From: Christopher Faylor <me+git@cgf.cx>
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 20:34:19 GMT
Subject: Re: gitk on Windows: layout problem
Message-ID: <20060610203419.GB324@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
In-Reply-To: <20060610111321.GA6790@nospam.com>

On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 01:13:21PM +0200, Rutger Nijlunsing wrote:
>On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 07:43:38PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
>> Rutger Nijlunsing writes:
>>>Is this a known problem?  gitk-du-jour on Windows starts up with an
>>>unusable layout.  Screenshot attached.
>>
>>Is that using Tk with the cygwin X server, or the native Windows Tk
>>port?
>
>I installed the default cygwin version but I don't have to start an X
>server for it.  So while it's not the native Windows Tk port, it also
>doesn't seem to be the X-server version.

Cygwin's Tk is pretty close to a pure windows version.  It doesn't even
understand cygwin path names.  Its main purpose is to support the
insight debugger and it does not require an X-server to run.