Bold fonts in XTerm [LWN.net]

Bold fonts in XTerm

Posted Jun 18, 2004 21:54 UTC (Fri) by sbrady (guest, #780)
In reply to: Eterm screenshot by zdzichu
Parent article: Eterm screenshot

XTerm should only generate its own bold font if "boldFont" is unset - you can disable that by setting boldMode to false. Try adding the following line to .Xdefaults (or .Xresources, making sure you run "xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources" afterwards), replacing 6x13bold with your preferred font:

XTerm.vt100.boldFont: 6x13bold

If you still prefer non-bold fonts, try removing that line and adding the following lines, instead (and run "xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources", if applicable):

XTerm.vt100.boldMode: false
XTerm.vt100.boldFont:

I already had the correct bold font without having to change anything.

The man page has more information.

I couldn't get 6x13 working in either gnome-terminal or konsole, which is a shame. :(

(Log in to post comments)