Linux: Gedit Embedded Terminal Plugin installation - complete Guide.

Gedit Embedded Terminal Plugin

NOTE – Ubuntu 13.04 was used for all the examples presented in this article.

A Brief Tutorial

Once the plug-in is installed, it becomes very easy for the user to edit files and access command line simultaneously.
Here is a screen shot of gedit window with this plug-in enabled:





So you can see that command line operations can now be done easily along with editing text files in gedit window.

Download/Install

Following steps are required to properly download-install-configure embedded terminal plug-in in gedit:
Step-1
Install the gedit plug-ins through the following command :

sudo apt-get install gedit-plugins

Step-2
Now, in the gedit window, go to Edit->Preferences->Plugins and enable the Embedded Terminal Plug-in





Step-3
Now, click View->Bottom Panel in the gedit window




And you will see that an embedded terminal appears at the bottom panel of the gedit window.







The only problem here is that the colour scheme is not good i.e., white prompt on light grey background makes it almost impossible to work. To change the colour scheme follow the next series of steps.

Step-4
Open dconf-editor. If it is not installed, install it through the following command :

sudo apt-get install dconf-tools

Once installed, execute it using the following command :

dconf-editor

In the dconf editor window, go to org->gnome->gedit->plugins->terminal and deselect the use-theme-colors option.



Step-5
Now restart the gedit program.






This is all about gedit-plugins. Thanks to all. 

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