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

I faced the same problem under Salix OS. As changing the acceleration settings in VirtualBox didn't solve the issue, I find it easier to build gvim with GTK+ 3 (as the bug was triggered by GTK+ 2, as mentioned in @user4134275 answer) than messing with the Window Manager and Desktop Environment.