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Gedit plugin "hide UI" has permanently hidden my UI

Asked by Mike.lifeguard

I installed the Hide UI plugin listed on http://live.gnome.org/Gedit/Plugins

When I tried to hide the UI, gedit hung, so I killed the process. Upon re-starting it, the toolbar (open, save...) and menu bar (file, view...) had disappeared, leaving only the tab bar at the top. I can't get these UI elements to return. Apparently this also means CTRL-O doesn't do open-a-file; CTRL-N doesn't do new-document; etc.

I've tried purging and reinstalling gedit & gedit-plugins, but this had no effect.

How can I restore the default interface?

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Mike.lifeguard (mikelifeguard) said : 		#1

Some terminal output:

** (gedit:29766): WARNING **: Could not merge /usr/share/gedit-2/ui/gedit-ui.xml: Failed to open file '/usr/share/gedit-2/ui/gedit-ui.xml': No such file or directory

(gedit:29766): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_box_pack: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (child)' failed

(gedit:29766): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_box_pack: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (child)' failed

(gedit:29766): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_show: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

(gedit:29766): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_toolbar_unset_style: assertion `GTK_IS_TOOLBAR (toolbar)' failed

(gedit:29766): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_toolbar_insert: assertion `GTK_IS_TOOLBAR (toolbar)' failed

(gedit:29766): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_container_foreach: assertion `GTK_IS_CONTAINER (container)' failed

(gedit:29766): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(gedit:29766): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(gedit:29766): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(gedit:29766): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

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Thomas Krüger (thkrueger) said : 		#2

You can try to reset the preference and the ui of gedit with this command line:
gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/gedit-2/preferences

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Thomas Krüger (thkrueger) said : 		#3

And by the way: The F11 key does nearly the same than the plugin.

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Mike.lifeguard (mikelifeguard) said : 		#4

Well, I reinstalled once again, and then it wouldn't start at all!

I did strace and found that it was trying a) in a scary-looking loop and b) hide-ui plugin was being loaded, silly me forgot how crufty some stuff on linux is... nuke a directory and a file, and gedit loads very nicely again. YAY!

And yes, I'll be sticking with F11... would be nice to get the plugin removed from the list on gnome.org for sure.

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Mike.lifeguard (mikelifeguard) said : 		#5

Here's some of the strace, btw: http://p.defau.lt/?uf2LwtPGyBea2Bpm0PrXRA ... I don't know for sure that this is abnormal, but with CPU near 90% and gedit not loading, I somehow think not.