IDLE - adjust fonts in KDE?

[Tipton Bandy]

Thank you very much for your help.
I was able to solve the problem by creating a new file,
$HOME/.idle
and putting the following lines into it:
[EditorWindow]
font-name= courier
font-size= 14

Your help gave me the pointer I needed.
Tipton


Gilles Lenfant wrote:

> 
> "Tipton Bandy" <tipton51 at subdimension.moc> a écrit dans le message de
> news: ou0ga.19172$jA2.1723709 at newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net...
>> Please forgive me if this is FAQ, but I haven't been able to find the
>> answer.
>>
>> When I run IDLE on WIN98, it looks great.  But when I run it under KDE,
>> the type size is too small for my old eyes.
> 
> 
> Just a RTFM :o)
> 
> Form the IDLE Help :
> 
> <copy_paste from="idle help">
> Other preferences:
> 
>  To change the font on Windows, open EditorWindow.py and change
>      text['font'] = ("lucida console", 8)
>  to, e.g.,
>      text['font'] = ("courier new", 10)
> </copy_paste>
> 
> This is not clearly indicated but this works with Unix too !
> 
> "lucida console", 10 is perfect to me but you may prefer another monotype
> font available to your system.
> 
> Note : this has no connection with KDE since IDLE is not a KDE app.
> 
> --Gilles