Re: OT: xterm question
Re: OT: xterm question
- Subject: Re: OT: xterm question
- From: Egan Ford <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 16:07:07 -0600
Thanks Brandon. This worked best for me:
XTerm*faceName:Menlo:style=Bold
I just appended :style=Bold in my .Xresources file.
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Brandon Allbery <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Egan Ford <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> What if any settings can I put in .Xresources to swap bold for normal?
>> e.g. I'd like bold to be the default with normal for bold.
>
>
> Bold is typically a distinct font wen not implemented via "overstriking";
> legacy configuration is -fb / xterm.vt100.boldFont resource, If you use XFT
> style fonts, I suspect you'll need fontconfig hackery since it will
> implement bold by adding a font weight to the font it requests instead of
> asking for a specific font by name.
>
> Also see the discussion of boldMode in xterm(1) --- in legacy mode boldFont
> applies to the default font, for the size 1-6 fonts in the control-click
> menu it derives bold fonts from XLFD specs and you have no control over it.
> If this matters to you, you'll need to use XFT fonts and fontconfig hackery.
>
> The fontconfig hackery is that, if you want to use specific font
> configuration for a single application, you make up a font name and tell the
> application to use it. You then create a font alias in
> ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf which maps it to a real font and, in your
> case, replaces weights to reverse normal and bold by using match stanzas.
> http://www.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html (or `man
> fonts.conf`) will be useful in doing this. (I can't provide an example
> readily, it's on a machine that is in another state and powered off :) You
> will need to run `fc-cache` to update cached font information, and usually
> need to restart affected applications.
>
> --
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