Re: text looks different on different displays



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)...

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