Thanks for the bug report.
Does that happen to you on the first time you start geany? Did you at
any point start geany with "sudo" to access files that you otherwise
don't have rights to?
I tried to reproduce with a fresh 13.04, 13.10 and 14.04 (beta) install,
but couldn't get the error mentioned
Public bug reported:
After a fresh install, when running Geany it starts with a dialog
stating
"Configuration directory could not be created (Permission denied).
There could be some problems using Geany without a configuration directory.
Start Geany anyway?"
When looking at the properties of /ho