[Feature Request] Make bold-is-bright option configurable

[JakubVanek]

Hi all!

I've recently switched to Ubuntu 20.04 and I was surprised that my terminal prompt looks darker. This is a problem for me - I have problems seeing small letters with reduced contrast.

It turns out that GNOME Terminal (and VTE) have switched the bold-is-bright option to off by default: https://askubuntu.com/a/1156969

One of the ways forward (for me) is to change PS1 and LS_COLORS. On the other hand, just switching the option back to its previous value is easier. The issue is that Terminator does not provide the checkbox that gnome-terminal has.

Terminator currently does not touch this setting, VTE therefore uses the default. However, by adding self.vte.set_bold_is_bright(True) after the following line, I can revert VTE to the old behaviour.

terminator/terminatorlib/terminal.py

Line 703 in 11a6a57

self.vte.set_allow_bold(self.config['allow_bold'])

This would then have to be plumbed through the configuration UI.

Would you please consider this?

Best regards,

Jakub

[BachoSeven]

This is useful also when setting custom dircolors themes, i.e. see here

[DarthGandalf]

Thanks for this! I was wondering why sometimes it shows black text on black background.

[PartialVolume]

Thanks for this fix, we just discovered this was a problem with nwipe in a minority of terminals

Glad this option is now available, thanks.