From: Alex Riesen Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:36:16 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make gitk work reasonably well on Cygwin. Message-ID: <81b0412b0701310836q4222c82arcfda05d3594182af@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On 1/31/07, Mike Nefari wrote: > 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. > The patch is broken very spectacularly. How have you made it? Copy-paste in the browsers window?