Geany
Geany is a lightweight text and code editor, and is one of our officially recommended editors.
Installing
Geany is a FOSS multi-language text and code editor. It aims for simplicity and ease-of-use.
Installing on Linux
If you’re on Ubuntu, you can just install via…
sudo apt install geany geany-plugins
Geany is available from the official package repositories for many other Linux distros.
Installing on Mac
You can download the official DMG for Geany and its plugins from https://www.geany.org/Download/Releases.
Installing on Windows
You can download the official Windows installer for Geany and its plugins from https://www.geany.org/Download/Releases.
Adding Themes to Geany
Note
These instructions only work on Mac and Linux.
I don’t know about you, but I hate working with black-text-on-white-background. Thankfully, with Geany, you don’t have to!
To install additional themes, first make sure you have Geany already closed completely.
Go to the geany-themes project on GitHub. Just above the list of files, towards the right, click Download ZIP. Save that in your Home folder.
In your file browser, extract the ZIP file. In Ubuntu, you can do that by
right-clicking the file and clicking Extract Here. That should
have created a new folder called geany-themes-master
in your Home
folder.
Open up a Terminal and run the following command…
~/geany-themes-master/install.sh
That will report if it runs successfully.
Now, restart Geany. Go to View → Change Color Scheme… and select a color scheme that you like. Click Close when you’re happy with your selection.
Finally, in your file browser, delete the geany-themes-master
folder
out of your Home folder.