gedit takes forever to open a simple, light, text document on Intrepid

[Enmi]

This thread shed a lot of light into this odd problem for me.

And if you're like me... wondering how to even GET to Gedit's menu, if it keeps hanging after it shows up on screen, you'll want to know there's another way to disable the file browser plugin.

If you've already installed it, open the Configuration Editor (use Synaptic to add it, if you haven't)

Browse to: /apps/gedit-2/plugins/

From there, just double click on "active-plugins" and find the line listing filebrowser and click remove. After that, Gedit should load fine.

I was kinda used to that plugin... I do hope that's fixed sometime soon.

[robertyou]

While waiting for the bug fix in the meantime you can go into

Edit >Preferences > Plugins

and turn off the File Browser pane.

Sweet..thanks a lot!

[xcesarfrancox]

While waiting for the bug fix in the meantime you can go into

Edit >Preferences > Plugins

and turn off the File Browser pane.

Thank you! it worked for me, but I read it had something to do with the icon theme (while using human and File Browser Pane enabled gedit opened flawlessly, but the I changed the icon theme to another and gedit got slow again... so I disabled the File Browser Pane)

[DiscoSuperstar00]

This fixed it for me too, but I agree with the above poster, this problem appeared when I switched to a new icon theme and seems caused by that. An strace showed many calls to load the icon files that each took a really long time.

[neotasic1]

While waiting for the bug fix in the meantime you can go into

Edit >Preferences > Plugins

and turn off the File Browser pane.

Thanks NilsE - worked a charm. Thanks also to Enmi for info on how to do it if text editor doesn't load properly. (didn't actually hang, just took an eternity to load)

[ameseisch]

I am really hoping this issue is fixed soon. turning off the file browser pane isn't really a good solution for me. Luckily my filebrowser is just really slow. it doesn't crash gedit. I agree that the icon issue might be the culprit.

[[ITA]ArgH]

thanks worked for me!!
I really appreciate this forum

[elgalloloco]

While waiting for the bug fix in the meantime you can go into

Edit >Preferences > Plugins

and turn off the File Browser pane.

Thanx...

I was having the same problem on openSUSE 11.1, and this worked perfectly!

[adamlau]

You guys could also give Mousepad a try. Not MDI and no plugin support, but fast and stable.

[gramound]

I thought I had the same symptoms this morning after I updated my Ubuntu (Jaunty).
I had performance problems, disabled the gedit filebrowser plugin, and things got much faster.

I jumped to the conclusion that I was victim of a "relapse" of an earlier bug patched in November 2008:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=554362

However I realized the performance is affected by something else, because all applications are affected. The filebrowser plugin is simply making it worse...