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Gedit preferences option is not displayed when I open a text file by double-clicking. However, when I open gedit by using sudo gedit command from terminal, preferences option will be displayed. But, the changes made in that preferences will not be seen in the gedit opened by double-clicking the file.

I know that we can change different preferences from terminal, but I need that preferences option itself to be displayed.

I am using Ubuntu 15.10 and I have installed gnome UI (gdm). I have also changed file permissions to check if it was permission problem.

How can I make that preferences option appear in gedit even when I open it by double-clicking text file ?

Edit:

This question is not duplicate of Where are gedit's preferences?. This is a different situation here. I was getting that option when opened using sudo gedit but not when opened by double-clicking. Also, I needed the method to make preferences option appear, for which I couldn't find question anywhere and I want to know why sudo gedit works for me.

Edit 2:

I would also like to know why running sudo gedit displays preferences option while double-clicking file doesn't.

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    Possible duplicate of Where are gedit's preferences? – kos Jan 12 '16 at 15:08
  • I deleted my answer since I found a duplicate, this answer worked for me: http://askubuntu.com/a/671398/380067 – kos Jan 12 '16 at 15:09
  • @kos Check my edit. I asked the method to enable it, which is not asked anywhere in askubuntu. – Varun Sharma Jan 12 '16 at 15:23
  • "How can I make that preferences option appear in gedit even when I open it by double-clicking text file ?": the answer is in the linked question, and specifically in this answer. – kos Jan 12 '16 at 15:25
  • @kos Yes. I saw it. But that was not the perfect answer for that question. The questioner mainly wanted to enable the line number. He didn't ask how to enable the option. So, my question is not a duplicate. – Varun Sharma Jan 12 '16 at 15:35
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    Please post output of stat -c "%A %u %n" $HOME/.config/gedit/* – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy Jan 12 '16 at 16:05
  • @Serg Note that the output of that command is likely irrelevant in this case, because before voting to close I tried to run sudo gedit and couldn't find any file owned by root in my home directory afterwards. – kos Jan 12 '16 at 16:17
  • Varun Sharma, do you actually want to know why running sudo gedit displays the context menu entry and why opening gedit by double-clicking on a text file doesn't? If so please rephrase your question like so and I'll remove my close vote, but if just want to know just how to enable the context menu entry when opening gedit by double-clicking on a text file there's really no reason to leave this question open. – kos Jan 12 '16 at 16:21
  • @Serg varun@ubuntu:~$ stat -c "%A %u %n" $HOME/.config/gedit/* -rw-r--r-- 0 /home/varun/.config/gedit/accels – Varun Sharma Jan 12 '16 at 18:02
  • @kos I would like to know why sudo gedit works and I have modified question. – Varun Sharma Jan 12 '16 at 18:03
  • You have a root owned file /home/varun/.config/gedit/accels . Try deleting or moving that file out of the .config/gedit directory, see if that helps – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy Jan 12 '16 at 18:10

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