It seems this code placed at the end of the file, after getcommits() does the
trick:
if {[tk windowingsystem] eq "aqua"} {
set openscript [format {
open -a \"$(ps -p %d -o comm=)\"
} [pid] ]
exec osascript -e [format {
do shell script "%s"
} "$openscript” ]
}
> On 19 Jul 2018, at 22:12, Eric Sunshine <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 2:48 PM Evgeny Cherpak <[email protected]> wrote:
>> You have probably heard this by now already, but gitk doesn’t work on macOS
>> 10.14 - because it uses Apple Events,
>> And apps on 10.14 require user to give them permissions to control other
>> apps with Apple Events.
>
> This hasn't been reported, so thanks for bringing it up.
>
>> Here is what I get when I try running it on my machine with beta 4 installed:
>>
>> Error in startup script: 58:102: execution error: Not authorized to send
>> Apple events to System Events. (-1743)
>> while executing
>> "exec osascript -e [format {
>> tell application "System Events"
>> set frontmost of processes whose unix id is %d to true
>> end te..."
>
> Fortunately, this feature is merely a convenience, not otherwise
> critical to gitk functioning. It would be ideal if someone running
> Mojave could devise up a patch to work around the problem (either by
> skipping this code on Mojave or discovering a different way to bring
> the application to the foreground). An alternative would be to revert
> 76bf6ff93e (gitk: On OSX, bring the gitk window to front, 2013-04-24),
> which introduced this code.
>
> (Note, however, that the gitk project is dormant, so it's not clear if
> such a patch will be picked up.)
