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[Zenaan Harkness <launchpad.net@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

First, re my statement above:

>BUT, I have not found a way to automate this

is false. Indeed the line "echo -e ..." can simply be placed at the end of your .bashrc to have the desired effect.
I suspect I was source-ing the snippet because it had annoying properties on logins in other terminals, which I did not want (perhaps gnome-terminal).

Anyway, as of just now, I have put it at the end of my .bashrc, so that
should work for you too.

Second:
>> The following shell code disables bold (overstrike) fonts in xterm:
>> echo -e "\e[1mA\e[2J\e[7mB\e[m\e[?5h\e[?5l"
>
>well... that doesn't disable bold fonts.

Actually, this does disable overstrike (sometimes called bold) fonts.

May be it's not meant to, but it does, so your words are incorrect and/
or based on false assumptions. This solution has been working for me for
2 to 3 years.

Please see the following URLs:

http://superuser.com/questions/15226/how-do-i-make-xterm-not-use-bold

http://www.google.com.au/search?num=20&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=89Q&rls=com.ubuntu
%3Aen-
US%3Aunofficial&q=%22echo+-e+\e[1mA\e[2J\e[7mB\e[m\e[%3F5h\e[%3F5l%22&btnG=Search

> Breaking it down, it's doing
...

I don't know what the "tput hold" etc do so can't respond sorry, and you
haven't explained, so I cannot comment on why it (should not? but) does
disable bold overstrike fonts in xterm!

>xterm's alwaysBoldMode resource might help for this bug report.

>From memory (couple of years or more ago), I tried this - I extensively
read xterm man page and X and xorg and xresources and google of above,
and tried many combinations... without success. This is one very
stubborn bug (at least in my case where I use smallish neep fonts).

The ONLY solution I found which SOLVED my problem, is the "disable bold
(overstrike) fonts in xterm" solution which I posted above.

SO, that's why I posted this solution to this bug. I was doing a search
and hoping a more elegant solution might have popped up in the last few
years. Came across this bug report (don't remember seeing it before),
and _no_ solution was posted, so I posted my _current_ and
_working_for_2.5_years_now_ solution because I thought someone may just
need it and be reading this bug report and not know a solution
otherwise.

Thank you for your feedback though, I now have some commands "tput ..."
which I can search to try finding some doco to help me decipher the
magic incantation which I've been using to disable bold overstrike fonts
in xterm, should I be so inclined. This is useful information.

BTW, if someone can suggest a test or would like other information from
me, I am very willing to run tests if I can. I am competant to run
chroot tests too (I have lucid/10.04 in a chroot, and can install debian
testing or unstable too if desired - I manage a number of workstations
and servers, and run local repo mirrors of debian testing/unstable and
ubuntu lts releases).

Please note, this bug (44630) is from 20060514 and is not a bug I
created, but is a bug which affects me. Either way, I'm willing to
assist if I can, just ask...

Thanks again,
Zenaan

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xterm rendering this font real ugly
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