RE: Problem with gitk on cygwin

From: spearce@spearce.org [mailto:spearce@spearce.org] 

I have seen this failure before, and its usually a result of 
having your CYGWIN environment variable including 'notty':

  http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html

Or maybe its the opposite.  I don't have access to my Cygwin 
system right now, so I cannot check if I have notty, tty, or 
just ommitted it entirely from my CYGWIN environment varible. 
 But I think that's the issue.

Thanks a lot, that was the right pointer, even if I don't
understand what went wrong.
My CYGWIN environment variable was set to "ntsec tty", and after
doing a 
export CYGWIN=ntsec
in the shell (which according to your link shouldn't change
anything) gitk magically started working!

Shawn.

Thank you very much my saviour, now I can use gitk in office too ;-)

-- 
best regards

  Ray