Leslie Turriff wrote: > Okay. I didn't know that the same settings appear in two different files. > (Why is that?) > what do you mean it appears in two different files? > I did these steps: > 1) rm ~/.trinity/share/apps/kate here in sessions are the session settings stored > 2) rm ~/.trinity/share/config/kate_* > 3) rm ~/.trinity/share/config/katerc the two above are not really relevant - are they? > 4) opened Kate, which asked to select a session; chose Default > Session 5) Window -> Tool Views -> Hide Documents > 6) Window -> Tool Views -> Hide Sidebars This should not have to do anything with the documents view. It hides the whole of the side bar ... well if you prefer, be it > 7) closed Kate > 8) reopened Kate; Success! > cool > So apparently one has to remove at least the first two configuration items > (not sure about katerc) to ensure that the tool views settings are > properly accepted. I see now that Kate did not recreate > ~/.trinity/share/config/kate_*, and only default.session exists in > ~/.trinity/share/apps/kate/sessions. > in config ( ~/.trinity/share/config/ ) are the configuration files related to the application. in app/kate/sessions/ are the files related to the sessions. It might have been a setting in your files that was moved to the session settings and thus was overwriting the session setting, while you were not able to change it, because the version we use now writes to the session setting ... just a theory. regards --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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