In my last article, I talked about using the powerful gedit text editor. But no program is perfect, mainly because too many features imply too much bloat. That’s where gedit’s plugins come into play. In this article, I’m will explain how to install and use some of my favorite gedit plugins.

Shipped Plugins
gedit (the Ubuntu edition) comes with a whopping 13 plugins. My favorite is definitely External Tools. As I noted in my previous article, you can run any program under the sun using the file that you’re editing as a parameter. While External Tools comes with a bunch of handy programs pre-installed, it’s so much more fun if you add your own. Open up External Tools: go to Edit→Preferences, click on the Plugins tab, select External Tools, and click Configure. You will be able to come back to this screen through Tools→External Tools. I’ll explain how to create a plugin that will open Frozen-Bubble, the popular game. (We don’t want programmers dying from stress, do we?). If you don’t have Frozen-Bubble installed, then I urge you to run the command sudo apt-get install frozen-bubble (or to install Frozen-Bubble through Synaptic’s interface). First of all, hit the big New button in the External Tool configuration window, and name it Frozen-Bubble (or whatever you want to call it). Type in a description (Stress Reliever is what I put in). Then click inside “Shortcut Key” and type in your hotkey (though this is optional). Under command, type in the command you want to run for this new script (for example, frozen-bubble). Now, hit close and run your script from Tools→Frozen-Bubble. Your favorite game will now launch.

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