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Dima Bors
Asked: 2018-10-07 14:33:08 +0800 CST

How to open an .html or .css file in Brackets from the terminal

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I am using Brackets in Ubuntu 14.04. Ubuntu gets the following error when trying to open a file in Brackets from the terminal.

$ brackets developers.html 
[1007/002314:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(261)] Gtk: Locale not supported by C library.
    Using the fallback 'C' locale.
[1007/002314:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(261)] Gtk: GModule (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules/im-ibus.so) initialization check failed: GLib version too old (micro mismatch)
[1007/002314:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(261)] Gtk: Loading IM context type 'ibus' failed
[1007/002314:ERROR:gconf_listener.cc(117)] Error with gconf key '/apps/metacity/general': Failed to activate configuration server: The name org.gnome.GConf was not provided by any .service files

[1007/002317:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(261)] Gtk: GModule (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules/im-ibus.so) initialization check failed: GLib version too old (micro mismatch)
[1007/002317:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(261)] Gtk: Loading IM context type 'ibus' failed

I tried changing directories to the location of developers.html with cd and running brackets developers.html with sudo and without sudo, but the result is the same.

command-line 14.04 adobe-brackets

1 Answers

  1. Brackets only supports opening files from the command line in Windows and Mac, not in Linux. According to Brackets Command Line Tools:

    Linux support is still in progress - Brackets can be launched from the command line, but it does not accept arguments.

    Opening an html or css file in Brackets by selecting File -> Open -> browse to a file and select it -> click Open button works properly.

    Opening files/folders in Brackets from the terminal in Brackets is a feature request at Adobe Brackets Trello board. Need to implement GetPendingFilesToOpen() in appshell_extensions_gtk to read files from command line arguments.

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