Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [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 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 source-ing the snippet

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [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 Ubu

Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [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 o

Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [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 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

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [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-X, which is a direct subscriber. __

Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [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. > >

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [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,

Re: [Ubuntu-x-swat] [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 do

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [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 environmen