I am sorry to ask such a stupid question, but I'm really puzzled. I have been using vim for ages now, and for some tasks, not always, I prefer a GUI. I use a Mandriva Linux distribution and it's all right. Suddendly the menu bar (not the toolbar with icons, the menu bar with texts: File, Edit, and so on) disappeared. I tried several options of the "set guioptions" command, but to no success. I also deleted the .vimrc file, but again no change. Then, installed vim-X11 again, but nothing happened.
May I ask your kind help? Thank you! guido, from Italy ------------ Guido Milanese http://www.arsantiqua.org