Editor font in IDLE (Linux)

[Gilles Lenfant]

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:

>> Hi,
>> 
>> There's a hint in the EditorWindow module for changing the default font
>> and size for Win32 users.
>> What can a Linux IDLE user do to change the extreme small and ugly font
>> used in
>> IDLE (0.5) ?
>> 
>> TIA
>> 
>> Gilles
>> 
> 
> 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.
>