I don't know if this comment will be displayed on a closed issue, but I had the same problem on Arch Linux, Gnome 3, X11 Session. In this case my workaround was to edit /usr/share/applications/geany.desktop and change the "Exec" line to:
Exec=env GDK_BACKEND=x11 geany %F


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