Mandrake 8.0 and Idle

[Alex]

> When I launch idle under either Gnome or Kde the text is so small it's
> unreadable. It appears to be only idle thats affected

Have you tried setting the font in ~/.idle?  Put something like this in
there:

[EditorWindow]
font-size             = 12
font-name             = -Adobe-Courier-Bold-R-Normal--12-120-75-75-M-70-ISO8859-1

Alex.