Gvim redraw issues with Virtual Box and Windows 7 host

Question

Gvim 7.4 on a Linux guest inside VirtualBox has serious redraw issues: often when I scroll up/down, the shown text gets corrupted (e.g., empty or with some \"holes\"). And I hav

Answer 1

The problem is related to some bug of Cinnamon, maybe showing up only when run inside VirtualBox with 3D acceleration enabled. I discovered, in fact, that the display was corrupted also for other applications (e.g., media player).

I solved the problem by switching to the Mate window manager through the following steps:

• Installed main mate packages
• Installed also package mint-meta-mate
• Logged out and selected Mate as window manager

Now gvim and all other apps work fine.