On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 12:50:11AM +0100, Jörg Sommer wrote: > Package: xterm > Version: 224-1 > Severity: normal > > Hi, > > the manual page of xterm says: Note that xterm has one bold font which > you may set explicitly. It attempts to match a bold font for the other > font selections (font1 through font6). If the normal and bold fonts are > distinct, this resource [boldMode] has no effect. > > So I set boldFont and boldMode: > % xrdb -query|grep -E '(XTerm.*ont|bold)' > XTerm.*.boldFont: -misc-fixed-bold-*-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1 > XTerm.*.font: -misc-fixed-medium-*-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1 > XTerm.*.boldMode: false
I need a little more information to see if I'm reconstructing this
properly. Your locale appears to be de_DE.UTF-8, but the given resources
are for "XTerm" rather than "UXTerm". Are you starting xterm using the
"-u8" option, or using the "utf8" or "wideChars" resource, then?
btw - the ".*." is really the same as "*"
> As you can see the font and boldFont entities are distinct, ergo the
> boldMode resource should get ignored. But it isn't so. I don't get bold
> characters. If I set the boldMode to true, I get ugly characters for
> font1 through font6.
Well it could be distinct (even as specified) for a couple of different
reasons, e.g.,
a) the pattern might not match a real font
b) another resource could override one of the given patterns.
For instance, I started with "*font", but that was overridden
by "*VT100.font". But "UXTerm*font" worked. That was in
my local app-defaults file (running with fvwm - none of that
xrdb stuff to confuse).
I see that by compiling xterm with tracing enabled (though
it seems I should supply a shell script to do the queries,
since this topic comes up regularly ;-)
> Bye, Jörg.
>
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