Okay, all fixed.
Terry nailed it. I removed tcl & tk, (which also removed tix, tkinter,
idle, etc via dependencies) and re-installed them. Had to also re
-install python-tools w/idle separately. No more menu corruption.
Thanks Terry. BTW, tk version was 8.6.4.
--Al
On Fri, 2016-07-08 at 12:00 -0400, idle-dev-requ...@python.org wrote:
> Today's Topics:
>
> 1. Re: Corrupt idle top level menus (Terry Reedy)
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> Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 16:39:04 -0400
> From: Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu>
> To: idle-dev@python.org
> Subject: Re: [Idle-dev] Corrupt idle top level menus
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> On 7/5/2016 10:17 PM, Al Schapira wrote:
> > Using idle 2.7.10 under Fedora linux 22:
> >
> > $ uname -a
> > Linux ADS2 4.4.13-200.fc22.i686 #1 SMP Wed Jun 8 16:35:43 UTC 2016
> > i686
> > i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> >
> > $ python --version
> > Python 2.7.10
> >
> > The idle menus and sub menus are corrupt as shown in the attached
> > screenshot. The corrupted parts (black stripes) move (randomly)
> > over
> > the menu choices as the cursor moves over them.
> > (No other programs show any graphic corruption at all.)
> >
> > Where and how do I report this bug?
>
> This is almost certainly not an idlelib bug. IDLE justs call tkinter
> menu functions. Ditto for tkinter, which just calls tcl/tk
> functions.
> In IDLE, select Help => About IDLE to see what tk version you have.
>
> This might be a tk problem. Since I have never heard of such a
> problem
> before, I am suspicious that this problem is specific to your
> machine,
> either X-Windows or the hardware. (It could be that tk on X-Windows
> calls an obscure function that other programs do not.)
>
> The first thing I would do in re-install tcl/tk, the latest version
> available for your distribution. If that does not fix the problem,
> or
> if you need help doing so, post something like the above to python
> -list,
> mirrored on gmane.comp.python.general. Call it "Graphics glitch with
> tkinter on Fedora". There are regulars there who use Linux,
> including
> Fedora. (I am using Windows.) If this is not unique to your
> machine,
> someone there might know something.
>
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