[Tkinter] Disable anti aliasing for text

[AnonymousNobody]

I apologize for asking another question, but how can I disable text anti-aliasing in tkinter? I have tried padx= and pady= -1 and -2, but neither works. Will I just have to try to install tkinter 8.4?

[nilamo]

It's amusing to me that googling this issue led to an almost identical question on the old forums: http://www.python-forum.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=17418

Hello,
 

I apologise that my first post has to be about asking for help but I have no other choice.

Questions are what this forum is about.

Check out http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30335...in-tkinter
also http://effbot.org/zone/tkinter-aggdraw.htm

Larz60+ 

Anti-aliasing is disabled by default (or at least used to be). Do you have some code we can run to verify the issue?

[AnonymousNobody]

from tkinter    import *
from tkinter import ttk
root = Tk()
root.overrideredirect(True)
root.geometry('+1000+500')
root.lift()
root.wm_attributes('-topmost', True)
root.wm_attributes('-disabled', True)
root.wm_attributes('-transparentcolor', 'white')
label = Label(root, text='test', bg='white')
label.pack()
root.mainloop

The letters are surrounded by white, reducing readability at small size and in front of the wrong colour.

[nilamo]

I'm not sure there's a way to disable whether or not a font is antialiased, but you can at least use a font that just doesn't have it.  This worked for me (I commented out a few things to make testing easier):

from tkinter import *
from tkinter import ttk
root = Tk()
# root.overrideredirect(True)
root.geometry('+1000+500')
# root.lift()
root.wm_attributes('-topmost', True)
#root.wm_attributes('-disabled', True)
root.wm_attributes('-transparentcolor', 'white')
label = Label(root, text='test', bg='white', font="fixedsys")
label.pack()
root.mainloop()