Re: Strange font rendering in gVIM 7.3 in Unix

Thank you Tony.
I was able to set the font Bitstream\ Vera\ Sans\ Mono\ 11 etc as
suggested by the wikia. but I was not able to specify the font I
wanted.
Do you know why GTK2 can only find a subset of the fonts? thanks.

On Dec 11, 11:05 pm, Tony Mechelynck <antoine.mechely...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On 12/12/11 05:42, Jerry wrote:
>
> > I recently compiled a VIM 7.3 under Unix. I am using all default
> > options.
> > When opening GVIM, I found that the font rendering is really crappy.
> > It is entirely unacceptable when compared with VIM 7.2
> > Here are the screen shots for the same piece of code under two
> > versions. The font was set to be the same.
> > gVIM 7.3 screenshot:http://i.imgur.com/K2nbx.jpg
> > gVIM 7.2 screenshot:http://i.imgur.com/wyHdw.jpg
>
> > I did some research and know that VIM 7.3 is complied with GTK2 and
> > VIM 7.2 is compiled with GTK.
> > But I still can not figure out what went wrong.
> > Can somebody help me with this? Any tips are appreciated.
> > Thank you very much in advance.
>
> If you want gvim to use a good-looking font (and "good-looking" in
> _your_ eyes), you should set the 'guifont' option in your vimrc. Beware
> that this option's allowable values vary from one GUI flavour to the
> next, and in particular between GTK1 (which falls under "other X11" in
> the wiki page linked below) and GTK2.
>
> Seehttp://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Setting_the_font_in_the_GUI
>
> Best regards,
> Tony.
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