Ok, thanks.  Here's the errors message:

11:43:23.623807: GLib-GIO DEBUG : _g_io_module_get_default: Found default implementation gvfs (GDaemonVfs) for ‘gio-vfs’
11:43:23.651576: Geany WARNING : Failed to bind IPC socket (/run/user/1000/geany/geany_socket.9ecfe310): 13: Permission denied

Perhaps you have use geany in sudo mode.

Looks like a permission problem.  I hate fixing linux permission problems.  Any suggestions (other than tacking on "sudo" in front of every single command, ha ha)?  I wish there was a blanket security permission thing I could just set to "low" as I'm literally the only person using this system.

Perhaps changing owner of .run/user/1000/geany

sudo chown -R $user:$user .run/user/1000/geany