> From: spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx] > > I have seen this failure before, and its usually a result of > having your CYGWIN environment variable including 'notty': > > http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html > > Or maybe its the opposite. I don't have access to my Cygwin > system right now, so I cannot check if I have notty, tty, or > just ommitted it entirely from my CYGWIN environment varible. > But I think that's the issue. Thanks a lot, that was the right pointer, even if I don't understand what went wrong. My CYGWIN environment variable was set to "ntsec tty", and after doing a export CYGWIN=ntsec in the shell (which according to your link shouldn't change anything) gitk magically started working! > Shawn. Thank you very much my saviour, now I can use gitk in office too ;-) -- best regards Ray - 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