`GDK_BACKEND=x11` is the default, you need to set the environment variable to `GDK_BACKEND=wayland` [see](https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/gtk-wayland.html) and I suspect you need to have built Geany with `--enable_gtk3`, I don't think GTK2 supports wayland at all.
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