On 04/30/2016 06:20 PM, Abraham Baker wrote:
> Also not helpful:  have you tried just using vim in xterm?  That works
> great for me, but you might be using plugins/features that terminal vim
> doesn't support.  But, if you are just using vanilla Gvim, then you
> might consider giving terminal vim a try.

I often use Vim in the terminal to do smaller tasks (git commits etc),
but for programming and note taking, I prefer to use Gvim as it supports
more colors and nicer indications of spelling mistakes.

Jeroen
> 
> Abe
> 
> On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 11:16 AM, Uli Schlachter <psyc...@znc.in
> <mailto:psyc...@znc.in>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     Am 30.04.2016 um 16:28 schrieb Jeroen Budts:
>     [...]
>     > When starting gvim with `strace gvim -V9log.txt file.tex > stdout.txt 2>
>     > stderr.txt` I got the following in stdout.txt:
>     > RenderBadPicture (invalid Picture parameter)
>     > Vim: Got X error
>     > Vim: Finished.
>     >
>     > Any help on this is much appreciated.
> 
>     I know that this isn't helpful at all, but this sounds like a
>     problem with GVim.
>     A BadPicture means that gvim sent a request to the X11 server to act
>     on some
>     picture, but that picture does not exist (or is not suitable for
>     this request
>     due to some other reason). The window manager has nothing to do with
>     Pictures,
>     so.... hm.
> 
>     The only recommendations that I can give is to try other (newer?)
>     versions of
>     gvim, gtk and cairo (the drawing library used by gtk).
> 
>     Sorry & good luck,
>     Uli
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