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Re: Configuring gitk appearance

From
Vincent Hanquez <tab@snarc.org>
Date
Feb 15, 2007, 16:26 UTC
Message-ID
<20070215162646.GA25337@snarc.org>
In-Reply-To
<45D48951.2000207@webdrake.net>
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 04:24:49PM +0000, Joseph Wakeling wrote:
> Is there any way to configure the appearance of gitk either during or
> after installation?  At present on my system (Ubuntu 6.10) the font used
> is almost illegible.  I'm guessing it is partly due to gitk using GTK+
> v1 instead of v2.
gitk is not using GTK v1 but TCL/TK.
see your ~/.gitk and just change those option (9 to 13 or 15 will do):

set mainfont {Helvetica 9} set textfont {Courier 9} set uifont {Helvetica 9 bold}

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Vincent Hanquez
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