On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 08:44:14AM +0530, gt wrote: > I have been facing this issue from a long time. The issue is that > sometimes the bold colours aren't loaded by urxvt. > > I mainly use the terminals inside screen, and then the colours are > loaded properly (not always though). But when launching the terminal > standalone, the colours aren't loaded properly. > > urxvt.termName: rxvt-256color Have you tried to not to change the default termName? I use urxvt and the bold fonts work for me (outside screen) with the default one, `rxvt-unicode-256color'. If I try yours, `rxvt-256color', it happens the same to me, no bold fonts. Regards -- Ricardo (http://r.untroubled.be/)