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Startup on LINUX Question [message #66681]

Thu, 04 June 2009 16:31

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Folks,

I have an IDL startup file on my LINUX machine. The first
line in the file is this:

DEVICE, RETAIN=2, TRUE_COLOR=1, SET_CHARACTER_SIZE=[9,12]

When I start up IDL 7.0.1 in the IDL Workbench this file
is executed (there is a print statement at the end of the file
to let me know it executed). And, indeed, graphics windows are
retained, etc. *But* when I issue a plot command, I still have tiny
fonts. At some random time during the day (I have no idea when),
something in IDL "wakes up" and all of my graphics from then on
contain the larger font I specified in my startup file. This
can take an hour, sometimes I don't notice the larger fonts
until after lunch.

If I have small fonts and I .reset my IDL session,
I re-run my startup file, and I still have small fonts.
If I have larger fonts and I .reset my IDL session,
I continue to have larger fonts.

Does anyone have the faintest idea what might be going
on here?

Cheers,

David
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming (www.dfanning.com)
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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