Kate

Published 8 months ago: June 01, 2020

Kate, KDE's feature-filled, included text editor.

This cheatsheet is a small collection of handy snippets for quick reference in tricky situations. Feel free to suggest edits, propose additions, complain about something, disagree with content or such and the like. Every feedback is a welcome one.

Fixing Kate's 'save session' bug

If Kate is not saving sessions

Make sure the active user own all files under .kde

sudo chown -R username:username /home/username/.kde

Open ~/.kde/share/config/katerc and verify if these are in there:

[General] 
Last Session=mysession.katesession 
Restore Window Configuration=true 
Session Exit=save

Note: There has been a long outstanding bug where sometimes some of the settings are not properly saved.