Good to know, the reproduction steps provided are only the ones I went
through, since that is how my environment is set up to cause the bug.

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Matt Moen
<784...@bugs.launchpad.net>wrote:

> I don't think this is limited to having gedit in startup applications. To
> reproduce this bug, all I need to do (in a Unity desktop):
> 1. Open gedit from the terminal, unity search, or a unity launch desktop
> shortcut, and
> 2. Open a text document through nautilus.
>
> Nautilus will open a second instance and all documents opened through
> nautilus load in that instance. Repeatedly calling gedit edit from
> terminal, using alt-f2, etc all re-activate the "unity instance."
>
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> Title:
>  gedit instance not used by nautilus when auto-started
>
> Status in “gedit” package in Ubuntu:
>  Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
>  Binary package hint: gedit
>
>  After upgrading to 11.04, I noticed that if gedit is present in the
>  "Startup Applications" list, the gedit instance that opens on login is
>  no longer used when a text file is opened from nautilus. I don't have
>  any details about SIMILAR use cases, since mine is kind of an edge
>  case, but here are the reproduction steps:
>
>  1. Using non-Unity GNOME...
>  2. Put gedit into the startup applications list (System -> Preferences ->
> Startup Applications)
>  3. Put a nautilus sftp session into the startup applications list (path:
> nautilus sftp://...)   [This may or may not be necessary]
>  4. Reboot/Re-login
>  5. Gedit and Nautilus should open up. Using the Nautilus window, open a
> text file (.php, in my case)
>  6. Ubuntu should open up a new gedit window, and open the file there,
> instead of using the already opened session.
>
>  Expected behaviour:
>  Ubuntu should open the text file in the currently open gedit session.
>
>  ProblemType: Bug
>  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
>  Package: gedit 2.30.4-2ubuntu1
>  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
>  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
>  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
>  Architecture: amd64
>  Date: Wed May 18 08:41:26 2011
>  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64
> (20110427.1)
>  ProcEnviron:
>   LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
>   LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
>   SHELL=/bin/bash
>  SourcePackage: gedit
>  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>
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