[systemd-devel] Removing bold fonts from boot messages

Lennart Poettering lennart at poettering.net
Tue Oct 12 10:56:46 UTC 2021


On Di, 12.10.21 12:09, Frank Steiner (fsteiner-mail1 at bio.ifi.lmu.de) wrote:

> Hi,
>
> after upgrading from SLES 15 SP2 (systemd 2.34) to SP3 (systemd 2.46)
> the boot messages are not only colored (which I like for seeing failures
> in red) but partially printed in bold face. This makes messages indeed
> harder to read on serial console (with amt or ipmi), so I wonder if
> there is a place where the ascii sequences for colors and font faces
> are defined and can be adjusted?

Sounds like in an graphics issue in your terminal emulator, no?

> Or is there some option to remove the bold face only, but not the colors?
> systemd.log_color=0 removes all formatting, but I'd like to keep the
> colors...

No, this is not configurable. We are not a themeable desktop, sorry.

Lennart

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