> Yeah, I know what's going on - basically Geany is launched by a bash script > which sets the environment variables needed by GTK and Geany. So for macOS, > it's /bin/bash which needs to get the full disk access privileges - see e.g. > this answer for more details: > > https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/53026/how-to-restore-file-system-access-in-macos-catalina > > (just use /bin/bash for Geany). > > Anyway, this is clumsy and has potential security implications. I've been > working on a binary launcher for Geany to workaround this and in addition to > use GTK3 instead of GTK2 because I had some rendering problems on Catalina. > Here's the result: > > https://download.geany.org/snapshots/geany-1.36_osx.dmg > > Please give it a try and let me know if you run into any problems. In future > Geany releases I'd like to switch to GTK3 and use the binary launcher.
This build appears to work for me. Many thanks! :) -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/2344#issuecomment-541407715
