Bug 90609

Summary:	Text effects not working in Eterm 0.9.2-r6
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Kimmo Sundqvist <kimmo.sundqvist>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	SpanKY <vapier>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Kimmo Sundqvist 2005-04-27 05:46:34 UTC

Eterm has in its manpage said that --font-fx would allow the user to control the effect that Eterm does to the text that it outputs to its window.

These I tried and it accepted:

Eterm --font-fx bottom_right white
Eterm --font-fx bottom_right emboss
Eterm --font-fx bottom_right emboss white

With these it tells me "syntax error":

Eterm --font-fx outline
Eterm --font-fx outline white

But the result is always the same, no matter what is specify.  Black bottom-right shadow.  There is a warning on the man page about some "solid mode" that I didn't quite understand.  But if that were the problem, I think there shouldn't be any effects at all, i.e. even the black bottom-right shadow shouldn't work.  But, because it indeed works, I assume that I'm not using the mentioned "solid mode."

I accidentally stumbled in my trials upon a switch that made the black bottom-right shadow disappear, but still could not find anything to change its color, direction, or make it into an emboss, outline or anything else.

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2005-04-27 14:53:14 UTC

from the manpage:
--font-fx effects
    Specifies the effects to apply to the terminal window font.  The value of
    effects is a single string containing a series of corner/color pairs.

$ Eterm --font-fx "bottom_right white"
$ Eterm --font-fx "emboss white black"
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