[Geany-Users] Geany persistent sidebar size

Matthew Brush mbrush at xxxxx
Sat Sep 7 17:28:10 UTC 2019


On 2019-09-07 5:01 a.m., Nick Stone wrote:
> Hi Lex,
> 
> Many thanks for the message. Your reply told me that the problem was 
> with my Geany configuration and not with Geany itself. I discovered that 
> under "preferences-general-shutdown" I only had "Save Window Size" 
> enabled. I also needed to enable "Save Window Position". In my defence, 
> I dont think that it is intuitive that these should both need to be 
> enabled. 

I believe these are enabled by default, I think you must've disabled 
them at some point.

> The Geany help page is not up to date on these options, it just 
> has an explanation for "Save window position and geometry"; this option 
> does not exist in version 1.34.1 of Geany.
> 

Good catch, it looks like the documentation didn't get updated when it 
was split into two different preferences:

https://github.com/geany/geany/pull/1456

Regards,
Matthew Brush

> Cheers
> Nick
> 
> 
> 
> On 06/09/2019 23:53, Lex Trotman wrote:
>> On Sat, 7 Sep 2019 at 04:25, Nick Stone <nickstone8 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Whenever I start Geany, I immediately resize the sidebar and message
>>> window according to my preferences. Unfortunately, these changes are not
>>> persistent and I have to do this each time I start Geany.
>>>
>>> Is there any way of making these changes persistent.
>>>
>>> I am running Geany v1.34.1; My environment is XFCE v4.12, XUbuntu 19.04
>> Works for me any Geany forever.  Are you closing Geany properly, not
>> crashing it by logging out/shutting down  with it still running?
>>
>> Cheers
>> Lex
>>
>>> Many thanks
>>>
>>> Nick Stone
>>>
>>>
>>>
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