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Re: [PATCH] gitk: force focus to main window

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Dec 18, 2008, 03:14 UTC
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Hi,
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, Paul Mackerras wrote:
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> Johannes Sixt writes:
> 
> > On msysGit, the focus is first on the (Tk) console.  This console is 
> > then hidden, but keeps the focus.  Work around that by forcing the 
> > focus onto the gitk window.
> 
> Hmmm, I don't like doing focus -force unconditionally on all platforms.  
> I hate it when applications decide they know best and override what the 
> window manager decides.
>From my previous experience with my patches to gitk, I did not expect 
otherwise.  That is why I did not even bother with this one.
> At least put a if {[tk windowingsystem] eq "win32"} in there. (msysGit 
> is a windows thing, isn't it?)

Yeah, because on other platforms, when you start gitk, you don't want it to take focus. Yeah, right.

Ciao, Dscho

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Message 3 of 6 in “gitk: force focus to main window”
  1. gitk: force focus to main windowJohannes Sixt, Dec 17, 2008
  2. Paul MackerrasDec 17, 2008
  3. Johannes SchindelinDec 18, 2008
  4. Jeff KingDec 18, 2008
  5. Paul MackerrasDec 18, 2008
  6. gitk: force the focus to the main window on WindowsJohannes Sixt, Dec 18, 2008

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