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Tab indenting looks weird in gedit in Ubuntu 20.04
I have been working in a collaborative project with version control via GitHub. As much as we try to set standards for indentation, one problem still persists.
We use tabs (real tabs, not spaces) for ...
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How do I open and edit a usr/lib/udev file in 20.04 without root?
How do I open and edit a usr/lib/udev file in Ubuntu 20.04 without root?
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Anyway to get the picklist back in gedit?
Upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04, and the missing picklist in gedit is increasingly frustrating. By "picklist" I mean the dropdown menu where you could go to any of your open documents.
This ...
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Why did launching gedit suddenly get slow?
setup:
ubuntu 20.04.3, updated daily
background:
For years, I have launched gedit from the terminal. Frequently. Without issue.
problem:
As of a few weeks ago, on a laptop and two desktops of varying ...
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"Text Editor" is not responding
ubuntu 20.04 LTS
shell version - GNOME Shell 3.36.9
gedit version - gedit - Version 3.36.2
When I click 'wait' nothing happened:
What I did:
I run gedit from termial and its not come back to my ...
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Changes via “gsettings set” for GNOME animations have to be restored after every boot (and require toggling between values) on Ubuntu 20.04
I’m turning GNOME animations off via the following command in the terminal:
gsettings set "org.gnome.desktop.interface" "enable-animations" "false"
This works the very ...
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How to change keyboard shortcut in gedit on Ubuntu 20.04 (including how to find the command names/key codes etc.)
How do I change the gedit keyboard shortcuts on Ubuntu 20.04. I have read the question and answers on Custom keyboard shortcuts in gedit but it seems all of it is outdated and no longer offers a ...
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Text cursor invisible in gedit for dark desktop theme
Gedit was working fine with the default desktop theme in Ubuntu 20.04.
However, when I changed the desktop theme to dark, the text cursor in gedit becomes invisible, although the functionality of the ...
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Zooming does not work in my text editors
Ctrl + + and Ctrl + - are not working in my text editors, e.g. vim, gedit and nano on Ubuntu 20.04.0. It works perfectly in browsers such as Chrome, Mozilla, etc.
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Starting gedit with parameters from terminal causes an error (gedit:47653): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL
If I run gedit -w -s from the terminal it gives an error:
(gedit:47653): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: 12:20:04.475: g_dbus_action_group_get: assertion 'bus_name != NULL || g_dbus_connection_get_unique_name (...
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Is it possible to bring back the search box in gedit open recent files dropdown in 20.04?
After upgrading from 18.04 to 20.04 I noticed that there is no longer a handy search box when I try to open a recent file. Only a dropdown of the last 10 opened files (as shown in the image).
Is it ...
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Can not click checkboxes in preferences in gedit
When I use gedit in Ubuntu 20.04, whenever I click on any of the checkboxes in Preferences, nothing happens.
For example, when I click on Display line numbers, the checkbox is still marked as checked....
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How do I fix "The plugin "External Tools" could not be loaded. An error occured: Plugin loader "python 3" was not found)" error in GEdit?
I'm using GEdit version 3.36.2 pre-installed with Ubuntu 20.04.1.
I wanted to enable the External Tools plugin of GEdit, but I'm unable to do so.
When I click on the External Tools option, I get ⛔ ...
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Highlighted text is not readable in text editor with dark mode on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS [duplicate]
I have an issue with the text editor on Ubuntu 20.04. With dark mode enabled, the highlighted text is not readable.
Is there any way to fix this?
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minimap not available anymore in gedit
I recently installed Ubuntu 20.04. Everything works fine. I wanted to customize gedit, but I was surprised that the minimap option is not available anymore.
How to get it back?
OS: Ubuntu 20.04
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Can't increase the number of recent documents in gedit
After upgrading to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 64-bit my list of recent documents in gedit returned to the default 10 only.
Normally this could be easily changed with dconf, but now dconf can't find the ui max-...
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Double click on text file in Ubuntu desktop does not launch gedit as expected
I expect the application 'gedit' to launch when I double click a text file on the Ubuntu desktop. Actual result is that nothing happens. Manually typing 'gedit file.txt' does open the file in gedit. ...
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Selected line's contents aren't readable in GEdit while using dark theme on Ubuntu 20.04
I am unable to see what I type in the Gedit editor using dark theme.
This is due to the default setting of highlighting the current line.
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