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Robin Becker wrote:
A.J.Mechelynck wrote:
Robin Becker wrote:
A.J.Mechelynck wrote:
Robin Becker wrote:
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'guifontset' being empty is usually not a problem; and 'guifont' can
be empty (giving some "default" font); but in any case you need
fonts installed at a place where gvim can find them in order to run
it as a GUI. You may want to check if the relevant xfonts package
(or whatever it is called) is installed on your system; how to check
that varies from one distribution to the next. Then you may try to
set 'guifont' yourself, as explained in messages posted a few
minutes ago in the thread "Differences with Vim 7".
Certainly there are lots of fonts installed, but perhaps gvim doesn't
know where they are and maybe I need to investigate whether I have to
set some specific flags for the build so vim will know what to do.
Normally, gvim needs a "fixed-width" font. It can be a scalable font
but all its glyphs must have exactly the same width. Gvim for GTK+2
can manage with fonts which are not precisely fixed-width but in some
cases this will result in cropping of the wider glyphs. Other GUIs may
refuse to work if they can't find a font which they regard as
fixed-width.
I'm not sure how to install fonts so that gvim can find them -- mine
worked "out of the box".
Best regards,
Tony.
The default makefile for vim7 seems to fall back to gtk1.2 which is
certainly installed as a package. I built with
make WITH_GNOME=GTK12
and that seems to do stuff with -DFEAT_GTK12 flags etc etc, but still no
fonts. xlsfonts shows a big list, but I don't know what part of the font
name to pass in to set guifont. Certainly Courier/10 didn't seem to work :(
I can actually get the makefile to do GTK2, but I'm not sure how that
will run with the rest of the system ie I don't currently have GTK2 on
the system.
Rather than edit the makefile, I set a number of configuration options
in the environment then use the Makefile as distributed. This will run
configure if it hasn't yet been run; after changing configuration
options and/or installing/uninstalling software, "make reconfig" must be
run in the src/ directory.
To successfully compile Vim, you need more than just the packages
required to run it; you also need "development" versions of all those
packages. For instance, you need some "x11-devel" package to compile
_any_ kind of GUI to run on an X11 system; you need some version of
gtk-devel or gtk2-devel to compile a GTK+1 or GTK+2 gvim respectively;
for a Gnome version you need gnome-devel in addition of all that is
needed for GTK; etc. For GTK1 (or any X11 GUI other than GTK2 and the
now unsupported kvim) the format of the 'guifont' option is neither
Courier/10 nor Courier\ 10 but something like
*-courier-medium-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-m-*-*
See
:help setting-guifont
:help mbyte-fonts-X11
:help XLFD
"USING RESOURCE FILES", a little lower than
:help E253
http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/compunix.htm
Best regards,
Tony.
