gvim sits there like a stump on a log

GaijinPunch · 10-28-2009, 11:53 PM

Wish I could say more. I type "gvim" in a terminal, and I get nothing. No gui, no error, no output - nada. This is a new machine (gentoo, x86_64, running kde4). My old machine(s) (gentoo, 32-bit, kde3.5) never had this issue. Truly stumped. I don't even know where this thing logs. Any ideas?

MBybee · 10-30-2009, 05:51 PM

Do you have gvim installed, or just regular Vim? Does Vim work? I think for Debian I had to manually install that bit:
http://packages.debian.org/sid/gvim
Might be worth checking, just in case.

I'm assuming you're running this within a terminal window from an existing X session... otherwise you'd be seeing some kind of 'can't connect to display' errors.

markush · 10-30-2009, 05:56 PM

Hello GaijinPunch,

it is like MBybee wrote, you'll need to install vim and gvim which also in Gentoo are different packages.

Markus