[arch-general] Gvim is a blank, empty, grey window

[Tavian Barnes]

The KSharedDataCache info messages are probably a result of
gtk-qt-engine.  Maybe try a different GTK theme?

On 12 September 2010 11:14, Simon Woolf <simon.woolf at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Subject line says it all, really -- installed gvim, and on opening it, I get a
> blank, empty, grey window: http://i.imgur.com/DUUIO.png .
>
> That's if opening it normally; opened from a terminal, it prints:
>
> (18816) KSharedDataCache::Private::mapSharedMemory: Opening cache
> "/var/tmp/kdecache-simon/icon-cache.kcache" page size is 4096
> (18816) KSharedDataCache::Private::mapSharedMemory: Attached to cache,
> determining if it must be initialized
> (18816) KSharedDataCache::Private::mapSharedMemory: Cache fully initialized --
> attached to memory mapping
> (18816) KSharedDataCache::Private::mapSharedMemory: 4636672 bytes available
> out of 10485760
>
> ...And then nothing -- not even a grey window.
>
> Reinstalling gvim & vim-runtime has no effect.  I would try aur/vim-gtk
> instead of extra/gvim, but it seems to be unbuildable -- one of the sources
> gives a 404.  If relevant, Arch is up to date, and is broadly KDE4.5 (with
> compiz and bmpanel2 used in place of kwin and plasma).
>
> Since I haven't heard anyone else have this problem with gvim, I assume it's
> just me.  Anyone had anything liike this before?  Any ideas?
>
> Thanks to all in advance.
>
> Simon Woolf
>



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Tavian Barnes