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How do I make gedit the default editor for crontab?
So far I've tried:
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gnome-text-editor gnome-text-editor /usr/bin/gedit 100
and
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/editor editor /usr/bin/gedit 100
No luck so far. (maybe I just need to reboot?)
None of the packages on that list will load anything that can make your system slow down.
It will install the necessary libraries, the rest of the dependencies that are not satisfied, etc but will only call them when you run gedit and will go away when you close it. I dont think you will have any performance issues related to installing gedit on your Lunbuntu system.
Make sure you have the following packages installed:
Open up gconf-editor and navigate to apps ➜ gnome-terminal and select a profile:
Now open up dconf-editor and navigate to org ➜ gnome ➜ gedit ➜ plugins ➜ terminal and uncheck the use-theme-colors key:
From gconf-editor, copy the values of the
over to the corresponding keys in dconf-editor. The embedded terminal should now match a regular gnome-terminal.
Best Answer
Open
.profilefile using your desired editor:Add this line to the file and save it:
Logout and re-login. Now when you use
crontab -eit would opengedit.Remember that it's going to set
geditas default editors for other commands too, if you want it to only affectcrontab, then you can create an alias: