I'm running vim 7.1.211-1.fc8. I usually use the text-mode version, but today I installed the vim-X11 package. At the bottom of the window (where many GUI apps would have a status bar), gvim just has an ugly gray patch that doesn't seem to do anything (see URL). I've tried moving my ~/.vimrc out of the way and I still get the same results.
the command area has a slightly different color, type 'ESC :' to start entering a command and you'll see that. Try gvim -u NONE -U NONE to check if the color changes when gvim is started without any config files.
Nope, the color is still the same. (which is expected, since gvim -u NONE -U NONE is equivalent to moving my Vim dotfiles out of the way.) Wouldn't it look much better if the command area was the same color as the main buffer window? Is the upstream version gray too? Has Red Hat modified anything under /usr/share/vim? GVim on Windows http://www.softpedia.com/progScreenshots/GVim-Portable-Screenshot-50508.html white buffer, white command area GVim on Mac OS X http://homepage.mac.com/sao1/fink/screenshots/vim.html blue buffer, blue command area
Scratch that. There's definitely something wrong. It's not the command line ("minibuffer") at the bottom. It's more like there's a status bar that never does anything or it's allowing space for a default GNOME panel that doesn't exist. (I'm running xfce.) See new screenshot http://endbracket.net/mikel/screenshots/gvim-gray-bottom.png
Yep, weirdness goes away if I run it under a GNOME session.
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When the gtk window height does not permit to draw a full line of text, the background color is showing. This problem does not seem to be RedHat related. To change the background color, you can edit ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css @define-color YOUR_BACKGROUND_COLOR #rrggbb; window#vim-main-window { background-color: @YOUR_BACKGROUND_COLOR; } This problem is addressed here : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39763539/how-to-remove-white-border-in-gvim-8-with-gtk-3. Credit is due to @proprefenetre.