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At startup, Geany loads the first 15 files from the last time
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<span class="application">Geany</span> was launched. You can disable this feature in the
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preferences dialog(see <a href="ch03s06.html#confdialog_gen" title="Figure 3.2. General tab in preferences dialog">Figure 3.2, “General tab in preferences dialog”</a>). If you specify some files on
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the command line, only these files will be opened, but you can find the files from the
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last session in the file menu under the "Recent files" item. This contains the last
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15 recently opened files. It may be that Geany loads not exactly 15 session files, this depends
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on the compile time option GEANY_SESSION_FILES; the default is 15. For details see
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<a href="ch03s06.html#cto" title="Compile time options">the section called “Compile time options”</a>.
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You can start several instances of Geany, but only the first will load files
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from the last session. To run a second instance of Geany, do not specify any
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filenames on the command-line, or disable opening files in a running instance
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using the appropriate command line option.
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</p></div><div class="section" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="general_instance"></a>Opening files from the command-line in a running instance</h3></div></div></div><p>
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Geany detects an already running instance of itself and opens files from the
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command-line in the already running instance.
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So, Geany can be used to view and edit files by opening them from other
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programs such as a file manager. If you do not like this for some reason,
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you can disable using the first instance by using the appropriate command line
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option - see <a href="ch03s02.html" title="Command line options">the section called “Command line options”</a>.
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</p></div><div class="section" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="general_vte"></a>Virtual terminal emulator widget (VTE)</h3></div></div></div><p>
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If you have installed <code class="filename">libvte.so</code> in your system, it is loaded
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automatically by <span class="application">Geany</span>, and you will have a terminal widget
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in the notebook at the bottom.
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If <span class="application">Geany</span> cannot find <code class="filename">libvte.so</code> at
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startup, the terminal widget will not be loaded. So there is no need to install the
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package containing this file in order to run <span class="application">Geany</span>.
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Additionally, you can disable the use of the terminal widget by command line option,
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for more information see <a href="ch03s02.html" title="Command line options">the section called “Command line options”</a>.
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You can use this terminal (from now on called VTE) nearly as an usual terminal program
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like xterm. There is basic clipboard support. You can paste the contents
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of the clipboard by pressing the right mouse button to open the popup menu and
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To copy text from the VTE, just select the desired text and then press the
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right mouse button and choose Copy from the popup menu.
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On systems running the X Window System you can paste the last selected text by
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pressing the middle mouse button in the VTE (on 2-button mice,
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the middle button can often be simulated by pressing both mouse buttons together).
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</p><div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Note</h3><p>Geany tries to load <code class="filename">libvte.so</code>. If this fails, it tries to
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load <code class="filename">libvte.so.4</code>. If this fails too, you should check whether
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you installed libvte correctly. Again, Geany also runs without this library.
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It could be, that the library is called something else than
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<code class="filename">libvte.so.4</code> (e.g. on FreeBSD 6.0 it is called
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<code class="filename">libvte.so.8</code>). So please set a link to the correct file (as root).
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</p><pre class="screen"><code class="prompt">#</code> <strong class="userinput"><code><span><strong class="command">ln -s /usr/lib/libvte.so.X /usr/lib/libvte.so.4</strong></span></code></strong></pre><p>
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Obviously, you have to adjust the paths and set X to the number of your
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<code class="filename">libvte.so</code>.
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