Chapter 3. Usage

Table of Contents

Getting Started
Command line options
General
Startup
Detection of a running instance
Global C tags
Virtual terminal emulator widget (VTE)
Search and Replace
Preferences
Compile time options
Build System
Compile
Build
Build with "make"
Build with make (custom target)
Execute
Set Includes and Arguments
File type configuration settings
Keybindings
Filetype definition files
Format
Special file filetypes.common
Templates

Getting Started

You can start Geany in the following ways:

  • From the Desktop Environment menu

    Choose in your application menu of your used Desktop Environment: Development->Geany.

  • From the command line

    To start Geany from a command line, type the following and press Return:

    								% geany