Hi All!

As the subject line says, the Tools menu in my Gedit 2.2.0 has gone! That is to say, "Tools" still appears in the menu bar but when I click on it, I see menu...

Is there perhaps a way to reinstall this using rpm?

Any advice would be welcome!

Rob

"Is there perhaps a way to reinstall this using rpm?"

Reinstalling gedit might solve the problem.

rpm -e gedit

rpm -i /pathname/gedit-packagename


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Steve Stites

Well I figured out how to get the latest rpm for gedit from the RedHat site, uninstalled and reinstalled.. but the tools menu has still not re-appeared...

Any further ideas would be most appreciated!

Rob

"but the tools menu has still not re-appeared... "

Another possible solution is to edit /home/user/.gnome/gedit and set:
toolbar=1

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Thank you very much for the resposne!

mm.. what happens if I don't have such a file?

Can I create it from scratch?

Rob

"mm.. what happens if I don't have such a file?

Can I create it from scratch?"

Probably, but i don't know how to do that. You already tried reinstalling gedit and that did not work. Next I would try reinstalling gnome. (Actually, the first thing I would do is look through my backup to see if I could find the file there).

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Can anyone help a man without a backup?

If you can post your
/home/user/.gnome/gedit
file here for me I would be most grateful!

Rob

hmm, similar just happened to me, im running debian , but just updated a lot of gnome stuff.
gedit was compiled myself a while back, so id say its gnome thats the problem ( or has changed again ) and not necessarily gedit.

Frankly im becoming less and less impressed with gnome, the gui looks much better and refined but thats about all i can say for it unfortunately . It seems that with each release its become more and more lobotimised compared to the old gnome
ie its becoming a block of concrete environment. I dont like the way the options work ( what options there are, when you find them ), not to mention the swag of programs that start when you run an app.
And where's the menu editor , the preview theme option ? etc
Also panel behaviour and options have changed again...

Glad ive never been i heavy gnome user, enlightenment works fine for me, gnome has lost the plot in my view .


By the way, I just purged all gnome, and gconf data from ~, and the tools problem persisted

Hi guys!

i have the same problem in debian sid - gedit 2.4.1.
I tried to completely purge gedit (mean apt-get remove --purge gedit, then rm *gedit* in ~ and /etc, then search text files that content 'gedit'!!!)
Then in reinstalled gedit.
You know what? It didn't work...
I use XFce instead of Gnome, but i have no complaining about missing stuffs.
Solution --> use another editor...