window title" |
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DESCRIPTION |
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This document contains the FAQ, the RXVT TECHNICAL REFERENCE documenting |
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all escape sequences, and other background information. |
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The newest version of this document is also available on the World Wide |
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Web at |
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<http://cvs.schmorp.de/browse/*checkout*/rxvt-unicode/doc/rxvt.7.html>. |
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS |
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The new selection selects pieces that are too big, how can I select |
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single words? |
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Yes. For example, if you want to select alphanumeric words, you can |
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use the following resource: |
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URxvt.selection.pattern-0: ([[:word:]]+) |
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If you click more than twice, the selection will be extended more |
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and more. |
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To get a selection that is very similar to the old code, try this |
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pattern: |
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URxvt.selection.pattern-0: ([^"&'()*,;<=>?@[\\\\]^`{|})]+) |
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Please also note that the *LeftClick Shift-LeftClik* combination |
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also selects words like the old code. |
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I don't like the new selection/popups/hotkeys/perl, how do I |
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change/disable it? |
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You can disable the perl extension completely by setting the |
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perl-ext-common resource to the empty string, which also keeps |
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rxvt-unicode from initialising perl, saving memory. |
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If you only want to disable specific features, you first have to |
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identify which perl extension is responsible. For this, read the |
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section PREPACKAGED EXTENSIONS in the rxvtperl(3) manpage. For |
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example, to disable the selection-popup and option-popup, specify |
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this perl-ext-common resource: |
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URxvt.perl-ext-common: default,-selection-popup,-option-popup |
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This will keep the default extensions, but disable the two popup |
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extensions. Some extensions can also be configured, for example, |
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scrollback search mode is triggered by M-s. You can move it to any |
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other combination either by setting the searchable-scrollback |
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resource: |
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URxvt.searchable-scrollback: CM-s |
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Why doesn't rxvt-unicode read my resources? |
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Well, why, indeed? It does, in a way very similar to other X |
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applications. Most importantly, this means that if you or your OS |
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loads resources into the X display (the right way to do it), |
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rxvt-unicode will ignore any resource files in your home directory. |
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It will only read $HOME/.Xdefaults when no resources are attached to |
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the display. |
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If you have or use an $HOME/.Xresources file, chances are that |
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resources are loaded into your X-server. In this case, you have to |
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re-login after every change (or run xrdb -merge $HOME/.Xresources). |
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Also consider the form resources have to use: |
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URxvt.resource: value |
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If you want to use another form (there are lots of different ways of |
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specifying resources), make sure you understand wether and why it |
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works. If unsure, use the form above. |
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I can't get transparency working, what am I doing wrong? |
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First of all, transparency isn't officially supported in |
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rxvt-unicode, so you are mostly on your own. Do not bug the author |
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about it (but you may bug everybody else). Also, if you can't get it |
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working consider it a rite of passage, and you failed. |
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Here are three ways to get transparency. Do read the manpage and |
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option descriptions for the programs mentioned and rxvt-unicode. |
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Really, do it! |
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1. Use inheritPixmap: |
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Esetroot wallpaper.jpg |
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rxvt -ip -tint red -sh 40 |
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That works. If you think it doesn't, you lack transparency and |
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tinting support, or you are unable to read. |
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2. Use a simple pixmap and emulate pseudo-transparency. This enables |
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you to use effects other than tinting and shading: Just |
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shade/tint/whatever your picture with gimp: |
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convert wallpaper.jpg -blur 20x20 -modulate 30 background.xpm |
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rxvt -pixmap background.xpm -pe automove-background |
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That works. If you think it doesn't, you lack XPM and Perl support, |
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or you are unable to read. |
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3. Use an ARGB visual: |
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rxvt -depth 432 -fg grey90 -bg rgba:0000/0000/0000/c000 |
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This requires XFT support, and support form your X-server. If that |
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doesn't work for you, blame Xorg and Keith Packard. ARGB visuals |
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aren't there yet, no matter what they claim. Rxvt-Unicode contains |
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the neccessary bugfixes and workarounds for Xft and Xlib to make it |
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work. |
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Isn't rxvt supposed to be small? Don't all those features bloat? |
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I often get asked about this, and I think, no, they didn't cause |
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extra bloat. If you compare a minimal rxvt and a minimal urxvt, you |
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can see that the urxvt binary is larger (due to some encoding tables |
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always being compiled in), but it actually uses less memory (RSS) |
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after startup. Even with "--disable-everything", this comparison is |
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a bit unfair, as many features unique to urxvt (locale, encoding |
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conversion, iso14755 etc.) are already in use in this mode. |
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text data bss drs rss filename |
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98398 1664 24 15695 1824 rxvt --disable-everything |
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188985 9048 66616 18222 1788 urxvt --disable-everything |
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When you "--enable-everything" (which _is_ unfair, as this involves |
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xft and full locale/XIM support which are quite bloaty inside libX11 |
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and my libc), the two diverge, but not unreasnobaly so. |
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text data bss drs rss filename |
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163431 2152 24 20123 2060 rxvt --enable-everything |
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1035683 49680 66648 29096 3680 urxvt --enable-everything |
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The very large size of the text section is explained by the |
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east-asian encoding tables, which, if unused, take up disk space but |
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nothing else and can be compiled out unless you rely on X11 core |
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fonts that use those encodings. The BSS size comes from the 64k |
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emergency buffer that my c++ compiler allocates (but of course |
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doesn't use unless you are out of memory). Also, using an xft font |
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instead of a core font immediately adds a few megabytes of RSS. Xft |
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indeed is responsible for a lot of RSS even when not used. |
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Of course, due to every character using two or four bytes instead of |
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one, a large scrollback buffer will ultimately make rxvt-unicode use |
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more memory. |
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Compared to e.g. Eterm (5112k), aterm (3132k) and xterm (4680k), |
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this still fares rather well. And compared to some monsters like |
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gnome-terminal (21152k + extra 4204k in separate processes) or |
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konsole (22200k + extra 43180k in daemons that stay around after |
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exit, plus half a minute of startup time, including the hundreds of |
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warnings it spits out), it fares extremely well *g*. |
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Why C++, isn't that unportable/bloated/uncool? |
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Is this a question? :) It comes up very often. The simple answer is: |
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I had to write it, and C++ allowed me to write and maintain it in a |
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fraction of the time and effort (which is a scarce resource for me). |
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Put even shorter: It simply wouldn't exist without C++. |
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My personal stance on this is that C++ is less portable than C, but |
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in the case of rxvt-unicode this hardly matters, as its portability |
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limits are defined by things like X11, pseudo terminals, locale |
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support and unix domain sockets, which are all less portable than |
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C++ itself. |
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Regarding the bloat, see the above question: It's easy to write |
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programs in C that use gobs of memory, an certainly possible to |
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write programs in C++ that don't. C++ also often comes with large |
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libraries, but this is not necessarily the case with GCC. Here is |
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what rxvt links against on my system with a minimal config: |
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libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x00002aaaaabc3000) |
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libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00002aaaaadde000) |
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libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00002aaaab01d000) |
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/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00002aaaaaaab000) |
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And here is rxvt-unicode: |
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libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x00002aaaaabc3000) |
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libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00002aaaaada2000) |
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libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00002aaaaaeb0000) |
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libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00002aaaab0ee000) |
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/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00002aaaaaaab000) |
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No large bloated libraries (of course, none were linked in |
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statically), except maybe libX11 :) |
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Does it support tabs, can I have a tabbed rxvt-unicode? |
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Beginning with version 7.3, there is a perl extension that |
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implements a simple tabbed terminal. It is installed by default, so |
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any of these should give you tabs: |
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rxvt -pe tabbed |
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URxvt.perl-ext-common: default,tabbed |
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It will also work fine with tabbing functionality of many window |
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managers or similar tabbing programs, and its embedding-features |
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allow it to be embedded into other programs, as witnessed by |
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doc/rxvt-tabbed or the upcoming "Gtk2::URxvt" perl module, which |
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features a tabbed urxvt (murxvt) terminal as an example embedding |
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application. |
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How do I know which rxvt-unicode version I'm using? |
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The version number is displayed with the usage (-h). Also the escape |
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sequence "ESC [ 8 n" sets the window title to the version number. |
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When using the rxvtc client, the version displayed is that of the |
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daemon. |
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I am using Debian GNU/Linux and have a problem... |
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The Debian GNU/Linux package of rxvt-unicode in sarge contains large |
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patches that considerably change the behaviour of rxvt-unicode (but |
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unfortunately this notice has been removed). Before reporting a bug |
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to the original rxvt-unicode author please download and install the |
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genuine version (<http://software.schmorp.de#rxvt-unicode>) and try |
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to reproduce the problem. If you cannot, chances are that the |
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problems are specific to Debian GNU/Linux, in which case it should |
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be reported via the Debian Bug Tracking System (use "reportbug" to |
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report the bug). |
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For other problems that also affect the Debian package, you can and |
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probably should use the Debian BTS, too, because, after all, it's |
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also a bug in the Debian version and it serves as a reminder for |
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other users that might encounter the same issue. |
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I am maintaining rxvt-unicode for distribution/OS XXX, any |
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recommendation? |
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You should build one binary with the default options. configure now |
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enables most useful options, and the trend goes to making them |
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runtime-switchable, too, so there is usually no drawback to enbaling |
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them, except higher disk and possibly memory usage. The perl |
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interpreter should be enabled, as important functionality (menus, |
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selection, likely more in the future) depends on it. |
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You should not overwrite the "perl-ext-common" snd "perl-ext" |
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resources system-wide (except maybe with "defaults"). This will |
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result in useful behaviour. If your distribution aims at low memory, |
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add an empty "perl-ext-common" resource to the app-defaults file. |
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This will keep the perl interpreter disabled until the user enables |
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If you can/want build more binaries, I recommend building a minimal |
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one with "--disable-everything" (very useful) and a maximal one with |
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"--enable-everything" (less useful, it will be very big due to a lot |
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of encodings built-in that increase download times and are rarely |
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I need to make it setuid/setgid to support utmp/ptys on my OS, is this |
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safe? |
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It should be, starting with release 7.1. You are encouraged to |
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properly install urxvt with privileges necessary for your OS now. |
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When rxvt-unicode detects that it runs setuid or setgid, it will |
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fork into a helper process for privileged operations (pty handling |
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on some systems, utmp/wtmp/lastlog handling on others) and drop |
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privileges immediately. This is much safer than most other terminals |
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that keep privileges while running (but is more relevant to urxvt, |
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as it contains things as perl interpreters, which might be "helpful" |
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early and reduces possible bugs to initialisation code run before |
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main(), or things like the dynamic loader of your system, which |
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should result in very little risk. |
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When I log-in to another system it tells me about missing terminfo data? |
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The terminal description used by rxvt-unicode is not as widely |
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available as that for xterm, or even rxvt (for which the same |
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problem often arises). |
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The correct solution for this problem is to install the terminfo, |
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this can be done like this (with ncurses' infocmp): |
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infocmp rxvt-unicode | ssh $REMOTE "cat >/tmp/ti && tic /tmp/ti" |
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... or by installing rxvt-unicode normally on the remote system, |
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If you cannot or do not want to do this, then you can simply set |
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"TERM=rxvt" or even "TERM=xterm", and live with the small number of |
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problems arising, which includes wrong keymapping, less and |
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different colours and some refresh errors in fullscreen |
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applications. It's a nice quick-and-dirty workaround for rare cases, |
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If you always want to do this (and are fine with the consequences) |
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you can either recompile rxvt-unicode with the desired TERM value or |
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If you don't plan to use rxvt (quite common...) you could also |
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replace the rxvt terminfo file with the rxvt-unicode one. |
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"tic" outputs some error when compiling the terminfo entry. |
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Most likely it's the empty definition for "enacs=". Just replace it |
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by "enacs=\E[0@" and try again. |
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"bash"'s readline does not work correctly under rxvt. |
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I need a termcap file entry. |
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One reason you might want this is that some distributions or |
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operating systems still compile some programs using the |
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long-obsoleted termcap library (Fedora Core's bash is one example) |
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and rely on a termcap entry for "rxvt-unicode". |
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You could use rxvt's termcap entry with resonable results in many |
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cases. You can also create a termcap entry by using terminfo's |
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infocmp program like this: |
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infocmp -C rxvt-unicode |
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Or you could use this termcap entry, generated by the command above: |
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rxvt-unicode|rxvt-unicode terminal (X Window System):\ |
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:am:bw:eo:km:mi:ms:xn:xo:\ |
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:co#80:it#8:li#24:lm#0:\ |
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:AL=\E[%dL:DC=\E[%dP:DL=\E[%dM:DO=\E[%dB:IC=\E[%d@:\ |
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:K1=\EOw:K2=\EOu:K3=\EOy:K4=\EOq:K5=\EOs:LE=\E[%dD:\ |
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:RI=\E[%dC:SF=\E[%dS:SR=\E[%dT:UP=\E[%dA:ae=\E(B:al=\E[L:\ |
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Why does "ls" no longer have coloured output? |
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The "ls" in the GNU coreutils unfortunately doesn't use terminfo to |
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decide wether a terminal has colour, but uses it's own configuration |
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file. Needless to say, "rxvt-unicode" is not in it's default file |
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(among with most other terminals supporting colour). Either add: |
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TERM rxvt-unicode |
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alias ls='ls --color=auto' |
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to your ".profile" or ".bashrc". |
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Why doesn't vim/emacs etc. use the 88 colour mode? |
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Why doesn't vim/emacs etc. make use of italic? |
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Why are the secondary screen-related options not working properly? |
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Make sure you are using "TERM=rxvt-unicode". Some pre-packaged |
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distributions (most notably Debian GNU/Linux) break rxvt-unicode by |
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setting "TERM" to "rxvt", which doesn't have these extra features. |
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Unfortunately, some of these (most notably, again, Debian GNU/Linux) |
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furthermore fail to even install the "rxvt-unicode" terminfo file, |
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so you will need to install it on your own (See the question When I |
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log-in to another system it tells me about missing terminfo data? on |
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how to do this). |
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My numerical keypad acts weird and generates differing output? |
370 |
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Some Debian GNUL/Linux users seem to have this problem, although no |
371 |
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specific details were reported so far. It is possible that this is |
372 |
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caused by the wrong "TERM" setting, although the details of wether |
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and how this can happen are unknown, as "TERM=rxvt" should offer a |
374 |
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compatible keymap. See the answer to the previous question, and |
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please report if that helped. |
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Rxvt-unicode does not seem to understand the selected encoding? |
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Unicode does not seem to work? |
379 |
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If you encounter strange problems like typing an accented character |
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but getting two unrelated other characters or similar, or if program |
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output is subtly garbled, then you should check your locale |
382 |
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settings. |
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Rxvt-unicode must be started with the same "LC_CTYPE" setting as the |
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programs. Often rxvt-unicode is started in the "C" locale, while the |
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login script running within the rxvt-unicode window changes the |
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locale to something else, e.g. "en_GB.UTF-8". Needless to say, this |
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is not going to work. |
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The best thing is to fix your startup environment, as you will |
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likely run into other problems. If nothing works you can try this in |
392 |
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your .profile. |
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printf '\e]701;%s\007' "$LC_CTYPE" |
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If this doesn't work, then maybe you use a "LC_CTYPE" specification |
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not supported on your systems. Some systems have a "locale" command |
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which displays this (also, "perl -e0" can be used to check locale |
399 |
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settings, as it will complain loudly if it cannot set the locale). |
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If it displays something like: |
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locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: ... |
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Then the locale you specified is not supported on your system. |
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If nothing works and you are sure that everything is set correctly |
407 |
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then you will need to remember a little known fact: Some programs |
408 |
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just don't support locales :( |
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Why do some characters look so much different than others? |
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How does rxvt-unicode choose fonts? |
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Most fonts do not contain the full range of Unicode, which is fine. |
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Chances are that the font you (or the admin/package maintainer of |
414 |
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your system/os) have specified does not cover all the characters you |
415 |
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want to display. |
416 |
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rxvt-unicode makes a best-effort try at finding a replacement font. |
418 |
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Often the result is fine, but sometimes the chosen font looks |
419 |
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bad/ugly/wrong. Some fonts have totally strange characters that |
420 |
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don't resemble the correct glyph at all, and rxvt-unicode lacks the |
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artificial intelligence to detect that a specific glyph is wrong: it |
422 |
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has to believe the font that the characters it claims to contain |
423 |
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indeed look correct. |
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425 |
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In that case, select a font of your taste and add it to the font |
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list, e.g.: |
427 |
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428 |
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rxvt -fn basefont,font2,font3... |
429 |
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|
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When rxvt-unicode sees a character, it will first look at the base |
431 |
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font. If the base font does not contain the character, it will go to |
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the next font, and so on. Specifying your own fonts will also speed |
433 |
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up this search and use less resources within rxvt-unicode and the |
434 |
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X-server. |
435 |
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The only limitation is that none of the fonts may be larger than the |
437 |
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base font, as the base font defines the terminal character cell |
438 |
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size, which must be the same due to the way terminals work. |
439 |
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440 |
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Why do some chinese characters look so different than others? |
441 |
|
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This is because there is a difference between script and language -- |
442 |
|
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rxvt-unicode does not know which language the text that is output |
443 |
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is, as it only knows the unicode character codes. If rxvt-unicode |
444 |
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first sees a japanese/chinese character, it might choose a japanese |
445 |
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font for display. Subsequent japanese characters will use that font. |
446 |
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Now, many chinese characters aren't represented in japanese fonts, |
447 |
|
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so when the first non-japanese character comes up, rxvt-unicode will |
448 |
|
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look for a chinese font -- unfortunately at this point, it will |
449 |
|
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still use the japanese font for chinese characters that are also in |
450 |
|
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the japanese font. |
451 |
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1.1 |
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452 |
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The workaround is easy: just tag a chinese font at the end of your |
453 |
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font list (see the previous question). The key is to view the font |
454 |
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list as a preference list: If you expect more japanese, list a |
455 |
|
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japanese font first. If you expect more chinese, put a chinese font |
456 |
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first. |
457 |
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458 |
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In the future it might be possible to switch language preferences at |
459 |
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runtime (the internal data structure has no problem with using |
460 |
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different fonts for the same character at the same time, but no |
461 |
|
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interface for this has been designed yet). |
462 |
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463 |
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Until then, you might get away with switching fonts at runtime (see |
464 |
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"Can I switch the fonts at runtime?" later in this document). |
465 |
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466 |
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Why does rxvt-unicode sometimes leave pixel droppings? |
467 |
|
|
Most fonts were not designed for terminal use, which means that |
468 |
|
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character size varies a lot. A font that is otherwise fine for |
469 |
|
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terminal use might contain some characters that are simply too wide. |
470 |
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Rxvt-unicode will avoid these characters. For characters that are |
471 |
|
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just "a bit" too wide a special "careful" rendering mode is used |
472 |
|
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that redraws adjacent characters. |
473 |
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|
474 |
|
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All of this requires that fonts do not lie about character sizes, |
475 |
|
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however: Xft fonts often draw glyphs larger than their acclaimed |
476 |
|
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bounding box, and rxvt-unicode has no way of detecting this (the |
477 |
|
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correct way is to ask for the character bounding box, which |
478 |
|
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unfortunately is wrong in these cases). |
479 |
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|
480 |
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It's not clear (to me at least), wether this is a bug in Xft, |
481 |
|
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freetype, or the respective font. If you encounter this problem you |
482 |
|
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might try using the "-lsp" option to give the font more height. If |
483 |
|
|
that doesn't work, you might be forced to use a different font. |
484 |
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|
485 |
|
|
All of this is not a problem when using X11 core fonts, as their |
486 |
|
|
bounding box data is correct. |
487 |
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488 |
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On Solaris 9, many line-drawing characters are too wide. |
489 |
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Seems to be a known bug, read |
490 |
|
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<http://nixdoc.net/files/forum/about34198.html>. Some people use the |
491 |
|
|
following ugly workaround to get non-double-wide-characters working: |
492 |
|
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|
493 |
|
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#define wcwidth(x) wcwidth(x) > 1 ? 1 : wcwidth(x) |
494 |
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|
495 |
root |
1.1 |
My Compose (Multi_key) key is no longer working. |
496 |
|
|
The most common causes for this are that either your locale is not |
497 |
|
|
set correctly, or you specified a preeditStyle that is not supported |
498 |
|
|
by your input method. For example, if you specified OverTheSpot and |
499 |
|
|
your input method (e.g. the default input method handling Compose |
500 |
|
|
keys) does not support this (for instance because it is not visual), |
501 |
|
|
then rxvt-unicode will continue without an input method. |
502 |
|
|
|
503 |
|
|
In this case either do not specify a preeditStyle or specify more |
504 |
|
|
than one pre-edit style, such as OverTheSpot,Root,None. |
505 |
|
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|
506 |
|
|
I cannot type "Ctrl-Shift-2" to get an ASCII NUL character due to ISO |
507 |
|
|
14755 |
508 |
|
|
Either try "Ctrl-2" alone (it often is mapped to ASCII NUL even on |
509 |
|
|
international keyboards) or simply use ISO 14755 support to your |
510 |
|
|
advantage, typing <Ctrl-Shift-0> to get a ASCII NUL. This works for |
511 |
|
|
other codes, too, such as "Ctrl-Shift-1-d" to type the default |
512 |
|
|
telnet escape character and so on. |
513 |
|
|
|
514 |
|
|
How can I keep rxvt-unicode from using reverse video so much? |
515 |
root |
1.11 |
First of all, make sure you are running with the right terminal |
516 |
|
|
settings ("TERM=rxvt-unicode"), which will get rid of most of these |
517 |
|
|
effects. Then make sure you have specified colours for italic and |
518 |
|
|
bold, as otherwise rxvt-unicode might use reverse video to simulate |
519 |
|
|
the effect: |
520 |
root |
1.1 |
|
521 |
root |
1.11 |
URxvt.colorBD: white |
522 |
|
|
URxvt.colorIT: green |
523 |
root |
1.1 |
|
524 |
|
|
Some programs assume totally weird colours (red instead of blue), how |
525 |
|
|
can I fix that? |
526 |
root |
1.11 |
For some unexplainable reason, some rare programs assume a very |
527 |
|
|
weird colour palette when confronted with a terminal with more than |
528 |
|
|
the standard 8 colours (rxvt-unicode supports 88). The right fix is, |
529 |
|
|
of course, to fix these programs not to assume non-ISO colours |
530 |
|
|
without very good reasons. |
531 |
root |
1.1 |
|
532 |
root |
1.11 |
In the meantime, you can either edit your "rxvt-unicode" terminfo |
533 |
root |
1.1 |
definition to only claim 8 colour support or use "TERM=rxvt", which |
534 |
|
|
will fix colours but keep you from using other rxvt-unicode |
535 |
|
|
features. |
536 |
|
|
|
537 |
|
|
I am on FreeBSD and rxvt-unicode does not seem to work at all. |
538 |
|
|
Rxvt-unicode requires the symbol "__STDC_ISO_10646__" to be defined |
539 |
|
|
in your compile environment, or an implementation that implements |
540 |
|
|
it, wether it defines the symbol or not. "__STDC_ISO_10646__" |
541 |
|
|
requires that wchar_t is represented as unicode. |
542 |
|
|
|
543 |
|
|
As you might have guessed, FreeBSD does neither define this symobl |
544 |
|
|
nor does it support it. Instead, it uses it's own internal |
545 |
root |
1.11 |
representation of wchar_t. This is, of course, completely fine with |
546 |
|
|
respect to standards. |
547 |
root |
1.1 |
|
548 |
root |
1.19 |
However, that means rxvt-unicode only works in "POSIX", "ISO-8859-1" |
549 |
|
|
and "UTF-8" locales under FreeBSD (which all use Unicode as wchar_t. |
550 |
|
|
|
551 |
|
|
"__STDC_ISO_10646__" is the only sane way to support multi-language |
552 |
|
|
apps in an OS, as using a locale-dependent (and non-standardized) |
553 |
|
|
representation of wchar_t makes it impossible to convert between |
554 |
|
|
wchar_t (as used by X11 and your applications) and any other |
555 |
|
|
encoding without implementing OS-specific-wrappers for each and |
556 |
|
|
every locale. There simply are no APIs to convert wchar_t into |
557 |
|
|
anything except the current locale encoding. |
558 |
root |
1.1 |
|
559 |
|
|
Some applications (such as the formidable mlterm) work around this |
560 |
|
|
by carrying their own replacement functions for character set |
561 |
|
|
handling with them, and either implementing OS-dependent hacks or |
562 |
|
|
doing multiple conversions (which is slow and unreliable in case the |
563 |
|
|
OS implements encodings slightly different than the terminal |
564 |
|
|
emulator). |
565 |
|
|
|
566 |
|
|
The rxvt-unicode author insists that the right way to fix this is in |
567 |
|
|
the system libraries once and for all, instead of forcing every app |
568 |
root |
1.11 |
to carry complete replacements for them :) |
569 |
root |
1.1 |
|
570 |
root |
1.20 |
I use Solaris 9 and it doesn't compile/work/etc. |
571 |
|
|
Try the diff in doc/solaris9.patch as a base. It fixes the worst |
572 |
|
|
problems with "wcwidth" and a compile problem. |
573 |
|
|
|
574 |
root |
1.21 |
How can I use rxvt-unicode under cygwin? |
575 |
|
|
rxvt-unicode should compile and run out of the box on cygwin, using |
576 |
|
|
the X11 libraries that come with cygwin. libW11 emulation is no |
577 |
|
|
longer supported (and makes no sense, either, as it only supported a |
578 |
|
|
single font). I recommend starting the X-server in "-multiwindow" or |
579 |
|
|
"-rootless" mode instead, which will result in similar look&feel as |
580 |
|
|
the old libW11 emulation. |
581 |
|
|
|
582 |
|
|
At the time of this writing, cygwin didn't seem to support any |
583 |
|
|
multi-byte encodings (you might try "LC_CTYPE=C-UTF-8"), so you are |
584 |
|
|
likely limited to 8-bit encodings. |
585 |
|
|
|
586 |
root |
1.1 |
How does rxvt-unicode determine the encoding to use? |
587 |
|
|
Is there an option to switch encodings? |
588 |
|
|
Unlike some other terminals, rxvt-unicode has no encoding switch, |
589 |
|
|
and no specific "utf-8" mode, such as xterm. In fact, it doesn't |
590 |
|
|
even know about UTF-8 or any other encodings with respect to |
591 |
|
|
terminal I/O. |
592 |
|
|
|
593 |
|
|
The reasons is that there exists a perfectly fine mechanism for |
594 |
|
|
selecting the encoding, doing I/O and (most important) communicating |
595 |
|
|
this to all applications so everybody agrees on character properties |
596 |
|
|
such as width and code number. This mechanism is the *locale*. |
597 |
root |
1.11 |
Applications not using that info will have problems (for example, |
598 |
|
|
"xterm" gets the width of characters wrong as it uses it's own, |
599 |
|
|
locale-independent table under all locales). |
600 |
root |
1.1 |
|
601 |
|
|
Rxvt-unicode uses the "LC_CTYPE" locale category to select encoding. |
602 |
|
|
All programs doing the same (that is, most) will automatically agree |
603 |
|
|
in the interpretation of characters. |
604 |
|
|
|
605 |
|
|
Unfortunately, there is no system-independent way to select locales, |
606 |
|
|
nor is there a standard on how locale specifiers will look like. |
607 |
|
|
|
608 |
|
|
On most systems, the content of the "LC_CTYPE" environment variable |
609 |
|
|
contains an arbitrary string which corresponds to an |
610 |
|
|
already-installed locale. Common names for locales are |
611 |
|
|
"en_US.UTF-8", "de_DE.ISO-8859-15", "ja_JP.EUC-JP", i.e. |
612 |
|
|
"language_country.encoding", but other forms (i.e. "de" or "german") |
613 |
|
|
are also common. |
614 |
|
|
|
615 |
|
|
Rxvt-unicode ignores all other locale categories, and except for the |
616 |
|
|
encoding, ignores country or language-specific settings, i.e. |
617 |
root |
1.11 |
"de_DE.UTF-8" and "ja_JP.UTF-8" are the normally same to |
618 |
|
|
rxvt-unicode. |
619 |
root |
1.1 |
|
620 |
|
|
If you want to use a specific encoding you have to make sure you |
621 |
|
|
start rxvt-unicode with the correct "LC_CTYPE" category. |
622 |
|
|
|
623 |
|
|
Can I switch locales at runtime? |
624 |
root |
1.11 |
Yes, using an escape sequence. Try something like this, which sets |
625 |
root |
1.1 |
rxvt-unicode's idea of "LC_CTYPE". |
626 |
|
|
|
627 |
|
|
printf '\e]701;%s\007' ja_JP.SJIS |
628 |
|
|
|
629 |
root |
1.11 |
See also the previous answer. |
630 |
root |
1.1 |
|
631 |
|
|
Sometimes this capability is rather handy when you want to work in |
632 |
root |
1.11 |
one locale (e.g. "de_DE.UTF-8") but some programs don't support it |
633 |
|
|
(e.g. UTF-8). For example, I use this script to start "xjdic", which |
634 |
|
|
first switches to a locale supported by xjdic and back later: |
635 |
root |
1.1 |
|
636 |
|
|
printf '\e]701;%s\007' ja_JP.SJIS |
637 |
|
|
xjdic -js |
638 |
|
|
printf '\e]701;%s\007' de_DE.UTF-8 |
639 |
|
|
|
640 |
root |
1.11 |
You can also use xterm's "luit" program, which usually works fine, |
641 |
|
|
except for some locales where character width differs between |
642 |
|
|
program- and rxvt-unicode-locales. |
643 |
|
|
|
644 |
root |
1.1 |
Can I switch the fonts at runtime? |
645 |
root |
1.11 |
Yes, using an escape sequence. Try something like this, which has |
646 |
|
|
the same effect as using the "-fn" switch, and takes effect |
647 |
|
|
immediately: |
648 |
root |
1.1 |
|
649 |
|
|
printf '\e]50;%s\007' "9x15bold,xft:Kochi Gothic" |
650 |
|
|
|
651 |
|
|
This is useful if you e.g. work primarily with japanese (and prefer |
652 |
|
|
a japanese font), but you have to switch to chinese temporarily, |
653 |
|
|
where japanese fonts would only be in your way. |
654 |
|
|
|
655 |
|
|
You can think of this as a kind of manual ISO-2022 switching. |
656 |
|
|
|
657 |
|
|
Why do italic characters look as if clipped? |
658 |
|
|
Many fonts have difficulties with italic characters and hinting. For |
659 |
|
|
example, the otherwise very nicely hinted font "xft:Bitstream Vera |
660 |
root |
1.11 |
Sans Mono" completely fails in it's italic face. A workaround might |
661 |
|
|
be to enable freetype autohinting, i.e. like this: |
662 |
root |
1.1 |
|
663 |
root |
1.11 |
URxvt.italicFont: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:italic:autohint=true |
664 |
|
|
URxvt.boldItalicFont: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:bold:italic:autohint=true |
665 |
root |
1.1 |
|
666 |
|
|
My input method wants <some encoding> but I want UTF-8, what can I do? |
667 |
|
|
You can specify separate locales for the input method and the rest |
668 |
|
|
of the terminal, using the resource "imlocale": |
669 |
|
|
|
670 |
root |
1.45 |
URxvt.imlocale: ja_JP.EUC-JP |
671 |
root |
1.1 |
|
672 |
|
|
Now you can start your terminal with "LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8" and |
673 |
|
|
still use your input method. Please note, however, that you will not |
674 |
|
|
be able to input characters outside "EUC-JP" in a normal way then, |
675 |
|
|
as your input method limits you. |
676 |
|
|
|
677 |
root |
1.12 |
Rxvt-unicode crashes when the X Input Method changes or exits. |
678 |
|
|
Unfortunately, this is unavoidable, as the XIM protocol is racy by |
679 |
|
|
design. Applications can avoid some crashes at the expense of memory |
680 |
|
|
leaks, and Input Methods can avoid some crashes by careful ordering |
681 |
|
|
at exit time. kinput2 (and derived input methods) generally |
682 |
|
|
succeeds, while SCIM (or similar input methods) fails. In the end, |
683 |
|
|
however, crashes cannot be completely avoided even if both sides |
684 |
|
|
cooperate. |
685 |
|
|
|
686 |
|
|
So the only workaround is not to kill your Input Method Servers. |
687 |
|
|
|
688 |
root |
1.1 |
Rxvt-unicode uses gobs of memory, how can I reduce that? |
689 |
root |
1.11 |
Rxvt-unicode tries to obey the rule of not charging you for |
690 |
|
|
something you don't use. One thing you should try is to configure |
691 |
|
|
out all settings that you don't need, for example, Xft support is a |
692 |
|
|
resource hog by design, when used. Compiling it out ensures that no |
693 |
|
|
Xft font will be loaded accidentally when rxvt-unicode tries to find |
694 |
|
|
a font for your characters. |
695 |
root |
1.1 |
|
696 |
|
|
Also, many people (me included) like large windows and even larger |
697 |
|
|
scrollback buffers: Without "--enable-unicode3", rxvt-unicode will |
698 |
|
|
use 6 bytes per screen cell. For a 160x?? window this amounts to |
699 |
|
|
almost a kilobyte per line. A scrollback buffer of 10000 lines will |
700 |
|
|
then (if full) use 10 Megabytes of memory. With "--enable-unicode3" |
701 |
|
|
it gets worse, as rxvt-unicode then uses 8 bytes per screen cell. |
702 |
|
|
|
703 |
|
|
Can I speed up Xft rendering somehow? |
704 |
|
|
Yes, the most obvious way to speed it up is to avoid Xft entirely, |
705 |
|
|
as it is simply slow. If you still want Xft fonts you might try to |
706 |
root |
1.23 |
disable antialiasing (by appending ":antialias=false"), which saves |
707 |
|
|
lots of memory and also speeds up rendering considerably. |
708 |
root |
1.1 |
|
709 |
|
|
Rxvt-unicode doesn't seem to anti-alias its fonts, what is wrong? |
710 |
|
|
Rxvt-unicode will use whatever you specify as a font. If it needs to |
711 |
|
|
fall back to it's default font search list it will prefer X11 core |
712 |
|
|
fonts, because they are small and fast, and then use Xft fonts. It |
713 |
|
|
has antialiasing disabled for most of them, because the author |
714 |
|
|
thinks they look best that way. |
715 |
|
|
|
716 |
|
|
If you want antialiasing, you have to specify the fonts manually. |
717 |
|
|
|
718 |
|
|
Mouse cut/paste suddenly no longer works. |
719 |
|
|
Make sure that mouse reporting is actually turned off since killing |
720 |
|
|
some editors prematurely may leave the mouse in mouse report mode. |
721 |
|
|
I've heard that tcsh may use mouse reporting unless it otherwise |
722 |
|
|
specified. A quick check is to see if cut/paste works when the Alt |
723 |
root |
1.43 |
or Shift keys are depressed. |
724 |
root |
1.1 |
|
725 |
|
|
What's with this bold/blink stuff? |
726 |
|
|
If no bold colour is set via "colorBD:", bold will invert text using |
727 |
|
|
the standard foreground colour. |
728 |
|
|
|
729 |
|
|
For the standard background colour, blinking will actually make the |
730 |
|
|
text blink when compiled with "--enable-blinking". with standard |
731 |
|
|
colours. Without "--enable-blinking", the blink attribute will be |
732 |
|
|
ignored. |
733 |
|
|
|
734 |
|
|
On ANSI colours, bold/blink attributes are used to set |
735 |
|
|
high-intensity foreground/background colors. |
736 |
|
|
|
737 |
|
|
color0-7 are the low-intensity colors. |
738 |
|
|
|
739 |
|
|
color8-15 are the corresponding high-intensity colors. |
740 |
|
|
|
741 |
|
|
I don't like the screen colors. How do I change them? |
742 |
|
|
You can change the screen colors at run-time using ~/.Xdefaults |
743 |
|
|
resources (or as long-options). |
744 |
|
|
|
745 |
|
|
Here are values that are supposed to resemble a VGA screen, |
746 |
|
|
including the murky brown that passes for low-intensity yellow: |
747 |
|
|
|
748 |
root |
1.11 |
URxvt.color0: #000000 |
749 |
|
|
URxvt.color1: #A80000 |
750 |
|
|
URxvt.color2: #00A800 |
751 |
|
|
URxvt.color3: #A8A800 |
752 |
|
|
URxvt.color4: #0000A8 |
753 |
|
|
URxvt.color5: #A800A8 |
754 |
|
|
URxvt.color6: #00A8A8 |
755 |
|
|
URxvt.color7: #A8A8A8 |
756 |
|
|
|
757 |
|
|
URxvt.color8: #000054 |
758 |
|
|
URxvt.color9: #FF0054 |
759 |
|
|
URxvt.color10: #00FF54 |
760 |
|
|
URxvt.color11: #FFFF54 |
761 |
|
|
URxvt.color12: #0000FF |
762 |
|
|
URxvt.color13: #FF00FF |
763 |
|
|
URxvt.color14: #00FFFF |
764 |
|
|
URxvt.color15: #FFFFFF |
765 |
root |
1.1 |
|
766 |
root |
1.11 |
And here is a more complete set of non-standard colors described |
767 |
|
|
(not by me) as "pretty girly". |
768 |
root |
1.1 |
|
769 |
|
|
URxvt.cursorColor: #dc74d1 |
770 |
|
|
URxvt.pointerColor: #dc74d1 |
771 |
|
|
URxvt.background: #0e0e0e |
772 |
|
|
URxvt.foreground: #4ad5e1 |
773 |
|
|
URxvt.color0: #000000 |
774 |
|
|
URxvt.color8: #8b8f93 |
775 |
|
|
URxvt.color1: #dc74d1 |
776 |
|
|
URxvt.color9: #dc74d1 |
777 |
|
|
URxvt.color2: #0eb8c7 |
778 |
|
|
URxvt.color10: #0eb8c7 |
779 |
|
|
URxvt.color3: #dfe37e |
780 |
|
|
URxvt.color11: #dfe37e |
781 |
|
|
URxvt.color5: #9e88f0 |
782 |
|
|
URxvt.color13: #9e88f0 |
783 |
|
|
URxvt.color6: #73f7ff |
784 |
|
|
URxvt.color14: #73f7ff |
785 |
|
|
URxvt.color7: #e1dddd |
786 |
|
|
URxvt.color15: #e1dddd |
787 |
|
|
|
788 |
root |
1.44 |
How can I start rxvtd in a race-free way? |
789 |
|
|
Try "rxvtd -f -o", which tells rxvtd to open the display, create the |
790 |
|
|
listening socket and then fork. |
791 |
root |
1.11 |
|
792 |
root |
1.1 |
What's with the strange Backspace/Delete key behaviour? |
793 |
|
|
Assuming that the physical Backspace key corresponds to the |
794 |
|
|
BackSpace keysym (not likely for Linux ... see the following |
795 |
|
|
question) there are two standard values that can be used for |
796 |
|
|
Backspace: "^H" and "^?". |
797 |
|
|
|
798 |
|
|
Historically, either value is correct, but rxvt-unicode adopts the |
799 |
|
|
debian policy of using "^?" when unsure, because it's the one only |
800 |
|
|
only correct choice :). |
801 |
|
|
|
802 |
|
|
Rxvt-unicode tries to inherit the current stty settings and uses the |
803 |
|
|
value of `erase' to guess the value for backspace. If rxvt-unicode |
804 |
|
|
wasn't started from a terminal (say, from a menu or by remote |
805 |
|
|
shell), then the system value of `erase', which corresponds to |
806 |
|
|
CERASE in <termios.h>, will be used (which may not be the same as |
807 |
|
|
your stty setting). |
808 |
|
|
|
809 |
|
|
For starting a new rxvt-unicode: |
810 |
|
|
|
811 |
|
|
# use Backspace = ^H |
812 |
|
|
$ stty erase ^H |
813 |
root |
1.44 |
$ rxvt |
814 |
root |
1.1 |
|
815 |
|
|
# use Backspace = ^? |
816 |
|
|
$ stty erase ^? |
817 |
root |
1.44 |
$ rxvt |
818 |
root |
1.1 |
|
819 |
root |
1.43 |
Toggle with "ESC [ 36 h" / "ESC [ 36 l". |
820 |
root |
1.1 |
|
821 |
|
|
For an existing rxvt-unicode: |
822 |
|
|
|
823 |
|
|
# use Backspace = ^H |
824 |
|
|
$ stty erase ^H |
825 |
|
|
$ echo -n "^[[36h" |
826 |
|
|
|
827 |
|
|
# use Backspace = ^? |
828 |
|
|
$ stty erase ^? |
829 |
|
|
$ echo -n "^[[36l" |
830 |
|
|
|
831 |
|
|
This helps satisfy some of the Backspace discrepancies that occur, |
832 |
|
|
but if you use Backspace = "^H", make sure that the termcap/terminfo |
833 |
|
|
value properly reflects that. |
834 |
|
|
|
835 |
|
|
The Delete key is a another casualty of the ill-defined Backspace |
836 |
|
|
problem. To avoid confusion between the Backspace and Delete keys, |
837 |
|
|
the Delete key has been assigned an escape sequence to match the |
838 |
root |
1.11 |
vt100 for Execute ("ESC [ 3 ~") and is in the supplied |
839 |
|
|
termcap/terminfo. |
840 |
root |
1.1 |
|
841 |
|
|
Some other Backspace problems: |
842 |
|
|
|
843 |
|
|
some editors use termcap/terminfo, some editors (vim I'm told) |
844 |
|
|
expect Backspace = ^H, GNU Emacs (and Emacs-like editors) use ^H for |
845 |
|
|
help. |
846 |
|
|
|
847 |
|
|
Perhaps someday this will all be resolved in a consistent manner. |
848 |
|
|
|
849 |
|
|
I don't like the key-bindings. How do I change them? |
850 |
|
|
There are some compile-time selections available via configure. |
851 |
|
|
Unless you have run "configure" with the "--disable-resources" |
852 |
|
|
option you can use the `keysym' resource to alter the keystrings |
853 |
root |
1.2 |
associated with keysyms. |
854 |
root |
1.1 |
|
855 |
root |
1.44 |
Here's an example for a URxvt session started using "rxvt -name |
856 |
root |
1.11 |
URxvt" |
857 |
root |
1.1 |
|
858 |
root |
1.11 |
URxvt.keysym.Home: \033[1~ |
859 |
|
|
URxvt.keysym.End: \033[4~ |
860 |
|
|
URxvt.keysym.C-apostrophe: \033<C-'> |
861 |
|
|
URxvt.keysym.C-slash: \033<C-/> |
862 |
|
|
URxvt.keysym.C-semicolon: \033<C-;> |
863 |
|
|
URxvt.keysym.C-grave: \033<C-`> |
864 |
|
|
URxvt.keysym.C-comma: \033<C-,> |
865 |
|
|
URxvt.keysym.C-period: \033<C-.> |
866 |
|
|
URxvt.keysym.C-0x60: \033<C-`> |
867 |
|
|
URxvt.keysym.C-Tab: \033<C-Tab> |
868 |
|
|
URxvt.keysym.C-Return: \033<C-Return> |
869 |
|
|
URxvt.keysym.S-Return: \033<S-Return> |
870 |
|
|
URxvt.keysym.S-space: \033<S-Space> |
871 |
|
|
URxvt.keysym.M-Up: \033<M-Up> |
872 |
|
|
URxvt.keysym.M-Down: \033<M-Down> |
873 |
|
|
URxvt.keysym.M-Left: \033<M-Left> |
874 |
|
|
URxvt.keysym.M-Right: \033<M-Right> |
875 |
|
|
URxvt.keysym.M-C-0: list \033<M-C- 0123456789 > |
876 |
root |
1.4 |
URxvt.keysym.M-C-a: list \033<M-C- abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz > |
877 |
root |
1.11 |
URxvt.keysym.F12: command:\033]701;zh_CN.GBK\007 |
878 |
root |
1.4 |
|
879 |
|
|
See some more examples in the documentation for the keysym resource. |
880 |
root |
1.1 |
|
881 |
|
|
I'm using keyboard model XXX that has extra Prior/Next/Insert keys. How |
882 |
|
|
do I make use of them? For example, the Sun Keyboard type 4 has the |
883 |
|
|
following mappings that rxvt-unicode doesn't recognize. |
884 |
|
|
KP_Insert == Insert |
885 |
|
|
F22 == Print |
886 |
|
|
F27 == Home |
887 |
|
|
F29 == Prior |
888 |
|
|
F33 == End |
889 |
|
|
F35 == Next |
890 |
|
|
|
891 |
|
|
Rather than have rxvt-unicode try to accommodate all the various |
892 |
|
|
possible keyboard mappings, it is better to use `xmodmap' to remap |
893 |
|
|
the keys as required for your particular machine. |
894 |
|
|
|
895 |
root |
1.11 |
How do I distinguish wether I'm running rxvt-unicode or a regular xterm? |
896 |
|
|
I need this to decide about setting colors etc. |
897 |
root |
1.1 |
rxvt and rxvt-unicode always export the variable "COLORTERM", so you |
898 |
|
|
can check and see if that is set. Note that several programs, JED, |
899 |
|
|
slrn, Midnight Commander automatically check this variable to decide |
900 |
|
|
whether or not to use color. |
901 |
|
|
|
902 |
|
|
How do I set the correct, full IP address for the DISPLAY variable? |
903 |
|
|
If you've compiled rxvt-unicode with DISPLAY_IS_IP and have enabled |
904 |
|
|
insecure mode then it is possible to use the following shell script |
905 |
|
|
snippets to correctly set the display. If your version of |
906 |
|
|
rxvt-unicode wasn't also compiled with ESCZ_ANSWER (as assumed in |
907 |
|
|
these snippets) then the COLORTERM variable can be used to |
908 |
|
|
distinguish rxvt-unicode from a regular xterm. |
909 |
|
|
|
910 |
|
|
Courtesy of Chuck Blake <cblake@BBN.COM> with the following shell |
911 |
|
|
script snippets: |
912 |
|
|
|
913 |
|
|
# Bourne/Korn/POSIX family of shells: |
914 |
|
|
[ ${TERM:-foo} = foo ] && TERM=xterm # assume an xterm if we don't know |
915 |
|
|
if [ ${TERM:-foo} = xterm ]; then |
916 |
|
|
stty -icanon -echo min 0 time 15 # see if enhanced rxvt or not |
917 |
|
|
echo -n '^[Z' |
918 |
|
|
read term_id |
919 |
|
|
stty icanon echo |
920 |
|
|
if [ ""${term_id} = '^[[?1;2C' -a ${DISPLAY:-foo} = foo ]; then |
921 |
|
|
echo -n '^[[7n' # query the rxvt we are in for the DISPLAY string |
922 |
|
|
read DISPLAY # set it in our local shell |
923 |
|
|
fi |
924 |
|
|
fi |
925 |
|
|
|
926 |
|
|
How do I compile the manual pages for myself? |
927 |
|
|
You need to have a recent version of perl installed as |
928 |
|
|
/usr/bin/perl, one that comes with pod2man, pod2text and pod2html. |
929 |
|
|
Then go to the doc subdirectory and enter "make alldoc". |
930 |
|
|
|
931 |
|
|
My question isn't answered here, can I ask a human? |
932 |
|
|
Before sending me mail, you could go to IRC: "irc.freenode.net", |
933 |
|
|
channel "#rxvt-unicode" has some rxvt-unicode enthusiasts that might |
934 |
|
|
be interested in learning about new and exciting problems (but not |
935 |
|
|
FAQs :). |
936 |
|
|
|
937 |
root |
1.11 |
RXVT TECHNICAL REFERENCE |
938 |
root |
1.1 |
DESCRIPTION |
939 |
|
|
The rest of this document describes various technical aspects of |
940 |
|
|
rxvt-unicode. First the description of supported command sequences, |
941 |
root |
1.46 |
followed by pixmap support and last by a description of all features |
942 |
|
|
selectable at "configure" time. |
943 |
root |
1.1 |
|
944 |
|
|
Definitions |
945 |
|
|
"c" The literal character c. |
946 |
|
|
|
947 |
|
|
"C" A single (required) character. |
948 |
|
|
|
949 |
|
|
"Ps" |
950 |
|
|
A single (usually optional) numeric parameter, composed of one or |
951 |
|
|
more digits. |
952 |
|
|
|
953 |
|
|
"Pm" |
954 |
|
|
A multiple numeric parameter composed of any number of single |
955 |
|
|
numeric parameters, separated by ";" character(s). |
956 |
|
|
|
957 |
|
|
"Pt" |
958 |
|
|
A text parameter composed of printable characters. |
959 |
|
|
|
960 |
|
|
Values |
961 |
|
|
"ENQ" |
962 |
|
|
Enquiry (Ctrl-E) = Send Device Attributes (DA) request attributes |
963 |
|
|
from terminal. See "ESC [ Ps c". |
964 |
|
|
|
965 |
|
|
"BEL" |
966 |
|
|
Bell (Ctrl-G) |
967 |
|
|
|
968 |
|
|
"BS" |
969 |
|
|
Backspace (Ctrl-H) |
970 |
|
|
|
971 |
|
|
"TAB" |
972 |
|
|
Horizontal Tab (HT) (Ctrl-I) |
973 |
|
|
|
974 |
|
|
"LF" |
975 |
|
|
Line Feed or New Line (NL) (Ctrl-J) |
976 |
|
|
|
977 |
|
|
"VT" |
978 |
|
|
Vertical Tab (Ctrl-K) same as "LF" |
979 |
|
|
|
980 |
|
|
"FF" |
981 |
|
|
Form Feed or New Page (NP) (Ctrl-L) same as "LF" |
982 |
|
|
|
983 |
|
|
"CR" |
984 |
|
|
Carriage Return (Ctrl-M) |
985 |
|
|
|
986 |
|
|
"SO" |
987 |
|
|
Shift Out (Ctrl-N), invokes the G1 character set. Switch to |
988 |
|
|
Alternate Character Set |
989 |
|
|
|
990 |
|
|
"SI" |
991 |
|
|
Shift In (Ctrl-O), invokes the G0 character set (the default). |
992 |
|
|
Switch to Standard Character Set |
993 |
|
|
|
994 |
|
|
"SPC" |
995 |
|
|
Space Character |
996 |
|
|
|
997 |
|
|
Escape Sequences |
998 |
|
|
"ESC # 8" |
999 |
|
|
DEC Screen Alignment Test (DECALN) |
1000 |
|
|
|
1001 |
|
|
"ESC 7" |
1002 |
|
|
Save Cursor (SC) |
1003 |
|
|
|
1004 |
|
|
"ESC 8" |
1005 |
|
|
Restore Cursor |
1006 |
|
|
|
1007 |
|
|
"ESC =" |
1008 |
|
|
Application Keypad (SMKX). See also next sequence. |
1009 |
|
|
|
1010 |
|
|
"ESC" |
1011 |
|
|
Normal Keypad (RMKX) |
1012 |
|
|
|
1013 |
|
|
Note: If the numeric keypad is activated, eg, Num_Lock has been |
1014 |
|
|
pressed, numbers or control functions are generated by the numeric |
1015 |
|
|
keypad (see Key Codes). |
1016 |
|
|
|
1017 |
|
|
"ESC D" |
1018 |
|
|
Index (IND) |
1019 |
|
|
|
1020 |
|
|
"ESC E" |
1021 |
|
|
Next Line (NEL) |
1022 |
|
|
|
1023 |
|
|
"ESC H" |
1024 |
|
|
Tab Set (HTS) |
1025 |
|
|
|
1026 |
|
|
"ESC M" |
1027 |
|
|
Reverse Index (RI) |
1028 |
|
|
|
1029 |
|
|
"ESC N" |
1030 |
|
|
Single Shift Select of G2 Character Set (SS2): affects next |
1031 |
|
|
character only *unimplemented* |
1032 |
|
|
|
1033 |
|
|
"ESC O" |
1034 |
|
|
Single Shift Select of G3 Character Set (SS3): affects next |
1035 |
|
|
character only *unimplemented* |
1036 |
|
|
|
1037 |
|
|
"ESC Z" |
1038 |
root |
1.11 |
Obsolete form of returns: "ESC [ ? 1 ; 2 C" *rxvt-unicode |
1039 |
|
|
compile-time option* |
1040 |
root |
1.1 |
|
1041 |
|
|
"ESC c" |
1042 |
|
|
Full reset (RIS) |
1043 |
|
|
|
1044 |
|
|
"ESC n" |
1045 |
|
|
Invoke the G2 Character Set (LS2) |
1046 |
|
|
|
1047 |
|
|
"ESC o" |
1048 |
|
|
Invoke the G3 Character Set (LS3) |
1049 |
|
|
|
1050 |
root |
1.11 |
"ESC ( C" |
1051 |
root |
1.1 |
Designate G0 Character Set (ISO 2022), see below for values of "C". |
1052 |
|
|
|
1053 |
root |
1.11 |
"ESC ) C" |
1054 |
root |
1.1 |
Designate G1 Character Set (ISO 2022), see below for values of "C". |
1055 |
|
|
|
1056 |
|
|
"ESC * C" |
1057 |
|
|
Designate G2 Character Set (ISO 2022), see below for values of "C". |
1058 |
|
|
|
1059 |
|
|
"ESC + C" |
1060 |
|
|
Designate G3 Character Set (ISO 2022), see below for values of "C". |
1061 |
|
|
|
1062 |
|
|
"ESC $ C" |
1063 |
|
|
Designate Kanji Character Set |
1064 |
|
|
|
1065 |
|
|
Where "C" is one of: |
1066 |
|
|
|
1067 |
|
|
C = 0 DEC Special Character and Line Drawing Set |
1068 |
|
|
C = A United Kingdom (UK) |
1069 |
|
|
C = B United States (USASCII) |
1070 |
|
|
C = < Multinational character set unimplemented |
1071 |
|
|
C = 5 Finnish character set unimplemented |
1072 |
|
|
C = C Finnish character set unimplemented |
1073 |
|
|
C = K German character set unimplemented |
1074 |
|
|
|
1075 |
|
|
|
1076 |
|
|
|
1077 |
|
|
CSI (Command Sequence Introducer) Sequences |
1078 |
|
|
"ESC [ Ps @" |
1079 |
|
|
Insert "Ps" (Blank) Character(s) [default: 1] (ICH) |
1080 |
|
|
|
1081 |
|
|
"ESC [ Ps A" |
1082 |
|
|
Cursor Up "Ps" Times [default: 1] (CUU) |
1083 |
|
|
|
1084 |
|
|
"ESC [ Ps B" |
1085 |
|
|
Cursor Down "Ps" Times [default: 1] (CUD) |
1086 |
|
|
|
1087 |
|
|
"ESC [ Ps C" |
1088 |
|
|
Cursor Forward "Ps" Times [default: 1] (CUF) |
1089 |
|
|
|
1090 |
|
|
"ESC [ Ps D" |
1091 |
|
|
Cursor Backward "Ps" Times [default: 1] (CUB) |
1092 |
|
|
|
1093 |
|
|
"ESC [ Ps E" |
1094 |
|
|
Cursor Down "Ps" Times [default: 1] and to first column |
1095 |
|
|
|
1096 |
|
|
"ESC [ Ps F" |
1097 |
|
|
Cursor Up "Ps" Times [default: 1] and to first column |
1098 |
|
|
|
1099 |
|
|
"ESC [ Ps G" |
1100 |
|
|
Cursor to Column "Ps" (HPA) |
1101 |
|
|
|
1102 |
|
|
"ESC [ Ps;Ps H" |
1103 |
|
|
Cursor Position [row;column] [default: 1;1] (CUP) |
1104 |
|
|
|
1105 |
|
|
"ESC [ Ps I" |
1106 |
|
|
Move forward "Ps" tab stops [default: 1] |
1107 |
|
|
|
1108 |
|
|
"ESC [ Ps J" |
1109 |
|
|
Erase in Display (ED) |
1110 |
|
|
|
1111 |
|
|
Ps = 0 Clear Below (default) |
1112 |
|
|
Ps = 1 Clear Above |
1113 |
|
|
Ps = 2 Clear All |
1114 |
|
|
|
1115 |
|
|
"ESC [ Ps K" |
1116 |
|
|
Erase in Line (EL) |
1117 |
|
|
|
1118 |
|
|
Ps = 0 Clear to Right (default) |
1119 |
|
|
Ps = 1 Clear to Left |
1120 |
|
|
Ps = 2 Clear All |
1121 |
|
|
|
1122 |
|
|
"ESC [ Ps L" |
1123 |
|
|
Insert "Ps" Line(s) [default: 1] (IL) |
1124 |
|
|
|
1125 |
|
|
"ESC [ Ps M" |
1126 |
|
|
Delete "Ps" Line(s) [default: 1] (DL) |
1127 |
|
|
|
1128 |
|
|
"ESC [ Ps P" |
1129 |
|
|
Delete "Ps" Character(s) [default: 1] (DCH) |
1130 |
|
|
|
1131 |
|
|
"ESC [ Ps;Ps;Ps;Ps;Ps T" |
1132 |
|
|
Initiate . *unimplemented* Parameters are |
1133 |
|
|
[func;startx;starty;firstrow;lastrow]. |
1134 |
|
|
|
1135 |
|
|
"ESC [ Ps W" |
1136 |
|
|
Tabulator functions |
1137 |
|
|
|
1138 |
|
|
Ps = 0 Tab Set (HTS) |
1139 |
|
|
Ps = 2 Tab Clear (TBC), Clear Current Column (default) |
1140 |
|
|
Ps = 5 Tab Clear (TBC), Clear All |
1141 |
|
|
|
1142 |
|
|
"ESC [ Ps X" |
1143 |
|
|
Erase "Ps" Character(s) [default: 1] (ECH) |
1144 |
|
|
|
1145 |
|
|
"ESC [ Ps Z" |
1146 |
|
|
Move backward "Ps" [default: 1] tab stops |
1147 |
|
|
|
1148 |
|
|
"ESC [ Ps '" |
1149 |
|
|
See "ESC [ Ps G" |
1150 |
|
|
|
1151 |
|
|
"ESC [ Ps a" |
1152 |
|
|
See "ESC [ Ps C" |
1153 |
|
|
|
1154 |
|
|
"ESC [ Ps c" |
1155 |
|
|
Send Device Attributes (DA) "Ps = 0" (or omitted): request |
1156 |
root |
1.11 |
attributes from terminal returns: "ESC [ ? 1 ; 2 c" (``I am a VT100 |
1157 |
|
|
with Advanced Video Option'') |
1158 |
root |
1.1 |
|
1159 |
|
|
"ESC [ Ps d" |
1160 |
|
|
Cursor to Line "Ps" (VPA) |
1161 |
|
|
|
1162 |
|
|
"ESC [ Ps e" |
1163 |
|
|
See "ESC [ Ps A" |
1164 |
|
|
|
1165 |
|
|
"ESC [ Ps;Ps f" |
1166 |
|
|
Horizontal and Vertical Position [row;column] (HVP) [default: 1;1] |
1167 |
|
|
|
1168 |
|
|
"ESC [ Ps g" |
1169 |
|
|
Tab Clear (TBC) |
1170 |
|
|
|
1171 |
|
|
Ps = 0 Clear Current Column (default) |
1172 |
|
|
Ps = 3 Clear All (TBC) |
1173 |
|
|
|
1174 |
|
|
"ESC [ Pm h" |
1175 |
|
|
Set Mode (SM). See "ESC [ Pm l" sequence for description of "Pm". |
1176 |
|
|
|
1177 |
|
|
"ESC [ Ps i" |
1178 |
|
|
Printing. See also the "print-pipe" resource. |
1179 |
|
|
|
1180 |
|
|
Ps = 0 print screen (MC0) |
1181 |
|
|
Ps = 4 disable transparent print mode (MC4) |
1182 |
|
|
Ps = 5 enable transparent print mode (MC5) |
1183 |
|
|
|
1184 |
|
|
"ESC [ Pm l" |
1185 |
|
|
Reset Mode (RM) |
1186 |
|
|
|
1187 |
|
|
"Ps = 4" |
1188 |
|
|
h Insert Mode (SMIR) |
1189 |
|
|
l Replace Mode (RMIR) |
1190 |
|
|
|
1191 |
|
|
"Ps = 20" (partially implemented) |
1192 |
|
|
h Automatic Newline (LNM) |
1193 |
|
|
l Normal Linefeed (LNM) |
1194 |
|
|
|
1195 |
|
|
"ESC [ Pm m" |
1196 |
|
|
Character Attributes (SGR) |
1197 |
|
|
|
1198 |
|
|
Ps = 0 Normal (default) |
1199 |
|
|
Ps = 1 / 21 On / Off Bold (bright fg) |
1200 |
|
|
Ps = 3 / 23 On / Off Italic |
1201 |
|
|
Ps = 4 / 24 On / Off Underline |
1202 |
|
|
Ps = 5 / 25 On / Off Slow Blink (bright bg) |
1203 |
|
|
Ps = 6 / 26 On / Off Rapid Blink (bright bg) |
1204 |
|
|
Ps = 7 / 27 On / Off Inverse |
1205 |
|
|
Ps = 8 / 27 On / Off Invisible (NYI) |
1206 |
|
|
Ps = 30 / 40 fg/bg Black |
1207 |
|
|
Ps = 31 / 41 fg/bg Red |
1208 |
|
|
Ps = 32 / 42 fg/bg Green |
1209 |
|
|
Ps = 33 / 43 fg/bg Yellow |
1210 |
|
|
Ps = 34 / 44 fg/bg Blue |
1211 |
|
|
Ps = 35 / 45 fg/bg Magenta |
1212 |
|
|
Ps = 36 / 46 fg/bg Cyan |
1213 |
|
|
Ps = 38;5 / 48;5 set fg/bg to color #m (ISO 8613-6) |
1214 |
|
|
Ps = 37 / 47 fg/bg White |
1215 |
|
|
Ps = 39 / 49 fg/bg Default |
1216 |
|
|
Ps = 90 / 100 fg/bg Bright Black |
1217 |
|
|
Ps = 91 / 101 fg/bg Bright Red |
1218 |
|
|
Ps = 92 / 102 fg/bg Bright Green |
1219 |
|
|
Ps = 93 / 103 fg/bg Bright Yellow |
1220 |
|
|
Ps = 94 / 104 fg/bg Bright Blue |
1221 |
|
|
Ps = 95 / 105 fg/bg Bright Magenta |
1222 |
|
|
Ps = 96 / 106 fg/bg Bright Cyan |
1223 |
|
|
Ps = 97 / 107 fg/bg Bright White |
1224 |
|
|
Ps = 99 / 109 fg/bg Bright Default |
1225 |
|
|
|
1226 |
|
|
"ESC [ Ps n" |
1227 |
|
|
Device Status Report (DSR) |
1228 |
|
|
|
1229 |
|
|
Ps = 5 Status Report ESC [ 0 n (``OK'') |
1230 |
|
|
Ps = 6 Report Cursor Position (CPR) [row;column] as ESC [ r ; c R |
1231 |
|
|
Ps = 7 Request Display Name |
1232 |
|
|
Ps = 8 Request Version Number (place in window title) |
1233 |
|
|
|
1234 |
|
|
"ESC [ Ps;Ps r" |
1235 |
|
|
Set Scrolling Region [top;bottom] [default: full size of window] |
1236 |
|
|
(CSR) |
1237 |
|
|
|
1238 |
|
|
"ESC [ s" |
1239 |
|
|
Save Cursor (SC) |
1240 |
|
|
|
1241 |
root |
1.4 |
"ESC [ Ps;Pt t" |
1242 |
|
|
Window Operations |
1243 |
|
|
|
1244 |
|
|
Ps = 1 Deiconify (map) window |
1245 |
|
|
Ps = 2 Iconify window |
1246 |
|
|
Ps = 3 ESC [ 3 ; X ; Y t Move window to (X|Y) |
1247 |
root |
1.11 |
Ps = 4 ESC [ 4 ; H ; W t Resize to WxH pixels |
1248 |
root |
1.4 |
Ps = 5 Raise window |
1249 |
|
|
Ps = 6 Lower window |
1250 |
|
|
Ps = 7 Refresh screen once |
1251 |
root |
1.11 |
Ps = 8 ESC [ 8 ; R ; C t Resize to R rows and C columns |
1252 |
|
|
Ps = 11 Report window state (responds with Ps = 1 or Ps = 2) |
1253 |
root |
1.4 |
Ps = 13 Report window position (responds with Ps = 3) |
1254 |
|
|
Ps = 14 Report window pixel size (responds with Ps = 4) |
1255 |
|
|
Ps = 18 Report window text size (responds with Ps = 7) |
1256 |
|
|
Ps = 19 Currently the same as Ps = 18, but responds with Ps = 9 |
1257 |
|
|
Ps = 20 Reports icon label (ESC ] L NAME \234) |
1258 |
|
|
Ps = 21 Reports window title (ESC ] l NAME \234) |
1259 |
|
|
Ps = 24.. Set window height to Ps rows |
1260 |
root |
1.1 |
|
1261 |
|
|
"ESC [ u" |
1262 |
|
|
Restore Cursor |
1263 |
|
|
|
1264 |
root |
1.4 |
"ESC [ Ps x" |
1265 |
|
|
Request Terminal Parameters (DECREQTPARM) |
1266 |
|
|
|
1267 |
root |
1.1 |
|
1268 |
|
|
|
1269 |
|
|
DEC Private Modes |
1270 |
|
|
"ESC [ ? Pm h" |
1271 |
|
|
DEC Private Mode Set (DECSET) |
1272 |
|
|
|
1273 |
|
|
"ESC [ ? Pm l" |
1274 |
|
|
DEC Private Mode Reset (DECRST) |
1275 |
|
|
|
1276 |
|
|
"ESC [ ? Pm r" |
1277 |
|
|
Restore previously saved DEC Private Mode Values. |
1278 |
|
|
|
1279 |
|
|
"ESC [ ? Pm s" |
1280 |
|
|
Save DEC Private Mode Values. |
1281 |
|
|
|
1282 |
|
|
"ESC [ ? Pm t" |
1283 |
|
|
Toggle DEC Private Mode Values (rxvt extension). *where* |
1284 |
|
|
|
1285 |
|
|
"Ps = 1" (DECCKM) |
1286 |
|
|
h Application Cursor Keys |
1287 |
|
|
l Normal Cursor Keys |
1288 |
|
|
|
1289 |
|
|
"Ps = 2" (ANSI/VT52 mode) |
1290 |
|
|
h Enter VT52 mode |
1291 |
|
|
l Enter VT52 mode |
1292 |
|
|
|
1293 |
|
|
"Ps = 3" |
1294 |
|
|
h 132 Column Mode (DECCOLM) |
1295 |
|
|
l 80 Column Mode (DECCOLM) |
1296 |
|
|
|
1297 |
|
|
"Ps = 4" |
1298 |
|
|
h Smooth (Slow) Scroll (DECSCLM) |
1299 |
|
|
l Jump (Fast) Scroll (DECSCLM) |
1300 |
|
|
|
1301 |
|
|
"Ps = 5" |
1302 |
|
|
h Reverse Video (DECSCNM) |
1303 |
|
|
l Normal Video (DECSCNM) |
1304 |
|
|
|
1305 |
|
|
"Ps = 6" |
1306 |
|
|
h Origin Mode (DECOM) |
1307 |
|
|
l Normal Cursor Mode (DECOM) |
1308 |
|
|
|
1309 |
|
|
"Ps = 7" |
1310 |
|
|
h Wraparound Mode (DECAWM) |
1311 |
|
|
l No Wraparound Mode (DECAWM) |
1312 |
|
|
|
1313 |
|
|
"Ps = 8" *unimplemented* |
1314 |
|
|
h Auto-repeat Keys (DECARM) |
1315 |
|
|
l No Auto-repeat Keys (DECARM) |
1316 |
|
|
|
1317 |
|
|
"Ps = 9" X10 XTerm |
1318 |
|
|
h Send Mouse X & Y on button press. |
1319 |
|
|
l No mouse reporting. |
1320 |
|
|
|
1321 |
|
|
"Ps = 25" |
1322 |
|
|
h Visible cursor {cnorm/cvvis} |
1323 |
|
|
l Invisible cursor {civis} |
1324 |
|
|
|
1325 |
|
|
"Ps = 30" |
1326 |
|
|
h scrollBar visisble |
1327 |
|
|
l scrollBar invisisble |
1328 |
|
|
|
1329 |
|
|
"Ps = 35" (rxvt) |
1330 |
|
|
h Allow XTerm Shift+key sequences |
1331 |
|
|
l Disallow XTerm Shift+key sequences |
1332 |
|
|
|
1333 |
|
|
"Ps = 38" *unimplemented* |
1334 |
|
|
Enter Tektronix Mode (DECTEK) |
1335 |
|
|
|
1336 |
|
|
"Ps = 40" |
1337 |
|
|
h Allow 80/132 Mode |
1338 |
|
|
l Disallow 80/132 Mode |
1339 |
|
|
|
1340 |
|
|
"Ps = 44" *unimplemented* |
1341 |
|
|
h Turn On Margin Bell |
1342 |
|
|
l Turn Off Margin Bell |
1343 |
|
|
|
1344 |
|
|
"Ps = 45" *unimplemented* |
1345 |
|
|
h Reverse-wraparound Mode |
1346 |
|
|
l No Reverse-wraparound Mode |
1347 |
|
|
|
1348 |
|
|
"Ps = 46" *unimplemented* |
1349 |
|
|
"Ps = 47" |
1350 |
|
|
h Use Alternate Screen Buffer |
1351 |
|
|
l Use Normal Screen Buffer |
1352 |
|
|
|
1353 |
|
|
|
1354 |
|
|
|
1355 |
|
|
"Ps = 66" |
1356 |
|
|
h Application Keypad (DECPAM) == ESC = |
1357 |
|
|
l Normal Keypad (DECPNM) == ESC > |
1358 |
|
|
|
1359 |
|
|
"Ps = 67" |
1360 |
|
|
h Backspace key sends BS (DECBKM) |
1361 |
|
|
l Backspace key sends DEL |
1362 |
|
|
|
1363 |
|
|
"Ps = 1000" (X11 XTerm) |
1364 |
|
|
h Send Mouse X & Y on button press and release. |
1365 |
|
|
l No mouse reporting. |
1366 |
|
|
|
1367 |
|
|
"Ps = 1001" (X11 XTerm) *unimplemented* |
1368 |
|
|
h Use Hilite Mouse Tracking. |
1369 |
|
|
l No mouse reporting. |
1370 |
|
|
|
1371 |
|
|
"Ps = 1010" (rxvt) |
1372 |
|
|
h Don't scroll to bottom on TTY output |
1373 |
|
|
l Scroll to bottom on TTY output |
1374 |
|
|
|
1375 |
|
|
"Ps = 1011" (rxvt) |
1376 |
|
|
h Scroll to bottom when a key is pressed |
1377 |
|
|
l Don't scroll to bottom when a key is pressed |
1378 |
|
|
|
1379 |
root |
1.29 |
"Ps = 1021" (rxvt) |
1380 |
|
|
h Bold/italic implies high intensity (see option -is) |
1381 |
|
|
l Font styles have no effect on intensity (Compile styles) |
1382 |
|
|
|
1383 |
root |
1.1 |
"Ps = 1047" |
1384 |
|
|
h Use Alternate Screen Buffer |
1385 |
|
|
l Use Normal Screen Buffer - clear Alternate Screen Buffer if returning from it |
1386 |
|
|
|
1387 |
|
|
"Ps = 1048" |
1388 |
|
|
h Save cursor position |
1389 |
|
|
l Restore cursor position |
1390 |
|
|
|
1391 |
|
|
"Ps = 1049" |
1392 |
|
|
h Use Alternate Screen Buffer - clear Alternate Screen Buffer if switching to it |
1393 |
|
|
l Use Normal Screen Buffer |
1394 |
|
|
|
1395 |
|
|
|
1396 |
|
|
|
1397 |
|
|
XTerm Operating System Commands |
1398 |
|
|
"ESC ] Ps;Pt ST" |
1399 |
|
|
Set XTerm Parameters. 8-bit ST: 0x9c, 7-bit ST sequence: ESC \ |
1400 |
|
|
(0x1b, 0x5c), backwards compatible terminator BEL (0x07) is also |
1401 |
|
|
accepted. any octet can be escaped by prefixing it with SYN (0x16, |
1402 |
|
|
^V). |
1403 |
|
|
|
1404 |
|
|
Ps = 0 Change Icon Name and Window Title to Pt |
1405 |
|
|
Ps = 1 Change Icon Name to Pt |
1406 |
|
|
Ps = 2 Change Window Title to Pt |
1407 |
|
|
Ps = 3 If Pt starts with a ?, query the (STRING) property of the window and return it. If Pt contains a =, set the named property to the given value, else delete the specified property. |
1408 |
|
|
Ps = 4 Pt is a semi-colon separated sequence of one or more semi-colon separated number/name pairs, where number is an index to a colour and name is the name of a colour. Each pair causes the numbered colour to be changed to name. Numbers 0-7 corresponds to low-intensity (normal) colours and 8-15 corresponds to high-intensity colours. 0=black, 1=red, 2=green, 3=yellow, 4=blue, 5=magenta, 6=cyan, 7=white |
1409 |
|
|
Ps = 10 Change colour of text foreground to Pt (NB: may change in future) |
1410 |
|
|
Ps = 11 Change colour of text background to Pt (NB: may change in future) |
1411 |
|
|
Ps = 12 Change colour of text cursor foreground to Pt |
1412 |
|
|
Ps = 13 Change colour of mouse foreground to Pt |
1413 |
|
|
Ps = 17 Change colour of highlight characters to Pt |
1414 |
root |
1.37 |
Ps = 18 Change colour of bold characters to Pt [deprecated, see 706] |
1415 |
|
|
Ps = 19 Change colour of underlined characters to Pt [deprecated, see 707] |
1416 |
root |
1.48 |
Ps = 20 Change background pixmap parameters (see section XPM) (Compile XPM). |
1417 |
root |
1.18 |
Ps = 39 Change default foreground colour to Pt. |
1418 |
root |
1.1 |
Ps = 46 Change Log File to Pt unimplemented |
1419 |
root |
1.18 |
Ps = 49 Change default background colour to Pt. |
1420 |
root |
1.1 |
Ps = 50 Set fontset to Pt, with the following special values of Pt (rxvt) #+n change up n #-n change down n if n is missing of 0, a value of 1 is used empty change to font0 n change to font n |
1421 |
|
|
Ps = 55 Log all scrollback buffer and all of screen to Pt |
1422 |
root |
1.18 |
Ps = 701 Change current locale to Pt, or, if Pt is ?, return the current locale (Compile frills). |
1423 |
root |
1.51 |
Ps = 702 Request version if Pt is ?, returning rxvt-unicode, the resource name, the major and minor version numbers, e.g. ESC ] 702 ; rxvt-unicode ; urxvt ; 7 ; 4 ST. |
1424 |
root |
1.1 |
Ps = 704 Change colour of italic characters to Pt |
1425 |
root |
1.18 |
Ps = 705 Change background pixmap tint colour to Pt (Compile transparency). |
1426 |
root |
1.37 |
Ps = 706 Change colour of bold characters to Pt |
1427 |
|
|
Ps = 707 Change colour of underlined characters to Pt |
1428 |
root |
1.1 |
Ps = 710 Set normal fontset to Pt. Same as Ps = 50. |
1429 |
root |
1.18 |
Ps = 711 Set bold fontset to Pt. Similar to Ps = 50 (Compile styles). |
1430 |
|
|
Ps = 712 Set italic fontset to Pt. Similar to Ps = 50 (Compile styles). |
1431 |
|
|
Ps = 713 Set bold-italic fontset to Pt. Similar to Ps = 50 (Compile styles). |
1432 |
|
|
Ps = 720 Move viewing window up by Pt lines, or clear scrollback buffer if Pt = 0 (Compile frills). |
1433 |
|
|
Ps = 721 Move viewing window down by Pt lines, or clear scrollback buffer if Pt = 0 (Compile frills). |
1434 |
root |
1.31 |
Ps = 777 Call the perl extension with the given string, which should be of the form extension:parameters (Compile perl). |
1435 |
root |
1.1 |
|
1436 |
|
|
|
1437 |
|
|
|
1438 |
|
|
XPM |
1439 |
|
|
For the XPM XTerm escape sequence "ESC ] 20 ; Pt ST" then value of "Pt" |
1440 |
|
|
can be the name of the background pixmap followed by a sequence of |
1441 |
|
|
scaling/positioning commands separated by semi-colons. The |
1442 |
|
|
scaling/positioning commands are as follows: |
1443 |
|
|
|
1444 |
|
|
query scale/position |
1445 |
|
|
? |
1446 |
|
|
|
1447 |
|
|
change scale and position |
1448 |
|
|
WxH+X+Y |
1449 |
|
|
|
1450 |
|
|
WxH+X (== WxH+X+X) |
1451 |
|
|
|
1452 |
|
|
WxH (same as WxH+50+50) |
1453 |
|
|
|
1454 |
|
|
W+X+Y (same as WxW+X+Y) |
1455 |
|
|
|
1456 |
|
|
W+X (same as WxW+X+X) |
1457 |
|
|
|
1458 |
|
|
W (same as WxW+50+50) |
1459 |
|
|
|
1460 |
|
|
change position (absolute) |
1461 |
|
|
=+X+Y |
1462 |
|
|
|
1463 |
|
|
=+X (same as =+X+Y) |
1464 |
|
|
|
1465 |
|
|
change position (relative) |
1466 |
|
|
+X+Y |
1467 |
|
|
|
1468 |
|
|
+X (same as +X+Y) |
1469 |
|
|
|
1470 |
|
|
rescale (relative) |
1471 |
|
|
Wx0 -> W *= (W/100) |
1472 |
|
|
|
1473 |
|
|
0xH -> H *= (H/100) |
1474 |
|
|
|
1475 |
|
|
For example: |
1476 |
|
|
|
1477 |
|
|
\E]20;funky\a |
1478 |
|
|
load funky.xpm as a tiled image |
1479 |
|
|
|
1480 |
|
|
\E]20;mona;100\a |
1481 |
|
|
load mona.xpm with a scaling of 100% |
1482 |
|
|
|
1483 |
|
|
\E]20;;200;?\a |
1484 |
|
|
rescale the current pixmap to 200% and display the image geometry in |
1485 |
|
|
the title |
1486 |
|
|
|
1487 |
|
|
Mouse Reporting |
1488 |
|
|
"ESC [ M <b> <x> <y>" |
1489 |
|
|
report mouse position |
1490 |
|
|
|
1491 |
|
|
The lower 2 bits of "<b>" indicate the button: |
1492 |
|
|
|
1493 |
|
|
Button = "(<b> - SPACE) & 3" |
1494 |
|
|
0 Button1 pressed |
1495 |
|
|
1 Button2 pressed |
1496 |
|
|
2 Button3 pressed |
1497 |
|
|
3 button released (X11 mouse report) |
1498 |
|
|
|
1499 |
|
|
The upper bits of "<b>" indicate the modifiers when the button was |
1500 |
|
|
pressed and are added together (X11 mouse report only): |
1501 |
|
|
|
1502 |
|
|
State = "(<b> - SPACE) & 60" |
1503 |
|
|
4 Shift |
1504 |
|
|
8 Meta |
1505 |
|
|
16 Control |
1506 |
|
|
32 Double Click (Rxvt extension) |
1507 |
|
|
|
1508 |
|
|
Col = "<x> - SPACE" |
1509 |
|
|
|
1510 |
|
|
Row = "<y> - SPACE" |
1511 |
|
|
|
1512 |
|
|
Key Codes |
1513 |
|
|
Note: Shift + F1-F10 generates F11-F20 |
1514 |
|
|
|
1515 |
|
|
For the keypad, use Shift to temporarily override Application-Keypad |
1516 |
|
|
setting use Num_Lock to toggle Application-Keypad setting if Num_Lock is |
1517 |
|
|
off, toggle Application-Keypad setting. Also note that values of Home, |
1518 |
|
|
End, Delete may have been compiled differently on your system. |
1519 |
|
|
|
1520 |
|
|
Normal Shift Control Ctrl+Shift |
1521 |
|
|
Tab ^I ESC [ Z ^I ESC [ Z |
1522 |
|
|
BackSpace ^H ^? ^? ^? |
1523 |
|
|
Find ESC [ 1 ~ ESC [ 1 $ ESC [ 1 ^ ESC [ 1 @ |
1524 |
|
|
Insert ESC [ 2 ~ paste ESC [ 2 ^ ESC [ 2 @ |
1525 |
|
|
Execute ESC [ 3 ~ ESC [ 3 $ ESC [ 3 ^ ESC [ 3 @ |
1526 |
|
|
Select ESC [ 4 ~ ESC [ 4 $ ESC [ 4 ^ ESC [ 4 @ |
1527 |
|
|
Prior ESC [ 5 ~ scroll-up ESC [ 5 ^ ESC [ 5 @ |
1528 |
|
|
Next ESC [ 6 ~ scroll-down ESC [ 6 ^ ESC [ 6 @ |
1529 |
|
|
Home ESC [ 7 ~ ESC [ 7 $ ESC [ 7 ^ ESC [ 7 @ |
1530 |
|
|
End ESC [ 8 ~ ESC [ 8 $ ESC [ 8 ^ ESC [ 8 @ |
1531 |
|
|
Delete ESC [ 3 ~ ESC [ 3 $ ESC [ 3 ^ ESC [ 3 @ |
1532 |
|
|
F1 ESC [ 11 ~ ESC [ 23 ~ ESC [ 11 ^ ESC [ 23 ^ |
1533 |
|
|
F2 ESC [ 12 ~ ESC [ 24 ~ ESC [ 12 ^ ESC [ 24 ^ |
1534 |
|
|
F3 ESC [ 13 ~ ESC [ 25 ~ ESC [ 13 ^ ESC [ 25 ^ |
1535 |
|
|
F4 ESC [ 14 ~ ESC [ 26 ~ ESC [ 14 ^ ESC [ 26 ^ |
1536 |
|
|
F5 ESC [ 15 ~ ESC [ 28 ~ ESC [ 15 ^ ESC [ 28 ^ |
1537 |
|
|
F6 ESC [ 17 ~ ESC [ 29 ~ ESC [ 17 ^ ESC [ 29 ^ |
1538 |
|
|
F7 ESC [ 18 ~ ESC [ 31 ~ ESC [ 18 ^ ESC [ 31 ^ |
1539 |
|
|
F8 ESC [ 19 ~ ESC [ 32 ~ ESC [ 19 ^ ESC [ 32 ^ |
1540 |
|
|
F9 ESC [ 20 ~ ESC [ 33 ~ ESC [ 20 ^ ESC [ 33 ^ |
1541 |
|
|
F10 ESC [ 21 ~ ESC [ 34 ~ ESC [ 21 ^ ESC [ 34 ^ |
1542 |
|
|
F11 ESC [ 23 ~ ESC [ 23 $ ESC [ 23 ^ ESC [ 23 @ |
1543 |
|
|
F12 ESC [ 24 ~ ESC [ 24 $ ESC [ 24 ^ ESC [ 24 @ |
1544 |
|
|
F13 ESC [ 25 ~ ESC [ 25 $ ESC [ 25 ^ ESC [ 25 @ |
1545 |
|
|
F14 ESC [ 26 ~ ESC [ 26 $ ESC [ 26 ^ ESC [ 26 @ |
1546 |
|
|
F15 (Help) ESC [ 28 ~ ESC [ 28 $ ESC [ 28 ^ ESC [ 28 @ |
1547 |
|
|
F16 (Menu) ESC [ 29 ~ ESC [ 29 $ ESC [ 29 ^ ESC [ 29 @ |
1548 |
|
|
F17 ESC [ 31 ~ ESC [ 31 $ ESC [ 31 ^ ESC [ 31 @ |
1549 |
|
|
F18 ESC [ 32 ~ ESC [ 32 $ ESC [ 32 ^ ESC [ 32 @ |
1550 |
|
|
F19 ESC [ 33 ~ ESC [ 33 $ ESC [ 33 ^ ESC [ 33 @ |
1551 |
|
|
F20 ESC [ 34 ~ ESC [ 34 $ ESC [ 34 ^ ESC [ 34 @ |
1552 |
|
|
Application |
1553 |
|
|
Up ESC [ A ESC [ a ESC O a ESC O A |
1554 |
|
|
Down ESC [ B ESC [ b ESC O b ESC O B |
1555 |
|
|
Right ESC [ C ESC [ c ESC O c ESC O C |
1556 |
|
|
Left ESC [ D ESC [ d ESC O d ESC O D |
1557 |
|
|
KP_Enter ^M ESC O M |
1558 |
|
|
KP_F1 ESC O P ESC O P |
1559 |
|
|
KP_F2 ESC O Q ESC O Q |
1560 |
|
|
KP_F3 ESC O R ESC O R |
1561 |
|
|
KP_F4 ESC O S ESC O S |
1562 |
|
|
XK_KP_Multiply * ESC O j |
1563 |
|
|
XK_KP_Add + ESC O k |
1564 |
|
|
XK_KP_Separator , ESC O l |
1565 |
|
|
XK_KP_Subtract - ESC O m |
1566 |
|
|
XK_KP_Decimal . ESC O n |
1567 |
|
|
XK_KP_Divide / ESC O o |
1568 |
|
|
XK_KP_0 0 ESC O p |
1569 |
|
|
XK_KP_1 1 ESC O q |
1570 |
|
|
XK_KP_2 2 ESC O r |
1571 |
|
|
XK_KP_3 3 ESC O s |
1572 |
|
|
XK_KP_4 4 ESC O t |
1573 |
|
|
XK_KP_5 5 ESC O u |
1574 |
|
|
XK_KP_6 6 ESC O v |
1575 |
|
|
XK_KP_7 7 ESC O w |
1576 |
|
|
XK_KP_8 8 ESC O x |
1577 |
|
|
XK_KP_9 9 ESC O y |
1578 |
|
|
|
1579 |
|
|
CONFIGURE OPTIONS |
1580 |
|
|
General hint: if you get compile errors, then likely your configuration |
1581 |
root |
1.24 |
hasn't been tested well. Either try with "--enable-everything" or use |
1582 |
|
|
the ./reconf script as a base for experiments. ./reconf is used by |
1583 |
|
|
myself, so it should generally be a working config. Of course, you |
1584 |
|
|
should always report when a combination doesn't work, so it can be |
1585 |
|
|
fixed. Marc Lehmann <rxvt@schmorp.de>. |
1586 |
|
|
|
1587 |
|
|
All |
1588 |
root |
1.1 |
|
1589 |
|
|
--enable-everything |
1590 |
root |
1.24 |
Add (or remove) support for all non-multichoice options listed in |
1591 |
|
|
"./configure --help". |
1592 |
|
|
|
1593 |
|
|
You can specify this and then disable options you do not like by |
1594 |
|
|
*following* this with the appropriate "--disable-..." arguments, or |
1595 |
|
|
you can start with a minimal configuration by specifying |
1596 |
|
|
"--disable-everything" and than adding just the "--enable-..." |
1597 |
|
|
arguments you want. |
1598 |
root |
1.1 |
|
1599 |
root |
1.24 |
--enable-xft (default: enabled) |
1600 |
root |
1.1 |
Add support for Xft (anti-aliases, among others) fonts. Xft fonts |
1601 |
|
|
are slower and require lots of memory, but as long as you don't use |
1602 |
|
|
them, you don't pay for them. |
1603 |
|
|
|
1604 |
root |
1.24 |
--enable-font-styles (default: on) |
1605 |
root |
1.1 |
Add support for bold, *italic* and *bold italic* font styles. The |
1606 |
|
|
fonts can be set manually or automatically. |
1607 |
|
|
|
1608 |
root |
1.24 |
--with-codesets=NAME,... (default: all) |
1609 |
root |
1.19 |
Compile in support for additional codeset (encoding) groups ("eu", |
1610 |
|
|
"vn" are always compiled in, which includes most 8-bit character |
1611 |
|
|
sets). These codeset tables are used for driving X11 core fonts, |
1612 |
|
|
they are not required for Xft fonts, although having them compiled |
1613 |
|
|
in lets rxvt-unicode choose replacement fonts more intelligently. |
1614 |
|
|
Compiling them in will make your binary bigger (all of together cost |
1615 |
|
|
about 700kB), but it doesn't increase memory usage unless you use a |
1616 |
|
|
font requiring one of these encodings. |
1617 |
root |
1.1 |
|
1618 |
|
|
all all available codeset groups |
1619 |
|
|
zh common chinese encodings |
1620 |
|
|
zh_ext rarely used but very big chinese encodigs |
1621 |
|
|
jp common japanese encodings |
1622 |
|
|
jp_ext rarely used but big japanese encodings |
1623 |
|
|
kr korean encodings |
1624 |
|
|
|
1625 |
root |
1.24 |
--enable-xim (default: on) |
1626 |
root |
1.1 |
Add support for XIM (X Input Method) protocol. This allows using |
1627 |
|
|
alternative input methods (e.g. kinput2) and will also correctly set |
1628 |
|
|
up the input for people using dead keys or compose keys. |
1629 |
|
|
|
1630 |
root |
1.24 |
--enable-unicode3 (default: off) |
1631 |
root |
1.49 |
Recommended to stay off unless you really need non-BMP characters. |
1632 |
|
|
|
1633 |
root |
1.1 |
Enable direct support for displaying unicode codepoints above 65535 |
1634 |
|
|
(the basic multilingual page). This increases storage requirements |
1635 |
|
|
per character from 2 to 4 bytes. X11 fonts do not yet support these |
1636 |
|
|
extra characters, but Xft does. |
1637 |
|
|
|
1638 |
|
|
Please note that rxvt-unicode can store unicode code points >65535 |
1639 |
|
|
even without this flag, but the number of such characters is limited |
1640 |
|
|
to a view thousand (shared with combining characters, see next |
1641 |
|
|
switch), and right now rxvt-unicode cannot display them |
1642 |
|
|
(input/output and cut&paste still work, though). |
1643 |
|
|
|
1644 |
root |
1.24 |
--enable-combining (default: on) |
1645 |
root |
1.1 |
Enable automatic composition of combining characters into composite |
1646 |
|
|
characters. This is required for proper viewing of text where |
1647 |
|
|
accents are encoded as seperate unicode characters. This is done by |
1648 |
|
|
using precomposited characters when available or creating new |
1649 |
|
|
pseudo-characters when no precomposed form exists. |
1650 |
|
|
|
1651 |
|
|
Without --enable-unicode3, the number of additional precomposed |
1652 |
root |
1.49 |
characters is somewhat limited (the 6400 private use characters will |
1653 |
|
|
be (ab-)used). With --enable-unicode3, no practical limit exists. |
1654 |
root |
1.13 |
|
1655 |
|
|
This option will also enable storage (but not display) of characters |
1656 |
|
|
beyond plane 0 (>65535) when --enable-unicode3 was not specified. |
1657 |
root |
1.1 |
|
1658 |
|
|
The combining table also contains entries for arabic presentation |
1659 |
|
|
forms, but these are not currently used. Bug me if you want these to |
1660 |
root |
1.13 |
be used (and tell me how these are to be used...). |
1661 |
root |
1.1 |
|
1662 |
root |
1.24 |
--enable-fallback(=CLASS) (default: Rxvt) |
1663 |
|
|
When reading resource settings, also read settings for class CLASS. |
1664 |
|
|
To disable resource fallback use --disable-fallback. |
1665 |
|
|
|
1666 |
|
|
--with-res-name=NAME (default: urxvt) |
1667 |
|
|
Use the given name as default application name when reading |
1668 |
|
|
resources. Specify --with-res-name=rxvt to replace rxvt. |
1669 |
|
|
|
1670 |
|
|
--with-res-class=CLASS /default: URxvt) |
1671 |
|
|
Use the given class as default application class when reading |
1672 |
|
|
resources. Specify --with-res-class=Rxvt to replace rxvt. |
1673 |
root |
1.1 |
|
1674 |
root |
1.24 |
--enable-utmp (default: on) |
1675 |
root |
1.1 |
Write user and tty to utmp file (used by programs like w) at start |
1676 |
|
|
of rxvt execution and delete information when rxvt exits. |
1677 |
|
|
|
1678 |
root |
1.24 |
--enable-wtmp (default: on) |
1679 |
root |
1.1 |
Write user and tty to wtmp file (used by programs like last) at |
1680 |
|
|
start of rxvt execution and write logout when rxvt exits. This |
1681 |
|
|
option requires --enable-utmp to also be specified. |
1682 |
|
|
|
1683 |
root |
1.24 |
--enable-lastlog (default: on) |
1684 |
root |
1.1 |
Write user and tty to lastlog file (used by programs like lastlogin) |
1685 |
|
|
at start of rxvt execution. This option requires --enable-utmp to |
1686 |
|
|
also be specified. |
1687 |
|
|
|
1688 |
root |
1.34 |
--enable-xpm-background (default: on) |
1689 |
root |
1.1 |
Add support for XPM background pixmaps. |
1690 |
|
|
|
1691 |
root |
1.34 |
--enable-transparency (default: on) |
1692 |
root |
1.1 |
Add support for inheriting parent backgrounds thus giving a fake |
1693 |
|
|
transparency to the term. |
1694 |
|
|
|
1695 |
root |
1.24 |
--enable-fading (default: on) |
1696 |
|
|
Add support for fading the text when focus is lost (requires |
1697 |
|
|
"--enable-transparency"). |
1698 |
|
|
|
1699 |
|
|
--enable-tinting (default: on) |
1700 |
|
|
Add support for tinting of transparent backgrounds (requires |
1701 |
|
|
"--enable-transparency"). |
1702 |
root |
1.1 |
|
1703 |
root |
1.24 |
--enable-rxvt-scroll (default: on) |
1704 |
root |
1.1 |
Add support for the original rxvt scrollbar. |
1705 |
|
|
|
1706 |
root |
1.24 |
--enable-next-scroll (default: on) |
1707 |
root |
1.1 |
Add support for a NeXT-like scrollbar. |
1708 |
|
|
|
1709 |
root |
1.24 |
--enable-xterm-scroll (default: on) |
1710 |
root |
1.1 |
Add support for an Xterm-like scrollbar. |
1711 |
|
|
|
1712 |
root |
1.24 |
--enable-plain-scroll (default: on) |
1713 |
root |
1.1 |
Add support for a very unobtrusive, plain-looking scrollbar that is |
1714 |
|
|
the favourite of the rxvt-unicode author, having used it for many |
1715 |
|
|
years. |
1716 |
|
|
|
1717 |
root |
1.24 |
--enable-ttygid (default: off) |
1718 |
root |
1.1 |
Change tty device setting to group "tty" - only use this if your |
1719 |
|
|
system uses this type of security. |
1720 |
|
|
|
1721 |
|
|
--disable-backspace-key |
1722 |
root |
1.24 |
Removes any handling of the backspace key by us - let the X server |
1723 |
root |
1.1 |
do it. |
1724 |
|
|
|
1725 |
|
|
--disable-delete-key |
1726 |
root |
1.24 |
Removes any handling of the delete key by us - let the X server do |
1727 |
root |
1.1 |
it. |
1728 |
|
|
|
1729 |
|
|
--disable-resources |
1730 |
root |
1.24 |
Removes any support for resource checking. |
1731 |
root |
1.1 |
|
1732 |
|
|
--disable-swapscreen |
1733 |
root |
1.24 |
Remove support for secondary/swap screen. |
1734 |
root |
1.1 |
|
1735 |
root |
1.24 |
--enable-frills (default: on) |
1736 |
root |
1.1 |
Add support for many small features that are not essential but nice |
1737 |
|
|
to have. Normally you want this, but for very small binaries you may |
1738 |
|
|
want to disable this. |
1739 |
|
|
|
1740 |
root |
1.2 |
A non-exhaustive list of features enabled by "--enable-frills" |
1741 |
|
|
(possibly in combination with other switches) is: |
1742 |
|
|
|
1743 |
|
|
MWM-hints |
1744 |
root |
1.17 |
EWMH-hints (pid, utf8 names) and protocols (ping) |
1745 |
root |
1.32 |
seperate underline colour (-underlineColor) |
1746 |
|
|
settable border widths and borderless switch (-w, -b, -bl) |
1747 |
root |
1.52 |
visual depth selection (-depth) |
1748 |
root |
1.32 |
settable extra linespacing /-lsp) |
1749 |
root |
1.2 |
iso-14755-2 and -3, and visual feedback |
1750 |
root |
1.32 |
tripleclickwords (-tcw) |
1751 |
|
|
settable insecure mode (-insecure) |
1752 |
root |
1.11 |
keysym remapping support |
1753 |
root |
1.32 |
cursor blinking and underline cursor (-cb, -uc) |
1754 |
|
|
XEmbed support (-embed) |
1755 |
|
|
user-pty (-pty-fd) |
1756 |
|
|
hold on exit (-hold) |
1757 |
|
|
skip builtin block graphics (-sbg) |
1758 |
root |
1.52 |
|
1759 |
|
|
It also enabled some non-essential features otherwise disabled, such |
1760 |
|
|
as: |
1761 |
|
|
|
1762 |
|
|
some round-trip time optimisations |
1763 |
|
|
nearest color allocation on pseudocolor screens |
1764 |
|
|
UTF8_STRING supporr for selection |
1765 |
root |
1.32 |
sgr modes 90..97 and 100..107 |
1766 |
root |
1.52 |
backindex and forwardindex escape sequences |
1767 |
|
|
view change/zero scorllback esacpe sequences |
1768 |
|
|
locale switching escape sequence |
1769 |
|
|
window op and some xterm/OSC escape sequences |
1770 |
|
|
rectangular selections |
1771 |
|
|
trailing space removal for selections |
1772 |
|
|
verbose X error handling |
1773 |
root |
1.2 |
|
1774 |
root |
1.24 |
--enable-iso14755 (default: on) |
1775 |
root |
1.44 |
Enable extended ISO 14755 support (see rxvt(1), or doc/rxvt.1.txt). |
1776 |
root |
1.1 |
Basic support (section 5.1) is enabled by "--enable-frills", while |
1777 |
|
|
support for 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4 is enabled with this switch. |
1778 |
|
|
|
1779 |
root |
1.24 |
--enable-keepscrolling (default: on) |
1780 |
root |
1.1 |
Add support for continual scrolling of the display when you hold the |
1781 |
|
|
mouse button down on a scrollbar arrow. |
1782 |
|
|
|
1783 |
root |
1.24 |
--enable-mousewheel (default: on) |
1784 |
root |
1.1 |
Add support for scrolling via mouse wheel or buttons 4 & 5. |
1785 |
|
|
|
1786 |
root |
1.24 |
--enable-slipwheeling (default: on) |
1787 |
root |
1.1 |
Add support for continual scrolling (using the mouse wheel as an |
1788 |
|
|
accelerator) while the control key is held down. This option |
1789 |
|
|
requires --enable-mousewheel to also be specified. |
1790 |
|
|
|
1791 |
|
|
--disable-new-selection |
1792 |
|
|
Remove support for mouse selection style like that of xterm. |
1793 |
|
|
|
1794 |
root |
1.24 |
--enable-dmalloc (default: off) |
1795 |
root |
1.1 |
Use Gray Watson's malloc - which is good for debugging See |
1796 |
|
|
http://www.letters.com/dmalloc/ for details If you use either this |
1797 |
|
|
or the next option, you may need to edit src/Makefile after |
1798 |
|
|
compiling to point DINCLUDE and DLIB to the right places. |
1799 |
|
|
|
1800 |
|
|
You can only use either this option and the following (should you |
1801 |
|
|
use either) . |
1802 |
|
|
|
1803 |
root |
1.24 |
--enable-dlmalloc (default: off) |
1804 |
root |
1.1 |
Use Doug Lea's malloc - which is good for a production version See |
1805 |
|
|
<http://g.oswego.edu/dl/html/malloc.html> for details. |
1806 |
|
|
|
1807 |
root |
1.24 |
--enable-smart-resize (default: on) |
1808 |
root |
1.25 |
Add smart growth/shrink behaviour when changing font size via hot |
1809 |
root |
1.26 |
keys. This should keep the window corner which is closest to a |
1810 |
|
|
corner of the screen in a fixed position. |
1811 |
root |
1.1 |
|
1812 |
root |
1.24 |
--enable-pointer-blank (default: on) |
1813 |
root |
1.1 |
Add support to have the pointer disappear when typing or inactive. |
1814 |
|
|
|
1815 |
root |
1.49 |
--enable-perl (default: on) |
1816 |
root |
1.44 |
Enable an embedded perl interpreter. See the rxvtperl(3) manpage |
1817 |
root |
1.30 |
(doc/rxvtperl.txt) for more info on this feature, or the files in |
1818 |
root |
1.33 |
src/perl-ext/ for the extensions that are installed by default. The |
1819 |
|
|
perl interpreter that is used can be specified via the "PERL" |
1820 |
|
|
environment variable when running configure. |
1821 |
root |
1.30 |
|
1822 |
root |
1.24 |
--with-name=NAME (default: urxvt) |
1823 |
|
|
Set the basename for the installed binaries, resulting in "urxvt", |
1824 |
|
|
"urxvtd" etc.). Specify "--with-name=rxvt" to replace with "rxvt". |
1825 |
|
|
|
1826 |
|
|
--with-term=NAME (default: rxvt-unicode) |
1827 |
|
|
Change the environmental variable for the terminal to NAME. |
1828 |
root |
1.1 |
|
1829 |
|
|
--with-terminfo=PATH |
1830 |
|
|
Change the environmental variable for the path to the terminfo tree |
1831 |
|
|
to PATH. |
1832 |
|
|
|
1833 |
|
|
--with-x |
1834 |
|
|
Use the X Window System (pretty much default, eh?). |
1835 |
|
|
|
1836 |
|
|
--with-xpm-includes=DIR |
1837 |
|
|
Look for the XPM includes in DIR. |
1838 |
|
|
|
1839 |
|
|
--with-xpm-library=DIR |
1840 |
|
|
Look for the XPM library in DIR. |
1841 |
|
|
|
1842 |
|
|
--with-xpm |
1843 |
|
|
Not needed - define via --enable-xpm-background. |
1844 |
|
|
|
1845 |
|
|
AUTHORS |
1846 |
|
|
Marc Lehmann <rxvt@schmorp.de> converted this document to pod and |
1847 |
|
|
reworked it from the original Rxvt documentation, which was done by |
1848 |
|
|
Geoff Wing <gcw@pobox.com>, who in turn used the XTerm documentation and |
1849 |
|
|
other sources. |
1850 |
|
|
|