Hi,
I am new to Geany and so far I really like it. I have two questions though.
Every time I start Geany and look at the VTE, the prompt is gibberish. When I use left click - Restart Terminal, the prompt is fine from that point on during the session. Is there something I can do to get the prompt to start up normally?
Also, every time I start Geany the VTE starts in the same directory. If I edit files in other directories and shut down Geany, when I restart it the VTE is still in the same original directory. Is there a way I can change the directory that the VTE starts in?
I'm using Geany 0.18 on Ubuntu Jaunty.
Sincere Thanks, Bill
William Moon moon@cut.net dixit:
Hi,
I am new to Geany and so far I really like it. I have two questions though.
Every time I start Geany and look at the VTE, the prompt is gibberish. When I use left click - Restart Terminal, the prompt is fine from that point on during the session. Is there something I can do to get the prompt to start up normally?
Same for me, but happens only if I run before having first done anything else in the VTE (one click inside the VTE is enough). Not only the prompt is messy, but the VTE doesn't take its settings into account: need to right-click --> prefs, then all is fine for the rest of the session.
Also, every time I start Geany the VTE starts in the same directory. If I edit files in other directories and shut down Geany, when I restart it the VTE is still in the same original directory. Is there a way I can change the directory that the VTE starts in?
To add one point about the VTE: when working on an app with such a dir structure: /app /app/lib /app/gen then the VTE is unable to "follow" the dir changes, when switching from one file in a subdir to a file in the other subdir. Actually, the dir change works only in one direction, depending on which subdir was first visited. Eg if I first edited a code file inside /lib, then later changing from a file in /gen to a file in /lib will be followed by the VTE, but the opposite won't work. It's not a big issue, just need top type "cd .. ; cd gen", but it's systematic so a bit annoying after a while. ("follow the path of the current file" is set, indeed)
I'm using Geany 0.18 on Ubuntu Jaunty.
Ditto for me. I take the opportunaity to thank again all geany devs for this great tool.
Sincere Thanks, Bill
Denis ________________________________
la vita e estrany
On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:37:08 -0700, William wrote:
Hi,
I am new to Geany and so far I really like it. I have two questions though.
Every time I start Geany and look at the VTE, the prompt is gibberish. When I use left click - Restart Terminal, the prompt is fine from that point on during the session. Is there something I can do to get the prompt to start up normally?
Sigh. I hoped we got these bugs fixed already some time ago. What libvte version do you use?
Also, every time I start Geany the VTE starts in the same directory. If I edit files in other directories and shut down Geany, when I restart it the VTE is still in the same original directory. Is there a way I can change the directory that the VTE starts in?
Weird. Geany should remember the last directory you changed to. It does so here, that is Geany SVN on Debian Testing and I'm using also Geany SVN on some Ubuntu 9.04 box. The code responsible for reading and saving the last working directory of the VTE didn't change since 0.18, so that shouldn't make a difference.
What shell did you configure to use?
Regards, Enrico
On Mon, 7 Dec 2009 19:29:12 +0100, spir wrote:
Hi,
Also, every time I start Geany the VTE starts in the same directory. If I edit files in other directories and shut down Geany, when I restart it the VTE is still in the same original directory. Is there a way I can change the directory that the VTE starts in?
To add one point about the VTE: when working on an app with such a dir structure: /app /app/lib /app/gen then the VTE is unable to "follow" the dir changes, when switching from one file in a subdir to a file in the other subdir. Actually, the dir change works only in one direction, depending on which subdir was first visited. Eg if I first edited a code file inside /lib, then later changing from a file in /gen to a file in /lib will be followed by the VTE, but the opposite won't work. It's not a big issue, just need top type "cd .. ; cd gen", but it's systematic so a bit annoying after a while. ("follow the path of the current file" is set, indeed)
I can't reproduce this. Just to make sure I did try it correctly, I made a short screencast: http://www.uvena.de/tmp/geany_vte_follow.ogv
At least in this test case it worked as expected. In case I did something wrong, could you provide a tarball with an example directory layout which fails for you?
Regards, Enrico
Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger@uvena.de dixit:
On Mon, 7 Dec 2009 19:29:12 +0100, spir wrote:
Hi,
Also, every time I start Geany the VTE starts in the same directory. If I edit files in other directories and shut down Geany, when I restart it the VTE is still in the same original directory. Is there a way I can change the directory that the VTE starts in?
To add one point about the VTE: when working on an app with such a dir structure: /app /app/lib /app/gen then the VTE is unable to "follow" the dir changes, when switching from one file in a subdir to a file in the other subdir. Actually, the dir change works only in one direction, depending on which subdir was first visited. Eg if I first edited a code file inside /lib, then later changing from a file in /gen to a file in /lib will be followed by the VTE, but the opposite won't work. It's not a big issue, just need top type "cd .. ; cd gen", but it's systematic so a bit annoying after a while. ("follow the path of the current file" is set, indeed)
I can't reproduce this. Just to make sure I did try it correctly, I made a short screencast: http://www.uvena.de/tmp/geany_vte_follow.ogv
At least in this test case it worked as expected. In case I did something wrong, could you provide a tarball with an example directory layout which fails for you?
We have exchanged about ths issue some months ago. When I talked about it, it seemed rather systematic but when I wanted to produce an example to send it to you I couldn't reproduce it. This bug is crazy! This time I thought I had caught the situation in which it happens, bug again I cannot reproduce it anymore, while I had it everyday for ~ 5 days. (I was working in // on two similar apps in python and Lua.) Tell you more when it comes back and I understand it better. Next time, I'll freeze and save the situation as soon as it comes.
Denis ________________________________
la vita e estrany