Certainly a bug. Happens to me also. Just upgraded to Ubunti 24.04 LTs Running gEdit v46.1
Select 'Preferences' and then app freezes, followed by whole desktop hang. Had to do a hard power off/restart on PC. Horrible bug Concerned there's no update on this issue! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2069150 Title: Gedit/Text editor have huge ram and cpu usage which leads to crash when Preferences openned. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gedit/+bug/2069150/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs