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This is rxvt version 1.9, based on xvt version 1.0
New since rxvt-1.85
1. Improved speed during selection operations.
2. Fixed the problem of underlines leaving pixels
turned on.
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Rxvt is a heavily modified version of xvt (see attached readme).
Modifications were made by Rob Nation (nation@rocket.sanders.lockheed.com)
to make it a little more compact, and to add a few simple features:
1. Some graphics character set support was added. This support is not
complete, but will run most applications which use the vt-100 graphics
character sets.
2. Added a -C option which will cause the window to try to capture system
console messages.
3. Added support for lots more function keys, especially Home, End
F1 through F20, Find Insert, Prev Page, Next Page. Other function keys
were already handled correctly.
4. Added 8 bit clean mode.
5. Addes an option to start the window's shell as a login shell.
6. Fixed a few bugs.
7. Provided an alternate scroll-bar style.
Some features were removed to make the code a little more compact:
1. Double clicking to put a whole word in the cut-and-paste buffer was
removed, as was triple clicking to get a whole line. You can still sweep
out whole words or lines.
2. Can no longer sweep out more than one screenful to paste into the
cut and paste buffer.
Bug reports should be directed to nation@rocket.sanders.lockheed.com
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This is the README that came with xvt-1.0. It is included mainly to give
the original author credit for his work. Some comments do not apply to
rxvt-1.4
README file for xvt 1.0
-----------------------
Xvt is an X terminal-emulator that is designed to be more or less
compatible with xterm while using much less swap space. It is mainly
intended for use at sites which use large numbers of X terminals but
may also be useful on single workstations that are short of memory. On
a SPARCstation, an initially invoked xvt uses about 1/3 megabyte of
swap while xterm uses about 1.3 megabytes (obtained by running pstat
rather than ps which seems to give unreliable size figures on SPARCs).
The main way that xvt achieves its small size is by avoiding the use of
the X toolkit.
The current version of xvt is our default X terminal emulator and has
been used for eight months by students, computing support staff and
service users and so is fairly well tested.
Supported architectures
-----------------------
Sun SPARCStation running SunOS 4.1.?. There should be not any real
problems in porting xvt to other platforms although the tty
initialisation code may need changing on hosts that only support BSD
sgtty terminal configuration.
Xterm features not supported
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- Tektronix 4014 emulation
- Session logging
- Pop-up menus. The only one of xterm's popup menu commands that is
provided in xvt is displaying and hiding of the scrollbar and this
is done simply by pressing any mouse key in the window with the
CONTROL key held down.
- Coloured text cursors
- Toolkit style configurability. In particular, xvt does not allow
the user to remap the mouse or keyboard keys.
- Vt100 graphics characters - this will be remedied in the next version.
Major xterm features that are supported
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- VT100 emulation. Most of the main escape sequences are supported -
certainly all those used by the standard screen based UNIX
applications.
- Lines that scroll off the top of the window are saved can be
scrolled back with a scrollbar.
- Text selection and insertion including double and triple click for
words and lines.
Other differences between xvt and xterm
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- Xvt has a couple of additional enquiry escape sequences:
ESC[7n - causes xvt to respond with the name of its X display in a
form that can be used to initialise the DISPLAY environment
variable. If this is done in a user's .cshrc file it
provides a way to automatically update DISPLAY after an
rlogin. Something like the following should work if the
initial ^[ in the echo command is an ESC character:
if(!($?DISPLAY)) then
if($?term) then
if($term =~ xterm*) then
stty -echo >/dev/tty
echo -n '^[[7n' >/dev/tty
setenv DISPLAY `line </dev/tty`
stty echo >/dev/tty
endif
endif
endif
ESC[8n - causes xvt to respond with a hex encoded copy of the server's
magic cookie which can be used to update a user's .Xauthority
file. We have a program to do this which could be made available
if anyone is interested.
Known Bugs
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- xvt does not know about transferring selections in installments and so
making large selections or trying to insert large selections will
fail. The maximum selection size supported is server dependent but
seems to be a little under 64k on all our servers.
- On a heavily loaded machine, a text insertion (middle mouse button)
quickly followed by a keyboard key press will sometimes be interpreted
in the wrong order.
- xvt does not look in all the approved places for its X resources.
It does, however, work correctly with resources that have been
loaded into the server using xrdb
Building and installing xvt
---------------------------
To build xvt, simply type 'make'.
To install xvt, you should edit the MANDIR and BIN pathnames in the
Makefile and then type 'make install' as root. When installed for
general use, xvt needs to belong to root and have the setuid flag set
so that it can make entries in the /etc/utmp file.
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