Vim issues...meta keys and colorscheme not working correctly

Question

The first issue isn't really a vim problem, but it's related.  When running Vim in a terminal, my meta key bindings don't work.  I've tracked it down to a problem with Xfce's Terminal as noted here: http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/m … p-alt-keys
...but I'm not sure exactly how to fix it.  I suppose I could always switch to another terminal, but I'd like to stick with Xfce's version if possible.
The second issue is that my color scheme isn't being set when I first load up gVim.  As soon as I open a file, it properly displays, but the "splash" page doesn't show it.  I'm using desert (who doesn't) and this is what it looks like when I first load up gVim:
I did stop using a separate <code>.gvimrc</code> in favor of putting everything in my <code>.vimrc</code> file under a conditional, and all the other settings work just fine.  Here's what that conditional looks like:
if has( "gui_running" )
set columns=84 " Set the window's width
set lines=43 " Set the window's height
set guioptions-=T " Remove the toolbar from the window
set guifont=Terminus 12 " Use a clean monospaced font
colorscheme desert
else
set background=dark
colorscheme desert
endif
In case you're curious, here's my entire <code>.vimrc</code> file.

Answer 1

phrakture wrote:IIRC this happens for because gvim does not find a ~/.gvimrc and reads /etc/gvimrc after ~/.vimrc (I think).
Try symlinking ~/.vimrc to ~/.gvimrc
That solved the problem for me. Thanks