Excellent! I'll give this a try. On 2016-12-17 09:16:20 Stefan Krusche wrote: > After a little experimenting I found this workaround: > > 1) Start with pristine kate config dir > > cp ~/.trinity/share/apps/kate{,orig} > > 2) Open kate with no arguments and close it > > 3) Open ~/.trinity/share/apps/kate/sessions/default.session with an editor > and change these options to "false" and save file. > Kate-MDI-Sidebar-Visible=false > Kate-MDI-ToolView-kate_filelist-Visible=false > > 4) Next time you open kate it will neither show the side bar nor the > document list.