On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 08:41:40PM +0000, Amitava Dutta wrote: > I installed gvim and it does startup, however, it looks terrible ;-( > > In the main window, the white background have coloured lines, > and all text, both in the edit window and the text on the menu > have the same colour (bluish green) background. > > This colour background to the text just covers the letters > as high as the letters are, the colouring is smaller for > letter a, c, e and higher for b, d. f etc. > The appearance is like one is applying a highlighting to the text. > > btw, when the gvim started, it printed this warning: > Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display 10.40... > > Also, the machine is remote and I don't have access > to the console, I'm running xterm onto my pc.
This all sounds like problems with your X server, which is whatever's running locally on your PC. It's missing the RANDR extension, for one, but that's likely not terribly important. I can't say what the weird coloring might be, though it sounds vaguely like your X server only has a very low bit-depth visual which gvim ends up using. Do other GTK+ programs have similar issues? Danek -- 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
