Geany doesn't get focus

[mahesh]

Ubuntu22.04 desktop with LUKS, GNOME 42.9

Geany is an advanced text editor/IDE very useful for me,
I set Geany as the default application to open text files

from the file explorer GUI
if i click on a .txt file then Geany doesn't get focus,
instead an alert/dialog is displayed which disappears after a few seconds,
this alert/dialog contains the geany logo and the file name,
to be able to assign focus to Geany I have to switch between running programs with ALT+TAB
tks in advance for help