[tex-live] trouble starting context on latest tl2008 developer snapshot

[Siep Kroonenberg]

On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 09:42:33PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Mo, 07 Jul 2008, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> >   calc_depends;
> > - my $mw = Tk::MainWindow->new();
> > + my $mwv = Tk::MainWindow->new();
> > + $mw = $mwv->Scrolled("Frame", -scrollbars => "oe", -height => 800);
> > 
> > @@@
> >   menu_update_texts();
> > + $mw->pack;
> >   Tk::MainLoop();
> 
> Too much hassle. We have only a mininmal perl in the installer, I tried
> to find all the necessary files and gave up after 15 files added and no
> end.
> 
> No, I have shrinked the image even more. On my kvm virtual machine now
> the window is definitely smaller (y dim) than 600, more around 550.
> 
> Strange enough on the Linux side the window is MUCH bigger, and now I
> have to do some magic that there is no stupid grey background ...

Tk and Perl/Tk seem to listen to X resources. The claimed monitor
resolution would also make a difference if font sizes are specified
in points rather than pixels. I hope that it won't be necessary to
specify fonts within the installer.

-- 
Siep Kroonenberg