gitk crashes with X11 error for untrusted X11 connections

Bug #1280017 reported by Martin Uecker
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Bug Description

tk does not handle X11 errors correctly and fails with a xlib protocol error when used over an untrusted X11
connection ('ssh -X' with config 'ForwardX11Trusted no'):

X Error of failed request: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)
  Major opcode of failed request: 18 (X_ChangeProperty)
  Serial number of failed request: 12
  Current serial number in output stream: 15

This is related to upstream ticket:
New ticket [502e74e9ad] crash for untrusted X connections (for ssh: ForwardX11Trusted no).

which includes a proposed patch.

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