This whole sessions configuration paradigm in Kate is extremely confusing and totally non-intuitive. That said, I got Kate to refrain from opening the document view ONCE by 1) Delete .trinity/Share/Apps/Kate folder 2) Open Kate 2) Settings -> Configure Kate -> Session -> Load last-used session Settings -> Configure Kate -> Session -> Save session 3) Close Kate 4) Reopen Kate -- Yay! No document view! 5) Closed Kate I started this reply, and reopened Kate to verify the settings, and Surprise! The D....d document view is back. :-( It doesn't seem to matter much what settings I make, or whether or not I explicitly save the session or not; Kate insists that I should have the document view whether I like it or not. :-( Leslie On 2016-12-19 15:30:00 Dave Lers wrote: > Thierry de Coulon wrote: > > On Monday 19 December 2016 10.40:36 Leslie Turriff wrote: > >> Okay, I tried using this new method, but it doesn't seem to > >> work for me either. I still get the documents sidebar. > > > > Maybe I found a way - seems to work for the moment. > > Set Settings > configure > sessions > save session > ...check include window configuration > > > 1) setup Kate with no side bar/document windows > > That's it, restart Kate. > > > 2) save the session under the name "default" > > Why? You just configured Kate to save sessions on exit. > > > 3) set up Kate to start with a new session and not to save any > > Startup behavior (new/save/select) doesn't matter. > > > 4) Kate does *not* name it default.katesession, > > 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 > > > I rebooted the computer > > Totally pointless. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > trinity-users-unsubscribe@... For additional > commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@... Read list > messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ > Please remember not to top-post: > http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting