Gedit not changing themes when run as root in Ubuntu 22.04

Bug #1970743 reported by Waseem Sibai
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gedit (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

I can't change gedit's theme in Ubuntu 22.04 when I run gedit as root. The theme is stuck to "Tango".

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: gedit 41.0-3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-27.28-generic 5.15.30
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-27-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Thu Apr 28 15:48:22 2022
InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-04-28 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Release amd64 (20220419)
SourcePackage: gedit
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Waseem Sibai (waseem4612) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gedit (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Viktor Kutsovol (vijoey) wrote :

Error is
(gedit:41903): dconf-WARNING **: 13:59:25.721: failed to commit changes to dconf: Failed to execute child process “dbus-launch” (No such file or directory)

Can be fixed with dbus-x11 install
sudo apt install dbus-x11

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Zalán Hári (zalanhari) wrote :

On Ubuntu 24.04 Noble Numbat, it is working.

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