Comment 3 for bug 28010

I think this is not so much an Ubuntu issue as a gvim/ssh/X11 issue. I experience the same problem opening gvim from a Redhat server in X11 running on cygwin. Also the same trouble if X is on an Ubuntu workstation.

This seems to happen when I call ssh with -X, however, this doesn't happen if ssh is called with -Y. I have yet to really understand why that is. Within a trusted domain, it seems to be an acceptible workaround, however I'm not sure that it's very secure outside of a LAN.