No line numbers in Bluefish 2.2.8-2. Running Mageia 6.1 kernel version 4.14.104-desktop-2.mga6

did you try looking everywhere in preferences, or 'view' in the menu, then check all of your menu tabs, if not there, just cuz you'd still be trying to find it?

what.distro,and.kernel.you.have.running.does.not.apply.here.
Because it is an app, not a desktop related, nor a kernel related issue. fyi.

Thanks for the fast response and the fyi. I appreciate it.

I did check the prefs. Line numbers is checked. I should have mentioned that in my posting. I've been working on this for quite a while now and I've searched everywhere I can think of that deals with Linux and BF. No luck. I've also tried completely uninstalling and reinstalling. So I decided to start posting in forums.

And since I haven't found anything so far, I've begun to wonder if I might have a weird thing going on with KDE, gtk, etc that might be distro related. Maybe faulty reasoning on my part, but I'm still learning.

Thanks again, BW-userx.

I just installed it on slack, in e16, see photo
it just works on this here.

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Hmmm, looks like it's a mageia issue. I'm going to install another distro and try it out as well. I'll follow up with results.

I appreciate you trying it out with slack. Maybe it's time for me to switch distros again.

Thanks, BW-userx.

I'm sorry but that really is a wrong conclusion.
The line numbers as seen in the above screenshot have nothing to do with the distro.

wild guess:
could it be that the numbers have the same color as their background, thus becoming invisible?

It may be a known issue:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=212793

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php?topic=139618.0

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^ a gtk3 issue! grumble.
anyhow, my system has bluefish 2.2.10 built with gtk3 and works.
but if there's a gtk2 version of bluefish (even an older one), grab that instead.

@BW-userx: Just installed it on Antergos and line numbers appear. BF v2.2.10 so it's not a direct comparison.

@ondoho:

Great idea. Seems like it could be. The column area where numbers should appear does change width depending on the line numbers being on or not.

I've tried changing colors in prefs, but nothing changes. I make the change. Quit the app. Then start it again. No difference.

I build it in slackware, 2.2.10 bluefish, if that is gtk3, and you do not have gtk3 installed on your system you might want to try installing gtk3. I have not read the bug reports, so this is all speculation, if it is not a color pick issue. Where you can select the side line numbers colors. though I did not find any option to change the color fo that item.

as stated it is not a distro issue, but it works on Slackware current, so... go slack hehe....

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@hydrurga: Sure looks like it. Sounds like gtk is the culprit, too.

Thanks, hydrurga.

How should I mark this thread? It's "solved" in that it appears as though we've identified the problem. But the problem isn't resolved.

I wouldn't mark it as solved yet. Identifying the nature of a problem is only one step toward its solution, although an important one.

Have you tried contacting the Bluefish developers about this?

http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/development.html#contact

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No, not yet. But I will. I think I'll mention something in the mageia forum as well.

Thanks for the link.

Everyone was a big help tracking this down. I appreciate the support.