[Geany] Per-workspace instance of Geany

[Randy Kramer]

Well, from the peanut gallery, to me there's an obvious 
preference--number 4--it should start a new instance in the current 
workspace.  For now it doesn't affect me, because until I get a lexer 
for askRhk, I'm only experimenting with Geany.  But, once I start using 
Geany as my default editor, I'd expect to have at least one instance in 
every workspace (desktop) that I'm using, and files that I open in the 
workspace should open in the instance of Geany in that workspace.

Randy Kramer

On Saturday 22 January 2011 05:11:39 pm Krzysztof Żelechowski wrote:
> Dnia sobota, 22 stycznia 2011 o 22:49:47 Julien Nicoulaud napisał(a):
> > Hi all,
> > I'm using GNOME with several workspaces, and there's a behaviour I
> > find quite annoying: if you have an instance of Geany running in a
> > workspace and you open a file in another workspace, it just opens
> > the file in the already running instance and switches you back to
> > the workspace. I know this is more a usability issue at the desktop
> > environment level than Geany in particular, since it is the same
> > for other programs such as web browsers, but may be Geany could
> > address it ?
> >
> > Anyway, I wrote a little wrapper script that detects if there's no
> > Geany window in the current workspace, in which case it forces
> > creating one:
> > https://github.com/nicoulaj/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/geany It was
> > only tested on GNOME but should work as well on other desktop
> > environments.
>
> There are four ways to go here.
>
>   1. Leave things as it is because Geany is an IDE, so if a file
> needs to be sent to Geany, it is probably good to show other
> developer tools as well. 2. Move Geany to the active desktop.
>   3. Share Geany with the active desktop.
>   4. Start a separate Geany environment.
>
> I do not see any obvious preference to any of these options.
>
> Chris
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