[Geany] V0.16 on Windows: Position & Size changed after closing and re-opening

[Enrico Tröger]

On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:24:53 +0100, Andreas wrote:

>Hello World,
>Hello Enrico,
>
>geany: 0.16 "Argon"
>Windows: XP SP3, all patches applied
>
>If I open geany and set it at a certain position, it does open an a 
>completely different position and size after having closed and
>re-opened it. Although the checkbox "Fensterposition und -grösse
>speichern" is checked.
>
>It might be a problem, if I open a second instance and close it before 
>closing the "main" instance?

No, but when you close the second instance after the first one. But
this shouldn't be new behaviour nor Windows-specific.
Geany saves the window geometry (size&position) of the last running
instance. More generally, this is true for all global settings.

In other words, when Geany is quit, it overwrites the config
files with the settings of this instance regardless of the previous
contents of the config file.

While this might seem to be stupid, Geany is simply not designed to
run more than one instance at once and I don't feel like changing
this. Anyway, as some kind of workaround, "nested" multiple instances
should work. Where "nested" mean:
Start Geany (it's your main instance), then start another one, then
start a third one. Then close first the last started instance, then the
second instance and finally the first one. This way, it should work to
some extend.


Regards,
Enrico

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