can't get keysym option to work with 8.4 and later

Emanuele Giaquinta emanuele.giaquinta at gmail.com
Thu Nov 22 16:22:24 CET 2007


On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 04:47:39PM -0800, Tim Harder wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:12:18 +0100
> Emanuele Giaquinta <emanuele.giaquinta at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 12:25:11PM -0800, Tim Harder wrote:
> > 
> > > I haven't been able to get the "-keysym.sym string" option to work
> > > with versions 8.4 and 8.5. My configure options are as follows:
> > 
> > Which exact option are you trying?
> 
> I am using the following command which acts as a run dialog using zsh:
> 
> urxvt +sb +ls -bg white -cr black -name run-dialog -title "run"
> -geometry 80x10 \ -keysym.0xff0d " &\nexit\n" -keysym.0xff1b "^U
> exit\n" -e zsh -git

rxvt own parsing was removed after 8.3, so the resources are now
subjected only to xlib parsing [1]; problem is, after this change the
keysym command line options were not subjected to any parsing at all.
I fixed it in cvs, but note that ^U is not special anymore, you need
to replace it with \025.

Emanuele

[1] http://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/resource-manager/file-syntax.html




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