Xed command line issues

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Hi
I am somewhat new to linux. The distro i am using is the latest version of Mint. I was customizing some thing and must have messed something up. When i call xed from terminal i get the below multiple notice. the command still opens the editor but i get the error messages in terminal. I tried searching for a fix but am not finding much

ray@ray-ThinkPad-T490s:~$ xed

(xed:10348): Gtk-WARNING **: 20:44:08.120: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:629:18: negative values are not allowed.

(xed:10348): Gtk-WARNING **: 20:44:08.120: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:630:19: negative values are not allowed.

(xed:10348): Gtk-WARNING **: 20:44:08.132: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:4088:13: negative values are not allowed.

(xed:10348): Gtk-WARNING **: 20:44:08.134: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:4856:25: negative values are not allowed.

(xed:10348): Gtk-WARNING **: 20:44:08.134: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:4879:28: negative values are not allowed.

(xed:10348): Gtk-WARNING **: 20:44:08.141: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:7423:13: negative values are not allowed.

(xed:10348): Gtk-WARNING **: 20:44:08.141: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:7847:13: negative values are not allowed.

(xed:10348): Gtk-WARNING **: 20:44:08.142: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:8031:19: negative values are not allowed.

(xed:10348): Gtk-WARNING **: 20:44:08.142: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:8032:22: negative values are not allowed.

(xed:10348): Gtk-WARNING **: 20:44:08.143: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:8309:21: negative values are not allowed.

(xed:10348): Gtk-WARNING **: 20:44:08.143: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:8310:24: negative values are not allowed.
 


You don't need to worry about any of them. Those are just warnings from the application. They aren't errors.
If you run a GUI based program from the terminal, then quite often you will end up seeing all kinds of debug messages. GTK based applications tend to do it a lot.

I'd recommend running xed like this:
Bash:
xed &> /dev/null &
In the above - &> /dev/null redirects all terminal output from xed to /dev/null.
This stops the error/warning messages from filling your terminal.

And the & at the end of the line runs xed in the background.
This will allow you to continue using the terminal whist xed is running.
Without it, xed will block the terminal and the terminal will not be usable until xed has been closed.
 
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