xfce4-terminal font always "regular"

andygoth · 01-25-2021, 04:29 PM

Due to a recent slackware64-current update, I am no longer able to use bold and/or italic fonts in xfce4-terminal. No matter what I select, I only get the "regular" variant.

For what it's worth, I am still able to pick bold and/or italic fonts in gVim.

EdGr · 01-26-2021, 02:08 PM

I see a reverted change that would undo the behavior.

Revert "lib: Sanitise the passed-in font description"
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/-...2bc36108061f4f

In general, you don't want to set the default font weight to bold because regular and bold characters will appear the same.
Ed

andygoth · 01-26-2021, 04:52 PM

Hoping this change hits -current soon. I actively want to set a bold font for everything. There's already a separate option to render SGR bold as a bold font, and I have that disabled because I already have SGR bold mapped to brighter colors.

keefaz · 01-27-2021, 06:32 AM

Maybe you could edit your ttf bold font with fontforge, setting the bold font to normal font in font infos, then save it to a new font file, install it in your ~/.fonts directory and choose it...

andygoth · 01-27-2021, 09:23 AM

I don't understand why the upstream maintainer can't just leave well enough alone and let the user decide how to render the font. Besides, a complete implementation would filter out bold and italic fonts from the font picker. That would be a lot less surprising to the user than having the choice be quietly overridden. Maybe I should get in touch.

For now, I switched to a different font I found suitably readable in non-bold.

EdGr · 01-27-2021, 10:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by andygoth

I don't understand why the upstream maintainer can't just leave well enough alone and let the user decide how to render the font.

A lot of applications render markup. The user generally does not want to change how markup is rendered (other than setting the base font).
Ed

andygoth · 01-27-2021, 10:33 AM

That's a good point, though in this instance the rendering of the bold SGR attribute is an option. So that's analogous to a web browser letting the user pick the default font and having an option about whether or not websites are allowed to deviate from the default, but then still preventing the user from letting the default font be bold. While still allowing the user to pick a bold font, just quietly ignoring the bold weight.