"Manage external tools" not popping up dialog

Question

I enabled the "External Tools" plugin for gedit. I clicked on Tools > Manage External Tools, but it didn't pop up a dialog. It did nothing. What did I do wrong? How can I re-install this plugin?

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 02 '14 at 17:30

Install, if it isn't already, gir1.2-gtksource-3.0 package:

sudo apt-get install gir1.2-gtksource-3.0

Then give your user ownership over GEdit configuration directory:

sudo chown YOUR_USERNAME /home/YOUR_USERNAME/.config/gedit

Open GEdit and now you should be able to use External tools plugin.

Laercio Barbosa · Answer 2 · 2019-09-14T17:34:12.507

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Only this was enough to solve this problem in my PC.

Then give your user ownership over GEdit configuration directory:

sudo chown YOUR_USERNAME /home/YOUR_USERNAME/.config/gedit

Open GEdit and now you should be able to use External tools plugin.

edited Sep 14 '19 at 17:34

answered Sep 12 '19 at 18:55

Laercio Barbosa

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The chown commands looks wrong... Is it possible that the Open GEdit belong to the next line? – Simon Sudler Sep 13 '19 at 10:31
Fixed! You were right. – Laercio Barbosa Sep 14 '19 at 17:36

"Manage external tools" not popping up dialog

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