On Sat, Jul 23, 2022 at 5:42 AM Bert Vercauteren via Users users@lists.geany.org wrote:
Hi group,
Linux user here.. MXLinux. I use Geany almost only as an html-editor. I've been using an old version of Epiphany a.k.a. Web as the live preview, because it automatically updated each time a save was made in the source code in Geany. But it was not very stable and slowed down a lot. For the moment I use Firefox as the preview engine. It's okay, but there's no auto-refresh, so I have to hit the FF refresh button after each change.
In older Geany information there was talk about a Geany html plugin that had a html preview. That plugin seems to be removed.
I found an unofficial package on the web, downloaded it, but there the joy ended: It seemed to be source code, needing compiling, something that is far beyond my knowledge. It was called "webkit-preview" or something similar.
Hope I described my situation enough and hope to read how you experts have solved this.
No expert here (I would love to know how to write html code by the way!!) but I can assure you that compiling source code and installing it is not that difficult.
https://www.makeuseof.com/compile-install-software-from-source-linux/
One reasonably well written set of instructions. There are many many more such.
Search for linux + source code + compiling
(Caution - - - occasionally one runs into 'dependency hell' or where you seek to compile and an error happens - - - you need more tools installed - - - I have had it where there were 6 different levels of dependencies and I had to install some 30 odd other packages just to get the one package that I wanted to run - - - - -but it did run! (That was a very very difficult install and most are very straight forward!))
I would suggest that you try doing the compiling and installation steps.
Dunno how the forum here leaders would view further questions but I for one would suggest that if you can't get the job done - - - well then - - - come back and ask more questions whilst providing what you have done and what isn't working. (Hopefully that behavior is allowed - - - question of the list maintainers)
HTH