[arch-general] urxvt colours and Xresources

[gt]

On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 03:40:09PM +0100, Ricardo Catalinas Jiménez wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 08:44:14AM +0530, gt wrote:
> > I have been facing this issue from a long time. The issue is that
> > sometimes the bold colours aren't loaded by urxvt.
> > 
> > I mainly use the terminals inside screen, and then the colours are
> > loaded properly (not always though). But when launching the terminal
> > standalone, the colours aren't loaded properly.
> >
> > urxvt.termName: rxvt-256color
> 
> Have you tried to not to change the default termName?
> 
> I use urxvt and the bold fonts work for me (outside screen) with the
> default one, `rxvt-unicode-256color'.
> 
> If I try yours, `rxvt-256color', it happens the same to me, no bold
> fonts.

If i change the termName to rxvt-unicode-256color, it still doesn't
work. Moreover, screen then refuses to launch with the message

$TERM too long - sorry.

This was the reason i switched to rxvt-256color termName in the first
place.

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