Dear All

In testing my TK based app on XP, OSX, FC9, and FC13, the latter totally ignores all the font types specified for the widgets. My fonts are defined like this: 

use constant TEXT_FONT => '-Adobe-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-140-*-*-*-*-*-*';
I've also tried: 
use constant TEXT_FONT = 'TkTextFont';
This changes things for everything except the fc13 box which stays the same no matter what, so I must conclude it's some 'X' thing in the standard FC13 install (I noticed it's missing a lot of utilities usually present. The Devs say they are moving towards a more user-friendly desktop and are dropping the more techie things from the standard install).

I know just enough X to get by, but have never delved into the fonts. Can anyone give me a pointer to what might be causing this?

In reply to Tk fonts and Fedora 13 by ron7

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