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Reputation:

Cannot start gvim with photon-gui (can't find a valid font)

I'm having a problem trying to get gvim 7.2 working under QNX6.4.1 and Photon. Every time I try to start it I get the following error:

E665: Cannot start GUI, no valid font found

and I get the console vim instead. I think I've problem with my Photon configuration, or gvim configuration. As I already wrote, I've been using Photon, no xorg or xfree. I suppose that all I need is to specify font path for gvim, but don't know how under Photon.

thx

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3213

Answers (2)

Kirk Roybal
Kirk Roybal

Reputation: 17857

Resurrecting an ancient thread here because I found a different solution that worked.

yum -y install ghostscript

which added some dependencies

(1/5): ghostscript-8.70-21.el6.x86_64.rpm                                              | 4.4 MB     00:00
(2/5): ghostscript-fonts-5.50-23.2.el6.noarch.rpm                                      | 590 kB     00:00
(3/5): libXfont-1.4.5-5.el6_7.x86_64.rpm                                               | 137 kB     00:00
(4/5): urw-fonts-2.4-10.el6.noarch.rpm                                                 | 3.1 MB     00:00
(5/5): xorg-x11-font-utils-7.2-11.el6.x86_64.rpm                                       |  75 kB     00:00

The critical ones were ghostscript-fonts and libXfont, which installed a few basic fonts and configured them for X11.

I'm putting this solution here because of the error message

E665: Cannot start GUI, no valid font found

which i also got when trying to invoke gvim in that same configuration over X.

Upvotes: 1

philant
philant

Reputation: 35836

Add the following in your .vimrc file, this is explained in vim tip 632:

if has("gui_running")
  if has("gui_photon")
    set guifont=Courier\ New:s11
  endif
endif

Upvotes: 0

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