Failed to run gitk: Error in startup script

Posted on November 5, 2012 by admin

Gitk is a great tool for working with Git. Unfortunately after setting up git and X11 forwarding I got this error when running gitk.

Error in startup script: (default value for "-font" in widget ".___tk_set_palette.button") invoked from within "$q .___tk_set_palette.$q" (procedure "tk_setPalette" line 82) invoked from within "tk_setPalette background $c selectColor $selc" (procedure "setui" line 8) invoked from within "setui $uicolor" (file "/usr/bin/gitk" line 11437) — Error

The error can easily be fixed by installing dejavu-sans-fonts.

yum install -y dejavu-sans-fonts

The result :

Fully working Gitk — Fully working gitk !!

Voila !

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