Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 135528
Character display corrupts under flashing cursor
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:51 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041012 Firefox/0.10.1 Description of problem: Editing a file using gvim, displayed with Luxi Mono 9 or smaller, on a 1280 x 1024 screen resolution, the character under the flashing cursor becomes corrupted while highlighted. Changing to Luxi Mono 10 or larger solves the problem. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): vim-X11 1:6.3.030-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start gvim with Luxi Mono 9 2. Position the cursor over a character (ie. ! or p) Actual Results: With a highlighted 'p' the character is replaced by a black square, alternating with the black cursor rectangle. With a hightlight '!' the character is replaced by a black vertical line alternating with the black cursor rectangle. Expected Results: Normal character displayed Additional info: I don't believe I saw this under the fc3test2 release.
I cannot reproduce this here with a system updated to the latest packages. What is your LANG environment set to ? And do you have the latest pango/Xorg packages installed ?
pango 1.6.0-3 xorg-x11 6.8.1-4 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 Reproducibility appears weirder than I originally thought! My .gvimrc file has this ... set gfn=Luxi\ Mono\ 9 set lines=45 set columns=140 set bk set bdir=. set shiftwidth=3 syntax enable Try typing a row of ssssssssssssssssssss and then highlight some of the characters backwards along the line to shade them grey. I'm seeing some of the letters replaced with black squares. Even a letter to the right of where I start highlighting can turn into a black square. However, partially sliding the gvim window off the screen and back again refreshes the characters and grey shading perfectly again.
I still can't reproduce this with exactly the same packageversions and your .gvimrc. This very much looks like a problem with your setup, either the graphics hardware (it would show in other applications, too) or software.