Geany broken in Stretch ?

[drmullins]

Fresh install of Raspbian Stretch

Open Geany

Create a file fred.py containing :
#!/usr/bin/env python
print 'fred'

chmod 777 fred.py

Select Build > Execute in geany
A terminal window opens with the heading geany_run_script_NLDN5Y.sh or similar
Nothing visible in terminal window - expecting fred

Help!

[drmullins]

Sorry I forgot to say I set the Execute command to python %f before executing
Also have a similar problem running bash scripts

[buja]

I am having the same problem, both on my Pi and a laptop running Debian Stretch, previous versions (Wheezy, Jessie) worked fine.

[M5]

I am having the same problem.

After downloading the new stretch version and running sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y to get the most up to date version I still get a blank terminal window with the heading of geany_run_script_Z4835Y.sh the last part seems to change each time you run a python program.

Does anyone have any ideas how to fix this issue.

Kind regards fellow Pi people

[buja]

I have not solved the problem, but I did found a work-around.

Under Edit / Preferences / Terminal check "Execute programs in the VTE". Geany will run your program in its own terminal at the bottom of the window. It's not really an alternative for a full terminal window, but it might help a bit.

Any pointers to a better solution are welcome.

[drmullins]

I found another solution (to my own problem !) after much searching and some experimentation :

Change the first line after [tools] in ~/.config/geany/geany.conf

to

terminal_cmd=x-terminal-emulator --command="/bin/sh %c"

and reboot

[buja]

I found another solution (to my own problem !) after much searching and some experimentation :

Change the first line after [tools] in ~/.config/geany/geany.conf

to

terminal_cmd=x-terminal-emulator --command="/bin/sh %c"

and reboot

Great! So it seems the x-terminal-emulator command has changed a bit from Jessie to Stretch.

By the way, you can make this change in Geany itself: Edit / Preferences / Tools and change the Terminal line. Press Apply and Geany should work. If you edit the config file manually you can log out and log in again to make it work, full reboot is not necessary.
Edit: I think you only have to exit Geany and start it again to make it work.

[ShiftPlusOne]

The default value has been fixed now. Thanks for reporting the issue.

For compatibility with xterm, I've just remove the quote marks around the command instead of using --command.

[bemoyer]

I had a similar issue and found that if I simply resized the output window my Hello World suddenly appeared when there had previously been nothing but a white spot. I have no idea why resizing the window would change what was displayed. Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks!

[Negative459]

Sorry to revive an older thread but I can't find my answer elsewhere. I have tried the above suggestion but changing my terminal path in preferences > tools to terminal_cmd=x-terminal-emulator --command="/bin/sh %c" gets me this:

Cannot execute build command "terminal_cmd=x-terminal-emulator --command="bin/sh /tmp/geany_run_script_2IYJV.sh"': No such file or directory

What am I doing wrong? TIA

**update - N00b mistake. I deleted the terminal_cmd= in the field and I no longer get the directory error but I still get a blank window. Resizing it doesn't get me anything either. Any thoughts? Doing preferences > terminal > execute programs in the VTE works, but it's annoying and prefer a pop-up terminal window.

[RogerSmith]

What version of Python are you running?

Geany defaults to Python 2

If you are running Python 3 you need to set Execute Commands in the Build Commands tab to python3 -i "%f"

[Negative459]

Thanks Roger. I tried this but it didn't fix my issue. I guess I will just keep executing in the VTE, which seems to work.

[Paeryn]

Cannot execute build command "terminal_cmd=x-terminal-emulator --command="bin/sh /tmp/geany_run_script_2IYJV.sh"': No such file or directory

Added emphasis, it looks like you might have missed the leading / at the start of the command, it should be /bin/sh whereas that error says you have it set to just bin/sh.

[Negative459]

Cannot execute build command "terminal_cmd=x-terminal-emulator --command="bin/sh /tmp/geany_run_script_2IYJV.sh"': No such file or directory

Added emphasis, it looks like you might have missed the leading / at the start of the command, it should be /bin/sh whereas that error says you have it set to just bin/sh.

That was totally it! Thank you. You can tell I'm still new to all this when such a simple syntax error can slip past my notice. Thanks, Paeryn!