# gitk/git-gui misfeature: saving the geometry can the window out of reach 3 messages from 2007-11-10 to 2007-11-11. Participants: Benoit Sigoure, Shawn O. Pearce. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/10790 ## Benoit Sigoure, 2007-11-10 21:48 Subject: gitk/git-gui misfeature: saving the geometry can the window out of reach Message-ID: <63F7323C-D90A-4F5E-AE3C-8937455972FD@lrde.epita.fr> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/63F7323C-D90A-4F5E-AE3C-8937455972FD%40lrde.epita.fr ``` Hello list, 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. This could well be an ugly wart in Apple's port of Tcl/Tk (I have a MacBook with OSX 10.4.10) or a more general problem (didn't try with other OSes). git-gui version 0.8.4 git version 1.5.3.5.654.gdd5ec (tonight's master's HEAD) Tcl/Tk version 8.4.7 (Apple's) (gitk doesn't support --version!) For those struggling with the same problem, here is a quick workaround: gnused -i /geometry/d ~/.gitk Cheers, -- Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna EPITA Research and Development Laboratory ``` ## Shawn O. Pearce, 2007-11-11 05:11 Subject: Re: gitk/git-gui misfeature: saving the geometry can the window out of reach Message-ID: <20071111051128.GS14735@spearce.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20071111051128.GS14735%40spearce.org In-Reply-To: <63F7323C-D90A-4F5E-AE3C-8937455972FD@lrde.epita.fr> ``` Benoit Sigoure 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. This could well be > an ugly wart in Apple's port of Tcl/Tk (I have a MacBook with OSX > 10.4.10) or a more general problem (didn't try with other OSes). > > git-gui version 0.8.4 > git version 1.5.3.5.654.gdd5ec (tonight's master's HEAD) > Tcl/Tk version 8.4.7 (Apple's) > (gitk doesn't support --version!) > > For those struggling with the same problem, here is a quick workaround: > gnused -i /geometry/d ~/.gitk 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. I once started working on a fix for git-gui but put it aside as I didn't have an external monitor handy. I haven't hooked one up to my laptop in months so it would be a bit of work for me to test and debug. -- Shawn. ``` ## Shawn O. Pearce, 2007-11-11 10:44 Subject: Re: gitk/git-gui misfeature: saving the geometry can the window out of reach Message-ID: <20071111104407.GY14735@spearce.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20071111104407.GY14735%40spearce.org In-Reply-To: <8700373A-4878-4EBD-BA27-D4F31BE44907@lrde.epita.fr> ``` Benoit Sigoure wrote: > On Nov 11, 2007, at 6:11 AM, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > >Benoit Sigoure 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... -- Shawn. ```