[SOLVED] Pluma (under Mate) will not open.

[sdlor]

Hi All,

Up until just a couple days ago, I have been using (and liking) the Pluma text editor (for weeks). But, now it will not open.. Have removed and re-installed it twice; still no joy. It appears in the Applications menu (under accessories) and also in the the context (drop down) menus. But when clicked I just get the "spinning prompt" for a few seconds, and then it just gives up. Has anybody got any suggestions? My thanks, in advance.

[bob]

Try opening it in a terminal to see the errors. If it's in the applications menu, simply opening a terminal and typing "pluma" should get results.

[sdlor]

Thanks for the quick reply!

[root@Rock /]# pluma
Illegal instruction

...hmmm

[bob]

Oh jeez, now we've gotta turn you in.

Sadly, I'm not familiar with the package at all. Might be a different command to launch it properly.
Edit: Nope, went into MATE and while I did have some glitches with other things, pluma came up properly and launched correctly from terminal as "pluma". All my updates are current as of this morning, btw. Sorry, but I can't be of more help. You MIGHT want to mention this on the MATE Guide Raveit65 keeps pretty close watch on that one.

[sdlor]

Thanks Bob,
Will probably do just that. Also seeing some other strange behavior; may be related to Mate..
I had just updated to new kernel. But, went back and loaded the old one.. Same problem.
Sure appreciate your replies.

[sdlor]

Oh, all right.. I'll dust off my own thread.. (for the Mate users)
Review: Can't get Pluma and Caja to work now. Strange, but chronologically it seems to be related to when I installed and tested WordPress. Another response I'm seeing in the cli:

[root@Rock /]# pluma
No protocol specified
(pluma:6034): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0
[root@Rock /]#

Anybody have any idea how to fix 'em? ..
Maybe a kindly Admin would be willing to move this to the "Mate" guide? Though, I've been told that questions don't belong in the guides ..(there are several (questions) in that one). Don't want to be accused of "double-posting".

[Thetargos]

If you run MATE as a regular user, there is no sensible reason why to run in root from the command line... Try running it as a regular user from a shell. IIRC, Fedora had banned for some time now the use of X and some programs to the root user when running in a root-less environment thus improving security.

So, unless you run MATE as root, it is best off to using a regular user account.

Maybe that's what's giving you the second error, root user cannot gain access to the X display 0.

Sent on the move

[sdlor]

Doesn't matter how I try, just can' t get it to open.

[duke@Rock Desktop]$ pluma
Illegal instruction
[duke@Rock Desktop]$

I can try to open it from the Applications menu, or from a context menu. Just will not open. It used to work fine.

[nonamedotc]

Just collecting some information - what is the output of

which pluma

Is it possible that the link to binary is broken? May be reinstall pluma?

yum reinstall pluma

[sdlor]

[duke@Rock Desktop]$ which pluma
/usr/bin/pluma

Have already removed and re-installed twice (three times now)
Still no joy..
But, thanks just the same!

[Thetargos]

Search for a .pluma directory in your home directory. Chances are a preferences setting or some other configuration is interfering. In nautilus use ctrl+H to toggle show of hidden files and directories (which dot files are in Linux). Since i'm unfamiliar with MATE's file manager, I don't know if it is the same, though that short cut is pretty much universal (across dolphin, konqueror, xfce and Nautilus, anyway)

Sent on the move

[sdlor]

Hi All,

Re: Post # 11:
Thanks for the suggestion Thetargos, but there is no .pluma (or .caja) directory in my home directory. (I don't think there ever was, even when pluma and caja were working). There is also no .gedit or .nautilus directories either, but they both (gedit and nautilus) work fine (fortunately).
I suspect my problem is related to the Mate desktop manager.

Administrators: Can this thread be closed? Or moved to the Mate guide thread? Or, can I pose a (new) question in the Mate guide thread, without crossing the dreaded "double-posting" threshold ? ...

[Thetargos]

Just installed MATE to try a fresh GNOME 2.x environment, nice indeed!

Since Pluma (pen) in Spanish is the substitute for Gedit, you will find its configuration and settings under what used to be .gconf, so it should now be .mateconf/apps/pluma... I should have seen this comming, and instead direct you to search for the directory rather than "statitcally" tell you where it was... A simple

find . -iname pluma

Did the trick. Deleting that directory should be enough to wipe all configurations for pluma from your session and you should be able to start it again.

[sdlor]

Re: Post # 12
Thank you sir, I'll certainly give it a try..

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Re: Posts 13 and 14..

(I assume you meant the pluma directory (under .mateconf/apps) ?
Made no difference ... But, thank you so much.. I suspect I might best delete MATE-Desktop,
and start over again.. Nothing I've tried makes any difference.. Can't seem to get caja or pluma to work.

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Whoops, I meant that last edit to be a new post..

[Thetargos]

The forums append new posts as edits, depending on the time between the posts, and if no one has replied

Hmmm... In that case, it would be best to wipe all mate's configuration:

rm -rf .mate*

Log out and then back in.

WARNING! All you configurations will be lost when doing this, resulting in Mate starting with defaults, it might pick up from Shell, Cinnamon or other DE!

Forgot to mention, the other common location for configurations (for future reference) is .config/<app_name>, and indeed there is a .config/pluma and .config/caja directories!