From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 21 2012 - 10:20:56 CDT

Have you checked to see if your machine has all of the fonts that Tk
expects to be able to find? TkCon can't use any fonts that Tk can't find,
so it makes me wonder if that might be the reason you're not able to simply
use the font settings in the email you referenced.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:18:05AM -0400, Shyno Mathew wrote:
> Hello John,
>
> Thanks for your reply. I am using Linux platform, fedora 16, 64 bit
> machine.
>
> thanks
> Shyno
>
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:10 AM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> You didn't mention what operating system you're using. That might
> have in impact on the steps you need to take. I think that the previous
> mail you referenced was likely tested on a Unix/Linux platform, but
> filenames
> such as .tkconrc won't work right on Windows, so the steps are likely
> different
> there, if you happen to be a Windows user, for example.
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 05:44:13PM -0400, Shyno Mathew wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I am trying to increase the font size of tkconsole. As mentioned in
> the
> > mailing list ( following url),
> > http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/mailing_list/vmd-l/19624.html
> >
> > I made a .tkconrc file in my home directory.
> > But this doesn't seem to fix the issue, the font size still looks
> the
> > same.
> > Can some one comment on this?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Shyno Mathew
> > --
> > Shyno Mathew
> > PhD student
> > Department of Chemical Engineering
> > Columbia University
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> --
> Shyno Mathew
> PhD student
> Department of Chemical Engineering
> Columbia University

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