For anyone going down this same path, the trick was to remove the previous apt install of geany (sudo apt remove geany), run sudo apt autoremove (removes geany-common) and then compile the latest version of geany.  Away it goes with the same menu item already installed from the previous install.  Maybe removing the old version of geany first is obvious, but it wasn't to me.

On 2/14/23 5:14 PM, Lex Trotman via Users wrote:
On Wed, 15 Feb 2023 at 10:53, Woodrow Stool via Users
<users@lists.geany.org> wrote:

Finally taking the plunge and building Geany from source.  Trying it out
in a VM running Xubuntu (Ubuntu with Xfce) 20.04. Installed 1.36 via
apt, works.  Downloaded 1.38 source, two dependencies installed via apt
(libgtk-3-dev and intltool) and successfully ran configure, make, and
sudo make install. Everything worked but I can't find the 1.38
executable for Geany and using either the Xfce system menu or invoking
Geany from the command line still gives me 1.36.  This is where the
"build from source" instructions stop.  What am I doing wrong here?

If you ran the default build commands then Geany will be installed in
the default prefix (/usr/local IIRC).  You need to ensure that
${geany-prefix}/bin appears in your path before the location of the
1.36 version.

Xfce menu setups are part of the distros packaging, not something
Geany from source will do.

Cheers
Lex


- Tom

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