[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Weired font size in libtk8.5:i386/libtk8.6:i386 package

[Sergei Golovan]

Hi Jonas,

On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 2:24 AM Jonas Bechtel <post at jbechtel.de> wrote:
>
> Dear Tk maintainers
>
> question about tk package: I have installed git-gui but it rendered a completely unreadable GUI (line height of 1 px for half of the element. Other half looked OK).
>
> With strace I found this in /usr/share/tcltk/tk8.[56]/ttk/fonts.tcl :
>
>     set F(size) -12
>     set F(ttsize) -10
>     set F(capsize) -14
>     set F(fixedsize) -12

Which Tcl/Tk version do you have? These font sizes were fixed (by a
change very similar to the one suggested by you) in 2018 (version
8.6.8-4), so Tcl/Tk in Debian 10 and above should work fine.

Cheers!
-- 
Sergei Golovan