Bug#647585: vim-gtk: gvim fails to start in KDE if ~/.gtkrc-2.0-kde is present

James McCoy jamessan at debian.org
Sun Nov 6 03:33:50 UTC 2011


On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 09:27:26AM +0100, Tobias Winchen wrote:
> On Debian testing I noticed yesterday that gvim hangs on start using the KDE
> desktop . Abort with CTRL-C sometimes open a regular vim in konsole.

Does running as “gvim -f” make any difference?  Could you attach the
result of “strace -o gvim-kde.out -e trace=file gvim”?

> gvim starts however for a new user with fresh KDE and when using other desktops
> with the same user.
> 
> After removal of ~/.gtkrc-2.0-kde  gvim starts as usual. This configuration
> file is created by the gtk-qt-engine.

Does it matter what's in that file or does an empty one cause the same
problem?  Is the gtk2-engines-qtcurve package what you're referring to?

Cheers,
-- 
James
GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James McCoy <jamessan at debian.org>
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