At startup, Geany loads the first 15 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 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 the section called “Compile time options”.
You can start several instances of Geany, but only the first will load files from the last session. To run a second instance of Geany, do not specify any filenames on the command-line, or disable opening files in a running instance using the appropriate command line option.
Geany detects an already running instance of itself and opens files from the command-line in the already running instance. So, Geany can be used to view and edit files by opening them from other programs such as a file manager. If you do not like this for some reason, you can disable using the first instance by using the appropriate command line option - see the section called “Command line options”.
If you have installed libvte.so in your system, it is loaded
automatically by Geany, and you will 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 command line option,
for more information see the section called “Command line options”.
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).
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 also runs without this library.
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.