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 will use
66 the private use area, extending the number of combinations to 8448).
67 With --enable-unicode3, no practical limit exists. This will also
68 enable storage of characters >65535.
70 The combining table also contains entries for arabic presentation
71 forms, but these are not currently used. Bug me if you want these to
74 --enable-fallback(=CLASS)
75 When reading resource settings, also read settings for class CLASS
76 (default: Rxvt). To disable resource fallback use
80 Use the given name (default: urxvt) as default application name when
81 reading resources. Specify --with-res-name=rxvt to replace rxvt.
83 --with-res-class=CLASS
84 Use the given class (default: URxvt) as default application class
85 when reading resources. Specify --with-res-class=Rxvt to replace
89 Write user and tty to utmp file (used by programs like w) at start
90 of rxvt execution and delete information when rxvt exits.
93 Write user and tty to wtmp file (used by programs like last) at
94 start of rxvt execution and write logout when rxvt exits. This
95 option requires --enable-utmp to also be specified.
98 Write user and tty to lastlog file (used by programs like lastlogin)
99 at start of rxvt execution. This option requires --enable-utmp to
102 --enable-xpm-background
103 Add support for XPM background pixmaps.
105 --enable-transparency
106 Add support for inheriting parent backgrounds thus giving a fake
107 transparency to the term.
110 Add support for fading the text when focus is lost.
113 Add support for tinting of transparent backgrounds.
116 Add support for our menu bar system (this interacts badly with
117 dynamic locale switching currently).
120 Add support for the original rxvt scrollbar.
123 Add support for a NeXT-like scrollbar.
125 --enable-xterm-scroll
126 Add support for an Xterm-like scrollbar.
128 --enable-plain-scroll
129 Add support for a very unobtrusive, plain-looking scrollbar that is
130 the favourite of the rxvt-unicode author, having used it for many
134 Make shadows on the scrollbar only half the normal width & height.
135 only applicable to rxvt scrollbars.
138 Change tty device setting to group "tty" - only use this if your
139 system uses this type of security.
141 --disable-backspace-key
142 Disable any handling of the backspace key by us - let the X server
146 Disable any handling of the delete key by us - let the X server do
150 Remove all resources checking.
153 Make resources checking via XGetDefault() instead of our small
154 version which only checks ~/.Xdefaults, or if that doesn't exist
157 Please note that nowadays, things like XIM will automatically pull
158 in and use the full X resource manager, so the overhead of using it
159 might be very small, if nonexistant.
162 Add support for our possibly faster memset() function and other
163 various routines, overriding your system's versions which may have
164 been hand-crafted in assembly or may require extra libraries to link
165 in. (this breaks ANSI-C rules and has problems on many GNU/Linux
169 Remove support for swap screen.
172 Add support for many small features that are not essential but nice
173 to have. Normally you want this, but for very small binaries you may
174 want to disable this.
176 A non-exhaustive list of features enabled by "--enable-frills"
177 (possibly in combination with other switches) is:
180 seperate underline colour
181 settable border widths and borderless switch
182 settable extra linespacing
183 extra window properties (e.g. UTF-8 window names and PID)
184 iso-14755-2 and -3, and visual feedback
185 backindex and forwardindex escape sequence
186 window op and locale change escape sequences
188 settable insecure mode
189 keysym remapping support
192 Enable extended ISO 14755 support (see rxvt(1), or doc/rxvt.1.txt).
193 Basic support (section 5.1) is enabled by "--enable-frills", while
194 support for 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4 is enabled with this switch.
196 --enable-keepscrolling
197 Add support for continual scrolling of the display when you hold the
198 mouse button down on a scrollbar arrow.
201 Add support for scrolling via mouse wheel or buttons 4 & 5.
203 --enable-slipwheeling
204 Add support for continual scrolling (using the mouse wheel as an
205 accelerator) while the control key is held down. This option
206 requires --enable-mousewheel to also be specified.
208 --disable-new-selection
209 Remove support for mouse selection style like that of xterm.
212 Use Gray Watson's malloc - which is good for debugging See
213 http://www.letters.com/dmalloc/ for details If you use either this
214 or the next option, you may need to edit src/Makefile after
215 compiling to point DINCLUDE and DLIB to the right places.
217 You can only use either this option and the following (should you
221 Use Doug Lea's malloc - which is good for a production version See
222 <http://g.oswego.edu/dl/html/malloc.html> for details.
224 --enable-smart-resize
225 Add smart growth/shrink behaviour when changing font size via from
226 hot keys. This should keep in a fixed position the rxvt corner which
227 is closest to a corner of the screen.
229 --enable-cursor-blink
230 Add support for a blinking cursor.
232 --enable-pointer-blank
233 Add support to have the pointer disappear when typing or inactive.
236 Set the basename for the installed binaries (default: "urxvt",
237 resulting in "urxvt", "urxvtd" etc.). Specify "--with-name=rxvt" to
241 Change the environmental variable for the terminal to NAME (default
245 Change the environmental variable for the path to the terminfo tree
249 Use the X Window System (pretty much default, eh?).
251 --with-xpm-includes=DIR
252 Look for the XPM includes in DIR.
254 --with-xpm-library=DIR
255 Look for the XPM library in DIR.
258 Not needed - define via --enable-xpm-background.