---enable-everything
- add support for all enable options marked with an asterisk listed
- in "./configure --help". Note that unlike other enable options this
- is order dependant. You can specify this and then disable options
- which this enables by _following_ this with the appropriate
- commands.
---enable-xft
- add support for xft (anti-aliases, among others) fonts. xft fonts are
- slower and require lots of memory, but as long as you don't use them,
- you don't pay for them.
---with-codesets=NAME,...
- compile in support for additional codeset groups:
- jp common japanese encodings
- jp_ext rarely used but big japanese encodings
- kr korean encodings
- cn common chinese encodings
- cn_ext rarely used but very big chinese encodigs
- vn vietnamese (not well-supported, though)
- all all of the above.
---enable-unicode3
- enable support for unicode codepoints above 65535 (the basic
- multilingual page). This increases storage requirements per character
- from 2 to 4 bytes and is not too useful as font support in X11 and Xft
- is largely missing, although cut & paste will work correctly, as will
- displaying, if you have the right font(s).
---enable-utmp
- write user and tty to utmp file (used by programs like ``w'') at
- start of rxvt execution and delete information when rxvt exits.
---enable-wtmp
- write user and tty to wtmp file (used by programs like ``last'') at
- start of rxvt execution and write logout when rxvt exits. This
- option requires --enable-utmp to also be specified.
---enable-lastlog
- write user and tty to lastlog file (used by programs like
- ``lastlogin'') at start of rxvt execution. This option requires
- --enable-utmp to also be specified.
---enable-xpm-background
- add support for XPM background pixmaps
---enable-transparency
- add support for inheriting parent backgrounds thus giving a fake
- transparency to the term
---enable-menubar
- add support for our menu bar system
---enable-rxvt-scroll
- add support for the original rxvt scrollbar
---enable-next-scroll
- add support for a NeXT-like scrollbar
---enable-xterm-scroll
- add support for an Xterm-like scrollbar
---enable-plain-scroll
- add support for a very plain-looking scrollbar that I used for many years
---enable-half-shadow
- make shadows on the scrollbar only half the normal width & height.
- only applicable to rxvt scrollbars
---enable-xim
- add support for XIM (X Input Method) protocol. This allows using
- alternative input methods (e.g. kinput2) and will also correctly
- set up the input for people using dead keys or compose keys.
---enable-ttygid
- change tty device setting to group "tty" - only use this if
- your system uses this type of security
---disable-backspace-key
- disable any handling of the backspace key by us - let the X server
- do it
---disable-delete-key
- disable any handling of the delete key by us - let the X server
- do it
---disable-resources
- remove all resources checking
---enable-xgetdefault
- make resources checking via XGetDefault() instead of our small
- version which only checks ~/.Xdefaults, or if that doesn't exist
- then ~/.Xresources
---enable-strings
- add support for our possibly faster memset() function and other
- various routines, overriding your system's versions which may
- have been hand-crafted in assembly or may require extra libraries
- to link in. (This has header problems on some Linux systems).
---disable-swapscreen
- remove support for swap screen
---enable-frills
- add support for some lesser used features
---enable-linespace
- add support to provide user specified line spacing between text rows
---enable-keepscrolling
- add support for continual scrolling of the display when you hold
- the mouse button down on a scrollbar arrow
---enable-mousewheel
- add support for scrolling via mouse wheel or buttons 4 & 5
---enable-slipwheeling
- add support for continual scrolling (using the mouse wheel as an
- accelerator) while the control key is held down. This option
- requires --enable-mousewheel to also be specified.
---enable-old-selection
- remove support for reverting the mouse selection style to that
- of v2.20 (and prior)
---disable-new-selection
- remove support for mouse selection style like that of xterm
---enable-dmalloc
- use Gray Watson's malloc - which is good for debugging
- See http://www.letters.com/dmalloc/ for details
- If you use either this or the next option, you may need to
- edit src/Makefile after compiling to point DINCLUDE and DLIB to
- the right places.
- You can only use either this option and the following (should
- you use either)
---enable-dlmalloc
- use Doug Lea's malloc - which is good for a production version
- See http://g.oswego.edu/dl/html/malloc.html for details
---enable-smart-resize
- add smart growth/shrink behaviour when changing font size
- via from hot keys. This should keep in a fixed position the
- rxvt corner which is closest to a corner of the screen
---enable-256-color
- add support for 256 colours rather than the base 16 colours
---enable-cursor-blink
- add support for a blinking cursor
---enable-pointer-blank
- add support to have the pointer disappear when typing or inactive
---with-term=NAME
- change the environmental variable for the terminal to NAME
- (default "rxvt")
---with-terminfo=PATH
- change the environmental variable for the path to the terminfo
- tree to PATH
---with-x
- use the X Window System (pretty much default, eh?)
---with-xpm-includes=DIR
- look for the XPM includes in DIR
---with-xpm-library=DIR
- look for the XPM library in DIR
---with-xpm
- not needed - define via --enable-xpm-background
+CONFIGURE OPTIONS
+ General hint: if you get compile errors, then likely your configuration
+ hasn't been tested well. Either try with "--enable-everything" or use
+ the default configuration (i.e. no "--enable-xxx" or "--disable-xxx"
+ switches). Of course, you should always report when a combination
+ doesn't work, so it can be fixed. Marc Lehmann <rxvt@schmorp.de>.
+
+ All
+
+ --enable-everything
+ Add (or remove) support for all non-multichoice options listed in
+ "./configure --help", except for "--enable-assert".
+
+ You can specify this and then disable options you do not like by
+ *following* this with the appropriate "--disable-..." arguments, or
+ you can start with a minimal configuration by specifying
+ "--disable-everything" and than adding just the "--enable-..."
+ arguments you want.
+
+ --enable-xft (default: enabled)
+ Add support for Xft (anti-aliases, among others) fonts. Xft fonts
+ are slower and require lots of memory, but as long as you don't use
+ them, you don't pay for them.
+
+ --enable-font-styles (default: on)
+ Add support for bold, *italic* and *bold italic* font styles. The
+ fonts can be set manually or automatically.
+
+ --with-codesets=NAME,... (default: all)
+ Compile in support for additional codeset (encoding) groups ("eu",
+ "vn" are always compiled in, which includes most 8-bit character
+ sets). These codeset tables are used for driving X11 core fonts,
+ they are not required for Xft fonts, although having them compiled
+ in lets rxvt-unicode choose replacement fonts more intelligently.
+ Compiling them in will make your binary bigger (all of together cost
+ about 700kB), but it doesn't increase memory usage unless you use a
+ font requiring one of these encodings.
+
+ all all available codeset groups
+ zh common chinese encodings
+ zh_ext rarely used but very big chinese encodings
+ jp common japanese encodings
+ jp_ext rarely used but big japanese encodings
+ kr korean encodings
+ --enable-xim (default: on)
+ Add support for XIM (X Input Method) protocol. This allows using
+ alternative input methods (e.g. kinput2) and will also correctly set
+ up the input for people using dead keys or compose keys.
+
+ --enable-unicode3 (default: off)
+ Recommended to stay off unless you really need non-BMP characters.
+
+ Enable direct support for displaying unicode codepoints above 65535
+ (the basic multilingual page). This increases storage requirements
+ per character from 2 to 4 bytes. X11 fonts do not yet support these
+ extra characters, but Xft does.
+
+ Please note that rxvt-unicode can store unicode code points >65535
+ even without this flag, but the number of such characters is limited
+ to a few thousand (shared with combining characters, see next
+ switch), and right now rxvt-unicode cannot display them
+ (input/output and cut&paste still work, though).
+
+ --enable-combining (default: on)
+ Enable automatic composition of combining characters into composite
+ characters. This is required for proper viewing of text where
+ accents are encoded as seperate unicode characters. This is done by
+ using precomposited characters when available or creating new
+ pseudo-characters when no precomposed form exists.
+
+ Without --enable-unicode3, the number of additional precomposed
+ characters is somewhat limited (the 6400 private use characters will
+ be (ab-)used). With --enable-unicode3, no practical limit exists.
+
+ This option will also enable storage (but not display) of characters
+ beyond plane 0 (>65535) when --enable-unicode3 was not specified.
+
+ The combining table also contains entries for arabic presentation
+ forms, but these are not currently used. Bug me if you want these to
+ be used (and tell me how these are to be used...).
+
+ --enable-fallback(=CLASS) (default: Rxvt)
+ When reading resource settings, also read settings for class CLASS.
+ To disable resource fallback use --disable-fallback.
+
+ --with-res-name=NAME (default: urxvt)
+ Use the given name as default application name when reading
+ resources. Specify --with-res-name=rxvt to replace rxvt.
+
+ --with-res-class=CLASS (default: URxvt)
+ Use the given class as default application class when reading
+ resources. Specify --with-res-class=Rxvt to replace rxvt.
+
+ --enable-utmp (default: on)
+ Write user and tty to utmp file (used by programs like w) at start
+ of rxvt execution and delete information when rxvt exits.
+
+ --enable-wtmp (default: on)
+ Write user and tty to wtmp file (used by programs like last) at
+ start of rxvt execution and write logout when rxvt exits. This
+ option requires --enable-utmp to also be specified.
+
+ --enable-lastlog (default: on)
+ Write user and tty to lastlog file (used by programs like lastlogin)
+ at start of rxvt execution. This option requires --enable-utmp to
+ also be specified.
+
+ --enable-afterimage (default: on)
+ Add support for libAfterImage to be used for transparency and
+ background images. It adds support for many file formats including
+ JPG, PNG, SVG, TIFF, GIF, XPM, BMP, ICO, XCF, TGA and AfterStep
+ image XML
+ (<http://www.afterstep.org/visualdoc.php?show=asimagexml>).
+
+ This option also adds such eye candy as blending an image over the
+ root background, as well as dynamic scaling and bluring of
+ background images.
+
+ Note that with this option enabled, rxvt's memory footprint might
+ increase by a few megabytes even if no extra features are used
+ (mostly due to third-party libraries used by libAI). Memory
+ footprint may somewhat be lowered if libAfterImage is configured
+ without support for SVG.
+
+ --enable-transparency (default: on)
+ Add support for backgrounds, creating illusion of transparency in
+ the term.
+
+ --enable-fading (default: on)
+ Add support for fading the text when focus is lost.
+
+ --enable-rxvt-scroll (default: on)
+ Add support for the original rxvt scrollbar.
+
+ --enable-next-scroll (default: on)
+ Add support for a NeXT-like scrollbar.
+
+ --enable-xterm-scroll (default: on)
+ Add support for an Xterm-like scrollbar.
+
+ --disable-backspace-key
+ Removes any handling of the backspace key by us - let the X server
+ do it.
+
+ --disable-delete-key
+ Removes any handling of the delete key by us - let the X server do
+ it.
+
+ --disable-resources
+ Removes any support for resource checking.
+
+ --disable-swapscreen
+ Remove support for secondary/swap screen.
+
+ --enable-frills (default: on)
+ Add support for many small features that are not essential but nice
+ to have. Normally you want this, but for very small binaries you may
+ want to disable this.
+
+ A non-exhaustive list of features enabled by "--enable-frills"
+ (possibly in combination with other switches) is:
+
+ MWM-hints
+ EWMH-hints (pid, utf8 names) and protocols (ping)
+ urgency hint
+ seperate underline colour (-underlineColor)
+ settable border widths and borderless switch (-w, -b, -bl)
+ visual depth selection (-depth)
+ settable extra linespacing /-lsp)
+ iso-14755 5.1 (basic) support
+ tripleclickwords (-tcw)
+ settable insecure mode (-insecure)
+ keysym remapping support
+ cursor blinking and underline cursor (-bc, -uc)
+ XEmbed support (-embed)
+ user-pty (-pty-fd)
+ hold on exit (-hold)
+ compile in built-in block graphics
+ skip builtin block graphics (-sbg)
+ separate highlightcolor support (-hc)
+
+ It also enables some non-essential features otherwise disabled, such
+ as:
+
+ some round-trip time optimisations
+ nearest color allocation on pseudocolor screens
+ UTF8_STRING support for selection
+ sgr modes 90..97 and 100..107
+ backindex and forwardindex escape sequences
+ view change/zero scrollback escape sequences
+ locale switching escape sequence
+ window op and some xterm/OSC escape sequences
+ rectangular selections
+ trailing space removal for selections
+ verbose X error handling
+
+ --enable-iso14755 (default: on)
+ Enable extended ISO 14755 support (see rxvt(1)). Basic support
+ (section 5.1) is enabled by "--enable-frills", while support for
+ 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4 is enabled with this switch.
+
+ --enable-keepscrolling (default: on)
+ Add support for continual scrolling of the display when you hold the
+ mouse button down on a scrollbar arrow.
+
+ --enable-selectionscrolling (default: on)
+ Add support for scrolling when the selection moves to the top or
+ bottom of the screen.
+
+ --enable-mousewheel (default: on)
+ Add support for scrolling via mouse wheel or buttons 4 & 5.
+
+ --enable-slipwheeling (default: on)
+ Add support for continual scrolling (using the mouse wheel as an
+ accelerator) while the control key is held down. This option
+ requires --enable-mousewheel to also be specified.
+
+ --enable-smart-resize (default: off)
+ Add smart growth/shrink behaviour when resizing. This should keep
+ the window corner which is closest to a corner of the screen in a
+ fixed position.
+
+ --enable-text-blink (default: on)
+ Add support for blinking text.
+
+ --enable-pointer-blank (default: on)
+ Add support to have the pointer disappear when typing or inactive.
+
+ --enable-perl (default: on)
+ Enable an embedded perl interpreter. See the rxvtperl(3) manpage for
+ more info on this feature, or the files in src/perl/ for the
+ extensions that are installed by default. The perl interpreter that
+ is used can be specified via the "PERL" environment variable when
+ running configure. Even when compiled in, perl will *not* be
+ initialised when all extensions have been disabled "-pe ""
+ --perl-ext-common """, so it should be safe to enable from a
+ resource standpoint.
+
+ --enable-assert (default: off)
+ Enables the assertions in the code, normally disabled. This switch
+ is only useful when developing rxvt-unicode.
+
+ --with-afterimage-config=DIR
+ Look for the libAfterImage config script in DIR.
+
+ --with-name=NAME (default: urxvt)
+ Set the basename for the installed binaries, resulting in "urxvt",
+ "urxvtd" etc.). Specify "--with-name=rxvt" to replace with "rxvt".
+
+ --with-term=NAME (default: rxvt-unicode)
+ Change the environmental variable for the terminal to NAME.
+
+ --with-terminfo=PATH
+ Change the environmental variable for the path to the terminfo tree
+ to PATH.
+
+ --with-x
+ Use the X Window System (pretty much default, eh?).
+
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