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

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?

Solution 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

Solution 2:

• 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.

Solution 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/