[Geany-devel] Moving the VTE terminal to the Sidebar

Liviu Andronic landronimirc at xxxxx
Wed Dec 15 09:07:47 UTC 2010


On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Matthew Brush <matthewbrush at gmail.com> wrote:
> It should move the VTE to the sidebar automatically when the plugin is
> activated in the Plugin Manager, you should see the Terminal tab disappear
> from the message window at the bottom and a Terminal tab should appear in
> the sidebar.  It should switch back when the plugin is de-activated.  Of
>
I see. I can report an issue then. :) The VTE tab is not automatically
moved from Messages to Sidebar.


> course you need Geany to be supporting the VTE terminal, which can be
>
My build features VTE. I use it regularly.


> enabled/disabled under the General->Startup tab in the Preferences dialog,
> the option that says "Load virtual terminal support" (it's default on here).
>  If you don't have that option, or you don't see a Terminal tab in the Geany
> Preferences dialog, then your Geany is probably not built/running with VTE
> support (ex. on Windows I don't think the VTE is supported at all).  If it
>
Yes, unfortunately there is no VTE in the Win build. But I'm using
Xubuntu 10.04.


> still doesn't work, let me know because maybe I did something incorrectly in
> the code.
>
Here's what I get:
09:59:09: Geany INFO		: Geany 0.20 (svn >= r5478), en_US.UTF-8
09:59:09: Geany INFO		: GTK 2.20.1, GLib 2.24.1, GIO
09:59:09: Geany INFO		: System data dir: /usr/local/share/geany
09:59:09: Geany INFO		: User config dir: /home/liv/.config/geany
09:59:10: Geany INFO		: Added filetype Genie (51).
09:59:10: Geany INFO		: Loaded:   /usr/local/lib/geany/addons.so (Addons)
09:59:10: Geany INFO		: Loaded:   /usr/local/lib/geany/geanylatex.so
(GeanyLaTeX)
09:59:10: Geany INFO		: Loaded:   /usr/local/lib/geany/geanyvc.so (GeanyVC)
09:59:10: Geany INFO		: Loaded:   /usr/local/lib/geany/htmlchars.so
(HTML Characters)
09:59:10: Geany INFO		: Loaded:
/usr/local/lib/geany/geanyinsertnum.so (Insert Numbers)
[..]
09:59:17: Geany INFO		: Plugin "/usr/local/lib/geany/addons.so" already loaded.
09:59:17: Geany INFO		: Plugin
"/usr/local/lib/geany/geanyinsertnum.so" already loaded.
09:59:17: Geany INFO		: Plugin "/usr/local/lib/geany/geanylatex.so"
already loaded.
09:59:17: Geany INFO		: Plugin "/usr/local/lib/geany/geanyvc.so" already loaded.
09:59:17: Geany INFO		: Plugin "/usr/local/lib/geany/htmlchars.so"
already loaded.
Geany does not contain a VTE terminal, bailing out.

09:59:25: Geany INFO		: Loaded:   /usr/local/lib/geany/sidebarterm.so
(Sidebar Terminal)

For some reason the plug-in does not recognize my vte. Using libvte
1:0.23.5-0ubuntu1.1.


>> I cannot find this pref (although it should probably be located in
>> 'Edit>  Plugins Prefs' dialogue). Any suggestions?
>
> The preferences I was talking about there are only if you applied the
> "geany_vte.patch" to the Geany source and re-built it, however I don't
> necessarily recommend doing that as the patch is not tested, nor is it
> completely working.
>
> There are no preferences for the plugin, it just works as described above
> (by activating/de-activating the plugin).
>
I didn't apply the patch, so this is expected. Regards
Liviu



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