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gitk on Windows: layout problem

Subject: gitk on Windows: layout problem

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7 messages between May 30, 2006 and Jun 10, 2006.

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Rutger Nijlunsing· May 30, 2006, 18:54 UTC · lore

Hi,

Is this a known problem? gitk-du-jour on Windows starts up with an unusable layout. Screenshot attached.

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Stefan-W. Hahn· May 30, 2006, 19:20 UTC · re: Rutger Nijlunsing · lore

Re: gitk on Windows: layout problem

Also sprach Rutger Nijlunsing am Tue, 30 May 2006 at 20:54:41 +0200:

> Is this a known problem? gitk-du-jour on Windows starts up with an
> unusable layout. Screenshot attached.

I have the same problem using gitk on Windows with Cygwin. Till now I avoid the problem (because I know too little about TCL/TK) with commenting out the line "catch {source ~/.gitk}". Then then window can be sized to correct layout.

Stefan

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Johannes Schindelin· May 30, 2006, 19:21 UTC · re: Rutger Nijlunsing · lore

Re: gitk on Windows: layout problem

Hi,

On Tue, 30 May 2006, Rutger Nijlunsing wrote:

> Is this a known problem? gitk-du-jour on Windows starts up with an
> unusable layout. Screenshot attached.

This is a known problem. See

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/18209

Hth, Dscho

Martin Langhoff· Jun 4, 2006, 02:30 UTC · re: Johannes Schindelin · lore

Re: gitk on Windows: layout problem

On 5/31/06, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

> This is a known problem. See
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/18209

Indeed. MacOSX has the same problem, and that patch "fixes" it too. It's a bit of a hack but I think it should be merged in, conditional on OS naturally.

cheers,

Paul Mackerras· Jun 3, 2006, 09:43 UTC · re: Rutger Nijlunsing · lore

Re: gitk on Windows: layout problem

Rutger Nijlunsing writes:

> Is this a known problem? gitk-du-jour on Windows starts up with an
> unusable layout. Screenshot attached.

Is that using Tk with the cygwin X server, or the native Windows Tk port?

Paul.

Rutger Nijlunsing· Jun 10, 2006, 11:13 UTC · re: Paul Mackerras · lore

Re: gitk on Windows: layout problem

On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 07:43:38PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:

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> Rutger Nijlunsing writes:
> 
> > Is this a known problem? gitk-du-jour on Windows starts up with an
> > unusable layout. Screenshot attached.
> 
> Is that using Tk with the cygwin X server, or the native Windows Tk
> port?

I installed the default cygwin version but I don't have to start an X server for it. So while it's not the native Windows Tk port, it also doesn't seem to be the X-server version.

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Christopher Faylor· Jun 10, 2006, 20:34 UTC · re: Rutger Nijlunsing · lore

Re: gitk on Windows: layout problem

On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 01:13:21PM +0200, Rutger Nijlunsing wrote:

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>On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 07:43:38PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
>> Rutger Nijlunsing writes:
>>>Is this a known problem?  gitk-du-jour on Windows starts up with an
>>>unusable layout.  Screenshot attached.
>>
>>Is that using Tk with the cygwin X server, or the native Windows Tk
>>port?
>
>I installed the default cygwin version but I don't have to start an X
>server for it.  So while it's not the native Windows Tk port, it also
>doesn't seem to be the X-server version.

Cygwin's Tk is pretty close to a pure windows version. It doesn't even understand cygwin path names. Its main purpose is to support the insight debugger and it does not require an X-server to run.