Hello,When gvim is started in gui mode but cannot connect to the X-Server it falls back to terminal mode.
I would which that this feature could be disabled as it caused serious problems when gvim is started as background task - in which case the now simple vim has a terminal to display but no keyboard to accept commands from.
MartinPS: Please remember that on some operating systems gvim allways starts as if --nofork has been set.