<p>Why do you need to click?  I am not an XFCE user, but most DEs have a focus follows cursor option.</p>
<p>Generally swallowing user actions is a bad idea IMHO.</p>
<p>The editing component <a href="www.scintilla.org">Scintilla</a> that Geany uses has an option the make the current line background always on, so it just needs someone to make a PR to read the setting from the unused flag  on the <code>current_line</code> setting that defines the background colour in the colour scheme files.  But somebody has to do it, pull requests are welcome.</p>

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