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Old 08-01-2015, 07:45 PM   #1
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Unhappy No gedit preferences after reinstall


I recently installed Jessie 64 bit from Wheezy 32 bit. I use Gnome Flashback. My problem is that gedit no longer has a preference menu. This is important to me as I want to use the Synctex plugin.
 
Old 08-02-2015, 12:41 AM   #2
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Top right (next to "Save") ?.
Probably the (not so) "new" gnome UI, although I don't use Debian.
 
Old 08-02-2015, 01:18 AM   #3
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Yes,
see image indeed right to the save button (forget about the language, could not find another picture so fast.. It is exactly as on my Debian 8.1).
They use the same button as in Google Chrome.

Agree: the minimalistic way of using menus may be nice for the eye.... but it is often not very practical/difficult to find. For several programs you even need to activate menus before you can see them e.g. on top, else you need to activate them constantly by ALT key or something else. Screens nowadays are so large and resolutions so good, why not keep menus on top?
You see the Win8 was a failure, users disliked the tiles.... so that was an expensive "experiment" of MS... In some Linux desktop I see the trend to go to tiles... that may be nice for tablets using a finger, but mouse orientated searches e.g. for settings menus is disaster. I've discharged several desktops in this way, I'm using Mate with kind of classical menu's.
 
Old 08-02-2015, 11:28 AM   #4
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Thanks for the responses, but on my system, preferences item is not under the menu icon.

gedit used to be so good, but with each iteration of gnome it gets worse.
 
Old 08-02-2015, 12:01 PM   #5
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Ok... searching with
Gnome Flashback + Gedit
is my 1st hit....
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2277272

https://www.google.nl/search?q=Gnome...lashback+gedit

Conclusion: it is a known issue... next time report plse what you did your self..
 
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Old 08-03-2015, 08:24 AM   #6
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The solution is:

Run the following command from any directory, (one long line):
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings overrides '@a{sv} {"Gtk/ShellShowsAppMenu": <int32 0>}'
 
Old 08-03-2015, 02:52 PM   #7
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Please put it in [code] quotation... is you've seen it in http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2277272
That's more handy to read and clear for that is is only that code in the terminal.

Nice that it worked also for Debian and reporting it back; so it is indeed a general issue.
 
  


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