#How to close gedit in ubuntu install

More than a dozen plugins are pre-installed and can be enabled/disabled in this section. Plugins greatly enhance the power of gedit and are are accessed via Edit → Preferences → Plugins.

Spell Checker: Edit → Preferences → Plugins tab. The user may also select the time between autosaves. If the user does not want gedit to back up files in this manner, deselect the option.Īutosave: Edit → Preferences → Editor tab. Backup files saved in this manner are appended with a trailing '~'. This option is enabled by default and creates a copy of the file before saving changes. Several popular options which the user may wish to review after the initial installation are:Ĭreate Backup Copy: Edit → Preferences → Editor tab. ( gksudo is used in this example since the file is a system file owned by root): gksudo gedit +21 /etc/apt/sources.list To open at a specific line number, useful when an error message includes the line number, include '+'. It is NOT recommended to manually run graphical applications with administrative privileges, but in case you insist to do it, be sure to use gksudo rather than sudo. To edit system files such as sources.list and fstab, open it with administrative privileges. To open multiple files: gedit file1 file2 If the file is not found, gedit will open a blank file with the file name entered on the command line: If a path is not included in the startup command, gedit will look for the file in the current directory. Opening gedit via the command line allows the user to take advantage of several options unavailable from the GUI menu. Gedit incorporates a graphical user interface (GUI) and is opened by going to Applications → Accessories → Text Editor or by pressing Alt+F2 and typing gedit

#How to close gedit in ubuntu install

From a terminal or ALT-F2: sudo apt-get install gedit.

Select gedit in Synaptic ( System → Adminstration → Synaptic Package Manager) gedit can be installed in Kubuntu, Xubuntu and other distributions although additional libraries are necessary and will be installed on non-GNOME systems. Gedit is located in Ubuntu's Main repository and is installed by default. Gedit is suited for both basic and more advanced text editing and is released under the GNU General Public License. These include multilanguage spell checking, extensive support of syntax highlighting, and a large number of official and third party plugins.

It is UTF-8 compatible and supports most standard text editor features as well as many advanced features. Text Editor (gedit) is the default GUI text editor in the Ubuntu operating system.