[Python] Editor font in IDLE (Linux)

This is what I did ( shame-faced hack... ):

grep through the file config-unix.txt .

Change lines "font-name=" and "font-size=" to whatever you want. I use
terminal, size 12.

enjoy.

Bryan,

There is no "config-unix.txt" file in any Python related directory.
Perhaps you are using another IDLE version than mine (0.5).

Bryan Mongeau wrote:

The file that Bryan mentioned was introduced in IDLE version 0.6. Why not
upgrade to that version?

Cheers,
Simon Brunning
TriSystems Ltd.
sbrunning at trisystems.co.uk




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Thanks...

But for deployment reasons, I need a solution that works with Python 1.5.2
that does not run IDLE 0.6 (some Unicode constants and others).

After a quick view, hacking IDLE 0.6 to make it work with Python 1.5.2 is
more difficult than it seemed at first.

"Simon Brunning" <SBrunning at trisystems.co.uk> a ?crit dans le message news:
mailman.980252066.30237.python-list at python.org...

Take a look in EditorWindow.py it has this on line 142....

if sys.platform[:3] == 'win':
text['font'] = ("lucida console", 8)
# text['font'] = ("courier new", 10)


change it to just ...

text['font'] = ("Courier ", 14)

or whatever font you like.....

Martin


Gilles Lenfant wrote:

Martin,

This works only with Windows IDLE.
I removed :
if sys.platform[:3] == 'win':
and tried different valid font names in:
text['font'] = ...

This seems to be completely ignored in Linux because IDLE always shows the
same ugly little font.

"Martin Franklin" <martin.franklin at westerngeco.com> a ?crit dans le message
news: mailman.980260346.3483.python-list at python.org...

Gilles,

Could you check if you have permission to overwrite the EditorWindow.pyc
file
I suspect that your changes are picked up not being used. I just changed
it
to Courier 24 on my RedHat 6.2 box and it looks massive! The other
place you
could try is in the PyShell.py file under line 711...
root = Tk()
font='Courier 24'
root.option_add('*font', font)


This will change it for all widgets.... including the menu and the edit
window
and the python shell etc

Hope this helps.
Martin



Gilles Lenfant wrote:

Gilles Lenfant <glenfant at equod.com.nospam> wrote in message
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I'm not on Linux at the moment, so can't test it, but have you tried passing
the name in the form you get when you run xlsfonts, with all the fields?
I've seen the problem with app-defaults files. If there isn't a good match
to a valid font spec, it defaults back to something else, usually an ugly
monospaced 12 point it picks up from the xterm.