On Sat, Jul 23, 2022 at 5:42 AM Bert Vercauteren via Users <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi group, > > Linux user here.. MXLinux. > I use Geany almost only as an html-editor. > I've been using an old version of Epiphany a.k.a. Web as the live preview, > because it automatically updated each time a save was made in the source code > in Geany. But it was not very stable and slowed down a lot. For the moment I > use Firefox as the preview engine. It's okay, but there's no auto-refresh, so > I have to hit the FF refresh button after each change. > > In older Geany information there was talk about a Geany html plugin that had > a html preview. That plugin seems to be removed. > > I found an unofficial package on the web, downloaded it, but there the joy > ended: It seemed to be source code, needing compiling, something that is far > beyond my knowledge. It was called "webkit-preview" or something similar. > > Hope I described my situation enough and hope to read how you experts have > solved this. >
No expert here (I would love to know how to write html code by the way!!) but I can assure you that compiling source code and installing it is not that difficult. https://www.makeuseof.com/compile-install-software-from-source-linux/ One reasonably well written set of instructions. There are many many more such. Search for linux + source code + compiling (Caution - - - occasionally one runs into 'dependency hell' or where you seek to compile and an error happens - - - you need more tools installed - - - I have had it where there were 6 different levels of dependencies and I had to install some 30 odd other packages just to get the one package that I wanted to run - - - - -but it did run! (That was a very very difficult install and most are very straight forward!)) I would suggest that you try doing the compiling and installation steps. Dunno how the forum here leaders would view further questions but I for one would suggest that if you can't get the job done - - - well then - - - come back and ask more questions whilst providing what you have done and what isn't working. (Hopefully that behavior is allowed - - - question of the list maintainers) HTH _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
