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| From | Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: underscore in xterm sometimes invisible |
| Date | 2017-05-01 11:40 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <tCfYe-7mq-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <tCfvc-7cA-9@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
On 2017-05-01 08:58 +0000, David Griffith wrote:
> When I completely log out and log back in, the underscore character
> will be invisible in xterm. If I do "xrdb .Xresources", subsequent
> xterms created will show underscores.
>
> Investigating further, I tried starting with no .Xresources file.
> This gave me a much-too-small xterm window. When I do "xrdb -merge
> .Xresources-foobar", which is my normal .Xresources file, I get my
> favored xterm settings EXCEPT that underscores are invisible. If I
> don't use the "-merge" flag, then that will cause subsequent xterms to
> show underscores. What's going on here? How can I fix it?
This has been reported in bug #858142[1], but I have not been able to
reproduce it on my systems and I don't know what's going on.
Cheers,
Sven
1. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=858142
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underscore in xterm sometimes invisible David Griffith <dave@661.org> - 2017-05-01 11:10 +0200
Re: underscore in xterm sometimes invisible Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2017-05-01 11:40 +0200
Re: underscore in xterm sometimes invisible David Griffith <dave@661.org> - 2017-05-02 23:20 +0200
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