[Software] Trouble finding folder for custom colour-schemes in "gedit"

[_galen]

I want to make custom colour-themes for the "gedit" text-editing app.

Both this page and this page seem to be telling me that the colour-schemes are stored in a folder home/.local/share/gtksourceview-2.0/styles/, and that custom colour-schemes in an XML file, made using this online theme-generator, could be simply placed in that folder and then be available to be chosen with "gedit". However, I have no such ~gtksourceview-2.0/ folder in my "files" app.

[fabien]

Hello, welcome to the forums!

the colour-schemes are stored in a folder home/.local/share/gtksourceview-2.0/styles/ [...] However, I have no such ~gtksourceview-2.0/ folder in my "files" app.

Just create the directory if it doesn't exist, e.g.

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$> mkdir -p ~/.local/share/gtksourceview-2.0/styles/

NAME
mkdir - make directories
[...]
-p, --parents
no error if existing, make parent directories as needed

I see that gedit depends on libgtksourceview-4-0, so there is a good chance that the correct directory is

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$> mkdir -p ~/.local/share/gtksourceview-4.0/styles/

Also, maybe the colour-schemes you found are outdated, but trying them is probably harmless.