On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 19:11, Thomas Dickey <dic...@his.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2 Nov 2010, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> 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. > > I'm curious what you're seeing. I tested it last night, found that it > didn't work. (I tested it with ncurses' test-screen 'b', found that I > still got overstruck bold...).
Ok sure. I've attached two images, before-echo-trick.png and after-echo-trick.png. They are screen capture of my xterm, cropped, zoomed four or so times in gimp, screen captured + cropped again (so it's easy to see what's going on, and keep them small, and since gimp->image->scale image, produces a fuzzy larger image not a crisp larger image). It is really easy to see the difference, and moreso with these zoomed images. This was an xterm that I ran from an icon on my gnome shell taskbar which simply runs "xterm". Also attached is my ~/.Xresources I'm happy to send further details if you need something else to check. Please note, I am on Ubuntu 8.04. PLEASE NOTE, even though I am on Ubuntu 8.04, when I chroot into an Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid chroot, and start an xterm (without having run the echo... trick in the 'parent/host' term), the new xterm does not have the problem. So this problem appears to be a bug in xterm which has indeed been fixed, as it suggests near the bottom of the debian bug you point out here: >> Please see the following URLs: >> >> http://superuser.com/questions/15226/how-do-i-make-xterm-not-use-bold > > ...which in turn refers you to > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=347790 OK, this guy says he uses these settings to stop bolding (in his original bug report at the top there): *XTerm*boldMode: false *XTerm*boldFont: fixed Well, these xterm settings simply didn't work for me, and the solution I found, with the 'echo' incantation, does work, as you can see from my attached images. Best Zenaan ** Attachment added: "before-echo-trick.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/44630/+attachment/1720542/+files/before-echo-trick.png ** Attachment added: "after-echo-trick.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/44630/+attachment/1720543/+files/after-echo-trick.png ** Attachment added: ".Xresources" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/44630/+attachment/1720544/+files/.Xresources -- 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
