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With Ubuntu 14. 04 I have Perl 5.18.2 for x86_64-Linux-gnu-thread-multi on my laptop which is nice, but after installing Perl/Tk-804.032 from CPAN I seem to only get non-antialiased fonts (scaled bitmaps?) when I start Perl/Tk scripts that looked OK on Ubuntu 12.04:

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Any suggestions how to repair the fonts or to investigate the problem are appreciated.

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  • Could you show as a screenshot of what you're seeing?
    – terdon
    May 4, 2014 at 11:58
  • @terdon, i would like to edit and insert a png of Tk::FontDialog but don't have the 'reputation' to do so i was told
    – user277781
    May 5, 2014 at 11:26
  • Yes, you need 10 reputation to post images. That's there to blovk SPAM. Just upload your image to a free service like imgur.com and edityour question to add a link to it. Someone will edit the image in for you.
    – terdon
    May 5, 2014 at 11:35
  • @terdon, here we go link
    – user277781
    May 5, 2014 at 11:49
  • Have you considered using Gtk2 instead? I think that's the best you can do with Tk.
    – terdon
    May 5, 2014 at 13:22

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Ok, after a while I think I found the cause of my Perl-Tk fonts problem: a reinstallation of Ubuntu 14.04 plus Perl-Tk made the problem disappear.

So why did it appear in first place?

One thing that very likely caused problems in the old installation was that at one point I changed the user name and the name of the home directory (!) using the bash command usermod.

Observing that CPAN was still sticking to the old (now wrong) home directory when I installed Perl packages, I think this had to mean troubles in unpredictable cases.

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Make sure that you've met the requirements which are described in README.linux, which comes with the distribution. I guess that you did not have libXft-devel installed and thus it was build without support for Xft (true type fonts etc).

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  • 'aptitude search' tells me the required libs are installed or virtually there : i libx11-dev i libfreetype6-dev i libxft-dev v libpng-dev v libz-dev i libjpeg-dev
    – user277781
    May 5, 2014 at 12:01
  • Hm, the pictures look for me like it was not build with Xft. Do you still have the build log? Can you make a grep -i xft over the build log or the generated Makefile?
    – Steffen Ullrich
    May 5, 2014 at 13:05
  • Captured the log of a forced Tk-rebuild and searched the makefile. Didn't discover a hint that anything went wrong with Xft. But i agree that 'xft' seems the most likely problem. Don't have the time to dig deeper right now, maybe some time later.
    – user277781
    May 6, 2014 at 6:00

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