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Mokus
Asked: 2011-09-18 02:33:04 +0800 CST

How do I install a plugin for gEdit v3?

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I just installed the ubuntu 11.10, and I want to install a plugin for gEdit.

I unpacked the plugin to the following folder: ~/.gnome2/gedit/plugins but in the gedit doesn't show up the plugin.

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    gEdit 3

    The version of gEdit in Oneiric & above is v3 built using gtk+3 libraries. The plugin folder locations are slightly different than from gEdit v2.

    Every plugin needs at least two files.

    One file (pluginname.plugin) is to tell gedit:

    • where the plugin can be found,
    • what it's called,
    • a short description,
    • who is the author, etc.

    This file is in the .desktop format.

    The second file is the actual code.

    Both of these files need to be placed in either:

    • the system-wide plugins directory /usr/lib/gedit/plugins/, or
    • in the user plugins directory, which may have to be manually created - ~/.local/share/gedit/plugins/.

    Installing Plugins

    First create the plugin folder:

    mkdir -p ~/.local/share/gedit/plugins

    Now create a .plugin file using gedit N.B. these files have the format:

    [Plugin]
Loader=python
Module=examplepy
IAge=3
Name=Example py
Description=A Python plugin example
Authors=Jesse van den Kieboom <[email protected]>
Copyright=Copyright © 2006 Jesse van den Kieboom <[email protected]>
Website=http://www.gedit.org

    source

    For your v2 plugin you already have a file called project-manager.gedit-plugin so you can rename it:

    mv project-manager.gedit-plugin project-manager.plugin

    Then edit the plugin file and change the section header to "[Plugin]"

    You will now see this in your gedit plugin list.

    However for me it threw errors about "import gedit, gtk, gtk.glade".

    You need to change the source code to import the gtk+3 variants - called python introspection.

    An excellent tutorial for converting from gtk+2 to gtk+3 see

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  2. 2016 Update

    To install all the gedit plugins, try:

    sudo apt-get install gedit-plugins

    This worked great on Ubuntu 14.04. I'm currently using gedit version 3.10.4.

    You will need to activate them by navigating to Edit - Preferences - Plugins. Then select the desired plugins to activate.

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  3. I finally found where the gEdit plugins are stored. Try putting the two files to whatever plugin here: /usr/lib/gedit/plugins.

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  4. I have a 64-bit Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and the folder with the plugins is /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gedit/plugins/

    Copying inside it the *.plugin and *.py files made the trick for me

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  5. For Auto install, try the following

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gedit-bc-dev-plugins/releases
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gedit-plugins
sudo apt-get install gedit-projects-plugin
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  6. For easy installation of additional 3rd party plugins there is a plugin installer plugin

    https://github.com/lwindolf/gedit-plugininstaller

    which might simplify discovering and installing plugins.

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