I kind of use it to a significant degree as a "file manager for images," so more often than not I'm on the file pane, much more so than the folder pane, but apparently there's no way to change the default focus, besides eventually changing the source code somehow and compiling it. Preferably with the default-focus-here-or-there being an option, so everyone can have it the way they chose. But for now the best I can do is having this xdotool wrap-around script on $PATH, named geeqie as well:...
