[Geany] Location of plugins

[LUK ShunTim]

Enrico Tröger wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:16:48 +0800, LUK ShunTim
> <shuntim.luk at polyu.edu.hk> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> It seems the plugin manager is looking for plugins only in one place
>> configured at compile time (ie, under $prefix/lib/geany). How can I
> 
> Yes, it looks in $libdir/geany (which is in most cases
> $prefix/lib/geany) *and* Geany looks in the user's configuration
> directory for plugins, by default ~/.config/geany/plugins/.

Thanks, knowing this is good enough for me. :-)

> 
> So, maybe it helps to put your plugins in the user configuration
> directory, Geany will then pick them up.
> 
> 
>> tell it to look for plugins in user specified directories?
> 
> There is no easy way without modifying the source or wild symlinking in
> your filesystem :).
> 
> Just for my interest, what do you want to do?

Say geany is installed via some distribution package mechanism, apt,
rpm, whatever and the system admin can make locally compiled plugins
available for all users in a "local" place, maybe under
/usr/local/lib/geany.

Regards,
ST
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