I have the same problem in testing running gedit -s and then closing the application gives
ERROR :Environment : /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf not found, using default search paths ['/usr/share/texmf-texlive', '/home/juanpi/texmf'] (l.236) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/gedit/plugins/latex/windowactivatable.py", line 78, in do_activate self._tool_preferences = ToolPreferences() File "/usr/lib/gedit/plugins/latex/util.py", line 39, in getinstance instances[cls] = cls() File "/usr/lib/gedit/plugins/latex/preferences/tools.py", line 72, in __init__ self.__tools = ElementTree.parse(filename).getroot() File "/usr/lib/python3.3/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1242, in parse tree.parse(source, parser) File "/usr/lib/python3.3/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1730, in parse self._root = parser._parse(source) xml.etree.ElementTree.ParseError: unclosed token: line 2, column 2 (gedit:5181): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_value_unset: assertion `G_IS_VALUE (value)' failed Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gedit/plugins/smartspaces.py", line 42, in do_deactivate self.view.disconnect(handler) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/_gobject/propertyhelper.py", line 215, in __get__ value = instance.get_property(self.name) TypeError: unknown type (null) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/gedit/plugins/latex/windowactivatable.py", line 108, in do_deactivate self._tool_preferences.save() AttributeError: 'LaTeXWindowActivatable' object has no attribute '_tool_preferences' $ uname -a Linux AsusK55VJ-debian 3.11-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.11.8-1 (2013-11-13) x86_64 GNU/Linux Package: gedit-plugins Version: 3.8.3-2 Package: gedit Version: 3.8.3-4 -- JuanPi Carbajal ----- "Ave Imperator, moritvri te salvtant" Naumachiarii, AD 52