On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 2:48 PM Evgeny Cherpak <cherp...@me.com> 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.)
