Re: text looks different on different displays

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff purple com>]

On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 09:11:47PM -0400, Valdis Kletnieks vt edu wrote:
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> 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

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