From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: First cut at git port to Cygwin Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 10:25:14 -0700 Message-ID: <433C237A.20401@zytor.com> References: <433B3B10.5050407@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Sep 29 19:28:08 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EL29z-0000ME-1h for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 19:25:31 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932274AbVI2RZW (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2005 13:25:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932277AbVI2RZW (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2005 13:25:22 -0400 Received: from paleosilicon.orionmulti.com ([209.128.68.66]:53990 "EHLO paleosilicon.orionmulti.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932274AbVI2RZV (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2005 13:25:21 -0400 X-Envelope-From: hpa@zytor.com Received: from [172.27.0.18] (c-67-180-239-42.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.180.239.42]) (authenticated bits=0) by paleosilicon.orionmulti.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j8THPEJv021165 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 29 Sep 2005 10:25:15 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050720) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Johannes Schindelin In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=ham version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on paleosilicon.orionmulti.com X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.87, clamav-milter version 0.87 on paleosilicon.orionmulti.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >>Another funny which I haven't been able to figure out yet is that 'gitk' >>scrunches all its output up into a few pixels at the top of the window. > > See my mail about rootless X11. I went about working around that > particular Tk bug by specifying the dimensions of the panes explicitely. > However, I was not especially happy with my workaround, since it did not > reproduce the layout exactly after a restart. Maybe you can figure it out > how to do that. > It looks like this isn't a rootless *X* thing; it looks like the wish that is included with Cygwin actually opens native Win32 windows; even when run from inside a rooted X session it still opens an external window. I also tried using the wish from the latest ActiveState distribution; it exhibits the same problem although with slightly different geometries. -hpa