gedit new window behavior
by j.young from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5N2PA)
Hi,
I use gedit for a lot of text editing (code and actual text documents). It's strength is that it's simple, it's just a text editor.
But after a recent update gedit has adopted an annoying behavior: If I start gedit from the command line in one workspace, and gedit is already running in another workspace, the new gedit document appears as a new tab in the other workspace's gedit window.
On one machine this bounces me to the other workspace, and on another similar machine this actually pulls the gedit window from the other workspace to the current workspace. Neither behavior is desirable.
My distro is gentoo and my desktop is xfce. It's possible that this is an xfce problem and not a gedit problem, but gedit is the only application that seems to act this way. Although, I did try rolling back to an older version of gedit, and the problem persisted. My guess is that there's a way to customize this behavior in a configuration file, but the gedit development site is pretty sparse on this kind of advice.
I have done a lot of searching on this problem, and I did find this thread from earlier this summer where an ubuntu user had a similar problem with kate (which is a fork off gedit)
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1334...file-is-called
However, the problem was never resolved. If anyone has any ideas, I would be extremely grateful.
I use gedit for a lot of text editing (code and actual text documents). It's strength is that it's simple, it's just a text editor.
But after a recent update gedit has adopted an annoying behavior: If I start gedit from the command line in one workspace, and gedit is already running in another workspace, the new gedit document appears as a new tab in the other workspace's gedit window.
On one machine this bounces me to the other workspace, and on another similar machine this actually pulls the gedit window from the other workspace to the current workspace. Neither behavior is desirable.
My distro is gentoo and my desktop is xfce. It's possible that this is an xfce problem and not a gedit problem, but gedit is the only application that seems to act this way. Although, I did try rolling back to an older version of gedit, and the problem persisted. My guess is that there's a way to customize this behavior in a configuration file, but the gedit development site is pretty sparse on this kind of advice.
I have done a lot of searching on this problem, and I did find this thread from earlier this summer where an ubuntu user had a similar problem with kate (which is a fork off gedit)
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1334...file-is-called
However, the problem was never resolved. If anyone has any ideas, I would be extremely grateful.