Turn on/off illusion of a transparent window background. Obsolete form of it is
B<-ip> and it should not be used anymore; resource B<transparent>.
-I<Please note that old resource name of B<inheritPixmap> is obsolete and should be
-changed to B<transparent>. Backwards compatibility support for B<inheritPixmap> will
+I<Please note that old resource name of B<inheritPixmap> is obsolete and should be
+changed to B<transparent>. Backwards compatibility support for B<inheritPixmap> will
be phased out in future versions of rxvt!>
-I<Please address all transparency related issues to Sasha Vasko at
+I<Please address all transparency related issues to Sasha Vasko at
sasha@aftercode.net. Read the FAQ (man 7 @@RXVT_NAME@@)!>
=item B<-fade> I<number>
used to brighten or darken the image in addition to tinting it.
Please note that certain tint colours can be applied on the server-side,
thus yielding performance gain of two orders of magnitude. These colours are:
-blue, red, green, cyan, magenta, yellow, and those close to them. Also
+blue, red, green, cyan, magenta, yellow, and those close to them. Also
pure black and pure white colors essentially mean no tinting; resource
I<tintColor>. Example:
=item B<-pixmap> I<file[;geom]>
-Compile I<afterimage>: Specify image file for the background and also
+Compile I<afterimage>: Specify image file for the background and also
optionally specify its scaling with a geometry string. Note you may need to
add quotes to avoid special shell interpretation of the C<;> in the
command-line; for more details see resource B<backgroundPixmap>.
=item B<blurRadius:> I<number>
-Apply Gaussian Blurr with the specified radius to the transparent
+Apply Gaussian Blurr with the specified radius to the transparent
background image; option B<-blr>.
=item B<scrollColor:> I<colour>
=item B<backgroundPixmap:> I<file[;geom]>
-Use the specified image file for the background and also optionally
-specify its scaling with a geometry string B<WxH+X+Y>,
-in which B<"W" / "H"> specify the horizontal/vertical scale (percent),
-and B<"X" / "Y"> locate the image centre (percent).
-A scale of 0 displays the image with tiling. A scale of 1 displays the
-image without any scaling. A scale of 2 to 9 specifies an integer
-number of images in that direction. No image will be magnified beyond
-10 times its original size. The maximum permitted scale is 1000.
-Special string of B<"auto"> used as a geometry will cause image to be
+Use the specified image file for the background and also optionally
+specify its scaling with a geometry string B<WxH+X+Y>,
+in which B<"W" / "H"> specify the horizontal/vertical scale (percent),
+and B<"X" / "Y"> locate the image centre (percent).
+A scale of 0 displays the image with tiling. A scale of 1 displays the
+image without any scaling. A scale of 2 to 9 specifies an integer
+number of images in that direction. No image will be magnified beyond
+10 times its original size. The maximum permitted scale is 1000.
+Special string of B<"auto"> used as a geometry will cause image to be
automatically scaled to match window size.
-If used in conjunction with B<-tr> option - specified pixmap will be
-blended over transparency image using either alpha-blending, or any
+If used in conjunction with B<-tr> option - specified pixmap will be
+blended over transparency image using either alpha-blending, or any
other blending type, specified with B<-blt "type"> option.
[default 0x0+50+50]
=item B<COLORTERM>
Either C<rxvt>, C<rxvt-xpm>, depending on whether @@RXVT_NAME@@ was
-compiled with background image support, and optionally with the added
-extension C<-mono> to indicate that rxvt-unicode runs on a monochrome
+compiled with background image support, and optionally with the added
+extension C<-mono> to indicate that rxvt-unicode runs on a monochrome
screen.
=item B<COLORFGBG>
C<default> to indicate that the default-colour escape sequence is to be
used), C<bg> is the colour code used as default background colour (or the
string C<default>), and C<xpm> is the string C<default> if @@RXVT_NAME@@
-was compiled with background image support. Libraries like C<ncurses>
+was compiled with background image support. Libraries like C<ncurses>
and C<slang> can (and do) use this information to optimize screen output.
=item B<WINDOWID>
=item Geoff Wing L<< <gcw@pobox.com> >>
Rewrote screen display and text selection routines.
-
+
Project Coordinator (changes.txt 2.4.6 - rxvt-unicode)
=item Marc Alexander Lehmann L<< <rxvt-unicode@schmorp.de> >>
libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x00002aaaaabc3000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00002aaaaada2000)
- libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00002aaaaaeb0000)
- libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00002aaaab0ee000)
- /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00002aaaaaaab000)
+ libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00002aaaaaeb0000)
+ libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00002aaaab0ee000)
+ /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00002aaaaaaab000)
No large bloated libraries (of course, none were linked in statically),
except maybe libX11 :)
=head3 I can't get transparency working, what am I doing wrong?
-First of all, please address all transparency related issues to Sasha Vasko at
-sasha@aftercode.net and do not bug the author about it. Also, if you can't
+First of all, please address all transparency related issues to Sasha Vasko at
+sasha@aftercode.net and do not bug the author about it. Also, if you can't
get it working consider it a rite of passage: ... and you failed.
Here are four ways to get transparency. B<Do> read the manpage and option
Some other Backspace problems:
-some editors use termcap/terminfo,
+some editors use termcap/terminfo,
some editors (vim I'm told) expect Backspace = ^H,
GNU Emacs (and Emacs-like editors) use ^H for help.
xprop -root XIM_SERVERS
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