Change auto-open / auto-focus when opening a file in geany

[rubyFeedback]

Right now, at the least for me on mate-desktop, when I open several files in geany, the focus is instantly activated.

This is a useful default but not in all cases. My old editor did not autofocus and while this may have drawbacks, one advantage is that I could slowly batch-open different files and continue to work on the commandline (I use the commandline a lot).

Would it be possible to have some advanced option or toggle to change this auto-focus behaviour of geany? E. g. I could then toggle it to not auto-take away the focus.

I know that this must be able to work on a per-application basis because my old editor worked like this, on mate-desktop too. It could be some widget entry in options to toggle that behaviour then.

[codebrainz]

This sounds like a window manager feature (ex. here).

[elextr]

On modern WMs (like my Cinnamon) its a GUI setting, no faffing about with gconf, so I assumed the OP didn't want it set since its a global setting. The only way of making it only apply to the Geany window is for Geany not to request focus after opening the file.

[elextr]

[oops hit "comment" too soon]

Hence its a simple enhancement to add an option to prevent that, but somebody has to contribute it.

[b4n]

Sounds reasonable enough to accept a well written pull request with a various pref.
I however never used this workflow and usually open files I want when I want, but that's me.