<p>On Fedora 27 / Wayland, default install, Geany 1.31<br>
In Nautilus, after associating a file type with Geany (e.g. .log or .txt), opening the file creates a new geany instance if there was none, or a new tab in geany if there was an existing instance.<br>
The small annoyance is in the latter case - the new tab is created and the file is loaded, however if Geany's window is not brought to the front nor put in focus</p>
<p>Geany > Preferences does not seem to expose any setting to control this behavior. Gedit's behavior for the same use case is as expected: a new tab is open and Gedit's window is brought to front and given the focus.</p>
<p>I believe Geany's behavior up until some six months ago (1.29?) did not have this problem</p>

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