Setting font for gVim

daihard · 09-18-2005, 10:35 PM

Hi.

I'm having trouble setting the GUI font for gVim. I hope someone can help me out.

I set the following in my ~/.vimrc file:

Code:

set guifont="Luxi Mono 9"

However, when I invoke gVim, it does not use that font. The "set guifont" command should also return "Luxi Mono 9," but it comes back blank.

Strangely, if I specify the same font through the command-line parameter, such as gvim -font="Luxi Mono 9", then gVim uses the appropriate font. The "set guifont" command returns the correct font name ("Luxi Mono 9"), too.

What am I doing wrong? Everything else I have in ~/.vimrc is working fine.

I would appreciate any help.

Dai

macemoneta · 09-19-2005, 03:08 PM

I think you want to put the setting in the ~/.gvimrc which get executed when the GUI is started.

daihard · 09-20-2005, 12:18 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by macemoneta
I think you want to put the setting in the ~/.gvimrc which get executed when the GUI is started.

Hi.

Thanks for the response. I tried that too, but it did not work either.

Anything else that you can think of?

Thanks again,
Dai

macemoneta · 09-20-2005, 12:38 AM

Got it. Remove the quotes. The command should be:

set guifont=Luxi Mono 9

When I tried with the quotes, it was ignored.

daihard · 09-20-2005, 01:27 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by macemoneta
Got it. Remove the quotes. The command should be:

set guifont=Luxi Mono 9

When I tried with the quotes, it was ignored.

Thanks for the suggestion. I actually tweaked it a bit to get it working. Let me explain...

You were right about the quotes being ignored. However, the above syntax with no quotes gave an error like this:

Code:

Error detected while processing /home/dtoyama/.vimrc:
line    7:
E518: Unknown option: Mono

So instead of using quotes, I preceded each white space with a backslash, like this:

Code:

set guifont=Luxi\ Mono\ 9

That worked.

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sorin25 · 09-20-2005, 03:17 AM

Or, you can use xfontsel to get a compatible font description.
This is one description for Luxi Mono

Code:

-*-luxi mono-medium-r-normal--17-120-*-100-*-0-microsoft-cp1252

daihard · 09-20-2005, 03:39 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by sorin25
Or, you can use xfontsel to get a compatible font description.
This is one description for Luxi Mono

Code:

-*-luxi mono-medium-r-normal--17-120-*-100-*-0-microsoft-cp1252

Care to show me how to obtain the X11-type font description from a font name?

windhair · 10-07-2005, 05:09 AM

This doesnt work in my vim 6.1 kde.
:set guifont=6x12 works
but it what I write in .gvimrc set guifont=6x12 seems have no effect.
what should I do?

daihard · 10-07-2005, 11:09 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by windhair
This doesnt work in my vim 6.1 kde.
:set guifont=6x12 works
but it what I write in .gvimrc set guifont=6x12 seems have no effect.
what should I do?

I have my guifont variable defined in ~/.vimrc, not in ~/.gvimrc. It should not matter, but it may be worth trying...

windhair · 11-24-2005, 02:49 AM

Thing not getting solved yet.
I thought I have a solution for the problem, but it doesnt.
What I used in is

Code:

autocmd BufEnter *.for source $HOME/.vimrcfor

And in the .vimrcfor I just add a line "set guifont=6x12".
It works well.
It seems that "set guifont" in .vimrc works only after the "source" or directly input with :set guifont=... after gvim startup, but no effect if I set it in .vimrc . And the other command in .vimrc work well, such as set hlsearch....

I dont'n know why? Can anyone give a hand?

Ygrex · 11-24-2005, 03:48 AM

You can use /etc/vim/vimrc.local too. But firstly, I do not know why, but you
should to comment the logical structure in the /usr/share/vim/vimrc. Last three
lines in it must be:

Code:

"if filereadable('/etc/vim/vimrc.local')
source! /etc/vim/vimrc.local
"endif

so that file will be executed anyway. Then you can add anything into above
local rc file.

windhair · 11-24-2005, 04:17 AM

It doesnt work.

BTW. I installed Latex vim Suite, but the guifont neither works for latex nor for other type files.

Ygrex · 11-24-2005, 04:32 AM

It works when you run the command by your hands, right? The 'source!' command
(by default in vimrc it does not contains exclamation point, did you add it?)
does exactly the same things, like you type them by yourself just after vim
runs. Did you add the char ':' in the begining of your local script line?

hw-tph · 11-24-2005, 04:43 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by sorin25
Or, you can use xfontsel to get a compatible font description.
This is one description for Luxi Mono

Code:

-*-luxi mono-medium-r-normal--17-120-*-100-*-0-microsoft-cp1252

That will only work with gvim compiled against gtk+1.x. For gtk+2.x you need to use fontconfig names (i.e. "set guifont=CodingFontTobi1_euro\ 12").

Håkan