On Fri, 6 Nov 2020 at 06:11, Gary Stainburn <gary.stainburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've just upgraded from my old F9 box to C7, which of course means lots > of changes. However, the ones are are annoying me most are with VIM. > > No matter what I do I can't get gvim to open in a reasonable size. I > have a dual headed setup (laptop + external) and every time gvim opens > it takes up both screens. > > I've tried a few suggestions including the one below without success. > In fact this one causes X to crash when I start gvim. > > The second problem I have is the selection of the font. My old box had > "sans Regular 12" which was a lovely font to work with. However, when I > choose the same font on the new box it's hideous. I don't know best how > to request this, but basically how can I have my nice old font back? > > sans Regular 12 is not a real font, but a 'link' to whatever was set as the default Sans font of the system. I don't know if you ever changed it and Fedora 9 is equivalent to something between ~CentOS-5 and CentOS-6. There aren't a lot of fonts by default in 9 so a lot of systems would get extra ones.. you will need to look at the backups of what you had on the system to determine what was being used. I am expecting it might have been dejavu font but if you installed Windows TTF fonts as was common then it would be those. HOWEVER, a different issue is that you are still using those older fonts if they were in your .fonts directory. The older fonts use a different 'hinting' system which when viewed on a newer X/Wayland makes the font look horrible. Since I have been bitten by this with other people I would check that also. > |if has("gui_running") " GUI is running or is about to start. " Maximize > gvim window. set lines=999 columns=999 else " This is console Vim. if > exists("+lines") set lines=50 endif if exists("+columns") set > columns=100 endif endif | > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Stephen J Smoogen. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos