On Thu, 21 Apr 2016 20:05:10 -0500, Marshall Neill wrote: >Launch from the command line and see what shows up. > >Just a thought. That could help, after the issue appears when launching it by a file manager or a launcher, but not necessarily helps. The output in ~/.xsession-errors* could provide error messages from the original event, when gedit first failed by e.g. launching it, when clicking a file in a file manager. In ~/.xsession-errors* usually is the output, that you get by running an app in a terminal.