[Python] Mandrake 8.0 and Idle

Have you tried setting the font in ~/.idle? Put something like this in
there:

[EditorWindow]
font-size = 12
font-name = -Adobe-Courier-Bold-R-Normal--12-120-75-75-M-70-ISO8859-1

Alex.

There's also a site-wide config file wherever IDLE got installed
called config-unix.txt. I've fount the default font choice to be too
small for a "typical" (whatever that means) Linux install. Try 12 as
suggested above, at least as a starting point.

Quality of fonts is another issue entirely, to generalize, most
public-domain fonts aren't very good, and there's quite a bit of work
going on on that, both in making better fonts and in rendering the
ones we do have a bit better.


Mats Wichmann

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Brett> This is probably strictly a Mandrake question but... When I
Brett> launch idle under either Gnome or Kde the text is so small it's
Brett> unreadable. It appears to be only idle thats affected but I'm
Brett> guessing other Tkinter apps may be affected..

Dunno if it's strictly a Mandrake problem, but it definitely doesn't just
affect Idle or other Tk apps. There are plenty of complaints and questions
about font problems on Mandrake-related mailing lists.