Axis gui no tool table or program editor.

OK I've got my machine setup to use geany as the program text editor in my ini. program would upen if i hit "edit" gui button.  Tool table wouldn't open using the drop down in axis. My tool.tbl does work though, as I can open it externally and add tools and linuxcnc picks it up. Then I tried switching my ini to use gedit just to see what happens.  It appears new linuxcnc doest have gedit anymore so it didn't work. Switched back to geany, and now neither tool table or program edit works. Seems buggy. Will my pyvcp panel work or easily port to a not-terrible gui?