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Cannot Login Ubuntu 12.04

I have been using Ubuntu for 2 months and it work fine. Yesterday I tried to make my Texlive Manager (tlmgr) running by inserting a PATH in /etc/profile.d. Today when I wanted to login as usual, I ...
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Gedit tries to open everything!

I am having a huge problem. Whenever i try to open a file gedit tries to open it. For example I download something with firefox, i click on the file to open it and gedit opens! Even in when I want to ...
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Geany / Gedit: hex editor plugin

Are there any plugins for Geany / Gedit to support reading binary/hex files?
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Increase or View all Stored History in Gedit

I would like to be able to see the last ~200 files opened in Gedit. I was able to increase the number it shows to 40 using this command: gconftool-2 --type int --set ...
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How do I change the colors of a Gedit theme?

I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I'm using a custom theme called Twilight for Gedit and I'm trying to change some of the colors of the theme. I went to: /home/user/.local/share/gedit/twilight.xml ...
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Are there any Gedit plugins for Rails

I have watched some video tutorials for rails and spotted gedit as very good editor for ruby on rails development. I installed gmate and some plugins for programming (autocomplete and intelligent ...
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Incorrect spell check results

Firefox and Gedit (at least) are checking spelling wrongly. Which package should I file a bug against? For some time I've had issues with spell checking in Firefox. I hadn't bothered with them since ...
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Gedit problem cpp file is not created

When i open terminal I type Mkdir name of folder Cd name of folder When I write gedit x.cpp the cpp file is not created and the file doesn't open to write the code Any ideas why this happens? I even ...
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Problem With Gedit Plugins and Python3 on 13.04

I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 13.04 and I use gedit for a lot of things. I was trying to install some plugins that I use quite frequently and I came into some issues. First I installed the plugins ...
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How to enable Gedit autosave files with name of current system Date and Time

I want Gedit to autosave files, by the default name with the current system Date and time. Is this possible? If not, is any hack to achieve the same? The use of this feature is, the file names are ...
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Gedit, Evince has print disabled

Print menu command is disabled in evince and gedit. Print functionality works fine in other applications like Chrome, GIMP, Firefox. Ubuntu printer setup correctly recognizes my printer and scanner ...
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Why does my gedit “open” pulldown not show any recent documents?

gedit used to show recent documents in an "open" pulldown, but that list has been empty recently. It has been this way for a while now (by while, I mean weeks) and I can't pinpoint any one change that ...
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encoding and decoding in gedit

Sometimes in gedit, when I save a text file with special characters (such as Greek characters, math notations, Chinese characters) I copy from some webpage and am about the exit gedit, it will warn me ...
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Crontab opens as blank page, cannot save

I am really not familiar with linux, and only started using it recently, so be patient with me. I am trying to control a camera on regular intervals through a script that is called upon in the ...
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gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list gives nothing

I don't know what happend but when I tried "gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list" on terminal there is nothing to pop up;only a white sheet.please ,any one who can give me a clue ?
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Converting Vim Syntax Highlight For Gedit

I found a Custom Syntax For Vim. How can i use it with gedit? http://dl.dropbox.com/u/32657135/alderz-smali-vim-ae77727.zip
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How can I save an open text file in a GUI console from a text console?

I'm running the latest desktop Ubuntu, and my system seems to have frozen -- the pointer moves when I move the mouse, but nothing else is happening; even the clock is stopped. tty1-6 work just fine, ...
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How to install Emmet with gedit text editor in Ubuntu 12.04?

I am using Ubuntu 12.04. I came to know about emmet plugin. Which is really awesome for writing markups. As I am a developer I am using gedit with zencoding plugin to write markup easily. Now as I ...
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I cant connect internet because avahi .local problem

I used Ubuntu 12.10 alongside Windows 7. I got a problem when I tried to connect a Wifi. The message was "Your current network has a .local domain, which is not recommended and incompatible with the ...
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Better Python Console not working on 12.04

I installed the plugin (copied the files to /usr/lib/gedit/plugins/) but when I hit the f5 when a python file is open in the gedit,nothing happens.Only a message is seen at the bottom of the gedit ...
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Nautilus FTP with gedit slow

I have, in the past, used gEdit while connected to an FTP with Nautilus so that I can work directly on my server without downloading/uploading via FileZilla everytime. I've just reinstalled Ubuntu ...
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Fonts in Gedit overlapping with tab toolbar

The problem is that the first line of Gedit is overlapping with the tab toolbar. It is happening with every font that I use even the default one. Is it something to do with my theme (Mac OS X)?
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File saving disabled 'Saving has been disabled by system admin'

I have coded my own html website recently, and today wished to add a Google calender object to it. I have not put this website on the web because it is for my own personal use and I can't buy a ...
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How to change gedit embedded terminal to be “run command as login shell”?

My main reason for doing so was due to latest update to RVM. https://rvm.io/integration/gnome-terminal/ My normal terminal works fine now. But the embeded one inside gedit is a problem.
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Where I can found --prefix parameter which was used by installing program? (especially Gedit)

I need to compile plugin with setting --prefix parameter. Any ways to found --prefix value!
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Gedit quick search up down button images missing

In gedit 3.4.1 the up and down arrow button icons has gone missing, all it's showing is the icon for image not found. I've had these problems before when installing gedit in other Linux distros but ...
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How to access shared folders from file editors?

I am running a xampp server on one of my other computers, and when using the brows functionality from text editors like gedit, bluefish and Eclipse/Aptana studio I can access the shares I made for the ...
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How to display Chinese character?

I have a csv file which contains English and Chinese words, in XP I could open it with Notepad++ and it displayed both without problem, but when I went to Ubuntu 12.04 using gedit, it showed Chinese ...
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How to make scrolling in gedit slower while selecting text?

In gedit when I try to select a long part of text with dragging the pointer to the edge of the window it scrolls too fast to comfortably control it. Is it possible to make it slower? Should I create a ...
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How do I bind this custom shortcut in gedit?

Here is my problem: I took the plugin "proper-editing-plugin" (http://code.google.com/p/proper-editing-plugin/) in order to have special bindings for gedit. The plugin works perfectly by clicking in ...
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Gnome Language Definition v2.0

Here is my Custom Gnome Language Definition v2.0 File for Gedit. It seems it is not working. Reference: http://developer.gnome.org/gtksourceview/stable/lang-tutorial.html <UserLang name="Smali" ...
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Select-By-Word characters in gedit/gnome

How do I configure the select-by-word characters in gedit or gnome in general? The goal is to double-click a word in gedit (like "underscore_notation") and have it highlight the entire word. ...