From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020809 Description of problem: As in summary - I've set the "allow bold text" option in Edit->Current Profile->General (actually, I think it gets shipped with this on already) but it seems to make no difference whether it's on or off - GT refuses to display bold text (eg top, man pages or tput bold) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.0.1-3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Edit->Current Profile->General - tick "allow bold text" 2.tput bold 3.start typing Actual Results: regular text Expected Results: bold text Additional info: Actually, it would be quite nice if the text could not only be bold, but in some user defined color - the same goes for underlined text in a different color, as xterm does with resources boldColors and colorULMode. I guess this has to go upstream though where it would, probably correctly, be deprioritised as a triviality :)
Bold text is distinguished from normal text only by its color -- if your default color setup is black-on-white, then there's no room for "more black". If you set the foreground to a shade of gray, it'll work as expected. (For colors other than the default foreground and background color, each item in the second row of the color palette you see in the profile editor is the bold version of the item in the first row, directly above it.) The option is a little misleading here.
Fixed upstream, will be pulled in when 0.9.2 or later hits Raw Hide.