--- rxvt-unicode/doc/rxvt.7.txt 2006/01/11 05:29:40 1.37 +++ rxvt-unicode/doc/rxvt.7.txt 2006/01/12 05:37:34 1.40 @@ -20,6 +20,28 @@ . FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS + I don't like the new selection/popups/hotkeys/perl, how do I + change/disable it? + You can disable the perl extension completely by setting the + perl-ext-common resource to the empty string, which also keeps + rxvt-unicode from initialising perl, saving memory. + + If you only want to disable specific features, you first have to + identify which perl extension is responsible. For this, read the + section PREPACKAGED EXTENSIONS in the rxvtperl(3) manpage. For + example, to disable the selection-popup and option-popup, specify + this perl-ext-common resource: + + URxvt.perl-ext-common: default,-selection-popup,-option-popup + + This will keep the default extensions, but disable the two popup + extensions. Some extensions can also be configured, for example, + scrollback search mode is triggered by M-s. You can move it to any + other combination either by setting the searchable-scrollback + resource: + + URxvt.searchable-scrollback: CM-s + Isn't rxvt supposed to be small? Don't all those features bloat? I often get asked about this, and I think, no, they didn't cause extra bloat. If you compare a minimal rxvt and a minimal urxvt, you @@ -150,15 +172,17 @@ safe? Likely not. While I honestly try to make it secure, and am probably not bad at it, I think it is simply unreasonable to expect all of - freetype + fontconfig + xft + xlib + ... + rxvt-unicode itself to - all be secure. Also, rxvt-unicode disables some options when it - detects that it runs setuid or setgid, which is not nice. + freetype + fontconfig + xft + xlib + perl + ... + rxvt-unicode + itself to all be secure. Also, rxvt-unicode disables some options + when it detects that it runs setuid or setgid, which is not nice. + Besides, with the embedded perl interpreter the possibility for + security problems easily multiplies. Elevated privileges are only required for utmp and pty operations on some systems (for example, GNU/Linux doesn't need any extra - privileges for ptys, but some need it for utmp support). If - rxvt-unicode doesn't support the library/setuid helper that your OS - needs I'll be happy to assist you in implementing support for it. + privileges for ptys, but some need it for utmp support). It is + planned to mvoe this into a forked handler process, but this is not + yet done. So, while setuid/setgid operation is supported and not a problem on your typical single-user-no-other-logins unix desktop, always @@ -1963,15 +1987,6 @@ --disable-resources Removes any support for resource checking. - --enable-xgetdefault - Make resources checking via XGetDefault() instead of our small - version which only checks ~/.Xdefaults, or if that doesn't exist - then ~/.Xresources. - - Please note that nowadays, things like XIM will automatically pull - in and use the full X resource manager, so the overhead of using it - might be very small, if nonexistant. - --enable-strings (default: off) Add support for our possibly faster memset() function and other various routines, overriding your system's versions which may have