On Tue, Aug 3, 2021 at 6:51 PM Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > From: Tobias Pietzsch <pietzsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > If the main window is already visible when gitk waits for it to > become visible, gitk hangs forever. > This commit adds a check whether the window is already visible. > See https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/tkwait+visibility > > Signed-off-by: Tobias Pietzsch <pietzsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > gitk | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/gitk b/gitk > index b62c12f..cc587b5 100755 > --- a/gitk > +++ b/gitk > @@ -12664,7 +12664,7 @@ catch { > wm iconphoto . -default gitlogo gitlogo32 > } > # wait for the window to become visible > -tkwait visibility . > +if {![winfo viewable .]} {tkwait visibility .} > set_window_title > update > readrefs I have no objection to this patch (and the other two look fine to me) but I would like to say that this whole idea looks racy in general, and that it would be better to fix this inside Tk itself: the internal visibility-wait should be doing the visibility-check already. Given that it's obviously *not*, this, as a workaround, seems OK. Chris