Low resolution in MacVim. Bug? - macos

MacVim is on the left, and to the right is Terminal.app running vim.
MacVim's app is clearly rendered in a different, lower resolution.
Is there a way to fix this?
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Found and squashed, well not exactly.
If I launch MacVim from the terminal mvim ... there are no problems. The issue is when running the app from the GUI, i.e., clicking on icon.

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Vim stops scrolling randomly in terminal?

Usually I can scroll in vim when I open a file in the mac terminal.
However, recently, all of a sudden sometimes I am not able to.
When I go to scroll, instead the entire terminal scrolls so I see what I had previously typed in the shell.
How can I fix this?
This is new, I've been using vim for months and it has only started to happen now.
You probably messed with the mouse setting.
:help mouse-using

How to make iTerm2 appear on the current screen?

Under Preferences -> 'Keys' It is possible to tick Show/hide iTerm2 with a system-wide hotkey.
However iTerm always appears on the main display (monitor) instead of where the cursor currently resides.
e.g. if I have three monitors, and am working on the third screen, the hotkey makes iTerm appear on first monitor, instead of where I am currently working.
Any advice how to solve this please?
UPDATE:
The bug strikes back again in v.3.1.6. If any workarounds are known, please share.
I'm on Sierra using iTerm 3.1 and I have the option under window to put the screen where the cursor is (bottom right drop down options). I'm using it with a hotkey.
The answer by Grant works.
The only thing you need to do is to install the beta version since there was a bug in the stable version.
This bug was fixed in 3.1.beta.1 https://iterm2.com/downloads.html
Here's the link to the latest beta version https://iterm2.com/downloads/beta/iTerm2-3_1_beta_4.zip
This may be a couple more keystrokes than you were hoping for, but if you install window management software like Size Up, you can get this working with just a few keystrokes.
Maintain your ⌥Space hotkey preference on Iterm2. Go to Size Up -> Preferences and change 'Send Window Prev Monitor' to an easy keystroke. I used ⌥1.
Now, you can do ⌥Space to get the terminal open and ⌥1 one or two times to get it to your monitor of choice. It takes a couple of key combos, but not too many!
I had this problem with macos monterey and iterm 3.4.15. I'm using the hotkey to show the terminal with slide-out window. After some search on the internet I found that disabling the option on system preferences to reopen closed documents solved the issue and the hotkey is now opening terminal on the screen with cursor as it should.
mac -> System preferences -> General -> (deselect this) Close windows when quitting an app
Neither of the above worked for me, but this helped, even though the question was quite different in that thread.

Inkscape export window not displaying??

I am trying to export a png with transparent background to use as a favicon. However when I am in Inkscape and use the "save as" option the background is not transparent. After looking around, people said I needed to export instead to get the transparent background.
The problem comes when I go into Inkscape and go to File>Export and then no window shows up. When I go to the launch view (view on mac where you can see all your open windows in one view) I can clearly see there IS an export window but it will not show up on my normal screen no matter what. It seems like it is showing up way to the left of my normal Inkscape window in the preview as well.
I am using a MacBook Air OS X 10.9.5 with Inkscape and XQuartz. I've had problems with installing XQuartz before and wonder if it's something I did wrong when installing? I am also using an attached external monitor to my MacBook Air but when I unplugged and only used my MacBook Air I still had the same problem.
Does anyone know how I can get the export window to show so I can export my files? Thanks for your help.
When I upgraded from 0.49 to the current 0.91 I have had the exact same problem. But just right now I realized that the "Export PNG Image" is a dock now, not a free window.
Seems to be a problem with my external monitor set up. Rebooted and tried again without the monitor plugged in and the main Inkscape window (with the graphics in it) showed up way to the right side (I could only see the very left edge of the window). This was enough to click on File>Export and it finally showed the Export window in the middle of my screen. Not sure what to do about a permanent fix though or why it's doing this.

IntelliJ 12 fullscreen mode yosemite

Trying to achieve something that should be quite easy, activating the full screen mode in intelliJ12 on a mac with Yosemite.
I can only maximise the windows (green window button with the +) but it's not running in full screen ( like any other app with the double arrow green button).
I have been searching quite a while for a solution, tested the shortcut cmd ctrl F did nothing and in view menu ain't got anything related to full screen.
Thanks in advance.
As far as I know, v12 doesn't support the OS X fullscreen feature, you have to upgrade to v13 at least.
If you wanna stay at the old version, just try this Fullscreen plugin, hope it works.

Scrolling inside Vim in Mac's Terminal

I've been googling around trying to figure out if it's possible to use my mouse wheel to scroll while inside Vim in Mac's Terminal, with no luck. It seems as if only X11 or iTerm support this.
Before I give up, I thought I'd try the geniuses here to see if anyone knows a way to do this. So, does anyone know if I can set that up?
Or should I seriously consider using a different terminal application?
And if you're using iTerm, add this to your vimrc
:set mouse=a
http://bitheap.org/mouseterm/
Use MouseTerm (and do make sure to install SIMBL first!) and scrolling will work like a charm, even remote, using Mac Terminal.
You need to fully quit the Terminal application (Command+Q) and then launch it again after installing MouseTerm.
This is an old question, but a top hit on google, so I feel compelled to provide an updated answer.
Running OSX El Capitan 10.11, vim mouse and trackpad scrolling just worked(TM) for me in Terminal.app by default. However occasionally the mouse/trackpad input stopped manipulating the vim buffer, and started scrolling the terminal buffer. The answer was Command+R or Menu View --> Allow Mouse Reporting. Turning that on allowed the mouse/trackpad scroll operations to move the cursor in vim.
Termanal Menu > View > Allow Mouse Reporting
Terminal Menu > Preferences >
Keyboard > Scroll alternate screen
If the mouse functionalities still do not work properly take a look at my answer in this post How to let vim behave on Mac OS X as on Ubuntu?, just add to your .vimrc
set ttymouse=xterm2
You can read this article, but I'm pretty sure since the default terminal in Mac OS X has a built-in scrollbar, the mousewheel commands automatically go to it. You could definitely use gVim as suggested in the previous answer. I find that I don't generally want to use the mouse in Vim though as it takes my hands off the keyboard.
I just use 50j to go down and 50k to go up. Not exactly scrolling, but it works pretty well.
Make sure the terminal is xterm & not ansi in Terminal Menu > Preferences > Profiles > Advanced. I accidentally broke scrolling by changing the term type in a naive effort to get coloring to work over ssh.
Use gVim, which gives you a text editing environment in a window you can scroll. Terminal is not involved when using gVim.
I'm using xterm in X11 (XQuartz 2.3.4) and vim works very fine with mouse and also suport 256 colors.
Here is the ~/.Xresources I use to make my xterm nicer in X11:
XTerm*faceName: Lucida Sans Typewriter Regular
XTerm*faceSize: 9
XTerm*utf8: 1
xterm*saveLines: 1000
xterm*jumpScroll: true
!xterm*awaitInput: true
!xterm*multiScroll: true
XTerm*scrollBar: false
xterm*scrollbar*thickness: 16
xterm*rightScrollBar: true
XTerm*foreground: white
XTerm*background: grey10
!XTerm*background: black
XTerm*cursorColor: yellow
xterm*visualBell: false
xterm*loginShell: true
Little tips, to remove the bell sound in X11's xterm type this command:
xset b 0
I would recommend using iTerm - it has so many advantages over Terminal eg Mouse support, 256 colors, sensible copy and paste (auto-copy, word/url selection with double click, middle click paste)...
When using iTerm create a .vimrc file (if not already there) in your home folder and add the line:
:set mouse=a
Scrolling down in vim to view a file works after this.

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