how to make XTerm never use bold characters?

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I am trying to make XTerm to never use a bold font, and nothing seems to work. I put settings in ~/.Xresources and then run xrdb ~/.Xresources and then start a new XTerm. This is what I try:

XTerm*background: gray90
XTerm*foreground: black
XTerm*highlightColor: yellow
XTerm*pointerColor: red
XTerm*pointerColorBackground: white
XTerm*cursorColor: navy
XTerm*borderColor: black

Xterm*colorBD: black
XTerm*colorBDMode: true

XTerm*boldMode: false
XTerm*alwaysBoldMode: false

XTerm*font:        -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1
XTerm*boldFont:    -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1
XTerm*utf8Fonts.font:        -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1
XTerm*utf8Fonts.boldFont:    -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1

And still for example when I run Midnight Commander all directory names are with thick letters, and I want them the same as normal files, just use a color, but not make them thicker! In VIM everything uses thick letters when syntax highlighting is used (but is OK - thin - when there is no syntax highlighting).

I am out of ideas, what to put in my ~/.Xresources to force XTerm to never use those thick letters?

score 6 · Answer 1 · 2012-02-19T22:13:17.277

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You should stick this in your ~/.Xresources file or maybe the deprecated ~/.Xdefaults file:

XTerm*allowBoldFonts:       false

You can also press Ctrl while right-clicking xterm and tick/untick the Bold Fonts option.

edited Feb 19 '12 at 22:13

answered Feb 18 '12 at 02:58

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 20 '12 at 03:04

I can't reproduce this (I don't see any bold font when I use your settings, but this may be due to other settings of mine, I haven't looked too closely).

You may be missing a setting of XTerm*boldColors.

Note that in Xterm*colorBD: black, the class is miscapitalized (you wrote Xterm instead of XTerm).

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