I think I have all the pieces, but not how to put them together:

I have a Perl/Tk application that runs on Windows & Linux (Fedora, if it matters). Originally written on Windows.

The Linux default fonts are causing some issues - they make a number of widgets larger, and aren't as readable for some. In any case, the goal is a common look and screen size.

The application users (X display servers) are mostly Windows (VxXsrv), some Linux.

So, I'd like to have the application request (and the clients use) the Windows fonts for the Tk widgets.

What I (think I) know:

• Perl Tk has "Tk Default, Text, Fixed, Monospace, Heading, Caption, Small Caption, Icon and Tooltip fonts.
• On Windows, the "System" font is Arial, which is used for the widgets without custom fonts
• The MS TT fonts (including Arial) can be obtained for use using the process at corefonts.sourceforge.net
• There ought to be some mapping in .Xdefaults to connect the dots

That's where I get lost.

• A - having followed the process (built and installed the RPM), xlsfonts doesn't report Arial on Linux clients. It does report a bunch of other -microsoft fonts. xlsfonts | grep ^-microsoft | sort | head starts with -microsoft-comic
• B - I assume I need to do something to get VcXsrv to recognize the fonts too. I have no clue what.
• C - Even if it did - what do I put in .Xdefaults (or elsewhere) to have TK adopt the MS Arial (and Courier) fonts?

I don't want to declare a custom font for every widget - I want the defaults for this application to switch to these as the "system" fonts"

I don't know why I find all this stuff so confusing - OS internals are simple :-)

Thanks in advance

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