Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!tundraware.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Daneliuk Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: More tkinter Madness Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 16:09:46 -0600 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 29 Message-ID: <56465FAA.5060809@tundraware.com> References: <708dhc-3pf1.ln1@oceanview.tundraware.com> <0dphhc-ntf.ln1@oceanview.tundraware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: tundraware.eternal-september.org; posting-host="5a15fedc1d2651a6099f1673ffb218fd"; logging-data="5230"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19QSj7oLa2wLy4ZIk5Qp2RykE9u3qh0+SY=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:lD5a2uDj/fHYtNOTyeVclRx4Fvo= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:98774 On 11/13/2015 01:58 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 11/13/2015 12:14 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: >> On 11/13/2015 12:32 AM, Christian Gollwitzer wrote: >>> Apfelkiste:Sources chris$ >> >> Well, I get window and when I do this: >> >> pack [button .b -text Hello -command exit] >> >> Nothing appears. >> >> tkinter appears borked >> >> I have reinstalled once already, will try again > > Tkinter is the name of the Python package for using Tk, but Tk itself is > usually called Tk (package on Fedora and RHEL is tk). > > On my CentOS installs, in /usr/share/tk8.5/demos, there are a number of > Tcl/Tk demos you can run. If Tcl and Tk are working, then I would move > to reinstalling tkinter. > Yep, tcl/tk is borked. That would explain why pure X apps like xterm work, but not tkinter apps. Reinstalling tcl/tk has not helped at all. Now I am really curious what the interaction is between VPS and tk... Sigh. (Thanks)