How to Change Themes in Geany Text Editor on Raspberry Pi

Geany is the default IDE on the Raspberry Pi system that allows users to easily write and execute codes written in multiple programming languages, including C, C++, Erlang, Fortran and much more. As a Raspberry Pi user, you may get bored using the same look text editor for Geany and will want to change its theme.

If you are unsure how it’s done, you can follow this article, where we will show you how to change themes in the Geany text editor on the Raspberry Pi system.

How to Change Themes in Geany Text Editor on Raspberry Pi

You can change the default Geany theme on Raspberry Pi from the following steps:

Step 1: Clone Geany Themes Source Files

First, download the Geany themes source file from the GitHub website. For this reason, you have to use the “git” command to clone the source file on the Raspberry Pi system:

Step 2: Navigate to Source Directory and Run the Script File

Now go to the Geany themes source directory and run the script file:

Step 3: Copy Themes Files

Now copy the files from “geany-themes/colorschemes” to Geany’s official directory on the Raspberry Pi system, which is “~/.config/geany/colorschemes/”.

Step 4: Change Themes on Geany

Now, open the Geany IDE from the “Programming” section.

Go to View > Change Colour Scheme option.

Select your desired theme. I selected “Tango Light”.

Close the window by selecting the “Close” button.

This will successfully change the color schemes (theme) on Geany IDE on the Raspberry Pi system.

Conclusion

The Raspberry Pi users can change the color theme of the Geany text editor by downloading the themes source file from GitHub through the “git” command. Then copy the “geany-themes/colorschemes” files to the source directory “~/.config/geany/colorschemes/” in the Raspberry Pi system. Later, they can select any theme from the Change Colour Scheme option.