title: Resizing a Button in tkinter on a Mac
body: <p>I'm still new to <code>tkinter</code>, and noticed that when I tried to increase the size of a button using</p>
  
  <pre><code> button.config(height=20, width=50)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It didn't work at all. It was just a huge area of white space in the violet background, and then the button in the middle of the white space. If I clicked anywhere within the white space though, it worked and did its command. </p>
  
  <p>Here's the code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>from tkinter import *
  
  root = Tk()
  def cheese():
      print ('hi')
  logo = PhotoImage('../Desktop/logothing.gif')
  explanation = """Flaming Arrows whizz over your hair, War rages around you. Suddenly,
  it charges into you. A 8 foot tall mechanical beast the enemy have been training for war.
  You have no chance but to fight it. You swing your sword as hard as you can...Only to
  leave a minor dent on it's armor. With one blow from its club, you fall unconscious."""
  
  w2 = Label(root, justify=LEFT, text=explanation, image = logo, 
             compound = CENTER, fg="blue", bg= "Violet", 
          font="ComicSansMS 32 bold",padx=1000, pady=1000).pack(side='left')
  w1 = Button(root, text = 'Hello',command = cheese, padx=10)
  w1.config(height=20, width = 50)
  w1.place(x=500, y=500)
  </code></pre>