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					At startup, Geany loads the first 15 files from the last time
					<span class="application">Geany</span> was launched. You can disable this feature in the
					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
					the command line, only these files will be opened, but you can find the files from the
					last session in the file menu under the "Recent files" item. This contains the last
					15 recently opened files. It may be that Geany loads not exactly 15 session files, this depends
					on the compile time option GEANY_SESSION_FILES; the default is 15. For details see
					<a href="ch03s06.html#cto" title="Compile time options">the section called “Compile time options”</a>.
				</p></div><div class="section" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="general_fifo"></a>Detection of a running instance</h3></div></div></div><p>
					Geany detects an already running instance of itself and opens new files in the already running one.
					So, you can use Geany like an editor to view and edit files by opening them from other
					programs. If you do not like this for some reason, you can disable it with the appropriate
					command line option.
				</p><p>
					In the case that Geany crashed, you will get a message dialog at the next start,
					which asks you whether to delete an existing named pipe. If you are sure that there is
					no other instance of Geany is running, you can say Yes and Geany will start as usual.
					Otherwise click No and Geany will not start.
				</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>
					If you have installed <code class="filename">libvte.so</code> in your system, it is loaded
					automatically by <span class="application">Geany</span>, and you will have a terminal widget
					in the notebook	at the bottom.
				</p><p>
					If <span class="application">Geany</span> cannot find <code class="filename">libvte.so</code> at
					startup, the terminal widget will not be loaded. So there is no need to install the
					package containing this	file in order to run <span class="application">Geany</span>.
					Additionally, you can disable the use of the terminal widget by command line option,
					for more information see <a href="ch03s02.html" title="Command line options">the section called “Command line options”</a>.
				</p><p>
					 You can use this terminal (from now on called VTE) nearly as an usual terminal program
					 like xterm. There is basic clipboard support. You can paste the contents
					 of the clipboard by pressing the right mouse button to open the popup menu and
					 choosing Paste.
					 To copy text from the VTE, just select the desired text and then press the
					 right mouse button and choose Copy from the popup menu.
					 On systems running the X Window System you can paste the last selected text by
					 pressing the middle mouse button in the VTE (on 2-button mice,
					 the middle button can often be simulated by pressing both mouse buttons together).
				</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
						  load <code class="filename">libvte.so.4</code>. If this fails too, you should check whether
						  you installed libvte correctly. Again, Geany also runs without this library.
					</p><p>
						  It could be, that the library is called something else than
						  <code class="filename">libvte.so.4</code> (e.g. on FreeBSD 6.0 it is called
						  <code class="filename">libvte.so.8</code>). So please set a link to the correct file (as root).
						  </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>
						  Obviously, you have to adjust the paths and set X to the number of your
						  <code class="filename">libvte.so</code>.
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+										"><link rel="up" href="ch03.html" title="Chapter 3. Usage"><link rel="prev" href="ch03s02.html" title="Command line options"><link rel="next" href="ch03s04.html" title="Character sets and Unicode Byte-Order-Mark (BOM)"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">General</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ch03s02.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 3. Usage</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ch03s04.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="section" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="general"></a>General</h2></div></div></div><div class="section" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="general_startup"></a>Startup</h3></div></div></div><p>
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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
 													last session in the file menu under the "Recent files" item. This contains the last
 recently opened files. It may be that Geany loads not exactly 15 session files, this depends
 													on the compile time option GEANY_SESSION_FILES; the default is 15. For details see
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+												</p></div><div class="section" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="general_fifo"></a>Detection of a running instance</h3></div></div></div><p>
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+													So, you can use Geany like an editor to view and edit files by opening them from other
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+													programs. If you do not like this for some reason, you can disable it with the appropriate
 													command line option.
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+												</p><p>
 													In the case that Geany crashed, you will get a message dialog at the next start,
 													which asks you whether to delete an existing named pipe. If you are sure that there is
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+													no other instance of Geany is running, you can say Yes and Geany will start as usual.
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+													Otherwise click No and Geany will not start.
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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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+													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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+													startup, the terminal widget will not be loaded. So there is no need to install the
 													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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+												</p><p>
 													 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
 													 of the clipboard by pressing the right mouse button to open the popup menu and
 													 choosing Paste.
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+													 To copy text from the VTE, just select the desired text and then press the
 													 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
 													 pressing the middle mouse button in the VTE (on 2-button mice,
 													 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
 														  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.
 													</p><p>
 														  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
 														  <code class="filename">libvte.so.8</code>). So please set a link to the correct file (as root).
 														  </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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