.conf files added to .config/geany/colorschemes do not show up in the view-change colorscheme menu at all, even after restart. Only the default and alternate schemes show as before.
What is the full absolute path to the directory in which you're putting the colour scheme .conf files?
I was putting them in the above path in my home directory. Thanks to your hint I have discovered that there is also /usr/local/share/geany/colorschemes. Copied them over but still no effect.
Some progs also use .local/share in my $HOME, which is getting quite bizarre but geany is not in there.
If you're not specifying a `-c` option when launching Geany, it should indeed be `$HOME/.config/geany/colorschemes`. Can you please paste the debug output from `Help->Debug Messages` here?
I have now reinstalled geany from default ubuntu mint repositories, as maybe I had some screwed up installation. It is a pity that you don't provide linux binaries or ppa. The schemes now come up in the meny but say (null) and don't show any colours.
Debug Messages: 12:09:58: Geany INFO : Geany 1.32, en_US.UTF-8 12:09:58: Geany INFO : GTK 3.22.30, GLib 2.56.3 12:09:58: Geany INFO : System data dir: /usr/share/geany 12:09:58: Geany INFO : User config dir: /home/l/.config/geany 12:09:58: Geany INFO : System plugin path: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/geany 12:09:58: Geany INFO : Added filetype Arduino (61). 12:09:58: Geany INFO : Added filetype Genie (62). 12:09:58: Geany INFO : Added filetype Clojure (63). 12:09:58: Geany INFO : Added filetype Scala (64). 12:09:58: Geany INFO : Added filetype CUDA (65). 12:09:58: Geany INFO : Added filetype Graphviz (66). 12:09:58: Geany INFO : Added filetype Cython (67). 12:09:58: Geany INFO : Added filetype JSON (68). 12:09:58: Geany INFO : Loaded libvte from libvte-2.91.so.0
Not sure what's going on, maybe make sure `/usr/share/geany/colourschemes` doesn't have these colour schemes in it.
It is a pity that you don't provide linux binaries or ppa.
The Debian/Ubuntu package maintainer maintains a [PPA here](https://launchpad.net/~geany-dev/+archive/ubuntu/ppa) that provides binaries/packages.
Thanks for your help. I have now reinstalled from the PPA and installed all the colour schemes and it finally works! Still not sure if the problem was ubuntu old version or that I previously installed only some of the .conf files.
Closed #28.
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