Ubuntu
xterm package

Xterm bold fonts look much bolder

Bug #20456 reported by Ruben Vermeersch on 2005-08-27

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	xterm (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Daniel Stone

Bug Description

When upgrading from hoary to breezy, I noticed the XTerm bold fonts get a lot
bolder. I managed to make a screenshot of a running hoary xterm and a breezy
xterm, clearly showing the difference.

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Ruben Vermeersch (ruben) wrote on 2005-08-27:

Screenshot Edit (38.1 KiB, image/png)

Created an attachment (id=3415)
Screenshot

Above: hoary
Below: breezy (Look at the black numbers denoting CPU usage, they are a lot
bolder)

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Daniel Stone (daniels) wrote on 2005-08-31:

this is a bug in upstream xterm

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Thomas Dickey (dickey) wrote on 2005-10-08:

Patch #204 - 2005/8/4 - XFree86 4.5.99.9
     * correct variable used to store temporary result from lookup of
       bold font, when initializing the wide-bold-font data and no
       immediate match is found by asking for a bold variant of the
       wide-font. The result was to use overstriking rather than the
       actual bold font (Debian #318162, patch by Eugene Konev).