F5/Execute in Geany doesn't work on Kubuntu 14.04

[Guest]

I have been trying out Geany for the first time, however F5/Execute doesn't work in Kubuntu 14.04.

Test setup:

• New project named "hello-world"
• Single C file named "hello-world.c" containing a trivial hello world program
• All settings left at default

On Ubuntu 14.04, F9/Build correctly builds hello-world, and F5/Execute correctly runs it.
On Kubuntu 14.04, F9/Build correctly builds hello-world, but F5/Execute does not run it. Instead, a terminal window appears with a $ prompt and nothing else.

Both tests were done in VirtualBox VMs with clean installs with all updates installed. The same symptom occurs if I try Geany on my laptop running Kubuntu 14.04.

[Rod J]

I've had the same problem too ... it appears to be related to this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...le/+bug/948321

My workaround was to install the actual "xterm X terminal emulator" and it now works just like it did in Ubuntu.

[Guest]

Ah, thank you! That's got me looking in the right place, and I've found another workaround.

In Edit -> Preferences -> Tools, change the Terminal from

   x-terminal-emulator -e "/bin/sh %c"

to

   x-terminal-emulator -e /bin/sh %c

and Execute starts working as expected.

[jlittle]

Another workaround is to create a simple script in $HOME/bin/x-terminal-emulator:

#!/bin/bash
konsole $*

and chmod +x it. geany will use this in preference to /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator (which is linked eventually to konsole in kubuntu).

I think the underlying problem is that the terminal-emulator script gets two parameters, "-e" and "/bin/sh ./geany_run_script.sh", and konsole wants 3, the /bin/sh separated from the ./geany_run_script.sh.