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i3 FAQ - Individual question feedhttps://faq.i3wm.org/questions/Frequently asked questions and answers about the i3 window managerenCopyright i3, 2012Mon, 14 Oct 2013 23:43:59 +0000Vim cursor is invisible on gVim startuphttps://faq.i3wm.org/question/2647/vim-cursor-is-invisible-on-gvim-startup/It appears that whenever I open a new gVim window in i3, the cursor is invisible. There are a couple things that seem to consistently bring it back; for instance, entering and then exiting fullscreen works. However, switching to a different workspace on the same screen does not fix the cursor. I'm not sure whether this is an i3 bug, a Vim bug, or a configuration error on my part, but I haven't seen it happen in KDE or Gnome, so I'm guessing it's an i3 bug. I'm running VIM 7.4 compiled with the GTK2 GUI on CentOS 6.4 with i3 4.0.1. Please let me know if it would be helpful to see any info from my vim or i3 config files.Mon, 07 Oct 2013 19:27:05 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2647/vim-cursor-is-invisible-on-gvim-startup/Comment by BatmanAoD for It appears that whenever I open a new gVim window in i3, the cursor is invisible. There are a couple things that seem to consistently bring it back; for instance, entering and then exiting fullscreen works. However, switching to a different workspace on the same screen does not fix the cursor. I'm not sure whether this is an i3 bug, a Vim bug, or a configuration error on my part, but I haven't seen it happen in KDE or Gnome, so I'm guessing it's an i3 bug. I'm running VIM 7.4 compiled with the GTK2 GUI on CentOS 6.4 with i3 4.0.1. Please let me know if it would be helpful to see any info from my vim or i3 config files. https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2647/vim-cursor-is-invisible-on-gvim-startup/?comment=2684#comment-2684I still haven't found a way to upgrade, but I did try running gvim in xmonad (the only other tiling window manager available to me at the moment) and saw the same bug, so I'll go see if I can ask the Vim folks about it.Fri, 11 Oct 2013 16:28:10 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2647/vim-cursor-is-invisible-on-gvim-startup/?comment=2684#comment-2684Comment by Michael for It appears that whenever I open a new gVim window in i3, the cursor is invisible. There are a couple things that seem to consistently bring it back; for instance, entering and then exiting fullscreen works. However, switching to a different workspace on the same screen does not fix the cursor. I'm not sure whether this is an i3 bug, a Vim bug, or a configuration error on my part, but I haven't seen it happen in KDE or Gnome, so I'm guessing it's an i3 bug. I'm running VIM 7.4 compiled with the GTK2 GUI on CentOS 6.4 with i3 4.0.1. Please let me know if it would be helpful to see any info from my vim or i3 config files. https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2647/vim-cursor-is-invisible-on-gvim-startup/?comment=2648#comment-2648i3 4.0.1 is ancient. Upgrade to 4.6. If you can reliably reproduce it with i3, but not with e.g. awesome, wmii, twm, …, please file a bug at http://bugs.i3wm.org/Mon, 07 Oct 2013 19:32:53 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2647/vim-cursor-is-invisible-on-gvim-startup/?comment=2648#comment-2648Comment by BatmanAoD for It appears that whenever I open a new gVim window in i3, the cursor is invisible. There are a couple things that seem to consistently bring it back; for instance, entering and then exiting fullscreen works. However, switching to a different workspace on the same screen does not fix the cursor. I'm not sure whether this is an i3 bug, a Vim bug, or a configuration error on my part, but I haven't seen it happen in KDE or Gnome, so I'm guessing it's an i3 bug. I'm running VIM 7.4 compiled with the GTK2 GUI on CentOS 6.4 with i3 4.0.1. Please let me know if it would be helpful to see any info from my vim or i3 config files. https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2647/vim-cursor-is-invisible-on-gvim-startup/?comment=2712#comment-2712Oh, I see the problem now; I had an autocmd in my vimrc trying to set the column width; commenting this out seems to fix the issue.Mon, 14 Oct 2013 23:43:59 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2647/vim-cursor-is-invisible-on-gvim-startup/?comment=2712#comment-2712Comment by BatmanAoD for It appears that whenever I open a new gVim window in i3, the cursor is invisible. There are a couple things that seem to consistently bring it back; for instance, entering and then exiting fullscreen works. However, switching to a different workspace on the same screen does not fix the cursor. I'm not sure whether this is an i3 bug, a Vim bug, or a configuration error on my part, but I haven't seen it happen in KDE or Gnome, so I'm guessing it's an i3 bug. I'm running VIM 7.4 compiled with the GTK2 GUI on CentOS 6.4 with i3 4.0.1. Please let me know if it would be helpful to see any info from my vim or i3 config files. https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2647/vim-cursor-is-invisible-on-gvim-startup/?comment=2664#comment-2664I'm not sure I can upgrade. The downloads page recommends using the i3 package provided by the distro I'm using. I'm using CentOS 6, which uses the rhel6_epel repo for fedora packages. The i3 package is version 4.0.1. So I tried downloading 4.6 and running `make`, but it failed.Wed, 09 Oct 2013 17:02:18 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/2647/vim-cursor-is-invisible-on-gvim-startup/?comment=2664#comment-2664