[Geany] VTE startup issues

Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger at xxxxx
Tue Dec 8 20:33:49 UTC 2009


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

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