After upgrading Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) to 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot), GVim starts to behave weirdly.
6 May 2012 UPDATE: Issue persists even after upgrading to 12.04 (Precise Pangolin)! 🙁
Symptoms:
- It sometimes freezes during startup, rendering the window greyish. If you wait, it may or may not regain control.
- When it doesn’t freeze during startup, typing response becomes very slow. For example, when you hit ‘j’ to move the cursor down 1 line, it takes ~7s before the action takes place. Key response then returns to normal if GVim is editing an empty file.
- When GVim loads a large file, typing response becomes very slow all the time.
- Sometimes you may see this error in the Terminal window you used to run gvim:
** (gvim:5933): IBUS-WARNING **: Create input context failed: Timeout was reached. - Other times you may see this instead:
** (gvim:5760): WARNING **: Unable to register window with path '/com/canonical/menu/5C00024': Timeout was reached
Workaround:
Run gvim -f instead of just gvim.
Put this in your .bashrc if you don’t want to add -f all the time, or if you already have other aliases using gvim and you don’t want to change all of them:
gvim(){ setsid /usr/bin/gvim -f "$@"; }