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

[Simon Woolf]

Yup, turning off gtk-qt-engine fixed it!  Many thanks, Tavian.  

Googling suggests this is known upstream:
http://code.google.com/p/gtk-qt-engine/issues/detail?id=51 .
For anyone else who runs across the same problem, the Ubuntu page for the bug 
(#270972 in launchpad) also gives a nice workaround that allows gvim to work 
perfectly well with gtk-qt-engine: `gvim -X`.

Thanks again,

Simon

On Sunday 12 September 2010 16:26:39 Tavian Barnes wrote:
> 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