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.
