Sublime Text 3: Preferences menu greyed

[Mister_Paul]

I am using Sublime Text 3 on my MacBook Pro (OS version 10.13.2)

Since a few time, the Preferences menu is always greyed and not usable. Even on restart.
Any idea to solve that?

Thanks
Paul

[memco]

I am having the same issue and came here to look for help or create an issue myself. Sometimes I can access preferences and other times I cannot. I’ve copied the output of my console here: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/886aecbf87f6d7595e1c3f4ec7e85faa, but nothing seems out of the ordinary except a few tmlanguage files which cannot be found. This has been going on for a few weeks now.

Same OS and using Sublime dev build 3156.

[Mister_Paul]

My build is 3143
My Console here:

startup, version: 3143 osx x64 channel: stable
executable: /Applications/Sublime Text.app/Contents/MacOS/Sublime Text
working dir: /
packages path: /Users/eric/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Packages
state path: /Users/eric/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Local
zip path: /Applications/Sublime Text.app/Contents/MacOS/Packages
zip path: /Users/eric/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Installed Packages
ignored_packages: [“Vintage”]
Errors parsing theme:
icon_folder is missing layer0.opacity, setting to 1.0 for backwards compatibility
icon_folder_loading is missing layer0.opacity, setting to 1.0 for backwards compatibility
pre session restore time: 0.704028
using gpu buffer for window
startup time: 0.801768
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[Mister_Paul]

Preferences went back for short time and vanished again…

[FichteFoll]

My initial hunch was that your plugin_host is probably crashing, but the console log doesn’t seem to indicate that (I think this is logged).

Try with plugins disabled or revert your installation.

[Mister_Paul]

Thanks FichteFoll

• disabling plugins didn’t let Preferences more stable
• I tried to revert Sublime: same problem with only these plugins installed
  SublimeLinter
  SublimeLinter-annotations
  CodeFormatter
  BracketHighlighter
• I tried to remove them with different combinations: same problem
• dowload a fresh version of ST3: same problem

Well… any idea?
(Atom is knocking at the door)

[mikehdt]

I’ve also been having this problem.

Mac OS 10.13.3
Sublime Text build 3157

It comes and goes. Sometimes it takes many tries for it to start with preferences available, other times it stays for a while. I’ve checked the console but there’s no errors. Sometimes it comes back if I remove a plugin and then re-add it. It’s very inconsistent and rather frustrating. What conditions cause Sublime Text to grey the preferences? Maybe there’s a race condition in loading things back in that causes it to be unhappy or something? I don’t know, just guessing.

For a while it was coming back when I removed Sublime Linter - Stylelint, but even now I’ve just removed it again and it’s still greyed out.

I also tried removing all packages, and it was still happening.

[Mister_Paul]

I hope you’ll find the solution.
I didn’t… and just switched from Sublime to Atom.

[Tsunami]

I’ve been experiencing the same issue for a few weeks (macOS 10.13.3, ST3 build 3143). Reinstalling a package would sometimes fix it, and then it would come back. Disabling all my packages didn’t fix it. Eventually I reverted my installation and only installed a handful of packages, leaving out SublimeCodeIntel and SublimeLinter among others, and the issue has since disappeared.

Although SublimeLinter seems to be the culprit, as mentioned in Preferences greyed out in OS X it might be a race condition, and not specifically tied to one package.

[luckman212]

A user has figured out a way to repro this (see Kronuz’ comment from 6/19/18 on the issue tracker).

Looks like it might be caused by packages with a large amount of files. There could be other causes as well, but hopefully with at least one reliable way to repro, the devs will come up with a fix.

[stedmanblake]

This worked for me:
1/ open up the Sublime Console ( ctrl + ` )
2/ see if anything is throwing an error. *
3/ uninstall and reinstall the package that’s throwing the error ( cmd + shift + P)

• In my case, it was GitGutter

Exception AttributeError: "'GitGutterShowDiff' object has no attribute 'git_handler'" in <bound method GitGutterShowDiff.__del__ of <GitGutter.modules.show_diff.GitGutterShowDiff object at 0x109698790>> ignored
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Applications/Sublime Text.app/Contents/MacOS/sublime_plugin.py", line 272, in create_text_commands
    cmds.append(class_(view))
  File "/Users/.../Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Installed Packages/GitGutter.sublime-package/modules/commands.py", line 56, in __init__
TypeError: __init__() missing 1 required positional argument: 'status_bar'