Description of problem: When gvim is run from konsole cmd line, it does not produce a visible gui window. The gvim process runs (10618 below) but does nothing. All you can do is hit crtl-c and you see this: $ gvim t.gds ^CICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 10618, errno = 4 When gvim is run from a right click in a context menu in konqueror, an empty VIM gui appear with just a frame and not menu and the file does not appear in the gui frame. To kill it you can click the close "x" several times and goes away. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): vim-X11-7.2.148-1.fc11.x86_64 How reproducible: Always does this Steps to Reproduce: 1. attempt to open a file with gvim on konsole cmd line 2. Nothing happens but gvim process seems to run 3. Ctrl-c kills it. Actual results: No gvim gui comes up. If run from konqueror context menu, VIM gui frame comes up but with no menu and opened file does not appear in the frame. Expected results: gvim gui should come up with a menu and the opened file visible. Additional info: gvim -u NONE -U NONE filename makes no difference. When run from kde alt-F2 nothing happens except gvim process runs (no gui). Don't know if it works in gnome (don't run it). vim works as expected. vim -g says gui support not enabled when compiled.
FWIW, for my install, gvim works find in gnome. It only has the problem in kde.
Found a workaround for the problem. See bug 501427 which is essentially a duplicate of this.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 501427 ***
Per bug 501427 comment 10