Patch/Tree window is minimised

[SilkAndSlug]

The bottom-right window has minimal width, and thus the list of files can't be seen. The window can be resized. The bottom-right window should show, as per the image on the website.

[SilkAndSlug]

There appears to be zero documentation for gitk.

As far as I can see, gitk is writing to ~/.config/git/gitk as it closes, and changing the values of the below params from dracula's defaults. IMHO, gitk is then ignoring the geometry config on load.

$ diff ~/gitk/gitk ./gitk
0a1,18
> set mainfont {sans 9}
> set textfont {monospace 9}
> set uifont {sans 9 bold}
> set tabstop 8
> set findmergefiles 0
> set maxgraphpct 50
> set maxwidth 16
> set cmitmode patch
> set wrapcomment none
> set autoselect 1
> set autosellen 40
> set showneartags 1
> set maxrefs 20
> set visiblerefs {"master"}
> set hideremotes 0
> set showlocalchanges 1
> set datetimeformat {%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S}
> set limitdiffs 1
10a29
> set diffcontext 3
13a33,34
> set extdifftool meld
> set perfile_attrs 0
32a54,62
> set geometry(main) 1200x764+0+0
> set geometry(state) normal
> set geometry(topwidth) 1198
> set geometry(topheight) 495
> set geometry(pwsash0) "450 1"
> set geometry(pwsash1) "676 1"
> set geometry(botwidth) 649
> set geometry(botheight) 257
> set permviews {}

I note that, if I delete ~/.config/git/gitk,

• gitk starts with the bottom pane divided;
• the gitk file is regenerated when gitk closes; and
• setting the botwidth in the file (while gitk is closed) sets the size of the bottom pane(s) when gitk restarts.

Looks like Dracula's config breaks gitk.

[lourot]

Confirmed: I didn't have any issue before with gitk 2.16.2 on Ubuntu 14.04 but now I have this issue with gitk 2.17.1 on Ubuntu 18.04.

[lourot]

If you use

set want_ttk 1

instead of 0 then the problem is gone but suddenly not all the GUI looks dark anymore, and you get some of the problems described here, so still no quick solution.

[rmkane]

Having this issue (on Windows 10) also!

@AurelienLourot's solution so enable want_ttk shows the patch tree again.

[lourot]

The issues preventing us from using set want_ttk 0 have been fixed in

• https://github.com/git/git/pull/1219
• https://github.com/git/git/commit/ef9b086d

The first version containing this fix is v2.37.0. On Ubuntu for example it's available starting from Ubuntu 22.10 (Kinetic): https://packages.ubuntu.com/kinetic/gitk

I have just tried it out and everything works well now for me.