Hi,

I'm using Dolphin 2.0 included in the official Kde 4.8.4 installation coming with my Debian Wheezy.

In

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keditfiletype text/plain

I've associated the text files with Gnome's Gedit, according to:

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$ cat .local/share/applications/menu-xdg/X-Debian-Applications-Editors-gedit.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Categories=X-Debian-Applications-Editors;
Comment[it]=Light-weight GNOME text editor
Comment=Light-weight GNOME text editor
Encoding=UTF-8
Exec=/usr/bin/gedit
GenericName[it]=
GenericName=
Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/gedit-icon.xpm
MimeType=
Name[it]=Gedit
Name=Gedit
Path=
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
TerminalOptions=
Type=Application
X-DBUS-ServiceName=
X-DBUS-StartupType=
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
X-KDE-Username=


Each time I double click on a text file I get two tabs of gedit opened, the one wich I'm interested in and another empty one.

I've tried changing

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Exec=/usr/bin/gedit

with

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Exec=/usr/bin/gedit %U

but it doesn't make any difference.

I have the same problem on each one of my three computers with Debian Wheezy, but back with Debian Squeeze I didn't have this problem.

Does anyone have some suggestions on how to open just one tab of Gedit?

Many thanks in advance for answering.

what happens if in Konsole you run:

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 /usr/bin/gedit file_name

is there still the unwanted tab?

I found this bug report:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=276103

Personally I remember seeing this as well in earlier openSUSE versions, but I cannot reproduce it here on openSUSE 13.1 with KDE 4.12.3 and Gedit 3.10.2 any more.

Maybe this actually was a bug in gedit that got fixed in the meantime?

wolfi323 wrote:I found this bug report:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=276103

Personally I remember seeing this as well in earlier openSUSE versions, but I cannot reproduce it here on openSUSE 13.1 with KDE 4.12.3 and Gedit 3.10.2 any more.

Maybe this actually was a bug in gedit that got fixed in the meantime?

just to point out in the bug report there is a work around or 2

1. Open file .local/share/applications/gedit.desktop or /usr/share/applications/gedit.desktop
2. Search the line beginning with "Exec=", and replace it with:
Exec=bash -c 'gedit "$@" < /dev/null' - %U

google01103 wrote:what happens if in Konsole you run:

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 /usr/bin/gedit file_name

is there still the unwanted tab?

No, there's just one tab.

google01103 wrote: Exec=bash -c 'gedit "$@" < /dev/null' - %U

This does the trick, thank you both wolfi323 and google01103!

For the record, I'm pretty sure now that this issue was a bug in gedit:
I could reproduce it on a fresh openSUSE 12.3 installation (KDE 4.10.0, gedit 3.6.2).
After upgrading gedit to 3.8.3 the problem is gone (with the same KDE version), only one tab with the document is opened.

I added this information to the KDE bug report.

Btw, a similar GNOME bug report can be found here:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=673741
That one is about the --new-window command line option though and was fixed in 3.6.2 already so can't be this exact same issue, but maybe it was related somehow. At least it proves that gedit did have such bugs...