[gentoo-user] Python idle - font size for menu and help

[gentoo-user] Python idle - font size for menu and help

[Hartmut Figge]

Greetings,

i am just playing a bit with python and have discovered idle. For idle
to be useful the fonts have to be enlarged both for the menus and the
help window.

http://www.triffids.de/pub/screenshot/id111105.png (60 KB)

With options->Configure IDLE it was possible to set the font for the
edit window, but how can this be done for menus and help?

Hartmut
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Re: [gentoo-user] Python idle - font size for menu and help

[Albert W. Hopkins]

On Sat, 2011-11-05 at 15:12 +0100, Hartmut Figge wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> i am just playing a bit with python and have discovered idle. For idle
> to be useful the fonts have to be enlarged both for the menus and the
> help window.
> 
> http://www.triffids.de/pub/screenshot/id111105.png (60 KB)
> 
> With options->Configure IDLE it was possible to set the font for the
> edit window, but how can this be done for menus and help?


AFAIK IDLE uses  the Tk toolkit.  So you'll probably need to configure
the fonts for Tk (however that's done).

-a

[gentoo-user] Re: Python idle - font size for menu and help

[Hartmut Figge]

Albert W. Hopkins:

>AFAIK IDLE uses  the Tk toolkit.

So it seems...

>So you'll probably need to configure the fonts for Tk

...and i have already searched for a way to do so. In vain. Would be
nice, if this could be done not alone for idle but also for other tk
applications.

>(however that's done).

*g*

A config file in /etc, in home, perhaps some lines in .Xresources...

Hartmut
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Python idle - font size for menu and help

[Michael Mol]

On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Hartmut Figge <h.figge@gmx.de> wrote:
> Albert W. Hopkins:
>
>>AFAIK IDLE uses  the Tk toolkit.
>
> So it seems...
>
>>So you'll probably need to configure the fonts for Tk
>
> ...and i have already searched for a way to do so. In vain. Would be
> nice, if this could be done not alone for idle but also for other tk
> applications.
>
>>(however that's done).
>
> *g*
>
> A config file in /etc, in home, perhaps some lines in .Xresources...

That's what I was thinking. I pretty much stick with a plain xterm,
but for that to be workable on a 22" 1080p LCD, I had to adjust font
sizes.

For example, from my ~/.Xdefaults-serenity file:

*customization: -color
xterm.RenderFont.renderFont: true
xterm*faceName: terminusbold
xterm*faceSize: 10

These settings don't impact anything outside of xterm, though.

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[gentoo-user] Re: Python idle - font size for menu and help

[Hartmut Figge]

Michael Mol:
>On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Hartmut Figge <h.figge@gmx.de> wrote:

[Font for IDLE]
>> A config file in /etc, in home, perhaps some lines in .Xresources...
>
>That's what I was thinking.

Inserting the next line works for me. :)

----- .Xresources -----
Idle*font: insert-suitable-font-from-xlsfonts
---------------

Hartmut
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