=head3 How do I distinguish wether I'm running rxvt-unicode or a regular xterm? I need this to decide about setting colors etc.
-rxvt and rxvt-unicode always export the variable "COLORTERM", so you can
-check and see if that is set. Note that several programs, JED, slrn,
-Midnight Commander automatically check this variable to decide whether or
-not to use color.
+The original rxvt and rxvt-unicode always export the variable "COLORTERM",
+so you can check and see if that is set. Note that several programs, JED,
+slrn, Midnight Commander automatically check this variable to decide
+whether or not to use color.
=head3 How do I set the correct, full IP address for the DISPLAY variable?
URxvt.termName: rxvt
If you don't plan to use B<rxvt> (quite common...) you could also replace
-the rxvt terminfo file with the rxvt-unicode one.
+the rxvt terminfo file with the rxvt-unicode one and use C<TERM=rxvt>.
=head3 C<tic> outputs some error when compiling the terminfo entry.
encodings (you might try C<LC_CTYPE=C-UTF-8>), so you are likely limited
to 8-bit encodings.
-=head1 RXVT TECHNICAL REFERENCE
+=head1 RXVT-UNICODE TECHNICAL REFERENCE
=head1 DESCRIPTION
4 Shift
8 Meta
16 Control
- 32 Double Click I<(Rxvt extension)>
+ 32 Double Click I<(rxvt extension)>
=end table
98398 1664 24 15695 1824 rxvt --disable-everything
188985 9048 66616 18222 1788 urxvt --disable-everything
- When you "--enable-everything" (which _is_ unfair, as this involves xft
+ When you "--enable-everything" (which *is* unfair, as this involves xft
and full locale/XIM support which are quite bloaty inside libX11 and my
libc), the two diverge, but not unreasnobaly so.
URxvt.color14: #00FFFF
URxvt.color15: #FFFFFF
- And here is a more complete set of non-standard colors described (not by
- me) as "pretty girly".
+ And here is a more complete set of non-standard colors.
URxvt.cursorColor: #dc74d1
URxvt.pointerColor: #dc74d1
URxvt.color7: #e1dddd
URxvt.color15: #e1dddd
+ (They were described (not by me) as "pretty girly").
+
Why do some characters look so much different than others?
See next entry.