On 07/06/2016 23:31, Jeff Buckles wrote:
Menu fonts in 'git gui' are too small to be readable
(only one or two pixels high). "gitk" works fine.
Thanks for reporting this problem.
I was able to reproduce this problem, with a fresh installation, but
only on x86, not on x86_64
It seems that default font used by git gui is '0pt DejaVu Sans', where
0pt has a special meaning in Tcl/Tk of 'a platform-dependent default
size' [1], which is 12 pt for on X11.
There seems to be a bug somewhere in Tcl/Tk (or perhaps in the 'git gui'
script), so that on x86, the size attribute it ends asking fontconfig
for is INT_MIN, not 0.
It also seems that fontconfig has recently changed it the way it handles
this invalid value, now giving you a very tiny font.
Until we have a solution, you can work around this by setting the font
to have a definite size in ~/.gitconfig, e.g. adding
[gui]
fontui = -family \"DejaVu Sans\" -size 12 -weight normal -slant roman
-underline 0 -overstrike 0
[1] https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/TkCmd/font.htm#M26
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