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After reinstalling the system (on client) had a problem with the interface htop. Not show some of the elements: username, load average

client: win7pro, putty 9708

server: ubuntu server 12.04

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Putty is rendering "gray" color (sometimes referred to as "bright black") as black. Go to the Putty settings and tweak the colors, it should fix it.

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    I found that I needed to change the setting `Indicate bolded text by changing` to `Both`, with no need to change any other colour settings. – paradroid Mar 17 '14 at 01:58
  • Found that the same fix that @paradroid suggested worked for me too. Did wonders for improving the visibility of my shell colors as well! – jmurrayufo May 25 '14 at 08:25
  • @paradroid Version 0.64 (2015-02-08) changelog: Bug fix: reset the bolded-text default setting back to what it used to be. (0.63 set it to something wrong, as a side effect of refactoring.) It seems to default to "The colour". – René Sackers Sep 17 '15 at 11:00
  • I had the same problem with OS X 10.11.4 with Terminal.app and stumbled upon this question. This fixed it for me: going to the 'Terminal.app' preferences, 'Profiles' tab, enable 'Use bright colors for bold text' checkbox –  Sep 12 '16 at 18:16
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There are two common ways to render ANSI "bold" text: as actual bold characters, or as light-colored text. Modern Linux tools tend to expect the latter, but PuTTY uses the former. As @paradroid said, you can configure how PuTTY handles ANSI bold codes. I tend to keep it on color-only, but if you also use programs that expect bold to literally mean bold, you may want to choose Both.

Update:

PuTTY has been updated with better defaults. If you're seeing bold text without light coloring, you may want to consider updating PuTTY.

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