Embedding Terminal in Gedit

You can embed terminal right in gedit in it’s bottom panel. Gedit has a plugin called “embedded terminal” which is by default not there in plugin lists of gedit. But you can install all remaining plugins using simple command:

user@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install gedit-plugins

After that go to gedit edit>Preferences>Pluins and activate “embedded terminal”. You can see that you also got some new cool plugins. You can activate them according to your need to extend your gedit.

gedit Preferences, Plugins tab, with Embedded Terminal checked

But after activating Embedded Terminal you can see that theme of embedded terminal does not match with your default terminal.

Embedded terminal in gedit’s bottom panel, with a pale yellow background that does not match the system terminal

You can fix that. But first you need to install dconf-tools. You can do this by issuing following command in terminal:

user@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install dconf-tools

Now start dconf-editor by issuing command dconf-editor or from application menu. In dconf-editor navigate to org>gedit>plugins>terminal. Here you can edit background-color, foreground-color, fonts etc. according to your choice.

dconf Configuration Editor at org.gnome.gedit.plugins.terminal, showing background-color, foreground-color, palette and use-system-font

And you can get the look and feel you want for your embedded terminal in gedit.

gedit with a Python file open and the embedded terminal below it, now themed like the system terminal, showing Hello World!!! output

HAPPY PROGRAMMING!!! :)