[systemd-devel] Antw: [EXT] Re: [systemd‑devel] Removing bold fonts from boot messages

Ulrich Windl Ulrich.Windl at rz.uni-regensburg.de
Tue Oct 12 12:25:09 UTC 2021


>>> Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> schrieb am 12.10.2021 um 12:56
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> 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?

Stupid question: If you see bold face at the end of the serial line, wouldn't
changing the terminal type ($TERM) do?
Maybe construct your own terminal capabilities.

> 
> 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
> 
> ‑‑
> Lennart Poettering, Berlin





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