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Roey
Asked: 2018-10-26 07:38:28 +0800 CST

Ubuntu 18.10, Gedit 3.30.1 disappeared from apps menu

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Upon upgrading from Ubuntu 18.04 to Ubuntu 18.10 something happened to Gedit:

  1. Its icon disappeared from my favorites (the only one doing so)
  2. It doesn't appear anymore on the apps grid
  3. Though it's installed I can't launch it from the Software Center

The only way I can launch it is from the terminal and then I get a pixelized icon which I can't add/pin it to my favorites.

I tried:

  1. Removing/purging and re-installing (with Software Center and Terminal)
  2. Make a soft link of /usr/bin/gedit and pin it but it didn't work
  3. In dconf org.gnome.gedit (plugins, state, prefs) I didn't find any value or a key concerning this problem
  4. saw this workaround but it doesn't solve the UI problem.

I didn't try snap because I prefer it to stick with PPA (I generally use snap for only for "special" app)

EDIT (17/11/18):

  1. My file manager is Nemo 3.9.0 and to prevent collisions I've removed Nautilus which comes default with Ubuntu.
  2. I use Communitheme and Suru as the applications and icons appearance themes respectively

Any suggestions will be welcomed

Thanks

Software Center screenshot

Apps grid screenshot

/usr/lib/gedit screenshot

Trying to run /usr/bin/gedit screenshot

icons software-center gedit appmenu 18.10

2 Answers

  1. Not sure which version you upgraded from but when I upgraded from 16.04 to 18.04 I thought I had lost gedit as well. It turns out that I didn't. It's not listed as gedit in the application menu, it's listed as "Text Editor".

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  2. The answer lies within the body of the question.

    In Ubuntu 18.10 gedit was replaced by a Snap package called "Text Editor" to be GNOME's "official" text editor.

    AFAIK there is no other option to grab it from the UI.

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