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

[Jonas Bechtel]

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

"puts [font actual TkMenuFont]" (or all default fonts) says  -size -2147483648 consistently. 

After changing to 

    set F(size) 12
    set F(ttsize) 10
    set F(capsize) 14
    set F(fixedsize) 12

git-gui works fine.


I don't know whether this comes originally from tk developers (I can hardly believe) or from packaging process (Can't believe either), or some virus in my system (hopefully not). I just wanted to inform you about the problem.

Best regards
 Jonas




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