gedit settings not saved

[Brian Chau]

On reboot in Linux Mint 15, all the settings in gedit are restored to the default. This happens on every reboot for me.

[Justin (jsterj)]

I have the same issue. Here's the workaround I'm using. I found that if you run gedit as root, preferences are saved. So I altered the shortcut so that it always runs as root. If you don't know how(I didn't until I looked it up), instructions are below.

at the console, type:
sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/gedit.desktop

change the "Exec" line to this:
Exec=gksudo "gedit"

Alternatively you could create a second shortcut if you want to retain the non-root one.

Hope that helps.

[Michael (michael-hoppe86)]

Had this bug on a friends laptop with mint 15.

it seemed, that in his case the folder ~/gconf/apps/gedit-2 had root:root as owner instead of user. In combination with the restrictive access rights, gedit may simply not be allowed to read the settings at startup.

I switched the owner rights back to normal with chown and after login/logout, gedit successfully loaded the settings.
Maybe this works for the others too?

[Tim Callahan (tim-m-callahan)]

I had the same problem. Followed Michael's advice, except with the path ~/.gconf/apps/gedit-2. On my machine the gconf directory begins with a "."

[Alexandre Magno (alexandre-mbm)]

Workaround like http://askubuntu.com/a/375191/259960