I'm having an odd problem which I can't seem to find the answer to. I have recently upgraded from CentOS 5 to CentOS 6 (using a fresh install and migrate). However, I have a bunch of Tk widgets that use font names like "12x24" and "5x7", etc. Under CentOS 5 (Tk 8.4), this worked fine; however, under CentOS 6 (Tk 8.5), this does not seem to work properly; it does not find the fonts and reverts to a (pretty, but wrong) default font.
I have verified using xlsfonts, xdpyfont, etc. that the fonts exist; for example, "12x24" is apparently now an alias for: -Sony-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--24-170-100-100-C-120-ISO8859-1 and if I specify this full name in Tk, it works fine.
What am I doing wrong here, or did the enhanced font support in Tk 8.5 subtly break fonts using an "WxH" designation?
-G. -- Glenn Eychaner (geychaner@lco.cl) Telescope Systems Programmer, Las Campanas Observatory