> I'm using Frugalware x86-64 as my Linux distro on my server machine. > > For some reason, "gvim" (compiled with --enable-features=big) has a very > strange redraw problem, which is that it doesn't properly redraw the > screen if the vim window is obscured, and requires ^L to redraw.
I should add that the system was using xorg 7.1, which I downgraded to 7.0 based upon some comments on the Frugalware forum -- but that did not change the problem. I've got GTK2 GUI, X11. The GTK version on the machine is 2.4