Thank you Tony. I was able to set the font Bitstream\ Vera\ Sans\ Mono\ 11 etc as suggested by the wikia. but I was not able to specify the font I wanted. Do you know why GTK2 can only find a subset of the fonts? thanks.
On Dec 11, 11:05 pm, Tony Mechelynck <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/12/11 05:42, Jerry wrote: > > > I recently compiled a VIM 7.3 under Unix. I am using all default > > options. > > When opening GVIM, I found that the font rendering is really crappy. > > It is entirely unacceptable when compared with VIM 7.2 > > Here are the screen shots for the same piece of code under two > > versions. The font was set to be the same. > > gVIM 7.3 screenshot:http://i.imgur.com/K2nbx.jpg > > gVIM 7.2 screenshot:http://i.imgur.com/wyHdw.jpg > > > I did some research and know that VIM 7.3 is complied with GTK2 and > > VIM 7.2 is compiled with GTK. > > But I still can not figure out what went wrong. > > Can somebody help me with this? Any tips are appreciated. > > Thank you very much in advance. > > If you want gvim to use a good-looking font (and "good-looking" in > _your_ eyes), you should set the 'guifont' option in your vimrc. Beware > that this option's allowable values vary from one GUI flavour to the > next, and in particular between GTK1 (which falls under "other X11" in > the wiki page linked below) and GTK2. > > Seehttp://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Setting_the_font_in_the_GUI > > Best regards, > Tony. > -- > I'm going to Iowa for an award. Then I'm appearing at Carnegie Hall, > it's sold out. Then I'm sailing to France to be honored by the French > government -- I'd give it all up for one erection. > -- Groucho Marx -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
