Re: [CentOS] GVIM annoyances
On Fri, 6 Nov 2020, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: HOWEVER, a different issue is that you are still using those older fonts if they were in your .fonts directory. The older fonts use a different 'hinting' system which when viewed on a newer X/Wayland makes the font look horrible. Since I have been bitten by this with other people I would check that also. One would hope that the new system was distinguishable from the old and the new vim would emit a warning somewhere, preferably in a place where it would be noticed. I gather that that did not happen. Please do not quote boilerplate. -- Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "Sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number, a haiku, a gang sign, a heiroglyph, and the blood of a virgin." -- someeecards ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] GVIM annoyances
On Fri, 6 Nov 2020 at 06:11, Gary Stainburn
wrote:
> I've just upgraded from my old F9 box to C7, which of course means lots
> of changes. However, the ones are are annoying me most are with VIM.
>
> No matter what I do I can't get gvim to open in a reasonable size. I
> have a dual headed setup (laptop + external) and every time gvim opens
> it takes up both screens.
>
> I've tried a few suggestions including the one below without success.
> In fact this one causes X to crash when I start gvim.
>
> The second problem I have is the selection of the font. My old box had
> "sans Regular 12" which was a lovely font to work with. However, when I
> choose the same font on the new box it's hideous. I don't know best how
> to request this, but basically how can I have my nice old font back?
>
>
sans Regular 12 is not a real font, but a 'link' to whatever was set as the
default Sans font of the system. I don't know if you ever changed it and
Fedora 9 is equivalent to something between ~CentOS-5 and CentOS-6. There
aren't a lot of fonts by default in 9 so a lot of systems would get extra
ones.. you will need to look at the backups of what you had on the system
to determine what was being used. I am expecting it might have been dejavu
font but if you installed Windows TTF fonts as was common then it would be
those.
HOWEVER, a different issue is that you are still using those older fonts if
they were in your .fonts directory. The older fonts use a different
'hinting' system which when viewed on a newer X/Wayland makes the font look
horrible. Since I have been bitten by this with other people I would check
that also.
> |if has("gui_running") " GUI is running or is about to start. " Maximize
> gvim window. set lines=999 columns=999 else " This is console Vim. if
> exists("+lines") set lines=50 endif if exists("+columns") set
> columns=100 endif endif |
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Re: [CentOS] GVIM annoyances
Am 06.11.20 um 12:11 schrieb Gary Stainburn: The second problem I have is the selection of the font. My old box had "sans Regular 12" which was a lovely font to work with. However, when I choose the same font on the new box it's hideous. I don't know best how to request this, but basically how can I have my nice old font back? Check your font name. Example: $ grep font .gvimrc |tail -1 set guifont=Source\ Code\ Pro\ 14 $ fc-list |grep Source|head -1 /usr/share/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro/SourceCodePro-BlackIt.otf: Source Code Pro,Source Code Pro Black:style=Black Italic,Italic -- Leon ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
