Sorry I didn't get to this sooner; just getting back to email after the
Christmas break.
I've found that a good solution to this problem is to use colours to
indicate bold and underlined, as actual "bolding" just makes the text
less clear. I'm unfortunately not exactly sure which of the settings in
my .Xdefaults is responsible for doing this, so the bits that *look*
relevant follow:
XTerm*highlightSelection: true
XTerm*VT100*colorBDMode: on
XTerm*VT100*colorBD: DodgerBlue1
XTerm.VT100*colorULMode: on
XTerm.VT100*underLine: off
XTerm*VT100*colorUL: red1
XTerm.VT100*dynamicColors: on
The following colour settings work quite well with those options, but
it's purely a question of taste:
*VT100*color0: black
*VT100*color1: red1
*VT100*color2: green3
*VT100*color3: yellow3
*VT100*color4: DodgerBlue1
*VT100*color5: magenta3
*VT100*color6: cyan3
*VT100*color7: gray90
*VT100*color8: gray30
*VT100*color9: red
*VT100*color10: green
*VT100*color11: yellow
*VT100*color12: blue
*VT100*color13: magenta
*VT100*color14: cyan
*VT100*color15: white
*VT100*colorUL: red1
*VT100*colorBD: DodgerBlue1
So anyway you dump all that stuff in your .Xdefaults file in your home
directory and run
xrdb .Xdefaults
to import the settings, if your login scripts don't do so automatically
(I'm not sure what current distros do on that front).
HTH,
James.
On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 14:40 +1100, Richard Heycock wrote:
> Does anyone know how to set up a proper bold font in xterm? I've got a
> low res screen so I've got everything as small as possible but bold
> fonts in xterm are pretty much unreadable.
>
> I can get a decent bold font if I use eterm but I don't know how to find
> out which font eterm uses.
>
> rgh
>
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> curious attractiveness of others" -- Oscar Wilde
>
> Richard Heycock
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