Geany is behaving strangely

Technical Issues & Assistance
#1

Good Day Community,

Geany is acting up and I don’t know why. Here is the error message I receive

$ geany 

(geany:3995): Geany-WARNING **: 23:07:41.015: Geany tried to access the Unix Domain socket of another instance running as another user.
This is a fatal error and Geany will now quit.
Gtk-Message: 23:07:41.158: GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent. This is discouraged.

Can someone please tell me how to fix this?

#2

Did you happen to run geany as root? Bad things can happen if you do that - short answer, root can take possession of your ~/.config/geany.

Found these:

geany error message 1

geaqny error 2

looks to be the same solution, do a search of that (those) error messages; looks to be a common error; lots of hits.

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#3

Did he get owned ! Or it doesn t have anything to do with it.

#4

I agree, when using geany as root will cause it to fail. But my issue now, is that geany takes a long time to come up after the major update from .03 to .07.

#5

Thanks my bru. The first link did the trick!
Yes, I do run geany as root. One has to when one wants to edit root config files. Do you suggest vim or something else leafpad?

#6

Leafpad is good for that if you want a gui. Otherwise vim or nano which are already installed. Personally, I use a cli editor for system configuration. I’ll log into dwm and fire up a terminal if I know I’ll be doing that. It’s a mental trigger for me so I don’t forget I’m doing edits as root.

#7

Also, there’s gedit. But, vim is more conducive for configuration files.