Re: changing the font size in Xdialog

[Pierre Frenkiel <pierre.frenkiel@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 4 Jul 2012, Camale?n wrote:

> http://xdialog.free.fr/
>
> Remarks regarding some distributions quirks:
>
> Wow... not a Debian lover here :-P
   yes, and In My Holy Opinion, stupid...
   If the font are broken, how comes that they are displayed correctly
   (good shape and size), with the --fontsel option !?
   Anyway, I re-compiled from the tar source, and got EXACTLY the
   same behaviour. So it seems that I have now the right to fill a bug report.

> You must be still on Lenny, right?
  No, I am on Squeeze on my desktop, and SID on my laptop:
  same behaviour on both

> I use "zenity" (to drawn small GTK GUI dialogs) and "dialog" for ncurses,
> I'm not using Xdialog which BTW, looks like it has been removed from
> Debian repositories.

  yes. I must have installed it before the removal.
  I looked at zenity some time ago, and found it had less features than xdialog
  I'll check whether this is still true.

best regards,
--
Pierre Frenkiel