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Noah Goodrich
Asked: 2011-10-18 21:37:56 +0800 CST

Problems with using themes in Geany

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I'm trying to switch to the Geany editor for my web development but need to switch to a dark theme. In searching for some default themes I came across this excellent collection.

I've now installed the themes and they appear when I go to View -> Editor -> Color and I can select one. However, selecting a theme does nothing.

I am running Geany 0.20 (the latest version on Ubuntu 11.10) and have tried installing the new version and the deprecated version of the themes but get the same from both.

11.10

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  1. Best Answer

    Happened with me too , you need to copy all the colorschemes in ~/.config/geany/colorschemes and the next step which was not mentioned anywhere is you also need to copy the files in filedefs folder in the zip to corresponding folder in ~/.config/geany/filedefs and then it will start working !!

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  2. I've got the same Geany (0.2) and Ubuntu (11.10) as yours, and the following commands worked for me:

    git clone https://github.com/codebrainz/geany-themes.git
cd geany-themes
./install

    Make sure that you have

    1. Geany installed. Click To Install
    2. Restart geany after installation
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