On Apr 29, 2010, at 9:39 AM, Matt Barber wrote:

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I'm using Pd version 0.42.5-extended-20100428 and Ubuntu Lucid
10.04 :-)

Am 2010-04-28 20:07, schrieb Thomas Holzmann:

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Hello,

I'm using the latest pd-extended and have display problems when
using pd on a screen which is set to 120 dpi. Then most of the texts don't fit into the boxes. When I change the screen to 96 dpi everything works fine.

I assume that's a problem with tk scaling!?

Does someone know a solution for this?

On Fedora/CCRMA I use the following stupid wrapper (it's a hack).

#!/bin/bash shopt -s -o monitor xrdb -merge /usr/local/lib/pd_fonthelper /usr/bin/pd $@ & sleep 1 xrdb -merge /etc/X11/Xresources fg 1

pd_fonthelper is just:

Xft.dpi: 72

Obviously you would change this to fit whatever dpi was working for
you before.

I also had to comment out some lines in pd.tk which test for 8.5 and change font size accordingly; once I did, all my Pd font problems melted away.

Matt

Could you guys try pd-gui-rewrite and see if it still has this
problem? The Tcl/Tk side has been entirely rewritten from scratch, so
hopefully it'll "just work" now. Otherwise, we can get the fixes in
that branch.

.hc

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