On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 09:11:47PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > [14 lines, 112 words, 654 characters] Top characters: etnasiro > > On Sat, 09 Aug 2003 14:24:29 EDT, Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com> said: > > I have a little perl/glade/gtk app. When I run it displayed on one > > machine, it looks fine. On another, the text kerns very wide. It's > > always running on the same machine, just displaying different places. > > > > Any thoughts what I can do about this, or what's causing it? I'm > > starting to wonder what my customers will see. > > First guess is that the two display machines have different fonts installed, so > the underlying XQueryFont() calls are returning different fonts. > > 'xlsfonts' is your friend (and remember you can pass it a partial font spec to > narrow things down)... Thanks, I was thinking something like this, but it seems the metric information is wrong on one. That is, buttons displayed on one machine look like normal, +----------+ | button | +----------+ on the other they get displayed all spread out like this: +--------------------+ | b u t t o n | +--------------------+ -- Jeff Jeff Abrahamson <http://www.purple.com/jeff/> GPG fingerprint: 1A1A BA95 D082 A558 A276 63C6 16BF 8C4C 0D1D AE4B
