[Github-comments] [geany/geany] UI: geany-plugins and vte - make it simpler to show and enable them (#2800)

[elextr]

1) there is a switch to vte keybinding which defaults to F4, if you don't have VTE it won't work, `Help->Keyboard Shortcuts` is your friend.

The VTE is a tab in the message window, and toggle message window is a keybinding (though with no default) you can set it to anything.

If its not present in your home built Geany its likely that its because you didn't have the _development_ package for VTE installed, or its the wrong version, if only people would **read** the output of `configure` instead of automatically charging on to `make` :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: 

2) why do you want to hide it? its a message window tab, if you don't want it, don't show the message window or show another tab

3) geany plugins is just a collection, the plugins present to geany individually so there is no geany-plugins version to show.  And geany-plugins is not the only place plugins come from, so they have to be treated individually.  Plugins are never loaded unless enabled in the plugin manager dialog so plugins that conflict or bad plugins that cause crashes can be excluded by not enabling them.  Just look in the plugin manager `Tools->Plugin Manager` to see which plugins are available since it also tests version compatibility between Geany and plugins and lets plugins check their dependencies and does not show or greys out plugins that can't be used.

If the geany and geany-plugins are in a different (but same) prefix and the plugins are not shown in the plugin manager did you build them setting --with-geany-libdir to the right place? The libdir default is fixed, not ${prefix}/lib as one might hope.

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