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Re: [PATCH] Make gitk work reasonably well on Cygwin.

From
Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@eudaptics.com>
Date
Jan 31, 2007, 16:28 UTC
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Mike Nefari wrote:
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> 
> The gitk gui layout was completely broken on Cygwin. If gitk was started
> without previous geometry in ~/.gitk, the user could drag the window sashes
> to get a useable layout. However, if ~/.gitk existed, this was not possible
> at all.
> 
> The fix was to rewrite makewindow, changing the toplevel containers and
> the particular geometry information saved between sessions. Numerous bugs
> in both the Cygwin and the Linux Tk versions make this a delicate
> balancing act: the version here works in both but many subtle variants
> are competely broken in one or the other environment.

Your mailer has garbled your patch. But once this is fixed, it works quite well, both on my Linux box with Tk 8.4, where gitk's layout was suboptimal, as well as under MinGW, also with Tk 8.4.

Thank you, you saved my day!
-- Hannes
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Message 21 of 23 in “Make gitk work reasonably well on Cygwin.”
  1. Make gitk work reasonably well on Cygwin.Mike Nefari, Jan 31, 2007
  2. Johannes SchindelinJan 31, 2007
  3. Mark LevedahlJan 31, 2007
  4. Johannes SixtJan 31, 2007
  5. Johannes SchindelinJan 31, 2007
  6. Mark LevedahlFeb 1, 2007
  7. Junio C HamanoFeb 1, 2007
  8. Seth FalconFeb 1, 2007
  9. Alex RiesenFeb 1, 2007
  10. Mark LevedahlFeb 1, 2007
  11. Shawn O. PearceFeb 1, 2007
  12. Johannes SchindelinFeb 1, 2007
  13. Mark LevedahlFeb 1, 2007
  14. Johannes SchindelinFeb 1, 2007
  15. Mark LevedahlFeb 1, 2007
  16. Christian MICHONFeb 1, 2007
  17. Johannes SixtFeb 1, 2007
  18. Johannes SchindelinFeb 1, 2007
  19. Mark LevedahlFeb 1, 2007
  20. Mark LevedahlFeb 1, 2007
  21. Johannes SixtJan 31, 2007
  22. Alex RiesenJan 31, 2007
  23. Mark LevedahlJan 31, 2007

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