gedit window not automatically active

I notice that if I call gedit from the terminal with the option +1 thus:
  $ gedit +1 hello.c
the gedit window is active instead of the terminal window. But that shouldn't really be necessary.

So, here's a naïve hack that worked on my computer:

Edit .bashrc in your home file to add this:

    alias gedit='gedit +1'

Then reboot the computer. Then you can start editing the file as soon as you open it, both from the browser and from the terminal. At least it worked on my computer.

I'm a novice at this kind of thing, so I expect there's a better way, and Unity 2 should automatically activate the Gedit window when you open it.

This hack should indeed not be needed, it works around what seems to be a bug. I cannot reproduce the issue on my setup.
Can you consistently observe the issue across reboots? Is it just in Unity-2d, or does it also happen in a regular classic desktop session? Also, does it happen only with gedit, or also with other types of documents/applications (e.g. opening an .odt document with LibreOffice)?

Thanks so much, Olivier, for your attempt to help. Since I posted this
I've run the Update Manager, and that seems to have changed something
that solved the problem.

(I guess it doesn't matter at this point, but before that it was
happening on reboot of Unity 2D but not when I rebooted using Ubuntu
Classic, and the problem occurred when there was already a file in
Gedit).

But I certainly appreciate your reading my question and trying to help
me solve it.

Joe

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 3:49 AM, Olivier Tilloy
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> Your question #155039 on unity-2d changed:
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This is no longer a problem for me since installing the second set of updates with the Update Manager.

Awesome, glad to know the problem went away (even though I really wonder what fixed it…)!