gitk/git-gui misfeature: saving the geometry can the window out of reach

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

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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



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