Re: gvim: how remove menu and toolbar, but keep original geometry

I do use vim in a terminal, xterm, and find it very satisfactory, with 59 lines of text in view. But that was on Arch Linux, a distro that has many fine features, but whose excruciating install process puts it firmly among the hair-shirt trinity of Linux distros, Arch, Gentoo and Linux from Scratch.

On Lubuntu, I use the same setup, but the ubuntus, and as far as I can determine every other distro except Arch, lack a small font package that enables xterm to show the full range of the utf-8 character set. Without it xterm issues the following complaint whenever it starts with vim:

xterm: cannot load font "-Misc-Fixed-bold-R-*-*-13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO8859-1"
xterm: cannot load font "-Misc-Fixed-medium-R-*-*-13-120-75-75-C-120-ISO10646-1"
xterm: cannot load font "-Misc-Fixed-bold-R-*-*-13-120-75-75-C-120-ISO10646-1"
xterm: cannot load font "-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1"

and will show essentially only the keyboard characters, all others as blanks.

Gvim doesn't have that problem, but, being a hard-core keyboard user I don't wish to be lured into unnatural practices with rodents and (oh horrors!) menus.

I guess what I have to do is compile vim for myself.

On Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 3:17 PM Benjamin Esham <usenet@esham.io> wrote:

meine wrote:

> Graham Lawrence wrote:
>
>> which works as expected and gives me a gvim that looks like vim in a tty,
>
> Just for my curiosity, why don't you use vim in a plain console or plain
> terminal window? Is there any advantage in using gvim this way instead
> of a plain vim session?

Mouse support, maybe? Gvim may also offer a larger color palette, depending
on your terminal.

Benjamin

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