Debian Bug report logs - #412599
xterm: boldMode does not work as described

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Package: xterm; Maintainer for xterm is Debian X Strike Force <[email protected]>; Source for xterm is src:xterm (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Jörg Sommer <[email protected]>

Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 23:39:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version xterm/224-1

Fixed in version xterm/225-1

Done: Julien Cristau <[email protected]>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Report forwarded to [email protected], Debian X Strike Force <[email protected]>:
Bug#412599; Package xterm. (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Jörg Sommer <[email protected]>:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Debian X Strike Force <[email protected]>. (full text, mbox, link).


Message #5 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jörg Sommer <[email protected]>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>
Subject: xterm: boldMode does not work as described
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:32:13 +0100
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Package: xterm
Version: 224-1
Severity: normal

Hi,

the manual page of xterm says: Note that xterm has one bold font which
you may set explicitly. It attempts to match a bold font for the other
font selections (font1 through font6). If the normal and bold fonts are
distinct, this resource [boldMode] has no effect.

So I set boldFont and boldMode:
% xrdb -query|grep -E '(XTerm.*ont|bold)'
XTerm.*.boldFont:       -misc-fixed-bold-*-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1
XTerm.*.font:           -misc-fixed-medium-*-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1
XTerm.*.boldMode:       false

As you can see the font and boldFont entities are distinct, ergo the
boldMode resource should get ignored. But it isn't so. I don't get bold
characters. If I set the boldMode to true, I get ugly characters for
font1 through font6.

Bye, Jörg.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: unstable/experimental
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.20
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfontconfig1              2.4.2-1.2    generic font configuration library
ii  libice6                     1:1.0.1-2    X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libncurses5                 5.5-5        Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libsm6                      1:1.0.1-3    X11 Session Management library
ii  libx11-6                    2:1.0.3-5    X11 client-side library
ii  libxaw7                     1:1.0.2-4    X11 Athena Widget library
ii  libxext6                    1:1.0.1-2    X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxft2                     2.1.8.2-8    FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxmu6                     1:1.0.2-2    X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  libxt6                      1:1.0.2-2    X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  xbitmaps                    1.0.1-2      Base X bitmaps

Versions of packages xterm recommends:
ii  xutils                      1:7.1.ds.3-1 X Window System utility programs

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Information forwarded to [email protected], Debian X Strike Force <[email protected]>:
Bug#412599; Package xterm. (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Thomas Dickey <[email protected]>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Debian X Strike Force <[email protected]>. (full text, mbox, link).


Message #10 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Thomas Dickey <[email protected]>
To: Jörg Sommer <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: Re: Bug#412599: xterm: boldMode does not work as described
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 20:38:33 -0500
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On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 12:50:11AM +0100, Jörg Sommer wrote:
> Package: xterm
> Version: 224-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi,
> 
> the manual page of xterm says: Note that xterm has one bold font which
> you may set explicitly. It attempts to match a bold font for the other
> font selections (font1 through font6). If the normal and bold fonts are
> distinct, this resource [boldMode] has no effect.
> 
> So I set boldFont and boldMode:
> % xrdb -query|grep -E '(XTerm.*ont|bold)'
> XTerm.*.boldFont:       -misc-fixed-bold-*-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1
> XTerm.*.font:           -misc-fixed-medium-*-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1
> XTerm.*.boldMode:       false

I need a little more information to see if I'm reconstructing this
properly.  Your locale appears to be de_DE.UTF-8, but the given resources
are for "XTerm" rather than "UXTerm".  Are you starting xterm using the
"-u8" option, or using the "utf8" or "wideChars" resource, then?

btw - the ".*." is really the same as "*"
 
> As you can see the font and boldFont entities are distinct, ergo the
> boldMode resource should get ignored. But it isn't so. I don't get bold
> characters. If I set the boldMode to true, I get ugly characters for
> font1 through font6.

Well it could be distinct (even as specified) for a couple of different
reasons, e.g.,

	a) the pattern might not match a real font

	b) another resource could override one of the given patterns.

	   For instance, I started with "*font", but that was overridden
	   by "*VT100.font".  But "UXTerm*font" worked.  That was in
	   my local app-defaults file (running with fvwm - none of that
	   xrdb stuff to confuse).

	   I see that by compiling xterm with tracing enabled (though
	   it seems I should supply a shell script to do the queries,
	   since this topic comes up regularly ;-)
 
> Bye, Jörg.
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: unstable/experimental
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
> Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.20
> Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net
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Information forwarded to [email protected], Debian X Strike Force <[email protected]>:
Bug#412599; Package xterm. (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Jörg Sommer <[email protected]>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Debian X Strike Force <[email protected]>. (full text, mbox, link).


Message #15 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jörg Sommer <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Bug#412599: xterm: boldMode does not work as described
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 13:32:30 +0100
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Hi Thomas,

Thomas Dickey schrieb am Thu 01. Mar, 20:38 (-0500):
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 12:50:11AM +0100, Jörg Sommer wrote:
> > Package: xterm
> > Version: 224-1
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > the manual page of xterm says: Note that xterm has one bold font which
> > you may set explicitly. It attempts to match a bold font for the other
> > font selections (font1 through font6). If the normal and bold fonts are
> > distinct, this resource [boldMode] has no effect.
> > 
> > So I set boldFont and boldMode:
> > % xrdb -query|grep -E '(XTerm.*ont|bold)'
> > XTerm.*.boldFont:       -misc-fixed-bold-*-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1
> > XTerm.*.font:           -misc-fixed-medium-*-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1
> > XTerm.*.boldMode:       false
> 
> I need a little more information to see if I'm reconstructing this
> properly.  Your locale appears to be de_DE.UTF-8,

Correct.

> but the given resources are for "XTerm" rather than "UXTerm".

Correct.

> Are you starting xterm using the "-u8" option, or using the "utf8" or
> "wideChars" resource, then?

Nothing of it. But I don't have problems with UTF-8. I start xterm with
the variable LANG=de_DE.UTF-8.

> btw - the ".*." is really the same as "*"

Thanks for this hint. I thought it's like shell patterns, so XTerm.*.font
wouldn't match XTerm.foo.barfont.

> > As you can see the font and boldFont entities are distinct, ergo the
> > boldMode resource should get ignored. But it isn't so. I don't get bold
> > characters. If I set the boldMode to true, I get ugly characters for
> > font1 through font6.
> 
> Well it could be distinct (even as specified) for a couple of different
> reasons, e.g.,
> 
> 	a) the pattern might not match a real font

% xlsfonts -fn '-misc-fixed-bold-*-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1'
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso10646-1
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--18-130-100-100-c-0-iso10646-1
-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--18-130-100-100-c-0-iso10646-1
-misc-fixed-bold-r-semicondensed--18-130-100-100-c-0-iso10646-1

> 	b) another resource could override one of the given patterns.
> 
> 	   For instance, I started with "*font", but that was overridden
> 	   by "*VT100.font".  But "UXTerm*font" worked.

Not at me. This are my settings:

% xrdb -query
*customization:	-color
Fig.latexfonts:	true
Fig.rigidtext:	true
Fig.specialtext:	true
XLock*logoutButton:	-1
XLock.endCmd:	xlock_kb restore
XLock.startCmd:	xlock_kb save
XTerm*boldMode:	false
XTerm.*.Scrollbar.translations:	#override\n <Btn5Down>: StartScroll(Forward)\n <Btn4Down>: StartScroll(Backward)\n
XTerm.*.background:	black
XTerm.*.boldFont:	-misc-fixed-bold-*-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1
XTerm.*.color4:	blue3
XTerm.*.eightBitInput:	false
XTerm.*.font:	-misc-fixed-medium-*-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1
XTerm.*.foreground:	gray90
XTerm.*.metaSendsEscape:	true
XTerm.*.rightScrollBar:	true
XTerm.*.scrollBar:	false
XTerm.*.vt100.translations:	#override\n Shift<Btn4Down>,<Btn4Up>:scroll-back(1,line)\n Shift<Btn5Down>,<Btn5Up>:scroll-forw(1,line)\n Ctrl<Btn4Down>,<Btn4Up>:scroll-back(1,page)\n Ctrl<Btn5Down>,<Btn5Up>:scroll-forw(1,page)\n <Btn4Down>,<Btn4Up>:scroll-back(1,halfpage)\n <Btn5Down>,<Btn5Up>:scroll-forw(1,halfpage)\n <Key>Home: string(0x1b) string("[1~")\n <Key>End: string(0x1b) string("[4~")\n <Key>KP_Enter: string(0xd)\n Shift<Key>Up: scroll-back(1, line)\n Shift<Key>Down: scroll-forw(1, line)\n
XTerm.messages:	false
gnuplot.*.line2Color:	darkgreen
irssi.*.popOnBell:	true
rootsh.*.ScrollBar:	true
rootsh.*.background:	firebrick
server.*.ScrollBar:	false
server.*.background:	darkgreen
server.*.geometry:	80x25
server.*.multiScroll:	true
server.*.scrollLines:	0
server.title:	Server Terminal
slrn.*.boldMode:	false
slrn.*.font:	-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-*-140-100-100-c-*-iso8859-1
slrn_cp.*.boldMode:	false
slrn_cp.*.font:	-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-*-140-100-100-c-*-iso8859-1
xdvi.shrinkButton1:	4
xdvi.shrinkButton2:	5
xdvi.shrinkButton3:	6
xdvi.shrinkFactor:	5
xdvi.sideMargin:	1cm
xdvi.topMargin:	2cm
xjed.font:	-misc-fixed-medium-*-*-*-*-200-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1
xprop.title:	xprop
xterm.*.scrollBar:	true

Bye, Jörg.
-- 
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
                                             (Soren Kierkegaard)
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Message #18 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Thomas Dickey <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Bug#412599: xterm: boldMode does not work as described
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 19:02:51 -0500
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On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 02:20:08PM +0100, J??rg Sommer wrote:
> Not at me. This are my settings:

That was close enough to reconstruct - now I see the problem.
See

	http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=347790

I'll think about how to provide a different solution to that bug report
which doesn't break the boldMode resource ...

-- 
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Message #23 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Julien Cristau <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Bug#412599: fixed in xterm 225-1
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 22:17:08 +0000
Source: xterm
Source-Version: 225-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
xterm, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

xterm_225-1.diff.gz
  to pool/main/x/xterm/xterm_225-1.diff.gz
xterm_225-1.dsc
  to pool/main/x/xterm/xterm_225-1.dsc
xterm_225-1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/x/xterm/xterm_225-1_i386.deb
xterm_225.orig.tar.gz
  to pool/main/x/xterm/xterm_225.orig.tar.gz



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

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pp.
Julien Cristau <[email protected]> (supplier of updated xterm package)

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Format: 1.7
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 19:18:41 +0200
Source: xterm
Binary: xterm
Architecture: source i386
Version: 225-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Julien Cristau <[email protected]>
Description: 
 xterm      - X terminal emulator
Closes: 299669 412599
Changes: 
 xterm (225-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream release.
     + add initialFont resource to xterm widget, like tek-widget
       (closes: #299669).
     + amend change to boldMode from patch #223 for Debian #347790 which made
       xterm no longer match the documented behavior (closes: #412599).
   * Update and complete debian/copyright.
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