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@m4rv33n m4rv33n commented Sep 27, 2024

For EndeavourOS with the Budgie Desktop (I don't know if EOS or Budgie is the reason) that location never works.
I searched for all the possible locations. Finally found out it has to be in '/usr/share/libgedit-gtksourceview-300/styles/' for gedit to show it as a possible Color Scheme.

I am not sure if this is the right way to do it. Especially didn't know if I should have included sudo or su in another way or shouldn't even have mentioned it for security reasons. Also I'm not sure if a pull request was the correct way to bring up this issue. But I didn't want others to struggle like me with that issue. Sorry, if I bothered you and there was a better way to do this.

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richin13 commented Oct 2, 2024

Hello @m4rv33n , thanks for the contribution! May I suggest we try with the local user path? I saw this comment in a related issue a while back:

Change install path to $HOME/.local/share/libgedit-gtksourceview-300/styles

If it doesn't show up in the dialog:
In some distributions it has to be moved to a different place

cp $HOME/.local/share/gedit/styles/dracula.xml /usr/share/libgedit-gtksourceview-300/styles/
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Following my PR comment, here's what'd need to change:

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cp $HOME/.local/share/gedit/styles/dracula.xml /usr/share/libgedit-gtksourceview-300/styles/
cp $HOME/.local/share/gedit/styles/dracula.xml $HOME/.local/share/libgedit-gtksourceview-300/styles


cp $HOME/.local/share/gedit/styles/dracula.xml /usr/share/libgedit-gtksourceview-300/styles/

you'll need to to perform that action as root though (sudo)!
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We would no longer need to sudo it 👍🏼

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m4rv33n commented Oct 2, 2024

okay cool. yes. makes sense. Later, when I'm back home, I'll try if it also works when it's (only) in the local user path.

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m4rv33n commented Aug 23, 2025

oh just saw I never answered. sorry. it worked by the way. but somehow I also need to sudo if I use the directory you suggested.

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