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I've made quite a few changes to the preferences for my convenience. Now, I want to install it on several computers with the modified preferences.

It would be far easier if I can just copy the preferences/settings file(s) from the modified installation into the new installation folders instead of modifying the preferences of each new installation one by one.

Where am I to find the preferences/settings files of Geany?

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If you are running Geany on Linux/BSD you will find them in folder ~/.config/geany

On very ancient versions of Geany there have been a ~/.geany folder.

As for deploying it on other computers: Keep care, as inside file geany.conf there are absolute paths defined, which are e.g. dependent on your username.

Peter Mortensen
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frlan
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  • Watch out, the `~/.config/geany/geany.conf`is created after the first run of `geany`, after installing the program there's no such file. – nightcod3r Feb 20 '17 at 20:20
  • BTW, any idea of where is the plugins configuration stored? (e.g. 'save when loosing focus' is active in my installation, what is the file that keeps this value? – nightcod3r Feb 20 '17 at 20:29
  • OK, pretty obvious: `~/.config/geany/plugins` – nightcod3r Feb 20 '17 at 21:34
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Run in your terminal

locate geany.conf

This is the file where your preferences are being stored. For shortcuts, search for keybindings.conf.

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According to the Geany manual, you can check the paths Geany is using with menu Help → Debug Messages. Near the top there should be two lines with something like:

Geany-INFO: System data dir: /usr/share/geany
Geany-INFO: User config dir: /home/username/.config/geany

Paths on Unix-like systems

The system path is $prefix/share/geany, where $prefix is the path where Geany is installed (see Installation prefix). The user configuration directory is normally: /home/username/.config/geany

Paths on Windows

The system path is the data subfolder of the installation path on Windows.

The user configuration directory might vary, but on Windows XP it's: C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application Data\geany. On Windows 7 and above you most likely will find it at: C:\users\UserName\Roaming\geany.

Peter Mortensen
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The easiest way to find it is menu Tools → Configuration Files → snippets.conf.

It will open a new tab. In the title bar there will be the path where geany.conf resides.

In my particular case it was:

~/.var/app/org.geany.Geany/config/geany
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