Unfortunately, it is not on the list and at least in my version you do not get to make a custom pick unfortunately. Now we will want to set this as our default program to open text files. I assume you name the batch file wgeany otherwise replace that in the following instructions with whatever you named it.

Socket=`xprop -root _NET_CURRENT_DESKTOP`Įxec geany -socket-file '/tmp/geany_socket_$socket' geany the batch file in a directory included in PATH (see ). I had trouble getting Olivier's answer to work so I thought I would include more detailed instructions on his answer in case others have trouble too (all credit goes to him, upvote him instead of/as well as mine). This became too long for a comment so I'm posting it as an answer instead. I can't see an option relating to this in the settings. no: open a new Geany in this workspace and open the file in that.On opening a file: is there a Geany running in this workspace?.Is there a way i can change this behaviour? I'd like it to be like so:

So it's like it always opens a file in the 'primary' Geany, and switches to whatever workspace that happens to be in. the desktop switches to workspace 1 again and opens the file in the first instance of Geany.start a new instance of Geany from the program menu (so i now have one per workspace).I can start another instance of Geany from the programs menu, and move one into the other workspace, but it doesn't change the behaviour: I then see this: When i do this in Gedit, it opens a new instance of Gedit in that workspace, which suits my style of working perfectly, where i have different projects open in each workspace. the desktop switches to workspace 1 again and opens the file in Geany.double click a file to open it (in Geany).One thing that bugs me though is this behaviour: The two text editors i use are Gedit and Geany (v0.25): i use Geany for all my coding as i prefer the syntax highlighting and some other interface features.

Geany text editor for windows