I want to remove the status, complier, messages, scribble, and terminal tabs of Geany message window. Basically, I prefer that when I open the message window Geany automatically opens the terminal window without showing the tabs. How could I get this setup?
AFAIK thats not configurable, its either the whole message window or none.
For disabling the other tabs, you can edit these settings under `Edit->Preferences->Various`:
```diff --- msgwin1/geany.conf 2020-04-30 23:43:49.877942591 -0700 +++ msgwin2/geany.conf 2020-04-30 23:45:33.495469083 -0700 @@ -45,10 +45,10 @@ compiler_tab_autoscroll=true statusbar_template=line: %l / %L col: %c sel: %s %w %t %mmode: %M encoding: %e filetype: %f scope: %S new_document_after_close=false -msgwin_status_visible=true -msgwin_compiler_visible=true -msgwin_messages_visible=true -msgwin_scribble_visible=true +msgwin_status_visible=false +msgwin_compiler_visible=false +msgwin_messages_visible=false +msgwin_scribble_visible=false documents_show_paths=true sidebar_page=0 pref_main_load_session=true ```
For hiding the message window tabs altogether (ie. to hide the lone tab for "Terminal") you could either patch Geany to add an option, make a plugin to do it, or you could use CSS to somewhat okay effect - it would be a lot easier if #2469 gets merged - probably something like:
```css #notebook_info tab { padding: 0px; font-size: 0.1em; border-width: 0px; } ```
I don't think GTK+ CSS has a thing like `display: none;` or changing the size like real CSS, but above makes the tabs pretty small here. Someone with more GTK+ theming skills could probably find a better way.
I doubt anyone would oppose a pull request to add a preference to hide message window tabs entirely.
Hiding message window tabs is very useful when setting the message window on the right side of Geany. The tabs take a lot of space which could be saved for the editor and terminal parts.
Sounds reasonable if someone wants to contribute the change. IMO, it would also make sense for the sidebar tabs. Maybe someone could change the combo boxes in `Prefs->Interface->Notebook Tabs->Tab Positions` to each contain a "None" item that hides the tabs (and then remove the "Show editor tabs checkbox").
With these settings I managed to hide all the tabs.
First I set the position of the tabs to the right in `Preferences > Interface > Notebook tabs > Tab Position > Message Window`
Then I added a negative margin as follows:
```css #notebook_info { padding: 1px; padding-left: 5px; margin-right: -56px; font-size: 0.1em; } ```
The left padding is not necessary but it looks better to me, here is a pic:
Closed #2492 as completed.
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