Re: XFCE4 - gedit - was Re: Thanks
On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net> wrote:
> On 9/2/13, Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 1:02 AM, Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net> wrote:
>>> On 9/1/13, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 12:54 +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
>
>>>> better job for GTK + Qt apps than GNOME did and Mate does. For GNOME and
>>>> Mate Qt apps were/are an issue. Perhaps the space between the menus is
>>>> less wide, than it is using GNOME and I'm simply used to it, but at
>>>> least there is a little bit space between the drop down menu titles in
>>>> the menu bar of GNOME apps, such as gedit and evolution.
>>>
>>> I only ever installed xfce, not gnome. Manually installed gedit. I'm
>>> guessing there's some libs to isntall...
>>
>> Manually, as in ...?
>
> :) Thanks, even apt and aptitude have differences which can be relevant.
>
>> Or as in using "apt-get install" or synaptic, or what, exactly?
>
> apt-get install gedit
>
>> apt-get and synaptic should pull in the dependencies unless you tell
>> it not to. If you told it not to install some of the dependencies, you
>> might try doing a re-install.
>
> just ran apt-get purge gedit , apt-get install gedit
> same problem
Well, it might be worth playing playing with the appearance settings
-- edit menu, settings or preferences. (I forget which in English.)
Try changing the font while you're at it.
--
Joel Rees
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