Well ... of course, "simple" means "simple for somebody who knows the project well". :-) When I wrote about "only need to put some if's around things", that was a wild guess :-) because to me as geany user, this is how it looks like: just switch off some things that geany normally does.
BTW: I've already accepted that I need to go without the background/forking part and use `&` instead. So, the option could also be named --nofocus. --- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/907#issuecomment-186172487
