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Need to be able to disable bold text in terminal #8164

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rmatte opened this issue Mar 30, 2023 · 3 comments
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Need to be able to disable bold text in terminal #8164

rmatte opened this issue Mar 30, 2023 · 3 comments

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rmatte commented Mar 30, 2023

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Other console apps have the ability to fully disable bold text in the terminal. I've tried everything I can possibly think of and I cannot find any way to do this with tabby. There is always some bold text in the terminal no matter what I do. Setting the font weight for bold to 100 does nothing, the font remains discernibly bold.

Describe the solution you'd like
Add a switch to disable all bold font in the terminal and force everything to be normal font weight.

Describe alternatives you've considered
I've tried custom CSS under the Appearance section of the settings and I've tried changing the font weight for bold to 100 which is the minimum value, it has no discernible effect, the bold text remains noticeably bold compared to the standard text.

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I'm including screenshots of how it currently looks in tabby vs how it should look. There is no "light" version of this font (Noto Mono) so just using a light version of the font is not an option in this case. As I mentioned, I'm able to disable bold and force everything to be standard text in other terminal apps so it's obviously possible to do and it would be a nice feature to have. I personally find bold text when using this font super distracting but this is my favorite terminal font.

How it currently looks:

how_it_currently_looks

How it should look once bold text has been disabled (this is taken from a different app), notice how the white text isn't bold.

how_it_should_look

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rmatte commented Mar 30, 2023

Ok, so I did some more digging and the canvas mode seems to work a bit better for this in terms of respecting font weight for bold text and whatnot (though it's still not totally perfect, still looks a bit bold) but then I run in to the issue described here: xtermjs/xterm.js#4120

Seems that you probably need to update xtermjs to patch that issue because it's pretty bad.

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rmatte commented Mar 30, 2023

I was messing around and I just noticed that for some reason the white text looks bolder than the rest of the text even when none of the text is bold, so this just seems to be some weird visual thing with xtermjs and probably isn't something you're able to fix. Going to close this.

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rmatte commented Apr 1, 2023

I opened #8171 to track the highlight issue.

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