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Revision: 1.3
Committed: Thu Feb 2 00:24:14 2006 UTC (20 years, 8 months ago) by root
Content type: text/html
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: rel-7_7, rel-7_6
Changes since 1.2: +11 -0 lines
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# User Rev Content
1 root 1.1 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
2     <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
3     <head>
4     <title>rxvtc - control the rxvtd daemon</title>
5     <link rev="made" href="mailto:perl-binary@plan9.de" />
6     </head>
7    
8     <body style="background-color: white">
9    
10     <p><a name="__index__"></a></p>
11     <!-- INDEX BEGIN -->
12    
13     <ul>
14    
15     <li><a href="#name">NAME</a></li>
16     <li><a href="#synopsis">SYNOPSIS</a></li>
17     <li><a href="#description">DESCRIPTION</a></li>
18     <li><a href="#options">OPTIONS</a></li>
19 root 1.3 <li><a href="#exit_status">EXIT STATUS</a></li>
20 root 1.1 <li><a href="#environment">ENVIRONMENT</a></li>
21     <li><a href="#see_also">SEE ALSO</a></li>
22     </ul>
23     <!-- INDEX END -->
24    
25     <hr />
26     <p>
27     </p>
28     <h1><a name="name">NAME</a></h1>
29     <p>rxvtc - control the rxvtd daemon</p>
30     <p>
31     </p>
32     <hr />
33     <h1><a name="synopsis">SYNOPSIS</a></h1>
34     <p><strong>rxvtc</strong> [same options as for rxvt]</p>
35     <p>
36     </p>
37     <hr />
38     <h1><a name="description">DESCRIPTION</a></h1>
39     <p>This manpage describes the <strong>rxvtc</strong> client program. It connects
40     to the <strong>rxvtd</strong> daemon and requests a new terminal window. It
41     takes the same arguments as the <strong>rxvt</strong> program. The environment
42     will also be respected. Currently, it always returns immediately after
43     contacting the daemon.</p>
44     <p>
45     </p>
46     <hr />
47     <h1><a name="options">OPTIONS</a></h1>
48     <p>All options that are valid for <strong>rxvt</strong> are valid for
49     <strong>rxvtc</strong>, too. Please note that all options are currently
50     interpreted in the context of the daemon process, which makes a difference
51     for options that specify a file descriptor (such as <strong>-pty-fd</strong>).</p>
52     <p>
53     </p>
54     <hr />
55 root 1.3 <h1><a name="exit_status">EXIT STATUS</a></h1>
56     <p>If everything went well, rxvtc returns with an exit status of <code>0</code>.
57     If contacting the daemon fails, it exits with the exit status <code>2</code>. In all other error
58     cases it returns with status <code>1</code>.</p>
59     <p>This can be used to implement auto-starting behaviour, by checking for an
60     exit status of <code>2</code>, running <code>rxvtd -f -q</code> and retrying the call
61     to rxvtc.</p>
62     <p>
63     </p>
64     <hr />
65 root 1.1 <h1><a name="environment">ENVIRONMENT</a></h1>
66     <p>All environment variables of the current process will be made available
67     to the new instance, and will be interpreted as if <strong>rxvt</strong> were
68     started directly.</p>
69     <dl>
70     <dt><strong><a name="item_rxvt_socket"><strong>RXVT_SOCKET</strong></a></strong><br />
71     </dt>
72     <dd>
73     Both rxvtc and rxvtd use the environment variable
74 root 1.2 <em>RXVT_SOCKET</em> to create a listening socket and to contact the
75     rxvtd, respectively. If the variable is missing,
76     <em>$HOME/.rxvt-unicode-<em>&lt;nodename</em> </em>&gt; &gt;&gt;&gt; is used. The variable must
77     specify the absolute path of the socket to create.
78 root 1.1 </dd>
79     <p></p></dl>
80     <p>
81     </p>
82     <hr />
83     <h1><a name="see_also">SEE ALSO</a></h1>
84     <p>rxvt(7), <code>rxvtd(1)</code></p>
85    
86     </body>
87    
88     </html>