also sprach Paul Mackerras [off-list ref] [2008.02.23.2349 +0100]:

quoted

Saving the geometry can cause several inconveniences, e.g. when
using a temporary dual screen setup, or sharing ~/.gitk between
multiple systems.  Additionally it can be argued that window
placement and sizing are the tasks of the window manager.  So
don't do that anymore.

I myself find it useful to have gitk remember the size and layout
of the various panes, so I won't be applying this patch.

The saving/restoring of the window position was done by Mark
Levedahl to make gitk work properly on Cygwin.  I agree it can be
annoying on X and I would take a patch to inhibit the restoring of
the window position when running under X.  I'd want an ack from
Mark before making that change more generally.

May I suggest that such a patch actually disables writing of the
config file, so that we won't get conflicts every time you sync
config files via home-in-git?

Of course I offer to look into this once Mark approves.

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