gedit snippet not working on new system

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 29 Jul 2018 15:34:21 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>On Sun, 29 Jul 2018 08:06:25 -0500, Wade Smart wrote:
>>Well - this might be specifically a gedit thing.
>>
>>On my laptop where it is running I noticed that when you click on
>>the menu there is no option to manage snippets. There is also no
>>Preferences menu either. But the snippets do work. On the other
>>system both menu Preferences and menu > Manage Snippets are
>>present.  
>
>On my non-Ubuntu (Arch Linux) install the same version of gedit as
>yours has got no menu bar, but the titel bar that does need as much
>space as e.g. pluma's title bar + the menu bar. Here gedit has got a
>burger menu, it provides 'Preferences' as well as 'Manage Snippets...',
>if 'Preferences > Plugins > Snippets' is checked.
>
>If you would advise me how to add one of your snippets, I could test,
>if it works for gedit 3.28.1 on Arch Linux. This at least is useful to
>evaluate, if the culprit is the Ubuntu package and/or your settings, or
>if it's more likely an upstream bug.

PS: You aren't running 'sudo gedit' or 'gksudo gedit' or anything else
invoking gedit as root?