Linux users: please run gui tests

[Terry Reedy]

On 8/28/2015 1:56 AM, Christian Gollwitzer wrote:
> Am 27.08.15 um 20:32 schrieb Terry Reedy:
>> On 8/27/2015 4:56 AM, Petr Viktorin wrote:
>>> 1321, in _configure
>>>      self.tk.call(_flatten((self._w, cmd)) + self._options(cnf))
>>> _tkinter.TclError: expected integer but got ""
>>>
>>
>> Very puzzling. The only obviously even possibly relevant change from 3.4
>> to 3.6 is that the Tk version for 3.4.3 is 8.6.1. configDialog is
>> identical in 3.4 and 3.6.
>
> tkinter is a bit stupid, as it does not report the command that was
> passed to Tcl. It would be helpful if you printed it out before the
> call, i.e.
>
> print(_flatten((self._w, cmd)) + self._options(cnf))
>
> Can you inject this into both versions of the code?
>
> There is something about fonts. It could also have something to do with
> Xft, a compile-time option of Tk, to use fontconfig (vague guess).

I decided to open a tracker issue so this does not get lost.
https://bugs.python.org/issue24951

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy