I recently reinstalled my Debian system, and while I was at it, I deleted my old ~/.fonts.conf because it was throwing warnings with applications; shortly thereafter, I realized that I was no longer seeing any underscores in my terminal output, nor were the underscores being fancily used for italics or something.
Googling, I realized it was not a Bash problem but a Urxvt problem, and found a long Arch Linux thread complaining about exactly this problem: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=125749 They noted that simply avoiding 14-point font made the problem go away, and as it happened I had a key shortcut to increase the font in Urxvt. Here is the original broken appearance using a 14-point font (note that in the second-to-last line, there are no underscores even though there are two): http://i.imgur.com/YGLwrpH.png Here is the same terminal, but having increased to 18-point font: http://i.imgur.com/sW2P4H6.png Now the underscores are clearly visible. As a workaround, I'm going to try editing my .Xresources to read 15-point rather than 14-point. ------ My ~/.Xresources reads: !Font stuff URxvt.depth: 32 URxvt*xftAntialias: True URxvt*font: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:pixelsize=14 URxvt.boldFont: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:pixelsize=14 URxvt.boldItalicFont: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:style=Oblique:pixelsize=14 !Change fonts on the fly URxvt.keysym.C-minus: command:\033]710;xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:pixelsize=14,xft:Bitstream Vera\ Sans Mono,xft:Baekmuk Gulim,xft:Kochi Gothic,xft:AR PL ShanHeiSun Uni,xft:FreeMono:autohint=true\007 URxvt.keysym.C-0: command:\033]710;xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=10,xft:Bitstream Vera Sans\ Mono,xft:Baekmuk Gulim,xft:Kochi Gothic,xft:AR PL ShanHeiSun Uni,xft:FreeMono:autohint=true\007 URxvt.keysym.C-equal: command:\033]710;xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=18,xft:Bitstream Vera Sans\ Mono,xft:Baekmuk Gulim,xft:Kochi Gothic,xft:AR PL ShanHeiSun Uni,xft:FreeMono:autohint=true\007 My original ~/.fonts.conf read: <?xml version='1.0'?> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'> <fontconfig> <match target="font"> <edit name="antialias" mode="assign"> <bool>true</bool> </edit> <edit name="hinting" mode="assign"> <bool>true</bool> </edit> <edit name="hintstyle" mode="assign"> <const>hintfull</const> </edit> <edit name="rgba" mode="assign"> <const>rgb</const> </edit> </match> </fontconfig> -- gwern http://www.gwern.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
