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Bug 498979 - gedit goes in background if there is already an instance launched
gedit goes in background if there is already an instance launched
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 112908
Product: gedit
Classification: Applications
Component: general
2.20.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Gedit maintainers
Gedit maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-11-22 14:32 UTC by Mildred
Modified: 2009-01-03 15:34 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.19/2.20



Description Mildred 2007-11-22 14:32:54 UTC
Please describe the problem:
When gedit is already started, every invocation of gedit stop immediatly (while opening the file). This is a major problem because it prevents from using gedit in the EDITOR environment variable.

For example there is no way I could say I want "sudo -e" or "visudo" or many others program to use gedit since they expect gedit not to stop until the file is closed.

Steps to reproduce:
1. open gedit once
2. open gedit a second time
3. the second invocation returns immediatly


Actual results:
the second invocation returns immediatly

Expected results:
gedit stops only when the opened file is closed

Does this happen every time?
yes

Other information:
Comment 1 Mildred 2007-11-22 14:34:37 UTC
Well, if there is any workaround to bne found (like a script that wraps a call to gedit and only returns when the file is closed) I would be glad to hear about it. Actually I don't know how this can be achieved.
Comment 2 Paolo Borelli 2009-01-03 15:34:34 UTC
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 112908 ***