How to disable gedit side panel?

How do i disable this stupid side panel of gedit, that somehow appeared? There is nothing in the settings or plugins. Tried rm -r -f ~/.config/gedit as well, with no success. I don't have big screen and i find it totally useless and eating up what little free space for editing documents i have.

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Solution 1:

In Settings --> View, uncheck "Side Panel"

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...Or use the F9 key.