2 General hint: if you get compile errors, then likely your configuration
3 hasn't been tested well. Either try with --enable-everything or use the
4 ./reconf script as a base for experiments. ./reconf is used by myself,
5 so it should generally be a working config. Of course, you should always
6 report when a combination doesn't work, so it can be fixed. Marc Lehmann
10 Add support for all non-multichoice options listed in "./configure
11 --help". Note that unlike other enable options this is order
12 dependant. You can specify this and then disable options which this
13 enables by *following* this with the appropriate commands.
16 Add support for Xft (anti-aliases, among others) fonts. Xft fonts
17 are slower and require lots of memory, but as long as you don't use
18 them, you don't pay for them.
21 Add support for bold, *italic* and *bold italic* font styles. The
22 fonts can be set manually or automatically.
24 --with-codesets=NAME,...
25 Compile in support for additional codeset (encoding) groups ("eu",
26 "vn" are always compiled in, which includes most 8-bit character
27 sets). These codeset tables are used for driving X11 core fonts,
28 they are not required for Xft fonts, although having them compiled
29 in lets rxvt-unicode choose replacement fonts more intelligently.
30 Compiling them in will make your binary bigger (all of together cost
31 about 700kB), but it doesn't increase memory usage unless you use a
32 font requiring one of these encodings.
34 all all available codeset groups
35 zh common chinese encodings
36 zh_ext rarely used but very big chinese encodigs
37 jp common japanese encodings
38 jp_ext rarely used but big japanese encodings
42 Add support for XIM (X Input Method) protocol. This allows using
43 alternative input methods (e.g. kinput2) and will also correctly set
44 up the input for people using dead keys or compose keys.
47 Enable direct support for displaying unicode codepoints above 65535
48 (the basic multilingual page). This increases storage requirements
49 per character from 2 to 4 bytes. X11 fonts do not yet support these
50 extra characters, but Xft does.
52 Please note that rxvt-unicode can store unicode code points >65535
53 even without this flag, but the number of such characters is limited
54 to a view thousand (shared with combining characters, see next
55 switch), and right now rxvt-unicode cannot display them
56 (input/output and cut&paste still work, though).
59 Enable automatic composition of combining characters into composite
60 characters. This is required for proper viewing of text where
61 accents are encoded as seperate unicode characters. This is done by
62 using precomposited characters when available or creating new
63 pseudo-characters when no precomposed form exists.
65 Without --enable-unicode3, the number of additional precomposed
66 characters is rather limited (2048, if this is full, rxvt-unicode
67 will use the private use area, extending the number of combinations
68 to 8448). With --enable-unicode3, no practical limit exists.
70 This option will also enable storage (but not display) of characters
71 beyond plane 0 (>65535) when --enable-unicode3 was not specified.
73 The combining table also contains entries for arabic presentation
74 forms, but these are not currently used. Bug me if you want these to
75 be used (and tell me how these are to be used...).
77 --enable-fallback(=CLASS)
78 When reading resource settings, also read settings for class CLASS
79 (default: Rxvt). To disable resource fallback use
83 Use the given name (default: urxvt) as default application name when
84 reading resources. Specify --with-res-name=rxvt to replace rxvt.
86 --with-res-class=CLASS
87 Use the given class (default: URxvt) as default application class
88 when reading resources. Specify --with-res-class=Rxvt to replace
92 Write user and tty to utmp file (used by programs like w) at start
93 of rxvt execution and delete information when rxvt exits.
96 Write user and tty to wtmp file (used by programs like last) at
97 start of rxvt execution and write logout when rxvt exits. This
98 option requires --enable-utmp to also be specified.
101 Write user and tty to lastlog file (used by programs like lastlogin)
102 at start of rxvt execution. This option requires --enable-utmp to
105 --enable-xpm-background
106 Add support for XPM background pixmaps.
108 --enable-transparency
109 Add support for inheriting parent backgrounds thus giving a fake
110 transparency to the term.
113 Add support for fading the text when focus is lost.
116 Add support for tinting of transparent backgrounds.
119 Add support for our menu bar system (this interacts badly with
120 dynamic locale switching currently).
123 Add support for the original rxvt scrollbar.
126 Add support for a NeXT-like scrollbar.
128 --enable-xterm-scroll
129 Add support for an Xterm-like scrollbar.
131 --enable-plain-scroll
132 Add support for a very unobtrusive, plain-looking scrollbar that is
133 the favourite of the rxvt-unicode author, having used it for many
137 Make shadows on the scrollbar only half the normal width & height.
138 only applicable to rxvt scrollbars.
141 Change tty device setting to group "tty" - only use this if your
142 system uses this type of security.
144 --disable-backspace-key
145 Disable any handling of the backspace key by us - let the X server
149 Disable any handling of the delete key by us - let the X server do
153 Remove all resources checking.
156 Make resources checking via XGetDefault() instead of our small
157 version which only checks ~/.Xdefaults, or if that doesn't exist
160 Please note that nowadays, things like XIM will automatically pull
161 in and use the full X resource manager, so the overhead of using it
162 might be very small, if nonexistant.
165 Add support for our possibly faster memset() function and other
166 various routines, overriding your system's versions which may have
167 been hand-crafted in assembly or may require extra libraries to link
168 in. (this breaks ANSI-C rules and has problems on many GNU/Linux
172 Remove support for swap screen.
175 Add support for many small features that are not essential but nice
176 to have. Normally you want this, but for very small binaries you may
177 want to disable this.
179 A non-exhaustive list of features enabled by "--enable-frills"
180 (possibly in combination with other switches) is:
183 EWMH-hints (pid, utf8 names) and protocols (ping)
184 seperate underline colour
185 settable border widths and borderless switch
186 settable extra linespacing
187 iso-14755-2 and -3, and visual feedback
188 backindex and forwardindex escape sequence
189 window op and some xterm/OSC escape sequences
191 settable insecure mode
192 keysym remapping support
193 cursor blinking and underline cursor
194 -embed and -pty-fd options
197 Enable extended ISO 14755 support (see rxvt(1), or doc/rxvt.1.txt).
198 Basic support (section 5.1) is enabled by "--enable-frills", while
199 support for 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4 is enabled with this switch.
201 --enable-keepscrolling
202 Add support for continual scrolling of the display when you hold the
203 mouse button down on a scrollbar arrow.
206 Add support for scrolling via mouse wheel or buttons 4 & 5.
208 --enable-slipwheeling
209 Add support for continual scrolling (using the mouse wheel as an
210 accelerator) while the control key is held down. This option
211 requires --enable-mousewheel to also be specified.
213 --disable-new-selection
214 Remove support for mouse selection style like that of xterm.
217 Use Gray Watson's malloc - which is good for debugging See
218 http://www.letters.com/dmalloc/ for details If you use either this
219 or the next option, you may need to edit src/Makefile after
220 compiling to point DINCLUDE and DLIB to the right places.
222 You can only use either this option and the following (should you
226 Use Doug Lea's malloc - which is good for a production version See
227 <http://g.oswego.edu/dl/html/malloc.html> for details.
229 --enable-smart-resize
230 Add smart growth/shrink behaviour when changing font size via from
231 hot keys. This should keep in a fixed position the rxvt corner which
232 is closest to a corner of the screen.
234 --enable-pointer-blank
235 Add support to have the pointer disappear when typing or inactive.
238 Set the basename for the installed binaries (default: "urxvt",
239 resulting in "urxvt", "urxvtd" etc.). Specify "--with-name=rxvt" to
243 Change the environmental variable for the terminal to NAME (default
247 Change the environmental variable for the path to the terminfo tree
251 Use the X Window System (pretty much default, eh?).
253 --with-xpm-includes=DIR
254 Look for the XPM includes in DIR.
256 --with-xpm-library=DIR
257 Look for the XPM library in DIR.
260 Not needed - define via --enable-xpm-background.