<p>Could you start Geany with <code>geany -v</code> from the terminal and see if there is anything useful in the output?<br>
By default, Geany's configuration directory is in <code>~/.config/geany</code>, does that directory exist and can your user write to <code>~/.config</code>?<br>
If it exist, could you post the output of <code>ls -la ~/.config/geany</code>?</p>
<p>Based on the output above, it might be the symlink creation which fails: on startup, Geany creates a Unix domain socket in <code>/tmp</code> and then create a symlink to that file in the config directory.<br>
Is there a file like <code>geany_socket.<something></code> in your <code>/tmp</code> and if so, what are its permissions and ownership?</p>

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