Re: [gedit-list] gedit External Tools menu is empty only when started from Activities

[Paul <paul rz gmail com>]

Alright, I found the reason.

In the journal I saw the following error:

gedit[25697]: detected unhandled Python exception in 'gedit'

Then I activated gedit from the terminal to get more info regarding the exception.

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/lib64/gedit/plugins/dashboard/__init__.py", line 54, in _add_tab

    [0].get_children()[0].get_children()[1].hide()

AttributeError: 'Image' object has no attribute 'get_children'

Apparently, there is a bug in the Dashboard plugin.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=727251

Disabling the Dashboard plugin solves the problem.

Thanks a lot for your help.

On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 10:44 PM, Sébastien Wilmet <swilmet gnome org> wrote:

On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 10:09:23PM +0300, Paul wrote:
> As you suggested, I created a new user for testing. I couldn't replicate
> the issue. The External Tools menu does show the defined tools.
>
> Back to my user, I tried to search for any kind of log files but couldn't
> find any. They would definitely help.

Paolo helped me a bit on IRC, the logs are actually on the systemd
journal:

$ journalctl -a | grep -i gedit

There is probably a better way to get only gedit messages.

> I, also, tried to run the application using:
> $ gtk-launch org.gnome.gedit.desktop
>
> But it didn't work at all. gedit appears in the Application Menu beside the
> Activities button at the top bar for a couple of seconds and then
> disappears without opening any window.
>
> Cleaning the ~/.config/gedit/ directory and restarting the application
> didn't help either.
>
> Is there something else in my home directory that I may try to clean?

Yes, ~/.local/share/gedit/ and ~/.cache/gedit/ (if it exists).

Sébastien