Comments on: Getting nice fonts in gitk

By: linkhalde › making gitk with Ubuntu 9.10 usable

linkhalde › making gitk with Ubuntu 9.10 usable — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:03:04 +0000

[...] found the solution for this in a blog entry of the Navarra Group. All you have to do is sudo aptitude install tk8.5 and sudo update-alternatives –config wish [...]

By: Emmanuel

Emmanuel — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:28:33 +0000

You sir, just stopped the bleeding on my eyes :) Thanks for the nice tip!

By: PorcelainMouse

PorcelainMouse — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:27:51 +0000

Wow, thanks!

Looked great for me *until* Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10. I’d never seen such ugly font rendering and I’ve used tcl/tk before. ‘update-alternatives’ also worked as advertised for me. Switched it to wish8.5 and gitk came back to life.

By: Philip Belemezov

Philip Belemezov — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:59:31 +0000

Thanks a lot, `update-alternatives’ worked like a charm :)

By: Radek

Radek — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:28:05 +0000

You’ve saved my life (eyes) :-)

Thank you very, very much. The ugliness of gitk / git gui drove me mad in my Ubuntu.

Cheers,
Radek