Debian Bug report logs - #541089
xterm: bold color attribute now displaying as black by default

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Package: xterm; Maintainer for xterm is Debian X Strike Force <[email protected]>; Source for xterm is src:xterm (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Mark Nipper <[email protected]>

Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:03:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed-upstream

Merged with 541716

Found in versions xterm/244-1, xterm/244-2

Fixed in version xterm/246-1

Done: Julien Cristau <[email protected]>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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reopen 541089
found 541236 xterm/244-2
thanks

On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote:

> My interpretation of this (man xterm):
>
> ,----
> |        colorBD (class ColorBD)
> |                This specifies the color to use to display bold  characters  if
> |                the  ``colorBDMode''  resource  is  enabled.   The  default  is
> |                ``XtDefaultForeground.''
> `----
>
> is that setting colorBD without colorBDMode being enabled won't do
> anything useful.  Am I wrong?

Can't make much sense of this.  Command line options or ~/.Xresources, no
joy :(  Here's my resources:

XTerm*VT100*Geometry:   80x80
XTerm*ScrollCond:       true
XTerm*ScrollBar:        true
XTerm*rightScrollBar:   true
XTerm*SaveLines:        6000
XTerm*Font:             6x13
XTerm*background:       lightyellow
XTerm*foreground:       black
XTerm*cursorColor:      red
XTerm*pointerColor:     red
XTerm*VT100*colorBDMode: true
XTerm*VT100*colorBD:    blue
XTerm*colorULMode:      true
XTerm*underLine:        false
XTerm*colorUL:          magenta
XTerm*dynamicColors:    true
XTerm*EightBitInput:    true
XTerm*EightBitOutput:   true
!# No session  manager callbacks
XTerm*sessionMgt:       false


Cheers,

-- 
Cristian

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