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Re: gitk/git-gui misfeature: saving the geometry can the window out of reach

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Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Nov 11, 2007, 10:44 UTC
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<20071111104407.GY14735@spearce.org>
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Benoit Sigoure <tsuna@lrde.epita.fr> wrote:
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> On Nov 11, 2007, at 6:11 AM, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> >Benoit Sigoure <tsuna@lrde.epita.fr> wrote:
> >>gitk (and I think git-gui too) save their "geometry" (which includes
> >>X/Y position) in ~/.gitk.  So far so good.  The problem is that I
> >>often use 2 screens at work (one is the screen of my laptop, the
> >>other one is above) and I happen to put my gitk/git-gui windows on
> >>the 2nd screen.  When I go back home, I don't have a second screen
> >>and gitk/git-gui open their windows out of reach.
> >
> >Actually git-gui saves the geometry to .git/config so I'm not sure
> >why the sed line above would correct git-gui's display issues.  But I
> >have also noticed this problem on my Mac OS X laptop when running
> >again after leaving either git-gui or gitk on the external display.
> 
> it's been a long time since I last used Tcl/Tk but if you give me a  
> hint as to where to look / what should be done, I can give it a try.

Look in git-gui.sh for "-- Load geometry"; in my current master it is on line 2625. This is the block where we have taken the geometry data back in from .git/config and are trying to update the UI to match what it says. Unfortunately we set a coordinate that is off the desktop using a standard X geometry string in the "wm geometry . [lindex $gm 0]" call...

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Shawn.
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