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From: David T-G <d10@justpickone.org>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: gvim tiny font in 1.7.7
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 10:17:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101023101709.GA87437@justpickone.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101008113229.GD26157@justpickone.org>

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Hi again, all --

I didn't hear any reply to my last note (or even see it posted), but in
case that one made it out and this one can as well, ...

...and then David T-G said...
% 
% ...and then Jon TURNEY said...
% % 
...
% % Does 'xrdb -query | grep dpi' output anything?
% 
% Alas, no; in fact, 
% 
%   xrdb -query
% 
% doesn't return anything at all.

I haven't loaded any Cygwin updates.  I haven't loaded any Windows
updates.  I still get nothing from xrdb.  I've rebooted more times
than I can remember.  I'm using the same user account.  As far as I
can tell, nothing has changed.

But suddenly it works!  After this morning's reboot, I was restarting
everything (always a chore under Windows *sigh*) and on a lark tried
gvim again.  I was floored to see it come up quite visibly, and even
with some font I didn't quite recognize.  Typing

  :set guifont

showed me that it was sans, which is interesting but probably came
from not being able to find Lucida Console on my machine.  I changed
my guifont line in my .vimrc file to Courier Bold and it worked just
fine.  I ripped it out entirely and I go tthe familiar gvim font.  I
played with the size in my guifont line and gvim behaved.  I selected
my font in gvim itself countless times and it behaved.  WTF?!?

I hate these kinds of errors because it's so incredibly hard to get a
real resolution to the problem, but I'll not turn down having my gvim
work again :-)


Thanks to all for trying to help!

:-D
-- 
David T-G
See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/
See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt


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  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-23 10:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-22 15:34 David T-G
2010-09-25 18:25 ` Frédéric Bron
2010-09-27  0:51 ` David T-G
2010-09-27 15:05 ` Jon TURNEY
2010-10-01 10:23   ` David T-G
2010-10-06 14:08     ` Jon TURNEY
2010-10-08 11:32       ` David T-G
2010-10-23 10:17         ` David T-G [this message]
2010-10-25 10:25           ` gvim tiny font in 1.7.7 (back again) David T-G
2010-10-26 13:01             ` Jon TURNEY
2010-10-27 11:30               ` David T-G
2010-10-28  0:53               ` Frédéric Bron
2010-10-28  1:43                 ` David T-G
2010-10-28 16:47                 ` Jon TURNEY
2010-10-28  1:41               ` David T-G
2010-10-28 16:57                 ` Jon TURNEY
2010-10-28 17:31                   ` David T-G
2010-10-26  4:15           ` gvim tiny font in 1.7.7 Frédéric Bron

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