Bug#541089: marked as done (xterm: bold color attribute now displaying as black by default)
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has caused the Debian Bug report #541089,
regarding xterm: bold color attribute now displaying as black by default
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Package: xterm
Version: 244-1
Severity: minor
With yesterday's update of xterm, bold attributes are
displaying in the color black. I'm assuming '+bdc' got set by default
somehow instead of '-bdc'?
Anyway, since a lot of people probably use black as their
default background color, this might cause a lot of problems. Not only
did portions of my prompt string disappear in my shell (minor issue),
but man pages are pretty much unreadable.
Simply setting the resource (or passing the '-bdc' option to my
xterm) fixes the problem. I'm not sure if this is something you need to
address, but I'm submitting this report for reference sake at the very
least.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (700, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii libc6 2.9-24 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libfontconfig1 2.6.0-4 generic font configuration library
ii libice6 2:1.0.5-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libncurses5 5.7+20090803-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libx11-6 2:1.2.2-1 X11 client-side library
ii libxaw7 2:1.0.6-1 X11 Athena Widget library
ii libxft2 2.1.13-3 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxmu6 2:1.0.4-2 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxt6 1:1.0.5-3 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii xbitmaps 1.0.1-2 Base X bitmaps
Versions of packages xterm recommends:
ii x11-utils 7.4+1 X11 utilities
ii xutils 1:7.4+3 X Window System utility programs m
Versions of packages xterm suggests:
pn xfonts-cyrillic <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 12:41:18 -0500, Mark Nipper wrote:
> On 11 Aug 2009, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > I can't reproduce this. manpages are readable for me with the default
> > settings, and xterm +bdc makes bold text disappear.
> > Anything particular in your setup?
>
> You may not have gotten my update to that bug report. I
Right, I got it just after replying to the initial report :)
> think you inadvertently fixed something with this most recent
> release. The fact that colorBDMode was enabled was actually my
> own fault (I had it in my .Xresources). But I've had it in my
> .Xresources for years now, and this only just now became an
> issue.
>
> So disabling colorBDMode fixed my problem. And regarding
> this issue, xterm is actually working as documented now (which
> apparently it wasn't before). So thanks! :)
>
Closing the bug per submitter, thanks!
Cheers,
Julien
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