On Monday 19 December 2016 22.30:00 Dave Lers wrote:

> Set Settings > configure > sessions > save session
> ...check include window configuration


> That's it, restart Kate.

Kate seems to not always react the same. I was about to answer that your 
directions dos *not* work here (openSuSE, TDE 14.0.0 and 14.0.3).  I followed 
your suggestion on my laptop and Kate still opens with Documents and side 
bar.

Now the settings seem to stick on my desktop. Before, setting "save session" 
on exit would bring back the "Documents" window. 

> Startup behavior (new/save/select) doesn't matter.

You are right, it does not if you don't save sessions. But it can't hurt.

> Kate changes the settings of the session you have open. If you make
> the above changes to the default session, they will be saved as
> default.katesession

No session is saved anyway here (that may be because I some time choose to 
always start with a new session?).

For me, the setting that works best is to not save sessions (automaticaly) and 
save them manually. As I do this only rarely, I don't want to have to choose 
a session at start either

> > I rebooted the computer
>
> Totally pointless.

Not for me when I want to make sure someting will work also next time I start 
the computer.

Thierry