Yup, turning off gtk-qt-engine fixed it! Many thanks, Tavian. Googling suggests this is known upstream: http://code.google.com/p/gtk-qt-engine/issues/detail?id=51 . For anyone else who runs across the same problem, the Ubuntu page for the bug (#270972 in launchpad) also gives a nice workaround that allows gvim to work perfectly well with gtk-qt-engine: `gvim -X`. Thanks again, Simon On Sunday 12 September 2010 16:26:39 Tavian Barnes wrote: > The KSharedDataCache info messages are probably a result of > gtk-qt-engine. Maybe try a different GTK theme? > > On 12 September 2010 11:14, Simon Woolf <simon.woolf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Subject line says it all, really -- installed gvim, and on opening it, I > > get a blank, empty, grey window: http://i.imgur.com/DUUIO.png . > > > > That's if opening it normally; opened from a terminal, it prints: > > > > (18816) KSharedDataCache::Private::mapSharedMemory: Opening cache > > "/var/tmp/kdecache-simon/icon-cache.kcache" page size is 4096 > > (18816) KSharedDataCache::Private::mapSharedMemory: Attached to cache, > > determining if it must be initialized > > (18816) KSharedDataCache::Private::mapSharedMemory: Cache fully > > initialized -- attached to memory mapping > > (18816) KSharedDataCache::Private::mapSharedMemory: 4636672 bytes > > available out of 10485760 > > > > ...And then nothing -- not even a grey window. > > > > Reinstalling gvim & vim-runtime has no effect. I would try aur/vim-gtk > > instead of extra/gvim, but it seems to be unbuildable -- one of the > > sources gives a 404. If relevant, Arch is up to date, and is broadly > > KDE4.5 (with compiz and bmpanel2 used in place of kwin and plasma). > > > > Since I haven't heard anyone else have this problem with gvim, I assume > > it's just me. Anyone had anything liike this before? Any ideas? > > > > Thanks to all in advance. > > > > Simon Woolf
