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Tavarus Calamia
Hello, last month gedit started to open new files in new windows. If I mark multiple text files in Nautilus (Files) and hit enter, it opens multiple windows. I am used to have openned one window and multiple tabs instead and this was the default behavior for years.
I tried to uninstall gedit, remove all gedit folders and files in $HOME and install gedit back, but that didn't work. I also tried to reset config through `dconf reset -f /org/gnome/gedit/`, but that didn't help either. What should I do to fix my issue? Is this a bug or not?
If I have a gedit window partially below the screen, a new gedit window will be opened instead of a tab if I click a file. May it be that it behaves the same for you? (And yes, I don't really like it)
All that being said, I did also encountered this issue once the other day. If you can reproduce this with all user configuration deleted, and RoundCube can reproduce this issue as well, it seems unlikely this is resulted by anything in user configuration after all.
I tested this, but having the gedit window partly off-screen doesn't seem to reproduce the issue for me on gnome-shell under wayland. I also tested moving the window to secondary display, but that didn't make any difference either.
About external tools. This plugin is linux only, somebody would have to put some time to make it work on windows as well. Another plugin that needs some more love on windows is the git one which does not currently work due to the cairo python bindings.
I am using the text editor gedit on Windows Vista. I did not realize it at the time, but the default is the gedit saves a file to "C:\Windows\system32". I am looking for a file that I saved to this default location (and gedit assures me that it is in the directory) but the file does not appear in windows explorer or the command prompt. My question is how do I find this file outside of using gedit's file chooser itself?
Basically programs should NOT be writing to this directory, but lots of them did (and not just viruses) and this causes lots of programs, so Vista now protects this folder unless the program is running in administrator mode. Any program written prior to Vista which tries to write to this directory will be directed to the virtualStore. Note this is invisible to the program which thinks it is writing to the real directory.
We are a charity that helps disadvantaged people to get back on track. To this end we provide them with paid occupation. One of them is proof-reading/editing of ancient OCRed texts that we release later under the GNU Free Documentation License. Those people do not have technical background, so we need a super simple text editor. Gedit is great for this task. Unfortunately most of those people work on Windows. Gedit being cross-platform helps us here as well. But we can't get Gedit under Windows to spell-check texts. How can we add a dictionary for spell checking in Gedit on Windows? (To be more specific - we need Hebrew spell checking).
The procedure to get spell check working is slightly different for the two currently available versions of gedit on Windows. They both support Hunspell, MySpell, and Ispell dictionaries, but I will focus on Hunspell / MySpell here. (I will have a note about Ispell and Aspell at the end.)
I'm trying to install the Advanced Find plugin for Gedit 2.3 on Windows 7, but so far I haven't been able to. Since the directory for plugins is /home/username/.local/share/gedit/plugins for Linux, I went to C:\Program Files\gedit\share\gedit-2\plugins and tried placing the files there, but it still won't appear in the plugins settings. Do you guys know how plugins are installed?
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GNOME Text Editor replaces gedit as GNOME/Ubuntu's default text editor in Ubuntu 22.10. If you're running an older version of Ubuntu and want to use gedit, the previous default text editor, use sudo apt install gedit -y.
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I'm trying to customize the behavior of gedit when I launch a new instance from the command line. In the past, the default was "open a new tab if there's a existing window in the current workspace, otherwise open a new window". At some point, this shifted to "open a new tab if there's a gedit window open anywhere, otherwise open a new tab in an existing window, with the host window seemingly chosen at random". The new behavior is kind of annoying, and I'd like to recover the old behavior.
After some searching, the closest I could find was this thread -gedit-to-always-open-in-new-window, where the author wants to always open a new window when a text file is double clicked. That's not what I'm looking for, but it does suggest editing gedit's behavior with gsettings. After looking through my gsettings options, the only one that seems to be related is show-tabs-mode. Currently, it's set to "auto". When I set it to "never"
I get the behavior that when I open a file with gedit from the command line, the new window replaces a tab in an existing window, even if that window is in another workspace. That's really not what I want.
Suppose that a.txt is already open in a gedit window, and that b.txt is double-clicked on a Gnome desktop of Debian 8 Jessie. Then, unfortunately, by the factory default, b.txt will be opened in a tab in the same window as a.txt.
With this "gsettings" method, gedit automatically closes a.txt and reuses the existing window of a.txt to open b.txt in it whenever b.txt is double-clicked on a desktop. Thus, it is the "single window, no tab" mode (as opposed to "multiple windows").
The reason why your modification of the Exec key in the .desktop file did not work is that gedit is DBus activated. This means that it is launched via your session's DBus daemon and then provides a common DBus interface for such activatable programs to specify the files to open. You can prevent this by changing the DBusActivatable key to false.
Then there is also an important difference between the two possible flags used to open a new window: --new-window or -s. Both will result in the files being opened in a new window, but with -s each window will also belong to its own process. When using --new-window all windows share the same gedit process.
And finally to make sure that this also works if you select multiple files in your file manager and open them, you need another modification of the Exec key. The %U means that multiple URLs are allowed as arguments for this command, meaning that the file manager would start it like this: gedit --new-window file1.txt file2.txt. This results in a single new window with two tabs. If you change this to %u now, that tells the file manager, that the application only accepts a single URL as an argument and therefore causes it to run the command multiple times, each time with a different file as its argument. For more details on this see the freedesktop desktop entry specification.
In your File Manager (eg: Nautilus, or standard file manager in Gnome, often called just 'Files' or Gnome Files, or Caja in linux MATE, etc.) associate the filetypes (.txt, .csv, ...) with your newly created application:
I think you are mixing up rules with Layouts. Defining how new windows of a certain application are positioned is a rule. Rules has no GUI yet, but I can guide you how to setup.
Layouts is the ability to launch a set of window into a layout. To run a layout, press Super + Alt + L and pick the layout you created.
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I was trying to follow along with the Git Basics videos and after installing the Git program i tried using the text editors mentioned (notepad and nano) but when i try to do so it says the command is not found. I'm not completely sure what the problem is of if i just need to install another program so any help would be greatly appreciated.
It sounds like you're using Windows. As far as I know, you must launch Notepad like you normally would (through the GUI), and nano isn't available on Windows (at least not built in.. It may've been ported by now, but I don't know), as it is primarily a program for a UNIX/UNIX-Like SHell
I would recommend changing your text editor away from Notepad. There are several free ones available that are far better for programming in general. Perhaps not necessary for the GIT BASH examples, but something like gedit or Notepad++ for Windows has, in my experience, been extremely helpful in programming.
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