Unfortunately Gtk3 dropped the support for flipping through notebook pages for 'usability reasons' without making it available again with some kind of options. So applications like gnome-terminal started to re-implement this feature. For maintaining feature parity with the Gtk2 backend, geany should re-implement scrolling through notebook pages as well.
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