On 2017-05-01 08:58 +0000, David Griffith wrote: > When I completely log out and log back in, the underscore character > will be invisible in xterm. If I do "xrdb .Xresources", subsequent > xterms created will show underscores. > > Investigating further, I tried starting with no .Xresources file. > This gave me a much-too-small xterm window. When I do "xrdb -merge > .Xresources-foobar", which is my normal .Xresources file, I get my > favored xterm settings EXCEPT that underscores are invisible. If I > don't use the "-merge" flag, then that will cause subsequent xterms to > show underscores. What's going on here? How can I fix it?
This has been reported in bug #858142[1], but I have not been able to reproduce it on my systems and I don't know what's going on. Cheers, Sven 1. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=858142