gvim not working

[flosse]

The gvim window and its content is totally transparent.

• kwin-tilling 1.3.1.2
• kde 4.11.3
• gvim 7.4.86

[faho]

Can you upload a screenshot and your ~/.xsession-errors?

What happens when you resize gvim (i.e. hold down alt and right mouse button and move it around)?

[flosse]

Can you upload a screenshot

and your ~/.xsession-errors?

there is no ~/.xsession-errors

What happens when you resize gvim (i.e. hold down alt and right mouse button and move it around)?

then I can see the gvim window but its like a static picture, no interaction is possible

[faho]

there is no ~/.xsession-errors

What's the terminal output when you launch kwin with
kwin --replace
?

(I should really prefix the script's output with something, e.g. "TILING:")

v1.3.2 contains fixes for something like this (especially concerning minimum window size, which you can check with xprop), but because you can't run that (#8), we should fix that first.

[faho]

Just tested, I can reproduce the issue with v1.3.1.2, but that's precisely the issue that aa54343 was fixing. So this one should be closed for current git and #8 should be fixed instead (setting up a VM as we speak).

[faho]

This one is really weird and may well be a gvim bug - it seems to miscalculate the geometry it should occupy, resulting in something like this:

Resizing client gvim from 0 0 660 385 to 0 0 1366 768
Resizing client gvim from 0 0 1364 755 to 0 0 1366 768
Resizing client gvim from 0 0 1364 755 to 0 0 1366 768
Resizing client gvim from 0 0 1364 725 to 0 0 1366 768
Resizing client gvim from 0 0 1364 755 to 0 0 1366 768
Resizing client gvim from 0 0 116 755 to 0 0 1366 768
Resizing client gvim from 0 0 1364 755 to 0 0 1366 768
Resizing client gvim from 0 0 116 755 to 0 0 1366 768
Resizing client gvim from 0 0 1364 755 to 0 0 1366 768

Disabling window border for gvim (e.g. through window rules or completely disabling borders via the script config) seems to work around this, as does launching gvim via a terminal.

[faho]

So, I just tested the latest gvim hg, and it seems to completely fix this issue.

Since I believe it's a gvim bug and I don't know how I could workaround it, I'll close this bug.

Until your distro gets a newer gvim version, you can:

• Always launch gvim through the terminal
• Disable window borders for gvim (e.g. through the rules)
• Disable tiling for gvim (see the script config)
• Build your own gvim

You can also file a bug with your distribution so they can maybe apply a patch or upgrade (many people run vim from hg).

If that's not good enough for you, reopen and I'll see if I can do anything. Thanks for filing a bug.

[zhou13]

On my system, even with lastest gvim built from the souce, I still get a transparent gvim.

Workaround 1, 2, 4 fail on my system..

[zhou13]

OK. Although gvim is totally transparent, I'm still able to resize that transparent window by draging its title bar. After the resize, gvim will display normally..

Is it possible to make this workaround happens automatically?

EDIT: It seems gvim will only refresh after resizing. gVim still not works after typing something.

EDIT2: I give it up. Switch to https://github.com/equalsraf/vim-qt

[anntzer]

Same issue here. Sometimes I see a transparent gvim that works fine after redrawing, sometimes a black window that does not respond, and sometimes a normal looking window with the vim GUI menu (which I disabled in my vimrc) that does not respond either.

[faho]

See #6 - this is a duplicate.