On Mac OS X, any application that is started from the Terminal will open behind all running applications; as a work-around, manually bring ourselves to the front. (Stolen from gitk, commit 76bf6ff93e.) We do this as the very first thing, so that any message boxes that might pop up during the rest of the startup sequence are actually seen by the user. Signed-off-by: Stefan Haller <stefan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Changes since the first patch: - add catch - specify full path to /usr/bin/osascript git-gui.sh | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/git-gui.sh b/git-gui.sh index e133331..a792924 100755 --- a/git-gui.sh +++ b/git-gui.sh @@ -29,6 +29,21 @@ Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA}] ###################################################################### ## +## On Mac, bring the current Wish process window to front + +if {[tk windowingsystem] eq "aqua"} { + catch { + exec /usr/bin/osascript -e [format { + tell application "System Events" + set frontmost of processes whose unix id is %d to true + end tell + } [pid] ] + } +} + + +###################################################################### +## ## Tcl/Tk sanity check if {[catch {package require Tcl 8.4} err] -- 1.8.3.14.g33f718c -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html