I switched to wayland about six months ago too. I just tested the exact same workflow on an X11 session and on a Wayland session. X11 sessions do NOT have this problem. On Wayland, this is reproducible 100% of the time.
Also tried the following: invoking geany from an xterm with different GDK backends: xterm with Wayland as GDK Backend - same problem reproduced, same behavior as observed when opening files from nautilus, the existing instance is used to open the second file in a new tab but geany is not brough up to front xterm with XWayland as GDK Backend - no issue: opening the second file causes geany to be brought to front, with the new file in a new tab -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1698#issuecomment-347042959
