On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 5:48:49 AM UTC-7, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 09/28/2018 03:09 PM, Brad Lanam wrote:
> > On Friday, September 28, 2018 at 8:46:14 AM UTC-7, Richard Owlett wrote:
> >> I've just installed 'filerunner'
> >> [
https://sourceforge.net/projects/filerunner/] whose configuration
> >> utility refers to standard Tk fonts (TkDefaultFont, TkTextFont,
> >> TkFixedFont, TkMenuFont, etc).
> >>
> >> I have found
https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/TkCmd/font.htm#M31 which only
> >> states:
> >>> The following named fonts are supported on all systems, and default to
> >>> values that match appropriate system defaults.
> >>
> >> I'm using the MATE Desktop on Debian 9.
> >> I went to System->Preferences->Look and feel->Appearance to experiment
> >> with font sizes.
> >>
> >> I saw no difference in the appearance of filerunner.
> >> Is there a tool to display/set Tk font sizes?
> >
> > There is 'tk scaling'. This will allow you to adjust the scaling
> > factor of fonts and widgets to match the DPI of your screen. I believe
> > it can be put in your .wishrc (I've never used it that way, so I don't
> > have any knowledge there).
> >
> > See:
https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/8484
>
> That didn't lead me anywhere.
> However I doubt that is related strongly to what I see as the program
> responds as expected toggling the '^' in the top right of screen.
a '.wishrc' file at all. Must be broken.