At startup, Geany loads the 15 first files from the last time, Geany was launched. You can disable this feature in the preferences dialog(see Figure 3.2, “General tab in preferences dialog”). If you specify some files on the commandline, only these files will be opened. But you can find the files from the last session in the file menu. There is an item "Recent files". It contains the last 15 recently opened files. It may be that Geany not exactly loads 15 files, this depends on the compile time option GEANY_SESSION_FILES, the default is 15. For details see the section called “Compile time options”.
If a C file(with extension is c, cpp, h, etc.) is opened, a global tags file is loaded once, which contains many function declarations from the glibc and some other libraries, like X, Bonobo, Gnome, GTK, Glib and so on. These declarations are used for call tips and auto completion. These tags are only useful if you are writing C or C++ source code. So if you know, that you do not need these things, you can skip loading this tag file. To do so, start Geany with the argument "-n" or "--no-ctags", for more information see the section called “Commandline options”.
If you have installed libvte.so in your system, it is loaded
automatically by Geany. Then you have a terminal widget
in the notebook at the bottom.
If Geany cannot find libvte.so 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 Geany.
Additionally, you can disable the use of the terminal widget by commandline option,
for more information see the section called “Commandline options”.
You can use this terminal (from now on called VTE) nearly as an usual terminal program like xterm. There is a basic clipboard support. You can paste the content of the clipboard 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) or by pressing the right mouse button to open the popup menu and choose 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.
Geany tries to load libvte.so. If this fails, it tries to
load libvte.so.4. If this fails too, you should check whether
you installed libvte correctly. Again, Geany runs also without this library.
But it could be, that the library is called something else than
libvte.so.4 (e.g. on FreeBSD 6.0 it is called
libvte.so.8). So please set a link to the correct file (as root).
#ln -s /usr/lib/libvte.so.X /usr/lib/libvte.so.4
Obviously, you have to adjust the paths and set X to the number of your
libvte.so.