Patton, Eric wrote: >> I'm pretty sure something strange happened between my upgrade from >> Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04, but all applications that I use (there's not too >> many) that use tcl/tk as the gui toolkit have really small fonts being >> used.
>This probably indicates that it is confused about the scale factor to >convert between points and pixels. It may be that your monitor is >reporting bogus physical dimensions via EDID. Or it may be that you >have some existing configuration settings based upon the historical >default of 75 DPI and those settings are producing undesirable results >when your system uses your monitor's actual resolution. >> Does anyone know how I can re-configure the global font sizes used in >> tcl/tk? >Tk reads ~/.Xdefaults, and uses any "*font: ..." setting found there. > >However, gis.m overrides that setting with: > > fontcreate default -family Helvetica -size -12 > ... > option add *font default It's easy enough to do a global find and replace on the relevant tcl files, and to edit my ~/.Xdefaults; is there anything else I should do to ensure the edits remain permanently? >I have no idea where it gets this information from (or if it's just >hard-coded to 75 DPI). Tk 8.4 doesn't call DisplayWidthMM or >DisplayHeightMM, which is the normal way to determine the physical >screen resolution. However, the list of changes for Tk 8.5 suggest >that the font rendering has been replaced. Hopefully an update to 8.5 will solve the problem. Thanks for the hints; ~ Eric. _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev