F15: Using gedit and evince under lxde (SOLVED)

[Alexander Volovics]

On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 11:31:20AM +0200, Alexander Volovics wrote:
> I have been having problems with nouveau/nvidia under gnome3
> on my desktop. So not to waste anymore time I installed F15 LXDE.
> 
> I rather like it, reminds me of my blackbox/fluxbox days.
> 
> However some LXDE apps are a bit raw compared to their gnome
> counterparts, i.e. leafpad/gedit, ePDF/evince.
> 
> So I installed gedit and evince. I use gedit regularly, not
> as an editor (I use vim) but as a wordprocessor in place of the
> unwieldy OO/LO Writer.
> 
> The problem with gedit/evince under LXDE is that they do not
> retain configuration settings and I see the following message:
>  $ gedit
>  GLib-GIO-Message: Using the 'memory' GSettings backend.  Your settings
>  will not be saved or shared with other applications.

I yummed for apps related to gsettings, saw dconf, installed it
and the settings were saved. The correct geometry was easy with
LXDE configuration.

Maybe there should be a dependancy added to gedit for installation
in LXDE.

Alexander