Wayland veel probleemiks Geany jaoks, seniks aitab XWayland ehk siis GDK_BACKEND=x11 geany:

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/applications
cp /usr/share/applications/geany.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/
sed -i 's/^Exec=geany/Exec=env GDK_BACKEND=x11 geany/' ~/.local/share/applications/geany.desktop