Re: [Bug 44630] Re: xterm rendering this font real ugly

2010-11-02 Thread Thomas Dickey
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

[Bug 44630] Re: xterm rendering this font real ugly

2010-11-02 Thread Thomas Dickey
** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #347790 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=347790 -- 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. --

Re: [Bug 44630] Re: xterm rendering this font real ugly

2010-11-02 Thread Zenaan Harkness
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

Re: [Bug 44630] Re: xterm rendering this font real ugly

2010-11-02 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Oh, and as you can see in those two tiny images I just posted, there is another bug, where colorized text displays 1 pixel lower than white-on-black text (can't speak to other color schemes). This is a 1-pixel vertical shift downwards of colorized text in xterm, which causes some redraw issues on

[Bug 44630] Re: xterm rendering this font real ugly

2010-11-02 Thread Thomas Dickey
I see - then it may be a bug that I fixed (recalling a few cases where there was a problem with the font-caching which I made for xterm a few years ago. -- xterm rendering this font real ugly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/44630 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

Re: [Bug 44630] Re: xterm rendering this font real ugly

2010-11-02 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 14:01, Zenaan Harkness launchpad@freedbms.net wrote: 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

[Bug 44630] Re: xterm rendering this font real ugly

2010-11-01 Thread Zenaan Harkness
WORKAROUND: This is still pretty clunky but I've been using this solution since 8.04, to solve this very problem: The following shell code disables bold (overstrike) fonts in xterm: echo -e \e[1mA\e[2J\e[7mB\e[m\e[?5h\e[?5l BUT, I have not found a way to automate this - it's like an environment

Re: [Bug 44630] Re: xterm rendering this font real ugly

2010-11-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 1 Nov 2010, Zenaan Harkness wrote: WORKAROUND: This is still pretty clunky but I've been using this solution since 8.04, to solve this very problem: 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

[Bug 44630] Re: xterm rendering this font real ugly

2010-11-01 Thread Zenaan Harkness
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,

[Bug 44630] Re: xterm rendering this font real ugly

2009-01-20 Thread gnubuntu
Here is a screenshot with the font dejavu sans mono i use in x-term. My GNOME Desktop font-setting is Best Form. ** Attachment added: x-term nice clean bold font http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21493697/x-term-irssi.png -- xterm rendering this font real ugly

[Bug 44630] Re: xterm rendering this font real ugly

2009-01-19 Thread gnubuntu
I've tried Timos suggestion and can't see any difference. The bold font in xterm in ubuntu 8.10 looks ok. Here is a nicer font i've found out: xterm*faceName: dejavu sans mono:pixelsize=10 Just put it in ~/.Xdefaults and after that run xrdb ~/.Xdefaults. For anybody who don't know what

[Bug 44630] Re: xterm rendering this font real ugly

2007-08-05 Thread Timo Aaltonen
Closing the bug because no replies. If you can reproduce it with gutsy, please reopen. ** Changed in: xterm (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Invalid -- xterm rendering this font real ugly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/44630 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 44630] Re: xterm rendering this font real ugly

2007-08-05 Thread Timo Aaltonen
actually, reading xterm faq says this: The bold font is ugly Xterm lets you directly specify one bold font, which is assumed to correspond to the default font. Older versions of xterm make a fake bold font for the other choices via the fonts menu by drawing the characters offset by

[Bug 44630] Re: xterm rendering this font real ugly

2007-02-15 Thread Timo Aaltonen
can you try with edgy or feisty? ** Changed in: xterm (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed = Needs Info -- xterm rendering this font real ugly https://launchpad.net/bugs/44630 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs