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senede5304

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Registered: 2021-03-30

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No preferences in Gedit?

Opening Gedit as a root user shows the toggle button that you can click to then edit preferences etc. However, when I open Gedit with a normal account there is no toggle button. Is this a side effect of things updating to Gnome40?

I have tried resetting the Gedit dconf settings and "gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings overrides '@a{sv} {"Gtk/ShellShowsAppMenu": <int32 0>}'".

EDIT: I made a new user to see if it could open the preferences and it could. Seems to be some config setting that's been messed up on my main user. Any ideas?

Last edited by senede5304 (2021-03-30 10:20:29)

ewaller

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Re: No preferences in Gedit?

Or, some critical configuration file gedit is trying to use is owned by root, and not by your user.

I am not sure exactly where they are, but they the files are probably under ~/.local someplace -- probably in a gedit directory.  check the ownership.  You can also try strace gedit to see what file operation gedit tries; but (a) you may have to install it, and (b) it is verbose.

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Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: No preferences in Gedit?

Opening Gedit as a root user

How did you do that, exactly?

The recommended approach is

gedit admin:///full/path/to/file

Or perhaps

SUDO_EDITOR=gedit sudoedit /full/path/to/file

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