RE: I can't change the font in vim7.1!
Okay. I've found a clue to my problem. I'm on a kde system, and I'm obtaining a list of valid fonts with the xlsfonts command. I don't know much about how the kde gui works, bit it appears that the xlsfonts command and kde are incompatible. Now to figure out how to get a list of kde fonts. Thanks, David -Original Message- From: Larson, David Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 10:07 AM To: vim-dev@vim.org Subject: I can't change the font in vim7.1! I just upgraded to 7.1, and now when I open up a gvim session, I get this huge monospaced font that I can't change. If I type: :set guifont? it returns 7x14 which is what I set it to, but it isn't what is displayed. If I change the setting to *any* other font that is valid for my system, the display doesn't change, although the guifont setting shows that it is set to the new value. Help! David :version shows: VIM - Vi IMproved 7.1 (2007 May 12, compiled May 14 2007 09:50:48) Compiled by [EMAIL PROTECTED] Big version with GTK2 GUI. Features included (+) or not (-): +arabic +autocmd +balloon_eval +browse ++builtin_terms +byte_offset +cindent +clientserver +clipboard +cmdline_compl +cmdline_hist +cmdline_info +comments +cryptv +cscope +cursorshape +dialog_con_gui +diff +digraphs +dnd -ebcdic +emacs_tags +eval +ex_extra +extra_search +farsi +file_in_path +find_in_path +folding -footer +fork() -gettext -hangul_input +iconv +insert_expand +jumplist +keymap +langmap +libcall +linebreak +lispindent +listcmds +localmap +menu +mksession +modify_fname +mouse +mouseshape +mouse_dec +mouse_gpm -mouse_jsbterm +mouse_netterm +mouse_xterm +multi_byte +multi_lang -mzscheme +netbeans_intg -osfiletype +path_extra -perl +postscript +printer -profile -python +quickfix +reltime +rightleft -ruby +scrollbind +signs +smartindent -sniff +statusline -sun_workshop +syntax +tag_binary +tag_old_static -tag_any_white -tcl +terminfo +termresponse +textobjects +title +toolbar +user_commands +vertsplit +virtualedit +visual +visualextra +viminfo +vreplace +wildignore +wildmenu +windows +writebackup +X11 -xfontset +xim +xsmp_interact +xterm_clipboard -xterm_save system vimrc file: $VIM/vimrc user vimrc file: $HOME/.vimrc user exrc file: $HOME/.exrc system gvimrc file: $VIM/gvimrc user gvimrc file: $HOME/.gvimrc system menu file: $VIMRUNTIME/menu.vim fall-back for $VIM: /home/x0075669/share/vim Compilation: gcc -c -I. -Iproto -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DFEAT_GUI_GTK -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I /usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -g -O2 -I/usr/X11R6/include Linking: gcc -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/local/lib -o vim -Wl,--export-dynamic -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1. 0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lm -lpangoxft-1.0 -lpangox-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lXt -lncurs es -lacl -lgpm
Re: I can't change the font in vim7.1!
Larson, David wrote: I just upgraded to 7.1, and now when I open up a gvim session, I get this huge monospaced font that I can't change. If I type: :set guifont? it returns 7x14 which is what I set it to, but it isn't what is displayed. If I change the setting to *any* other font that is valid for my system, the display doesn't change, although the guifont setting shows that it is set to the new value. Help! David :version shows: VIM - Vi IMproved 7.1 (2007 May 12, compiled May 14 2007 09:50:48) Compiled by [EMAIL PROTECTED] Big version with GTK2 GUI. Features included (+) or not (-): With a GTK2 GUI, you can set the font interactively, using :set guifont=* This will bring up a font chooser menu. Thereafter, :set guifont=Tab will show on the command-line the exact command (with escaping backslashes if and where needed) that you need to write into your vimrc to set that font. There are (including the obsolete kvim) five different families of Vim GUIs, each of which requires a different 'guifont' format, not accepted by other GUIs. The following is what I use in my portable vimrc to sniff the GUI version: if has(gui_running) console Vim cannot set the font if has(gui_gtk2) GTK+2, not GTK+1 set gfn=Bitstream\ Vera\ Sans\ Mono\ 9 elseif has(gui_photon) Photon GUI set gfn=Bitstream\ Vera\ Sans\ Mono:s9 elseif has(gui_kde) the obsolete kvim set gfn=Bitstream\ Vera\ Sans\ Mono/9/-1/5/50/0/0/0/1/0 elseif has(x11) other X11 GUIs including GTK+1 set gfn=-*-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-*-*-100-*-*-m-*-* else non-X11 GUIs including Windows set gfn=Lucida_Console:h9:cDEFAULT endif endif Best regards, Tony. -- ... My pants just went on a wild rampage through a Long Island Bowling Alley!!
