toggle-menu: sometimes the shortcut has to be pressed two times

[ralf3u]

issue 1 When I restart the computer and I open Geany for the first time and if I press F12 nothing happens (my shortcut is F12 to toggle the menu-bar). Then after the second press of F12 it works fine, so the menu-bar appears and disappears after each press of F12.

issue 2 The same issue happens when the menu-bar is not there any more and then I close Geany. After a restart of Geany I need to press two times F12 to let disappear the menu-bar. Then the menu-bar appears and disappears after each press of F12.

Geany 1.37.1, Lubuntu 21.04

[xiota]

In response to your question about running GeanyLua commands from the terminal, I don't think it's possible without modifying the GeanyLua plugin and possibly also Geany.

About having to press the shortcut twice, did you copy the files from the events folder to .config/geany/plugins/geanylua/events?

The script does not currently save its state between restarts. It would have to be modified to do so.

[ralf3u]

..., did you copy the files from the events folder to ....

I can't find the events folder.

I've added instructions to /events/init.lua about how to start with the menu hidden.

Should I put init.lua in .config/geany/plugins/geanylua/events/? I did that, but after a restart Geany has a problem.

[xiota]

@ralf3u Can you describe the problem Geany is having? I've changed the script to save the menu state across Geany restarts.

[ralf3u]

Can you describe the problem Geany is having? I've changed the script to save the menu state across Geany restarts.

OK, I will do that now.

But meanwhile:

..., did you copy the files from the events folder to ....

I can't find the events folder.

Should I put the files cleanup.lua and init.lua in .config/geany/plugins/geanylua? If yes, issue 2 still occurs.

The best would be for me that after every restart of Geany the menu-bar is hidden, with the option to toggle with a shortcut the menu-bar at any time.

[xiota]

@ralf3u

I can't find the events folder.

GeanyLua makes users do a lot on their own. You have to create any folders that don't exist. .config/geany/plugins/geanylua/events

The best would be for me that after every restart of Geany the menu-bar is hidden...

I've modified the script again so that you can edit events/init.lua to select what the script will do on startup.

[ralf3u]

What I did in the last minutes:

• I created in .config/geany/plugins/geanylua the file "events"
• in the file "events" I created the document cleanup.lua (I took the content from the webpage)
• in the file "events" I created the document init.lua (I took the content from the webpage)
• I put new code in toggle_menu.lua (I took the content from the webpage) (toggle_menu.lua and hotkeys.cfg are both located in the file .config/geany/plugins/geanylua)

But the issues are still the same, and even worst, because before Geany appears, there is a mistake-window:

I think that in int.lua is the problem, because after the mistake-window appears, and if I click there on "Open", Geany opens and only init.lua is open.

After every start of Geany the menu-bar is visible, although it should be hidden after every restart.

[xiota]

@ralf3u Lua cannot find the file because the name of the script it's looking for is toggle-menu.lua, with a dash, not an underscore.

[ralf3u]

@xiota Shame on me! I'm sorry for my mistake. Now the two issues mentioned on top of this report do not exist any more.

But if I let appear the menu-bar and then if I close Geany and then reopen Geany, then there is again the menu-bar. Well, I would prefer that Geany starts always with the hidden menu-bar. For having this behavior: Can it be that I need only to change in the document ini.lua the lines down below?

action = "startup" to action = "hide"

[xiota]

@ralf3u Changing action = "startup" to action = "hide" will do what you want. That is the purpose of that line.

[ralf3u]

@xiota Thank you so much for your scripts. It works perfect for me. It is exactly that what I was looking for.

[xiota]

@ralf3u Glad it's working for you now. If you're interested, here's another plugin I've been working on: geany-preview

[ralf3u]

@xiota I wanted to share with you a screenshot of my Geany, how beautiful and minimalist it is now:

The image shows the whole window.

[xiota]

@ralf3u It's good to know that script is being put to use... Do you really not even have a title bar either?

[ralf3u]

@xiota I see no point in using a title-bar. I disabled it in Lubuntu in the document lxqt-rc.xml that is located in .config/openbox. 6 lines before the end of the document I added those lines:

<application class="Geany"><decor>no</decor></application>

I also changed the color of the unsaved document-name, what you can see in the picture above, because the default color is too strong for me.

[xiota]

@ralf3u One of Linux's strong points is how customizable it is. I use kde plasma and xfce with the title bar set to hide when windows are maximized. I keep the title bars n windowed mode because they're familiar and provide a convenient place to grab to move windows around.

[ralf3u]

@xiota

[...] the title bars [...] provide a convenient place to grab to move windows around.

For that I use shortcuts in combination with the windows-key that I defined in lxqt-rc.xml, so I don't need to grab: W+arrow-left: window to the left W+arrow-right: window to the right W+arrow-top: window to the top W+arrow-bottom: window to the bottom W+return: maximize the window

Firefox can be grabbed without the title-bar by grabbing the tab-bar, if there are not too many tabs open and if the window is not maximized. Also Geany can be grabbed without the title-bar by grabbing the menu-bar, if the window is not maximized, at least in Lubuntu 21.04.

[xiota]

@ralf3u

I tend to have most programs maximized. The main exception is the file manager to drag and drop files into other applications.

Also Geany can be grabbed without the title-bar by grabbing the menu-bar...

Except that now you have the menu hidden =)

Xfce and plasma both have global menus, so the menu can be hidden and shown elsewhere.