{"id":8108,"date":"2018-09-01T15:49:34","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T15:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=8108"},"modified":"2018-09-01T15:49:34","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T15:49:34","slug":"make-gedit-always-opens-new-tab-ubuntu-18-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2018\/09\/make-gedit-always-opens-new-tab-ubuntu-18-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Gedit Text Editor Always Opens in New Tab in Ubuntu 18.04"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The default Gedit text editor in Ubuntu 18.04 always opens file in a new window, even though there’s already an existing instance. And there’s no easy option to change the behavior.<\/p>\n

Thanks to fossfreedom<\/a>, you can re-built Gedit pakages so to always open files in new tabs in the same gedit window.<\/p>\n

1.<\/b> Open terminal<\/b> either via Ctrl+Alt+T shortcut key or by searching for ‘terminal’ from software launcher.<\/p>\n

2.<\/b> When terminal opens, paste the command below and hit run to install the building tools:<\/p>\n

sudo apt-get install devscripts build-essential fakeroot<\/pre>\n
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3.<\/b> Launch Software & Updates<\/b>, and click enable download Source code<\/b> from Ubuntu repositories.<\/p>\n
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4.<\/b> In user downloads, create a build folder and navigate to the directory.<\/p>\n
cd ~\/Downloads\/ && mkdir build && cd build<\/pre>\n
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5.<\/b> Download the gedit source code via command:<\/p>\n
sudo apt-get update; apt-get source gedit<\/pre>\n
Type your password (no asterisks feedback) when it prompts<\/i><\/p>\n
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6. Next edit the source file gedit-app.c<\/code>:<\/b> <\/p>\n
cd gedit-* && gedit gedit\/gedit-app.c<\/pre>\n
When the file opens, add new line return TRUE;<\/b> as the picture shows (line 320 for Ubuntu 18.04):<\/p>\n
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7. Give a unique package name by editing the debian\/changelog<\/code> file.<\/b><\/p>\n
gedit debian\/changelog<\/pre>\n
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8.<\/b> Finally rebuild the gedit via commands:<\/p>\n
sudo apt-get build-dep gedit\r\n\r\ndebuild -i -us -uc -b<\/pre>\n
The commands will take a few minutes building the gedit text editor packages.<\/p>\n
9.<\/b> At last, install the new packages via command and enjoy!<\/p>\n
cd ~\/Downloads\/build\/ && sudo dpkg -i gedit*.deb<\/pre>\n
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In addition<\/b>, you may lock the changes so it won’t be overwritten after installing system updates.<\/p>\n
And it can be done easily via Synaptic<\/b> package manager (available in Ubuntu Software<\/i>). Simply search for ‘gedit’ and choose lock version for gedit<\/code> and gedit-common<\/code> packages one by one.<\/p>\n
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The default Gedit text editor in Ubuntu 18.04 always opens file in a new window, even though there’s already an existing instance. And there’s no easy option to change the behavior. Thanks to fossfreedom, you can re-built Gedit pakages so to always open files in new tabs in the same gedit window. 1. Open terminal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1164,1572,1527],"class_list":["post-8108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-gedit","tag-gedit-open-in-new-tab","tag-ubuntu-18-04"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}