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From: tab@snarc.org (Vincent Hanquez)
Subject: Re: Configuring gitk appearance
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:26:46 +0100
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On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 04:24:49PM +0000, Joseph Wakeling wrote:
> Is there any way to configure the appearance of gitk either during or
> after installation?  At present on my system (Ubuntu 6.10) the font used
> is almost illegible.  I'm guessing it is partly due to gitk using GTK+
> v1 instead of v2.

gitk is not using GTK v1 but TCL/TK.

see your ~/.gitk and just change those option (9 to 13 or 15 will do):

set mainfont {Helvetica 9}
set textfont {Courier 9}
set uifont {Helvetica 9 bold}

-- 
Vincent Hanquez