[Geany] Problem (?) with focus in Geany

Russell Dickenson russelldickenson at xxxxx
Wed Jun 8 22:39:54 UTC 2011


On 9 June 2011 08:14, Matthew Brush <mbrush at codebrainz.ca> wrote:
> On 06/08/11 14:01, Russell Dickenson wrote:
>>
>> I have successfully compiled Geany from SVN and confirmed that the
>> focus problem is solved when I open a file via the Recent Files list.
>> However I can't test opening a file in the Recent Files list via File
>>>
>>> Open because the File Browser doesn't show me files, only folders. I
>>
>> was testing Geany from SVN on a PC with Geany 0.20 already installed
>> so could this be part of the problem? Am I using the wrong method to
>> run Geany SVN? I simply navigated to the "src" folder and (under
>> Linux) entered the command "./geany".
>>
>
> Yeah, I've had that before, it the way you're running it I think.
>
> Try something like:
>
>  $ PREFIX=~/geany
>  $ mkdir -p $PREFIX/src
>  $ cd $PREFIX/src
>  $ git clone http://git.geany.org/git/geany
>  $ cd $PREFIX/src/geany
>  $ NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh
>  $ ./configure --prefix=$PREFIX
>  $ make
>  $ make install
>  $ $PREFIX/bin/geany -v
>
> Cheers,
> Matthew Brush

Matthew,

Thanks for that. I'll use that method instead and test again. You're
definitely the Brainz of the operation. :P


-- 
Russell Dickenson



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