[issue43694] Tkinter scaling does not work on some linux systems

2021-04-01 Thread A_D
A_D added the comment: Thanks so much for your help. To anyone in the future trying to figure this out: Apparently the default opensuse fonts (which are noto) are _not_ scalable. In my testing the following is enough to solve the issue. ``` tk.font.nametofont('TkDefaultFont')

[issue43694] Tkinter scaling does not work on some linux systems

2021-04-01 Thread A_D
A_D added the comment: Okay that makes sense to me. But then my next question is, why does this work on some linux systems and not others without having a specified font? Something funky about the font size? because I'd expect the platform defaults to at least be the same on diff

[issue43694] Tkinter scaling does not work on some linux systems

2021-04-01 Thread A_D
A_D added the comment: I'd expect the windows themselves to change size based on the percentage requested. eg as shown here https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4589845/95577562-0a794500-0a3b-11eb-914e-9a5afc500b65.png (semirelated issue: https://github.com/EDCD/EDMarketConn

[issue43694] Tkinter scaling does not work on some linux systems

2021-04-01 Thread A_D
A_D added the comment: I wasnt referring to fonts, I was refering to window scaling in general, which includes widgets and other things. Which are _also_ not being scaled correctly. The example code doesnt mess with fonts at all either, which either means the default behaves in an

[issue43694] Tkinter scaling does not work on some linux systems

2021-04-01 Thread A_D
New submission from A_D : When using scaling (as in root.tk.call('scaling', somenum)), some linux systems appear to simply disregard the change. I recently reinstalled from Ubuntu to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and found that scaling straight up did not work in the application I tried o