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i want the gedit plugin for zooming the text in file.when i clicked on the Edit-preference-plugin it shows me below message,where i couldn't find plugin.enter image description here

Narasimha Reddy.P
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SOME WAYS OF FIXING:

  1. $ sudo apt-get install gedit-plugins -y

Go to gedit preference > plugins and activate what you need.

If text size doesn't appear , so :

  1. googling : Looking for gedit plugin text size . I found this : https://packages.debian.org/buster/gedit-plugin-text-size .

    Package exist .

    *** and do this :

    $ sudo apt-get install gedit-plugin-text-size   -y

    Then reopen gedit: preference > plugins. You'll see "text-size" appear.

( THIS WORKED FOR ME ) .

abu_bua
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Thoutmos Sanebankh
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    Confirmed - I'm on Ubuntu 19.04, and installing gedit-plugins didn't pull in gedit-plugin-text-size; I had to install it manually. – odigity May 24 '19 at 01:09
  • THANK YOU. I have no idea what the deal is with gedit, but this was the only fix that worked for me. – Jason Waltz Aug 14 '20 at 13:03
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If gedit has missing plugins, make sure you have the gedit-plugins installed.

sudo apt-get install gedit-plugins

After that, (you probably need to restart gedit) you will have a plugin called "Text Size".
Make sure the plugin is enabled, and you will be able to "zoom" (i.e. change font size) using Ctrl + Mouse Wheel.

gedit Plugins

This is the list of plugins available in the gedit-plugins package

$ apt-cache show gedit-plugins
[...]
 The following plugins are included:
  * Git: Git differences
  * Bookmarks: Easy document navigation with bookmarks
  * Bracket Completion: Automatically adds closing brackets.
  * Character Map: Insert special characters just by clicking on them.
  * Code comment: Comment out or uncomment a selected block of code.
  * Color Picker: Pick a color from a dialog and insert its hexadecimal representation.
  * Color Scheme Editor: Source code color scheme editor
  * Commander: Command line interface for advanced editing
  * Dashboard: A Dashboard for new tabs
  * Draw Spaces: Draw Spaces and Tabs
  * Git: Git differences
  * Join/Split Lines: Join several lines or split long ones
  * Multi Edit: Edit document in multiple places at once
  * Smart Spaces: Forget you're not using tabulations.
  * SyncTeX: Synchronize between LaTeX and PDF with gedit and evince.
  * Embedded Terminal: Embed a terminal in the bottom pane.
  * Text Size: Easily increase and decrease the text size
  * Word Completion: Word completion using the completion framework
[...]
Dan
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  • It is not necessary to restart Gedit. After the installation of 'gedit-plugins', then activate the 'Text Size' plugin and you are good (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Gedit 3.18.3). – Rudy Vissers Oct 11 '17 at 12:16
  • Warning: It seems gedit-plugins no longer pulls in gedit-plugin-text-size; you may have to install it explicitly. – odigity May 24 '19 at 01:10
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Here's a list of Gedit plugins from Gnome https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gedit/Plugins unless what you wanted is to change the font size to larger.

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  • That link is dead; I think this is the new version: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gedit/ShippedPlugins – odigity May 24 '19 at 00:57