Appearance of bold text in man pages

[vasa1]

I want to know how to reduce the brightness of the bold text in man pages or to use some more restful shade of grey instead.

This is for when I'm viewing man pages in my terminal (lxterminal or roxterm).

Thanks!

[sudodus]

I think you can change the preferences of your terminal emulator - change the high-light rendering to something you like better.

[vasa1]

I think you can change the preferences of your terminal emulator - change the high-light rendering to something you like better.

I'll try that but for now I dug out this code that does something when added to the end of my .bashrc:

man() {
    env LESS_TERMCAP_md=$'\E[01;38;5;74m' man "$@"
}

Now, I just have to mess with that line to understand what all those numbers do to see whether I can mute the blue a little more.

BTW, man termcap claims that termcap is outdated and that one should use terminfo but that didn't do anything for me!

Edit: I can use the GUI of roxterm to change the color of bold text but can't do so in lxterminal.

[Habitual]

I like it!

[sudodus]

Do you want to create something general, or are doing it for yourself and one particular terminal emulator? If the latter, it should be easy with gnome-terminal, maybe not so easy with lxterminal ...

[vasa1]

Do you want to create something general, or are doing it for yourself and one particular terminal emulator? If the latter, it should be easy with gnome-terminal, maybe not so easy with lxterminal ...

It's just for me. I don't like bright colors and wanted to tone down the color of bold text in man pages.

I can get what I want with roxterm's gui or with the .bashrc code I posted earlier. I don't use gnome-terminal.

[Habitual]

worked for me in Terminator.

[sudodus]

It's a nice way to use ANSI escape sequences