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Asked: 2014-01-19 16:09:34 +0800 CST

How Can I Add, and Use, a Color Scheme for Geany?

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I have found that one of my favorite text editors for programming is Geany, however the default color scheme is very bright and hurts my eyes when programming for awhile. There are other color schemes available for Geany but no clear way for installing and using them. Anyone have an idea?

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  1. You can get theme files from https://github.com/codebrainz/geany-themes (I prefer Spyder Dark and InkPot). The easiest way is to click "Clone or download" and then "Download ZIP".

    Just copy the .conf files directly into ~/.config/geany/colorschemes/. (Not wrapped in another subfolder as a result of downloading, archive extraction or Git.)

    They will immediately be available from the menu bar under View → Change Color Scheme...

    Note: These work for Geany 1.22 and above. For older versions you may need to:

    • download different files (links provided in the README above or at http://wiki.geany.org/themes/start)
    • navigate to View → Editor → Change Color Scheme instead
    • restart Geany before the themes appear as new options
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  2. Best Answer

    • You can invert the scheme:

      Edit → Preferences → Editor → Display → Check: Invert highlighter color scheme.

    • The alt scheme is in (You may test if can add other one or just modify this one)

      /usr/share/geany/colorschemes/alt.conf

      Note: How did I found this?

      I check for geany packages using synaptic. Looking in their Installed Files tab then it was found in geany-common package.

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  3. You may try this solution to change the color scheme of your Geany Text Editor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3flgO81_3dE.

    Download Geany Color Scheme from here: https://github.com/geany/geany-themes/

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  4. Even as this thread is quite old, I think I can provide a simpler solution to change Geany to a dark theme if you don't mind change your theme to dark system-wide. Actually it has to done in two steps:

    1. Change the style of the editor window, in order to do so, just follow the instructions in Geany Darkthemes

    2. Change the system theme to dark. At least in Ubuntu you might do that in the Settings Manager, for XUbuntu, I follow the instructions here: XUbuntu 20.04 Release Notes (at the Greybird Dark Theme), note that you have to change both the Appearance and the Window Manager. I suppose that in other distribution there will be similar tools to change to dark theme.

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  5. You can download the github page from https://github.com/codebrainz/geany-themes. then what you do is extract that file somewhere, then run the install.sh file located directly inside the geany-themes file and it will put all the new themes in the correct place for you.

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