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Re: vim fonts on unstable



On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 20:27, Kevin Coyner wrote:
> I'm running unstable, and this morning I did an dist-upgrade that
> included updates to vim and gnome-control-center.
> 
> I'm not sure which one of these (or other package) caused it, but now my
> window size and fonts in vim are all messed up (yet they were fine just
> yesterday).
> 
> Has anyone else encountered this with any recent upgrades, and any
> suggetions to fix it?  It's not my ~/.vimrc as I've tried vim both with
> and without .vimrc, and either way the fonts are virtually unreadeable
> unless I go in and change them.

The updated vim was probably compiled with GTK2. GTK2 uses the newer
fontconfig library to access fonts. Even the default font is different.
(See previous threads, "Fonts in gvim" 11th Sept and "Mozilla fonts"
15th Sept)


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