Re: underscore in xterm sometimes invisible

[David Griffith <dave@661.org>]

On Mon, 1 May 2017, Sven Joachim wrote:

> On 2017-05-01 08:58 +0000, David Griffith wrote:
>
> > When I completely log out and log back in, the underscore character
> > will be invisible in xterm.  If I do "xrdb .Xresources", subsequent
> > xterms created will show underscores.
> >
> > Investigating further, I tried starting with no .Xresources file.
> > This gave me a much-too-small xterm window.  When I do "xrdb -merge
> > .Xresources-foobar", which is my normal .Xresources file, I get my
> > favored xterm settings EXCEPT that underscores are invisible.  If I
> > don't use the "-merge" flag, then that will cause subsequent xterms to
> > show underscores. What's going on here?  How can I fix it?
>
> This has been reported in bug #858142[1], but I have not been able to
> reproduce it on my systems and I don't know what's going on.
>
> Cheers,
>       Sven
>
> 1. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=858142

Thanks.  I've been able to add some hopefully helpful information to that 
bug report, to wit, I think the problem may be with xrdb(1).


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