replacement of GEDIT with Mousepad

I have installed 2.7.0, from the live dis image, and it looks like GEDIT was replaced with MOUSEPAD.

In the machine INI, in the [DISPLAY] section I added
EDITOR = mousepad

but the edit button in LINUXCNC still doesn't work.
Any advise please?
Mark

You could download gedit.
Which screen are you using?

Chris M

Thanks Chris,

I don't have the lathe controller connected to a net work, at present. Shouldn't mousepad work just the same? If GEDIT is necessary, I'll drap the conrtoller, monitor and keyboard up the office and hang it on a LAN cable.
Mark

RotarySMP wrote: I don't have the lathe controller connected to a net work, at present. Shouldn't mousepad work just the same?

It should allow you to edit G-code just the same, yes. But it doesn't do syntax-highlighting, or let you open more than one file at a time, and is hideous otherwise in too many ways to enumerate.

I strongly recommend installing gedit.

Did you comment out or delete the
or any other EDITOR = line?

and then add
Works fine here, also double check your spelling and Caps
should work

but will not.

Rick G

Thanks Rick and Andy

I had replaced "gedit" with "mousepad". I checked, and hadn't used a capital M.

I'll load the current 2.7.4 (as I have a 2.7.0 image at present. I'll add gedit at the same time.
Mark

I wouldn't bother reinstalling, just update LinuxCNC and install gedit from the Synaptic package manager.

I hung this computor on a Lan cable, and updated to 2.7.4. Thanks, for the suggestion, as that went really easy.

I also had a problem that could access SUDO through programs like the update manager, but it wouldn#t accept my password for SUDO through the terminal. Solved that by booting to recovery root and adding this profile to SUDO.

I still can't install Gedit though. I tried both apt-get...

boley@Boley-4LV:~$ sudo apt-get install gedit
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package gedit

and aptitude...

boley@Boley-4LV:~$ sudo aptitude install gedit
Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "gedit"
Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "gedit"
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.

Sorry to bug with Linux Newbie ignorance.
Mark

That's a surprise. Is there any sign of it if you open Synaptic and do a search?

To install gedit in a terminal do:
Hmm, that may only work on Ubuntu based distros like LinuxMint...

Or do like Andy said and open the Synaptic Package Manager and type gedit in the search box.

Edit: fix typo in command

JT