Attempting to set the permissions of `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel’, but failed: No such file or directory

To make the warning go away, open terminal and write:

 

sudo mkdir -p /root/.local/share

 

As it so happens the directory which does not exist is a directory which is not supposed to exist in the first place. (~/.local being what it is).

Move away your user’s /home/.local/share folder and start gedit.

Gedit assumes a working desktop environment installation, with ~/.local tree and all. It warns when it doesn’t find one. For /root no such tree ought to exist (it is created on first run of a desktop session, which root is never supposed to do).