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I really love git gui and gitk. They work very well for me and I know exactly how to use them. Sadly, they look really pixelated and ugly on my retina macbook. Since it's just text and chrome it would seem on the outset a fairly simple thing to fix. But I've looked around quite a bit for a solution and I haven't found one.

Horrible pixelation

Stevoisiak
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pius
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You can also use Retinizer which I guess will edit the Info.plist for you.

https://sites.google.com/a/mikelpr.com/retinizer/

open /System/Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/

Drag&drop Wish into Retinizer. Retinize. Voilà !

Patrick Browne
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The solution pointed by @patrick-browne works like a charm and it is simpler, in fact, given that I already did the another approach pointed by @pius too.

As @joe said, just install retinizer with brew cask, then drag Wish and drop into Retinizer:

  1. $ brew cask install retinizer

  2. $ open /System/Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/

  3. Drag Wish and drop into Retinizer

herrera
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Update August 28, 2013: The pull request I submitted has been accepted, so I expect the problem will be fixed at the source, hopefully in release 1.9. If you can't wait, follow the work-around presented below.

  1. Open your terminal and navigate to /System/Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/Version/8.5/Resources/
  2. Use an editor to open the Info.plist file inside the Wish.app folder (I used sudo emacs Wish.app/Contents/Info.plist)
  3. Add the following two lines to the file, before </dict> and save it: <key>NSHighResolutionCapable</key>
    <true/>
  4. Make the OS reload the info file. This can be achieved with these commands:
    sudo cp -R Wish.app WishCopy.app
    sudo mv Wish.app WishOriginal.app
    sudo mv WishCopy.app Wish.app
  5. Try running open Wish.app to see if it worked. If it did, it should work for gitk as well.
  6. Do the same thing for git gui, but this time do it on the Git Gui.app (mine was in /usr/local/git/share/git-gui/lib/)

Oh, and I should probably mention that I found out about the NSHighResolutionCapable key from the tcl-mac mail-list, specifically from an e-mail by Kevin Walzer.

Here is a screenshot of the nice crisp fonts: Nice crisp fonts

pius
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