On 22 Sep 2011, Joachim Breitner wrote:
Hi,
Am Donnerstag, den 22.09.2011, 09:11 +0100 schrieb Anthony Campbell:
On 21 Sep 2011, Anthony Campbell wrote:
It doesn't happen with Icewm. I've tried rxvt-unicode - same thing happens. I'm using Debian Sid; shell is bash.
I'll ask on the vim list as well.
Someone on the vim list who uses xmonad can't reproduce this bug, and I still don't know why it happens. But I've found a simple workround, which is to alias gvim to gvim -f. This prevents gvim from forking. Not an ideal solution but at least it doesn't crash.
I use Debian sid and gvim a lot, and have not yet observed anything like that... we definitely need more hints before we can do something about this.
Greetings, Joachim
After some more experimenting, I've discovered the following: The crash only occurs if the terminal from which I start gvim is NOT fullscreen. If I try to start it from the first teminal I open after starting xmonad, it does crash even though the terminal is fullscreen. In that case (starting from first terminal opened), I get two windows, one with xterm, the other with gvim. If I switch to the xterm and close it, gvim is then fullscreen and works correctly. So provided I always start from a fullscreen terminal there is no problem. Any explanation for this? -- Anthony Campbell - ac@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell