Comment 18 for bug 402188

This bug is present in the release version of Karmic. Hopefully this warrants a "recommended updates" fix.

As a temporary workaround until it is fixed, you can declare an alias for gvim in your .bashrc pointed to 'gvim 2>/dev/null'. This will suppress all stderr messages, including this one, but bear in mind that if gvim encounters any other errors that would normally be reported via stderr, these will not be shown either.