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, vn
26 are always compiled in, which includes most 8-bit character sets).
27 These codeset tables are currently only used for driving X11 core
28 fonts, they are not required for Xft fonts. Compiling them in will
29 make your binary bigger (together about 700kB), but it doesn't
30 increase memory usage unless you use an X11 font requiring one of
33 all all available codeset groups
34 zh common chinese encodings
35 zh_ext rarely used but very big chinese encodigs
36 jp common japanese encodings
37 jp_ext rarely used but big japanese encodings
41 Add support for XIM (X Input Method) protocol. This allows using
42 alternative input methods (e.g. kinput2) and will also correctly set
43 up the input for people using dead keys or compose keys.
46 Enable direct support for displaying unicode codepoints above 65535
47 (the basic multilingual page). This increases storage requirements
48 per character from 2 to 4 bytes. X11 fonts do not yet support these
49 extra characters, but Xft does.
51 Please note that rxvt-unicode can store unicode code points >65535
52 even without this flag, but the number of such characters is limited
53 to a view thousand (shared with combining characters, see next
54 switch), and right now rxvt-unicode cannot display them
55 (input/output and cut&paste still work, though).
58 Enable automatic composition of combining characters into composite
59 characters. This is required for proper viewing of text where
60 accents are encoded as seperate unicode characters. This is done by
61 using precomposited characters when available or creating new
62 pseudo-characters when no precomposed form exists.
64 Without --enable-unicode3, the number of additional precomposed
65 characters is rather limited (2048, if this is full, rxvt-unicode
66 will use the private use area, extending the number of combinations
67 to 8448). With --enable-unicode3, no practical limit exists.
69 This option will also enable storage (but not display) of characters
70 beyond plane 0 (>65535) when --enable-unicode3 was not specified.
72 The combining table also contains entries for arabic presentation
73 forms, but these are not currently used. Bug me if you want these to
74 be used (and tell me how these are to be used...).
76 --enable-fallback(=CLASS)
77 When reading resource settings, also read settings for class CLASS
78 (default: Rxvt). To disable resource fallback use
82 Use the given name (default: urxvt) as default application name when
83 reading resources. Specify --with-res-name=rxvt to replace rxvt.
85 --with-res-class=CLASS
86 Use the given class (default: URxvt) as default application class
87 when reading resources. Specify --with-res-class=Rxvt to replace
91 Write user and tty to utmp file (used by programs like w) at start
92 of rxvt execution and delete information when rxvt exits.
95 Write user and tty to wtmp file (used by programs like last) at
96 start of rxvt execution and write logout when rxvt exits. This
97 option requires --enable-utmp to also be specified.
100 Write user and tty to lastlog file (used by programs like lastlogin)
101 at start of rxvt execution. This option requires --enable-utmp to
104 --enable-xpm-background
105 Add support for XPM background pixmaps.
107 --enable-transparency
108 Add support for inheriting parent backgrounds thus giving a fake
109 transparency to the term.
112 Add support for fading the text when focus is lost.
115 Add support for tinting of transparent backgrounds.
118 Add support for our menu bar system (this interacts badly with
119 dynamic locale switching currently).
122 Add support for the original rxvt scrollbar.
125 Add support for a NeXT-like scrollbar.
127 --enable-xterm-scroll
128 Add support for an Xterm-like scrollbar.
130 --enable-plain-scroll
131 Add support for a very unobtrusive, plain-looking scrollbar that is
132 the favourite of the rxvt-unicode author, having used it for many
136 Make shadows on the scrollbar only half the normal width & height.
137 only applicable to rxvt scrollbars.
140 Change tty device setting to group "tty" - only use this if your
141 system uses this type of security.
143 --disable-backspace-key
144 Disable any handling of the backspace key by us - let the X server
148 Disable any handling of the delete key by us - let the X server do
152 Remove all resources checking.
155 Make resources checking via XGetDefault() instead of our small
156 version which only checks ~/.Xdefaults, or if that doesn't exist
159 Please note that nowadays, things like XIM will automatically pull
160 in and use the full X resource manager, so the overhead of using it
161 might be very small, if nonexistant.
164 Add support for our possibly faster memset() function and other
165 various routines, overriding your system's versions which may have
166 been hand-crafted in assembly or may require extra libraries to link
167 in. (this breaks ANSI-C rules and has problems on many GNU/Linux
171 Remove support for swap screen.
174 Add support for many small features that are not essential but nice
175 to have. Normally you want this, but for very small binaries you may
176 want to disable this.
178 A non-exhaustive list of features enabled by "--enable-frills"
179 (possibly in combination with other switches) is:
182 seperate underline colour
183 settable border widths and borderless switch
184 settable extra linespacing
185 extra window properties (e.g. UTF-8 window names and PID)
186 iso-14755-2 and -3, and visual feedback
187 backindex and forwardindex escape sequence
188 window op and locale change escape sequences
190 settable insecure mode
191 keysym remapping support
194 Enable extended ISO 14755 support (see rxvt(1), or doc/rxvt.1.txt).
195 Basic support (section 5.1) is enabled by "--enable-frills", while
196 support for 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4 is enabled with this switch.
198 --enable-keepscrolling
199 Add support for continual scrolling of the display when you hold the
200 mouse button down on a scrollbar arrow.
203 Add support for scrolling via mouse wheel or buttons 4 & 5.
205 --enable-slipwheeling
206 Add support for continual scrolling (using the mouse wheel as an
207 accelerator) while the control key is held down. This option
208 requires --enable-mousewheel to also be specified.
210 --disable-new-selection
211 Remove support for mouse selection style like that of xterm.
214 Use Gray Watson's malloc - which is good for debugging See
215 http://www.letters.com/dmalloc/ for details If you use either this
216 or the next option, you may need to edit src/Makefile after
217 compiling to point DINCLUDE and DLIB to the right places.
219 You can only use either this option and the following (should you
223 Use Doug Lea's malloc - which is good for a production version See
224 <http://g.oswego.edu/dl/html/malloc.html> for details.
226 --enable-smart-resize
227 Add smart growth/shrink behaviour when changing font size via from
228 hot keys. This should keep in a fixed position the rxvt corner which
229 is closest to a corner of the screen.
231 --enable-cursor-blink
232 Add support for a blinking cursor.
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.