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From: Vlastimil Zíma (zima_at_karlov.mff.cuni.cz)
Date: Fri Oct 05 2012 - 12:07:49 CDT

Hi,

when I compared my compiled VMD with precompiled binary some time ago,
the fonts were present in the precompiled one. That is why I expect
problems in compilation. I also did not noticed any lack of fonts in
system paths, but I do not know which fonts to look for.

> tclsh
% package require Tk
8.5.11
% puts "$tcl_version"
8.5
% puts "$tk_version"
8.5

All tcl and tk packages I have are for amd64 bit architecture (all
libraries are in /usr/lib). Specifically

http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/tcl8.5 version 8.5.11-2
http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/tk8.5 version 8.5.11-2

Regards,
Vlastimil

On 10/05/2012 04:08 PM, John Stone wrote:
> Hi,
> Problems with Tk fonts are generally caused not by the compilation of
> VMD (or FLTK) but are usually the result of a lack of fonts installed
> with the X11 Windowing system. Tk obtains its fonts by querying the
> host windowing system for fonts that match the characteristics of a request.
> If the host windowing system has no match, then Tk tries to fallback to
> some font that is available.
>
> From the description below, it sounds to me like there might be something
> amiss the X11 window system fonts or one of the X11 libraries on the machine
> you're using, and that this is preventing the Tk library embedded in
> VMD from getting anything other than the default font.
>
> Since you're able to get a simple test to work in a standalone interpreter,
> one thing that may be worth checking is whether there might be some
> problem with the 64-bit libs on your machine. Is the "tclsh" that you
> run in your example below a 32-bit or 64-bit library? What do you get
> from this command, when you run it in your tclsh:
> puts "$tcl_version"
> puts "$tk_version"
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 11:07:03AM +0200, Vlastimil Zíma wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> after several attempts I still can not resolve troubles with tk fonts when
>> I compile VMD.
>>
>> I am using 64bit Debian with following vmd configuration:
>>
>> ./configure LINUXAMD64 OPENGL FLTK TK IMD XINPUT NETCDF CONTRIB TCL PYTHON
>> PTHREADS NUMPY NOSTATICPLUGINS
>>
>> and tk packages:
>> libfltk1.3-dev 1.3.0-8 (I also tried fltk1.1)
>> tcl-dev 8.5.0-2
>> tk-dev 8.5.0-2
>>
>> Still timeline, sequence viewer and other plugins which uses customized
>> fonts has invisible texts. I tried anything I found on this mailing list,
>> including LC_ALL=C in environment and $HOME/.tkconrc file. I also tried a
>> simple script with uses custom font based on code of timeline which works:
>>
>> > tclsh
>> package require Tk
>> font create tkFixedTimeline -family Courier -size -12
>> ttk::label .l -text "Attention!" -font tkFixedTimeline
>> grid .l -row 0
>>
>> This shows nice small box with monofont "Attention!" in it.
>>
>> I will be glad for any help which would help to resolve this problem.
>> Vlastimil