Get rid of the Gtk-WARNING on gedit

Recently, I noticed that whenever I try to edit something using gedit, the following warning always appears.

(gedit:10160): Gtk-WARNING **: 17:22:36.887: Calling org.xfce.Session.Manager.Inhibit failed: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: No such method “Inhibit”

The warning message only appears on my Ubuntu and Kali Linux. I’ve tried several solutions I could find, but the warning persists.

So, I came up with a solution that uses error redirection to suppress the warning message.

Prepare a wrapper

First, let’s create a gedit “wrapper” in a resolvable path such as /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin. Its job is to surpress any warning or error messages that gedit might produce.

$ cat /usr/bin/gedit-null 
#!/bin/bash

/usr/bin/gedit "$@" 2>/dev/null

Command explanations:

$@ will take all the arguments passed to the wrapper and the wrapper will pass them to the gedit executable/binary.
2>/dev/null redirect error (stderr) to /dev/null.

Make an alias

Now we add alias for gedit that points to the wrapper in .bashrc or .zshrc or whatever shell you use.

$ echo 'alias gedit="gedit-null"'  >> ~/.zshrc
$ source ~/.zshrc

Well that’s it.

[Update]

One of readers messed up his/her shell prompt because I put the wrong symbol on this command 😅. Sorry about that.

echo 'alias gedit="gedit-null"' > ~/.zshrc
#instead of 
echo 'alias gedit="gedit-null"'  >> ~/.zshrc

In case some of you have the same problem, I made a gist that contains the default content of the .zshrc file so you can restore your shell prompt back to its default.