Editor font in IDLE (Linux)

[Martin Franklin]

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:
> 
> 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 écrit dans le message
> news: mailman.980260346.3483.python-list at python.org...
> > Take a look in EditorWindow.py it has this on line 142....
> >
> >             text['font'] = ("lucida console", 8)
> > #            text['font'] = ("courier new", 10)
> >
> >
> > change it to just ...
> >
> > text['font'] = ("Courier ", 14)
> >
> > or whatever font you like.....
> >
> > Martin
> >
> 
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