First, re my statement above: >BUT, I have not found a way to automate this
is false. Indeed the line "echo -e ..." can simply be placed at the end of your .bashrc to have the desired effect. I suspect I was source-ing the snippet because it had annoying properties on logins in other terminals, which I did not want (perhaps gnome-terminal). Anyway, as of just now, I have put it at the end of my .bashrc, so that should work for you too. Second: >> The following shell code disables bold (overstrike) fonts in xterm: >> echo -e "\e[1mA\e[2J\e[7mB\e[m\e[?5h\e[?5l" > >well... that doesn't disable bold fonts. Actually, this does disable overstrike (sometimes called bold) fonts. May be it's not meant to, but it does, so your words are incorrect and/ or based on false assumptions. This solution has been working for me for 2 to 3 years. Please see the following URLs: http://superuser.com/questions/15226/how-do-i-make-xterm-not-use-bold http://www.google.com.au/search?num=20&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=89Q&rls=com.ubuntu %3Aen- US%3Aunofficial&q=%22echo+-e+\e[1mA\e[2J\e[7mB\e[m\e[%3F5h\e[%3F5l%22&btnG=Search > Breaking it down, it's doing ... I don't know what the "tput hold" etc do so can't respond sorry, and you haven't explained, so I cannot comment on why it (should not? but) does disable bold overstrike fonts in xterm! >xterm's alwaysBoldMode resource might help for this bug report. >From memory (couple of years or more ago), I tried this - I extensively read xterm man page and X and xorg and xresources and google of above, and tried many combinations... without success. This is one very stubborn bug (at least in my case where I use smallish neep fonts). The ONLY solution I found which SOLVED my problem, is the "disable bold (overstrike) fonts in xterm" solution which I posted above. SO, that's why I posted this solution to this bug. I was doing a search and hoping a more elegant solution might have popped up in the last few years. Came across this bug report (don't remember seeing it before), and _no_ solution was posted, so I posted my _current_ and _working_for_2.5_years_now_ solution because I thought someone may just need it and be reading this bug report and not know a solution otherwise. Thank you for your feedback though, I now have some commands "tput ..." which I can search to try finding some doco to help me decipher the magic incantation which I've been using to disable bold overstrike fonts in xterm, should I be so inclined. This is useful information. BTW, if someone can suggest a test or would like other information from me, I am very willing to run tests if I can. I am competant to run chroot tests too (I have lucid/10.04 in a chroot, and can install debian testing or unstable too if desired - I manage a number of workstations and servers, and run local repo mirrors of debian testing/unstable and ubuntu lts releases). Please note, this bug (44630) is from 20060514 and is not a bug I created, but is a bug which affects me. Either way, I'm willing to assist if I can, just ask... Thanks again, Zenaan -- xterm rendering this font real ugly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/44630 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
