As another respondent (who replied to you not the list, please don't do that) said, perhaps you used Geany as root and that left the link to the socket in your config owned by root.  You should close _all_ Geanys and delete the dead link in your config (default ~/.config/geany/geany_socket.some_stuff_depending_on_your_machine) with sudo.  Ubuntu is one of the brain dead sudo implementations that does not change the user when you sudo, so you leave root owned crap in the user directory that they can't get rid of.

Cheers
Lex

On Wed, 8 Jun 2022 at 03:55, Dave Parker <cedardocster@gmail.com> wrote:
Ok, thanks.  Here's the errors message:

11:43:23.623807: GLib-GIO DEBUG : _g_io_module_get_default: Found default implementation gvfs (GDaemonVfs) for ‘gio-vfs’
11:43:23.651576: Geany WARNING : Failed to bind IPC socket (/run/user/1000/geany/geany_socket.9ecfe310): 13: Permission denied
11:43:23.651593: Geany INFO : Geany 1.38, en_CA.UTF-8
11:43:23.651601: Geany INFO : GTK 3.24.33, GLib 2.72.1
11:43:23.651646: Geany INFO : OS: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (jammy)
11:43:23.651655: Geany INFO : System data dir: /usr/share/geany
11:43:23.651665: Geany INFO : User config dir: /home/david/.config/geany
11:43:23.780411: Geany INFO : Loaded GTK+ CSS theme '/usr/share/geany/geany.css'
11:43:23.780982: Geany INFO : Loaded GTK+ CSS theme '/usr/share/geany/geany-3.20.css'
11:43:23.785913: Geany INFO : System plugin path: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/geany
11:43:23.793917: Geany INFO : Added filetype JSON (64).
11:43:23.793929: Geany INFO : Added filetype Scala (65).
11:43:23.793936: Geany INFO : Added filetype Arduino (66).
11:43:23.793943: Geany INFO : Added filetype Graphviz (67).
11:43:23.793950: Geany INFO : Added filetype Cython (68).
11:43:23.793956: Geany INFO : Added filetype Nim (69).
11:43:23.793962: Geany INFO : Added filetype Groovy (70).
11:43:23.793969: Geany INFO : Added filetype TypeScript (71).
11:43:23.793975: Geany INFO : Added filetype Kotlin (72).
11:43:23.793981: Geany INFO : Added filetype CUDA (73).
11:43:23.793988: Geany INFO : Added filetype Genie (74).
11:43:23.793994: Geany INFO : Added filetype Meson (75).
11:43:23.794001: Geany INFO : Added filetype Clojure (76).
11:43:23.794008: Geany INFO : Added filetype Swift (77).
11:43:23.806276: Geany INFO : Loaded libvte from libvte-2.91.so.0
11:43:23.808343: Geany WARNING : IPC socket could not be created, see Help->Debug Messages for details.
11:43:23.809102: Geany INFO : Loaded:   /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/geany/overview.so (Overview)
11:43:23.816614: Geany INFO : /tmp/alllists : None (UTF-8)

Looks like a permission problem.  I hate fixing linux permission problems.  Any suggestions (other than tacking on "sudo" in front of every single command, ha ha)?  I wish there was a blanket security permission thing I could just set to "low" as I'm literally the only person using this system.

On Mon, Jun 6, 2022 at 7:31 PM Lex Trotman <elextr@gmail.com> wrote:
Opening a new tab in a running instance is the default behaviour,
there is something going wrong if it doesn't work.  Look in
`help->debug messages` after it opens a new instance.

Otherwise need more information.

Cheers
Lex

On Tue, 7 Jun 2022 at 11:22, Dave Parker <cedardocster@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi, I often open bash files from a script to edit by either doing this:
>
>      geany "some file.sh"
>
> or this
>
>      xdg-open "some file.sh"
>
> Every time I do that I get a separate instance of geany with the file.  Is there a way to force it to *not* do a new instance but rather open a new pane or tab or whatever its called in an existing window?
>
> Thanks!
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