rxvt-unicode/doc/rxvt.tbl

.TH "RXVT" "1" "2004-07-31" "X Version 11" "X Tools" 
.SH "NAME" 
rxvt-unicode (ouR XVT, unicode) \- a VT102 emulator for the X window system
.PP 
.SH "SYNOPSIS" 
.PP 
\fBrxvt\fP [options] [-e command [ args ]]
.PP 
.SH "DESCRIPTION" 
.PP 
\fBrxvt-unicode\fP, version \fB3\&.4\fP, is a colour vt102 terminal emulator
intended as an \fIxterm\fP(1) replacement for users who do not require
features such as Tektronix 4014 emulation and toolkit-style configurability\&.
As a result, \fBrxvt-unicode\fP uses much less swap space -- a significant
advantage on a machine serving many X sessions\&.
.PP 
.PP 
.SH "OPTIONS" 
.PP 
The \fBrxvt\fP options (mostly a subset of \fIxterm\fP\&'s) are listed below\&.
In keeping with the smaller-is-better philosophy, options may be eliminated
or default values chosen at compile-time, so options and defaults listed
may not accurately reflect the version installed on your system\&.  
`rxvt -h\&' gives a list of major compile-time options on the \fIOptions\fP line\&.
Option descriptions may be prefixed with which compile option each is
dependent upon\&.  e\&.g\&. `Compile \fIXIM\fP:\&' requires \fIXIM\fP on the \fIOptions\fP
line\&.  Note: `rxvt -help\&' gives a list of all command-line options compiled
into your version\&.
.PP 
Note that \fBrxvt\fP permits the resource name to be used as a long-option
(--/++ option) so the potential command-line options are far greater than
those listed\&.
For example: `rxvt --loginShell --color1 Orange\&'\&.
.PP 
The following options are available:
.PP 
.IP "\fB-help\fP, \fB--help\fP" 
Print out a message describing available options\&.
.IP "\fB-display\fP \fIdisplayname\fP" 
Attempt to open a window on the named X display (\fB-d\fP still
respected)\&.  In the absence of this option, the display specified
by the \fBDISPLAY\fP environment variable is used\&.
.IP "\fB-geometry\fP \fIgeom\fP" 
Window geometry (\fB-g\fP still respected);
resource \fBgeometry\fP\&.
.IP "\fB-rv\fP|\fB+rv\fP" 
Turn on/off simulated reverse video;
resource \fBreverseVideo\fP\&.
.IP "\fB-j\fP|\fB+j\fP" 
Turn on/off jump scrolling;
resource \fBjumpScroll\fP\&.
.IP "\fB-ip\fP|\fB+ip\fP" 
Turn on/off inheriting parent window\&'s pixmap\&.  Alternative form
is \fB-tr\fP;
resource \fBinheritPixmap\fP\&.
.IP "\fB-fade\fP \fInumber\fP" 
Fade the text by the given percentage when focus is lost\&.
.IP "\fB-tint\fP \fIcolour\fP" 
Tint the transparent background pixmap with the given colour when
transparency is enabled with \fB-tr\fP or \fB-ip\fP\&. See also
the \fB-sh\fP option that cna be used to brighten or darken
the image in addition to tinting it\&.
dot(\fB-sh\fP) \fInumber\fP
Darken (0 \&.\&. 100) or lighten (-1 \&.\&. -100) the transparent background
image in addition to tinting it\&.
.IP "\fB-bg\fP \fIcolour\fP" 
Window background colour;
resource \fBbackground\fP\&.
.IP "\fB-fg\fP \fIcolour\fP" 
Window foreground colour;
resource \fBforeground\fP\&.
.IP "\fB-pixmap\fP \fIfile[;geom]\fP" 
Compile \fIXPM\fP: Specify XPM file for the background and also
optionally specify its scaling with a geometry string\&.  Note you
may need to add quotes to avoid special shell interpretation of
the `;\&' in the command-line;
resource \fBbackgroundPixmap\fP\&.
.IP "\fB-cr\fP \fIcolour\fP" 
The cursor colour;
resource \fBcursorColor\fP\&.
.IP "\fB-pr\fP \fIcolour\fP" 
The mouse pointer foreground colour;
resource \fBpointerColor\fP\&.
.IP "\fB-pr2\fP \fIcolour\fP" 
The mouse pointer background colour;
resource \fBpointerColor2\fP\&.
.IP "\fB-bd\fP \fIcolour\fP" 
The colour of the border between the xterm scrollbar and the text;
resource \fBborderColor\fP\&.
.IP "\fB-fn\fP \fIfontname\fP" 
Select the fonts to be used\&.
This is a comma seperated list of font names that are used in turn when
trying to display Unicode characters\&.
The first font defines the cell size for characters; other fonts might
be smaller, but not larger\&.
A reasonable default font list is always appended to it\&.
resource \fBfont\fP\&.
.IP "\fB-rb\fP|\fB+rb\fP" 
Enable "real bold" support\&.
When this option is on, bold text will be displayed using the first
available bold font in the font list\&.
Bold fonts should thus be specified in the font list after their
corresponding regular fonts\&.
If no bold font can be found, a regular font will be used\&.
resource \fBrealBold\fP\&.
.IP "\fB-name\fP \fIname\fP" 
Specify the application name under which resources
are to be obtained, rather than the default executable file name\&.
Name should not contain `\&.\&' or `*\&' characters\&.
Also sets the icon and title name\&.
.IP "\fB-ls\fP|\fB+ls\fP" 
Start as a login-shell/sub-shell;
resource \fBloginShell\fP\&.
.IP "\fB-ut\fP|\fB+ut\fP" 
Compile \fIutmp\fP: Inhibit/enable writing a utmp entry;
resource \fButmpInhibit\fP\&.
.IP "\fB-vb\fP|\fB+vb\fP" 
Turn on/off visual bell on receipt of a bell character;
resource \fBvisualBell\fP\&.
.IP "\fB-sb\fP|\fB+sb\fP" 
Turn on/off scrollbar;
resource \fBscrollBar\fP\&.
.IP "\fB-si\fP|\fB+si\fP" 
Turn on/off scroll-to-bottom on TTY output inhibit;
resource \fBscrollTtyOutput\fP has opposite effect\&.
.IP "\fB-sk\fP|\fB+sk\fP" 
Turn on/off scroll-to-bottom on keypress;
resource \fBscrollTtyKeypress\fP\&.
.IP "\fB-sw\fP|\fB+sw\fP" 
Turn on/off scrolling with the scrollback buffer as new
lines appear\&.  This only takes effect if \fB-si\fP is also given;
resource \fBscrollWithBuffer\fP\&.
.IP "\fB-sr\fP|\fB+sr\fP" 
Put scrollbar on right/left;
resource \fBscrollBar_right\fP\&.
.IP "\fB-st\fP|\fB+st\fP" 
Display normal (non XTerm/NeXT) scrollbar without/with a trough;
resource \fBscrollBar_floating\fP\&.
.IP "\fB-bc\fP|\fB+bc\fP" 
Blink the cursor; resource \fBcursorBlink\fP\&.
.IP "\fB-iconic\fP" 
Start iconified, if the window manager supports that option\&.
Alternative form is \fB-ic\fP\&.
.IP "\fB-sl\fP \fInumber\fP" 
Save \fInumber\fP lines in the scrollback buffer\&.  See resource entry
for limits; 
resource \fBsaveLines\fP\&.
.IP "\fB-b\fP \fInumber\fP" 
Compile \fIfrills\fP: Internal border of \fInumber\fP pixels\&.  See
resource entry for limits;
resource \fBinternalBorder\fP\&.
.IP "\fB-w\fP \fInumber\fP" 
Compile \fIfrills\fP: External border of \fInumber\fP pixels\&. 
Also, \fB-bw\fP and \fB-borderwidth\fP\&.  See resource entry for limits;
resource \fBexternalBorder\fP\&.
.IP "\fB-lsp\fP \fInumber\fP" 
Compile \fIlinespace\fP: Lines (pixel height) to insert between each
row of the display;
resource \fBlinespace\fP\&.
.IP "\fB-tn\fP \fItermname\fP" 
This option specifies the name of the terminal type to be set in the
\fBTERM\fP environment variable\&. This terminal type must exist in the
\fItermcap(5)\fP database and should have \fIli#\fP and \fIco#\fP entries;
resource \fBtermName\fP\&.
.IP "\fB-e\fP \fIcommand [arguments]\fP" 
Run the command with its command-line arguments in the \fBrxvt\fP
window; also sets the window title and icon name to be the basename
of the program being executed if neither \fI-title\fP (\fI-T\fP) nor
\fI-n\fP are given on the command line\&.  If this option is used, it
must be the last on the command-line\&.  If there is no \fB-e\fP option
then the default is to run the program specified by the \fBSHELL\fP
environment variable or, failing that, \fIsh(1)\fP\&.
.IP "\fB-title\fP \fItext\fP" 
Window title (\fB-T\fP still respected); the default title is the
basename of the program specified after the \fB-e\fP option, if
any, otherwise the application name;
resource \fBtitle\fP\&.
.IP "\fB-n\fP \fItext\fP" 
Icon name; the default name is the basename of the program specified
after the \fB-e\fP option, if any, otherwise the application name;
resource \fBiconName\fP\&.
.IP "\fB-C\fP" 
Capture system console messages\&.
.IP "\fB-pt\fP \fIstyle\fP" 
Compile \fIXIM\fP: input style for input method;
\fBOverTheSpot\fP, \fBOffTheSpot\fP, \fBRoot\fP;
resource \fBpreeditType\fP\&.
.IP "\fB-im\fP \fItext\fP" 
Compile \fIXIM\fP: input method name\&.
resource \fBinputMethod\fP\&.
.IP "\fB-imlocale\fP \fIstring\fP" 
The locale to use for opening the IM\&. You can use an LC_CTYPE
of e\&.g\&. de_DE\&.UTF-8 for normal text processing but ja_JP\&.EUC-JP
for the input extension to be able to input japanese characters
while staying in another locale\&.
.IP "\fB-insecure\fP" 
Enable "insecure" mode, which currently enables most of the escape
sequences that echo strings\&. See the resource \fBinsecure\fP for
more info\&.
.IP "\fB-mod\fP \fImodifier\fP" 
Override detection of Meta modifier with specified key:
\fBalt\fP, \fBmeta\fP, \fBhyper\fP, \fBsuper\fP, \fBmod1\fP, \fBmod2\fP, \fBmod3\fP,
\fBmod4\fP, \fBmod5\fP;
resource \fImodifier\fP\&.
.IP "\fB-ssc\fP|\fB+ssc\fP" 
Turn on/off secondary screen (default enabled);
resource \fBsecondaryScreen\fP\&.
.IP "\fB-ssr\fP|\fB+ssr\fP" 
Turn on/off secondary screen scroll (default enabled);
resource \fBsecondaryScroll\fP\&.
.IP "\fB-xrm\fP \fIresourcestring\fP" 
No effect on rxvt\&.  Simply passes through an argument to be made
available in the instance\&'s argument list\&.  Appears in \fIWM_COMMAND\fP
in some window managers\&.
.SH "RESOURCES (available also as long-options)" 
.PP 
Note: `rxvt --help\&' gives a list of all resources (long options) compiled
into your version\&.
.PP 
There are two different methods that rxvt can use to get the
Xresource data: using the X libraries (Xrm*-functions) or internal Xresources
reader (\fB~/\&.Xdefaults\fP)\&.  For the first method (ie\&. \fBrxvt -h\fP lists
\fBXGetDefaults\fP), you can set and change the resources using X11
tools like \fBxset\fP\&. Many distribution do also load settings from the
\fB~/\&.Xresources\fP file when X starts\&.
.PP 
If compiled with internal Xresources support (i\&.e\&. \fBrxvt
-h\fP lists \fB\&.Xdefaults\fP) then \fBrxvt\fP accepts application
defaults set in XAPPLOADDIR/URxvt (compile-time defined: usually
\fB/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/URxvt\fP) and resources set in
\fB~/\&.Xdefaults\fP, or \fB~/\&.Xresources\fP if \fB~/\&.Xdefaults\fP does not exist\&.
Note that when reading X resources, \fBrxvt\fP recognizes two class
names: \fBXTerm\fP and \fBURxvt\fP\&.  The class name \fBRxvt\fP allows resources
common to both \fBrxvt\fP and the original \fIrxvt\fP to be easily configured,
while the class name \fBURxvt\fP allows resources unique to \fBrxvt\fP,
notably colours and key-handling, to be shared between different
\fBrxvt\fP configurations\&.  If no resources are specified, suitable
defaults will be used\&.  Command-line arguments can be used to override
resource settings\&.  The following resources are allowed:
.PP 
.IP "\fBgeometry:\fP \fIgeom\fP" 
Create the window with the specified X window geometry [default
80x24];
option \fB-geometry\fP\&.
.IP "\fBbackground:\fP \fIcolour\fP" 
Use the specified colour as the window\&'s background colour [default
White];
option \fB-bg\fP\&.
.IP "\fBforeground:\fP \fIcolour\fP" 
Use the specified colour as the window\&'s foreground colour [default
Black];
option \fB-fg\fP\&.
.IP "\fBcolor\fP\fIn\fP\fB:\fP \fIcolour\fP" 
Use the specified colour for the colour value \fIn\fP, where 0-7
corresponds to low-intensity (normal) colours and 8-15 corresponds to
high-intensity (bold = bright foreground, blink = bright
background) colours\&.  The canonical names are as follows:
0=black, 1=red, 2=green, 3=yellow, 4=blue, 5=magenta, 6=cyan, 7=white,
but the actual colour names used are listed in the
\fBCOLORS AND GRAPHICS\fP section\&.
.IP "\fBcolorBD:\fP \fIcolour\fP" 
Use the specified colour to display bold characters when the
foreground colour is the default\&.
This option will be ignored if \fBrealBold\fP is enabled\&.
.IP "\fBcolorUL:\fP \fIcolour\fP" 
Use the specified colour to display underlined characters when the
foreground colour is the default\&.
.IP "\fBcolorRV:\fP \fIcolour\fP" 
Use the specified colour as the background for reverse video
characters\&.
.IP "\fBcursorColor:\fP \fIcolour\fP" 
Use the specified colour for the cursor\&.  The default is to use the
foreground colour;
option \fB-cr\fP\&.
.IP "\fBcursorColor2:\fP \fIcolour\fP" 
Use the specified colour for the colour of the cursor text\&.  For this
to take effect, \fBcursorColor\fP must also be specified\&.  The default
is to use the background colour\&.
.IP "\fBreverseVideo:\fP \fIboolean\fP" 
\fBTrue\fP: simulate reverse video by foreground and background colours;
option \fB-rv\fP\&.
\fBFalse\fP: regular screen colours [default];
option \fB+rv\fP\&.
See note in \fBCOLORS AND GRAPHICS\fP section\&.
.IP "\fBjumpScroll:\fP \fIboolean\fP" 
\fBTrue\fP: specify that jump scrolling should be used\&.  When scrolling
quickly, fewer screen updates are performed [default];
option \fB-j\fP\&.
\fBFalse\fP: specify that smooth scrolling should be used;
option \fB+j\fP\&.
.IP "\fBinheritPixmap:\fP \fIboolean\fP" 
\fBTrue\fP: make the background inherit the parent windows\&' pixmap,
giving artificial transparency\&.
\fBFalse\fP: do not inherit the parent windows\&' pixmap\&.
.IP "\fBfading:\fP \fInumber\fP" 
Fade the text by the given percentage when focus is lost\&.
.IP "\fBtintColor:\fP \fIcolour\fP" 
Tint the transparent background pixmap with the given colour\&.
.IP "\fBshading:\fP \fInumber\fP" 
Darken (0 \&.\&. 100) or lighten (-1 \&.\&. -100) the transparent background
image in addition to tinting it\&.
.IP "\fBfading:\fP \fInumber\fP" 
Scale the tint colour by the given percentage\&.
.IP "\fBscrollColor:\fP \fIcolour\fP" 
Use the specified colour for the scrollbar [default #B2B2B2]\&.
.IP "\fBtroughColor:\fP \fIcolour\fP" 
Use the specified colour for the scrollbar\&'s trough area [default
#969696]\&.  Only relevant for normal (non XTerm/NeXT) scrollbar\&.
.IP "\fBbackgroundPixmap:\fP \fIfile[;geom]\fP" 
Use the specified XPM file (note the `\&.xpm\&' extension is optional)
for the background and also optionally specify its scaling with a
geometry string \fBWxH+X+Y\fP, in which \fB"W" / "H"\fP specify the
horizontal/vertical scale (percent) and \fB"X" / "Y"\fP locate the
image centre (percent)\&.  A scale of 0 displays the image with tiling\&.
A scale of 1 displays the image without any scaling\&.  A scale of 2 to
9 specifies an integer number of images in that direction\&.  No image
will be magnified beyond 10 times its original size\&.  The maximum
permitted scale is 1000\&.  [default 0x0+50+50]
.IP "\fBmenu:\fP \fIfile[;tag]\fP" 
Read in the specified menu file (note the `\&.menu\&' extension is
optional) and also optionally specify a starting tag to find\&.  See
the reference documentation for details on the syntax for the menuBar\&.
.IP "\fBpath:\fP \fIpath\fP" 
Specify the colon-delimited search path for finding files (XPM and
menus), in addition to the paths specified by the \fBRXVTPATH\fP and
\fBPATH\fP environment variables\&.
.IP "\fBfont:\fP \fIfontname\fP" 
Select the fonts to be used\&.
This is a comma seperated list of font names that are used in turn when
trying to display Unicode characters\&.
The first font defines the cell size for characters; other fonts might
be smaller, but not larger\&.
A reasonable default font list is always appended to it\&.
option \fB-fn\fP\&.
.IP "\fBrealBold:\fP \fIboolean\fP" 
\fBTrue\fP: Enable "real bold" support\&.
When this option is on, bold text will be displayed using the first
available bold font in the font list\&.
Bold fonts should thus be specified in the font list after their
corresponding regular fonts\&.
If no bold font can be found, a regular font will be used\&.
option \fB-rb\fP\&.
\fBFalse\fP: Display bold text in a regular font, using the color
specified with \fBcolorBD\fP;
option \fB+rb\fP\&.
.IP "\fBselectstyle:\fP \fImode\fP" 
Set mouse selection style to \fBold\fP which is 2\&.20, \fBoldword\fP which
is xterm style with 2\&.20 old word selection, or anything else which
gives xterm style selection\&.
.IP "\fBscrollstyle:\fP \fImode\fP" 
Set scrollbar style to \fBrxvt\fP, \fBrxvt\fP, \fBplain\fP, \fBnext\fP or \fBxterm\fP
.IP "\fBtitle:\fP \fIstring\fP" 
Set window title string, the default title is the command-line
specified after the \fB-e\fP option, if any, otherwise the application
name;
option \fB-title\fP\&.
.IP "\fBiconName:\fP \fIstring\fP" 
Set the name used to label the window\&'s icon or displayed in an icon
manager window, it also sets the window\&'s title unless it is
explicitly set;
option \fB-n\fP\&.
.IP "\fBmapAlert:\fP \fIboolean\fP" 
\fBTrue\fP: de-iconify (map) on receipt of a bell character\&.
\fBFalse\fP: no de-iconify (map) on receipt of a bell character
[default]\&.
.IP "\fBvisualBell:\fP \fIboolean\fP" 
\fBTrue\fP: use visual bell on receipt of a bell character;
option \fB-vb\fP\&.
\fBFalse\fP: no visual bell [default];
option \fB+vb\fP\&.
.IP "\fBloginShell:\fP \fIboolean\fP" 
\fBTrue\fP: start as a login shell by prepending a `-\&' to \fBargv[0]\fP
of the shell;
option \fB-ls\fP\&.
\fBFalse\fP: start as a normal sub-shell [default];
option \fB+ls\fP\&.
.IP "\fButmpInhibit:\fP \fIboolean\fP" 
\fBTrue\fP: inhibit writing record into the system log file \fButmp\fP;
option \fB-ut\fP\&.
\fBFalse\fP: write record into the system log file \fButmp\fP [default];
option \fB+ut\fP\&.
.IP "\fBprint-pipe:\fP \fIstring\fP" 
Specify a command pipe for vt100 printer [default \fIlpr(1)\fP]\&.  Use
\fBPrint\fP to initiate a screen dump to the printer and \fBCtrl-Print\fP
or \fBShift-Print\fP to include the scrollback as well\&.
.IP "\fBscrollBar:\fP \fIboolean\fP" 
\fBTrue\fP: enable the scrollbar [default];
option \fB-sb\fP\&.
\fBFalse\fP: disable the scrollbar;
option \fB+sb\fP\&.
.IP "\fBscrollBar_right:\fP \fIboolean\fP" 
\fBTrue\fP: place the scrollbar on the right of the window;
option \fB-sr\fP\&.
\fBFalse\fP: place the scrollbar on the left of the window;
option \fB+sr\fP\&.
.IP "\fBscrollBar_floating:\fP \fIboolean\fP" 
\fBTrue\fP: display an rxvt scrollbar without a trough;
option \fB-st\fP\&.
\fBFalse\fP: display an rxvt scrollbar with a trough;
option \fB+st\fP\&.
.IP "\fBscrollBar_align:\fP \fImode\fP" 
Align the \fBtop\fP, \fBbottom\fP or \fBcentre\fP [default] of
the scrollbar thumb with the pointer on middle button
press/drag\&.
.IP "\fBscrollTtyOutput:\fP \fIboolean\fP" 
\fBTrue\fP: scroll to bottom when tty receives output;
option(+si)\&.
\fBFalse\fP: do not scroll to bottom when tty receives output;
option(-si)\&.
.IP "\fBscrollWithBuffer:\fP \fIboolean\fP" 
\fBTrue\fP: scroll with scrollback buffer when tty recieves
new lines (and \fBscrollTtyOutput\fP is False);
option(+sw)\&.
\fBFalse\fP: do not scroll with scrollback buffer when tty
recieves new lines;
option(-sw)\&.
.IP "\fBscrollTtyKeypress:\fP \fIboolean\fP" 
\fBTrue\fP: scroll to bottom when a non-special key is pressed\&.
Special keys are those which are intercepted by rxvt for special
handling and are not passed onto the shell;
option(-sk)\&.
\fBFalse\fP: do not scroll to bottom when a non-special key is pressed;
option(+sk)\&.
.IP "\fBsmallfont_key:\fP \fIkeysym\fP" 
If enabled, use \fBAlt-\fP\fIkeysym\fP to toggle to a smaller font
[default \fBAlt-<\fP]
.IP "\fBbigfont_key:\fP \fIkeysym\fP" 
If enabled, use \fBAlt-\fP\fIkeysym\fP to toggle to a bigger font
[default \fBAlt->\fP]
.IP "\fBsaveLines:\fP \fInumber\fP" 
Save \fInumber\fP lines in the scrollback buffer [default 64]\&.  This
resource is limited on most machines to 65535;
option \fB-sl\fP\&.
.IP "\fBinternalBorder:\fP \fInumber\fP" 
Internal border of \fInumber\fP pixels\&. This resource is limited to 100;
option \fB-b\fP\&.
.IP "\fBexternalBorder:\fP \fInumber\fP" 
External border of \fInumber\fP pixels\&.  This resource is limited to 100;
option \fB-w\fP, \fB-bw\fP, \fB-borderwidth\fP\&.
.IP "\fBtermName:\fP \fItermname\fP" 
Specifies the terminal type name to be set in the \fBTERM\fP
environment variable;
option \fB-tn\fP\&.
.IP "\fBlinespace:\fP \fInumber\fP" 
Specifies number of lines (pixel height) to insert between each row
of the display [default 0];
option \fB-lsp\fP\&.
.IP "\fBmeta8:\fP \fIboolean\fP" 
\fBTrue\fP: handle Meta (Alt) + keypress to set the 8th bit\&.
\fBFalse\fP: handle Meta (Alt) + keypress as an escape prefix [default]\&.
.IP "\fBmouseWheelScrollPage:\fP \fIboolean\fP" 
\fBTrue\fP: the mouse wheel scrolls a page full\&.
\fBFalse\fP: the mouse wheel scrolls five lines [default]\&.
.IP "\fBcursorBlink:\fP \fIboolean\fP" 
\fBTrue\fP: blink the cursor\&.
\fBFalse\fP: do not blink the cursor [default];
option \fB-bc\fP\&.
.IP "\fBpointerBlank:\fP \fIboolean\fP" 
\fBTrue\fP: blank the pointer when a key is pressed or after a set number
of seconds of inactivity\&.
\fBFalse\fP: the pointer is always visible [default]\&.
.IP "\fBpointerColor:\fP \fIcolour\fP" 
Mouse pointer foreground colour\&.
.IP "\fBpointerColor2:\fP \fIcolour\fP" 
Mouse pointer background colour\&.
.IP "\fBpointerBlankDelay:\fP \fInumber\fP" 
Specifies number of seconds before blanking the pointer [default 2]\&.
.IP "\fBbackspacekey:\fP \fIstring\fP" 
The string to send when the backspace key is pressed\&.  If set to
\fBDEC\fP or unset it will send \fBDelete\fP (code 127) or, if shifted,
\fBBackspace\fP (code 8) - which can be reversed with the appropriate
DEC private mode escape sequence\&.
.IP "\fBdeletekey:\fP \fIstring\fP" 
The string to send when the delete key (not the keypad delete key) is
pressed\&.  If unset it will send the sequence traditionally associated
with the \fBExecute\fP key\&.
.IP "\fBcutchars:\fP \fIstring\fP" 
The characters used as delimiters for double-click word selection\&. 
The built-in default: 
.br 
\fBBACKSLASH `"\&'&()*,;<=>?@[]{|}\fP
.IP "\fBpreeditType:\fP \fIstyle\fP" 
\fBOverTheSpot\fP, \fBOffTheSpot\fP, \fBRoot\fP;
option \fB-pt\fP\&.
.IP "\fBinputMethod:\fP \fIname\fP" 
\fIname\fP of inputMethod to use;
option \fB-im\fP\&.
.IP "\fBimLocale:\fP \fIname\fP" 
The locale to use for opening the IM\&. You can use an LC_CTYPE
of e\&.g\&. de_DE\&.UTF-8 for normal text processing but ja_JP\&.EUC-JP
for the input extension to be able to input japanese characters
while staying in another locale\&.
option \fB-imlocale\fP\&.
.IP "\fBinsecure\fP" 
Enables "insecure" mode\&. Rxvt-unicode offers some escape sequences
that echo arbitrary strings like the icon name or the locale\&. This
could be abused if somebody gets 8-bit-clean access to your
display, wether throuh a mail client displaying mail bodies
unfiltered or though write(1)\&. Therefore, these sequences are
disabled by default\&.  (Note that other terminals, including xterm,
have these sequences enabled by default)\&. You can enable them
by setting this boolean resource or specifying \fB-insecure\fP as
an option\&. At the moment, this enabled display-answer, locale,
findfont, icon label and window title requests as well as dynamic
menubar dispatch\&.
.IP "\fBmodifier:\fP \fImodifier\fP" 
Set the key to be interpreted as the Meta key to:
\fBalt\fP, \fBmeta\fP, \fBhyper\fP, \fBsuper\fP, \fBmod1\fP, \fBmod2\fP, \fBmod3\fP,
\fBmod4\fP, \fBmod5\fP;
option \fB-mod\fP\&.
.IP "\fBanswerbackString:\fP \fIstring\fP" 
Specify the reply rxvt sends to the shell when an ENQ (control-E)
character is passed through\&.  It may contain escape values as
described in the entry on \fBkeysym\fP following\&.
.IP "\fBsecondaryScreen:\fP \fIbool\fP" 
Turn on/off secondary screen (default enabled)\&.
.IP "\fBsecondaryScroll:\fP \fIbool\fP" 
Turn on/off secondary screen scroll (default enabled)\&. If
the this option is enabled, scrolls on the secondary screen will
change the scrollback buffer and switching to/from the secondary screen
will instead scroll the screen up\&.
.IP "\fBkeysym\&.\fP\fIsym\fP: \fIstring\fP" 
Associate \fIstring\fP with keysym \fIsym\fP (\fB0xFF00 - 0xFFFF\fP)\&.  It
may contain escape values (\ea: bell, \eb: backspace, \ee, \eE: escape,
\en: newline, \er: return, \et: tab, \e000: octal number) or control
characters (^?: delete, ^@: null, ^A \&.\&.\&.) and may enclosed with
double quotes so that it can start or end with whitespace\&.  The
intervening resource name \fBkeysym\&.\fP cannot be omitted\&.  This
resource is only available when compiled with KEYSYM_RESOURCE\&.
.SH "THE SCROLLBAR" 
.PP 
Lines of text that scroll off the top of the \fBrxvt\fP window (resource:
\fBsaveLines\fP) and can be scrolled back using the scrollbar or by keystrokes\&. 
The normal \fBrxvt\fP scrollbar has arrows and its behaviour is fairly
intuitive\&.  The \fBxterm-scrollbar\fP is without arrows and its behaviour
mimics that of \fIxterm\fP
.PP 
Scroll down with \fBButton1\fP (\fBxterm-scrollbar\fP) or \fBShift-Next\fP\&.
Scroll up with \fBButton3\fP (\fBxterm-scrollbar\fP) or \fBShift-Prior\fP\&.
Continuous scroll with \fBButton2\fP\&.
.SH "MOUSE REPORTING" 
.PP 
To temporarily override mouse reporting, for either the scrollbar or the
normal text selection/insertion, hold either the Shift or the Meta (Alt) key
while performing the desired mouse action\&.
.PP 
If mouse reporting mode is active, the normal scrollbar actions are disabled
-- on the assumption that we are using a fullscreen application\&.
Instead, pressing Button1 and Button3 sends
\fBESC[6~\fP (Next) and \fBESC[5~\fP (Prior), respectively\&.
Similarly, clicking on the up and down arrows sends \fBESC[A\fP (Up) and
\fBESC[B\fP (Down), respectively\&.
.SH "TEXT SELECTION AND INSERTION" 
.PP 
The behaviour of text selection and insertion mechanism is similar to
\fIxterm\fP(1)\&.
.PP 
.IP "\fBSelection\fP:" 
Left click at the beginning of the region, drag to the end of the
region and release; Right click to extend the marked region;
Left double-click to select a word; Left triple-click to select
the entire line\&.
.IP "\fBInsertion\fP:" 
Pressing and releasing the Middle mouse button (or \fBShift-Insert\fP)
in an \fBrxvt\fP window causes the current text selection to be inserted
as if it had been typed on the keyboard\&.
.SH "CHANGING FONTS" 
.PP 
You can change fonts on-the-fly, which is to say cycle through the default
font and others of various sizes, by using \fBShift-KP_Add\fP and
\fBShift-KP_Subtract\fP\&.  Or, alternatively (if enabled) with
\fBAlt->\fP and \fBAlt-<\fP, where the actual key
can be selected using resources \fBsmallfont_key\fP/\fBbigfont_key\fP\&.
.SH "LOGIN STAMP" 
.PP 
\fBrxvt\fP tries to write an entry into the \fIutmp\fP(5) file so that it can be
seen via the \fIwho(1)\fP command, and can accept messages\&.  To allow this
feature, \fBrxvt\fP must be installed setuid root on some systems\&.
.SH "COLORS AND GRAPHICS" 
.PP 
In addition to the default foreground and background colours, \fBrxvt\fP
can display up to 16 colours (8 ANSI colours plus high-intensity bold/blink
versions of the same)\&.
Here is a list of the colours with their \fBrgb\&.txt\fP names\&.
.PP 
.TS 
tab(`); 
l l l .
\fBcolor0\fP `\ (black) `\ = Black 
\fBcolor1\fP `\ (red) `\ = Red3 
\fBcolor2\fP `\ (green) `\ = Green3 
\fBcolor3\fP `\ (yellow) `\ = Yellow3 
\fBcolor4\fP `\ (blue) `\ = Blue3 
\fBcolor5\fP `\ (magenta) `\ = Magenta3 
\fBcolor6\fP `\ (cyan) `\ = Cyan3 
\fBcolor7\fP `\ (white) `\ = AntiqueWhite 
\fBcolor8\fP `\ (bright black) `\ = Grey25 
\fBcolor9\fP `\ (bright red) `\ = Red 
\fBcolor10\fP `\ (bright green) `\ = Green 
\fBcolor11\fP `\ (bright yellow) `\ = Yellow 
\fBcolor12\fP `\ (bright blue) `\ = Blue 
\fBcolor13\fP `\ (bright magenta) `\ = Magenta 
\fBcolor14\fP `\ (bright cyan) `\ = Cyan 
\fBcolor15\fP `\ (bright white) `\ = White 
\fBforeground\fP `\  `\ = Black 
\fBbackground\fP `\  `\ = White 
.TE 
.PP 
It is also possible to specify the colour values of \fBforeground\fP,
\fBbackground\fP, \fBcursorColor\fP, \fBcursorColor2\fP, \fBcolorBD\fP, \fBcolorUL\fP
as a number 0-15, as a convenient shorthand to reference the colour name of
color0-color15\&.
.PP 
Note that \fB-rv\fP (\fB"reverseVideo: True"\fP) simulates reverse video by
always swapping the foreground/background colours\&.  This is in contrast to
\fIxterm\fP(1) where the colours are only swapped if they have not otherwise been
specified\&.
For example,
.PP 
.IP "\fBrxvt -fg Black -bg White -rv\fP" 
would yield White on Black, while on \fIxterm\fP(1) it would yield
Black on White\&.
.SH "ENVIRONMENT" 
.PP 
\fBrxvt\fP sets the environment variables \fBTERM\fP, \fBCOLORTERM\fP and
\fBCOLORFGBG\fP\&.  The environment variable \fBWINDOWID\fP is set to the X window
id number of the \fBrxvt\fP window and it also uses and sets the environment
variable \fBDISPLAY\fP to specify which display terminal to use\&.  \fBrxvt\fP uses
the environment variables \fBRXVTPATH\fP and \fBPATH\fP to find XPM files\&.
.SH "FILES" 
.PP 
.IP "\fB/etc/utmp\fP" 
System file for login records\&.
.IP "\fB/usr/lib/X11/rgb\&.txt\fP" 
Color names\&.
.PP 
.SH "SEE ALSO" 
.PP 
\fIxterm\fP(1), \fIsh\fP(1), \fIresize\fP(1), \fIX\fP(1), \fIpty\fP(4), \fItty\fP(4),
\fIutmp\fP(5)
.PP 
See rxvtRef\&.html rxvtRef\&.txt for detailed information on recognized escape
sequences and menuBar syntax, etc\&.
.PP 
.SH "BUGS" 
.PP 
Check the BUGS file for an up-to-date list\&.
.PP 
Cursor change support is not yet implemented\&.
.PP 
Click-and-drag doesn\&'t work with X11 mouse report overriding\&.
.PP 
.SH "FTP LOCATION" 
.PP 
rxvt-3\&.4\&.tar\&.gz can be found at the following ftp sites
ftp://ftp\&.rxvt\&.org/pub/rxvt
.PP 
.SH "CURRENT PROJECT COORDINATOR" 
.PP 
.IP "Project Coordinator" 
Marc A\&. Lehmann <rxvt@schmorp\&.de>
.br 
.IP "Web page maintainter" 
Marc A\&. Lehmann <rxvt@schmorp\&.de>
.br 
<http://www\&.sourceforge\&.net/projects/rxvt-unicode/>
.br 
.PP 
.SH "AUTHORS" 
.PP 
.IP "John Bovey" 
University of Kent, 1992, wrote the original Xvt\&.
.IP "Rob Nation <nation@rocket\&.sanders\&.lockheed\&.com>" 
very heavily modified Xvt and came up with Rxvt
.IP "Angelo Haritsis <ah@doc\&.ic\&.ac\&.uk>" 
wrote the Greek Keyboard Input (no longer in code)
.IP "mj olesen <olesen@me\&.QueensU\&.CA>" 
Wrote the menu system\&. 
.br 
Project Coordinator (changes\&.txt 2\&.11 to 2\&.21)
.IP "Oezguer Kesim <kesim@math\&.fu-berlin\&.de>" 
Project Coordinator (changes\&.txt 2\&.21a to 2\&.4\&.5)
.IP "Geoff Wing <gcw@pobox\&.com>" 
Rewrote screen display and text selection routines\&.
Project Coordinator (changes\&.txt 2\&.4\&.6 - rxvt-unicode)
.IP "Marc Alexander Lehmann <rxvt@schmorp\&.de>" 
Forked rxvt-unicode, rewrote most of the display code and
internal character handling to store text in unicode,
improve xterm compatibility and apply numerous other bugfixes
and extensions\&. 
.br 
Project Coordinator (Changes 1\&.0 - )
.PP 
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