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singrium
Asked: 2020-06-25 14:37:25 +0800 CST

minimap not available anymore in gedit

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I recently installed Ubuntu 20.04. Everything works fine. I wanted to customize gedit, but I was surprised that the minimap option is not available anymore.

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How to get it back?

OS: Ubuntu 20.04  
Gnome Version: 3.36.2  
Windowing System: X11
gedit version: 3.36.2
gnome gedit 20.04

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    On 18.04 LTS with Gedit 3.28.1 this option was named as "Display overview map", was controlled by corresponding GSettings/Dconf setting:

    gsettings set org.gnome.gedit.preferences.editor display-overview-map true

    but in 20.04 LTS this option does not exist on source-code level.

    This was indicated in commit from 2019-11-19 with main idea to "simplify the gedit code".
    So this functionality was removed by upstream.

    You may want to find a workaround in the bugreport at GNOME GitLab - install user-defined plugin:

    sudo apt-get install git
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/gedit/plugins/
cd ~/.local/share/gedit/plugins/
git clone https://github.com/johnfactotum/gedit-restore-minimap.git restore-minimap

    Then open Gedit Preferences, go to Plugins, and check Restore Minimap checkbox.

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