I think I found another reason why build commands are not suitable for custom user commands, whenever a command is ran, Geany monitors it and shows a "progress" bar at the bottom of the GUI: 
This is a bit distracting when long running programs are started this way. I guess this issue can be solved by making the program fork into another process before exiting, but I am not aware of any common utilities which can do this. -- 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/2764#issuecomment-850921922
