Gedit opening an “Unsaved document” on opening files with mouse

Question

When I open files by double-clicking a file with mouse I always get one additional "Unsaved Document X".. which is very annoying, because I have to close tham all, and click "Close without save" every time... This happens in dolphin, nautilus and krusader (those are the ones where I tried it, so I gues it's not because of a file manager).

When I try opening a file from terminal using "gedit filename" the problem is not there. It also does not happen if I open files from within gedit.

Any hints on how to fix this?

This started happening I think somewhere around the time when gnome3 came into Arch official repos. (I use up-to-date Arch and KDE4.6)

Answer 1

Felrood from Arch Linux forums provided a solution and I would like to share it here and close this question.

Gedit seems to display data from stdin in a new "Unsaved document". For example:

echo "foobar" | gedit

What can be done is this:

right click the Kmenu button -> edit applications -> find gedit there (for me that is "utilities") -> put "gedit $1 < /dev/null" in gedits command field -> save

For me that solved the problem no matter whether I use krusader, dolphin, alt+f2 or something else..

Answer 2

I am not sure about this but its worth a try.

Suppose you want to open file123

Use the terminal to cd into the folder that contains this file.

Then do ls -a

If there exists a file named .file123, remove it i.e sudo rm .file123

Now try opening file123, the problem should not be there.

Answer 3

Try sudo apt-get purge gedit the search in Synaptic (sudo apt-get install Synaptic if you don't have it) for you gedit package then go to menu Package -> Force version and choose the version you think is stable.