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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Benoit Sigoure <tsuna@lrde.epita.fr>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: gitk/git-gui misfeature: saving the geometry can the window out of reach
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:11:29 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071111051128.GS14735@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <63F7323C-D90A-4F5E-AE3C-8937455972FD@lrde.epita.fr>

Benoit Sigoure <tsuna@lrde.epita.fr> 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.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-11  5:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-10 21:48 gitk/git-gui misfeature: saving the geometry can the window out of reach Benoit Sigoure
2007-11-11  5:11 ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
     [not found]   ` <8700373A-4878-4EBD-BA27-D4F31BE44907@lrde.epita.fr>
2007-11-11 10:44     ` Shawn O. Pearce

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