On 2023-09-22 15:05:03 you wrote: > J Leslie Turriff via tde-users wrote on 9/22/23 13:34: > > On 2023-09-19 15:38:26 you wrote: > >> J Leslie Turriff via tde-users wrote on 9/18/23 23:32: > >>> Configuration of the Sessions feature in Kate has always been > >>> confusing (at least for you and me). > >>> > >>> If you Click on Sessions => Select Session > how many sessions do you > >>> see? > >> > >> One (called "Unnamed"). > >> > >>> In the image you posted, 'Behavior on Application Exit or Session > >>> Switch' at the bottom is set to 'Do not save session'; perhaps, though > >>> you have created a new session, your session info was not saved into > >>> it? You could change that to 'Ask user' to see if that helps. > >> > >> I did that, and it changed things, although not really a help: > >> > >> With "Do not save session" selected: > >> > >> 1. Open blank kate. > >> This has a sidebar with "Untitled" in it. > >> > >> 2. Change session configuration to: "Ask user". > >> > >> 3. Remove sidebar. > >> > >> 4. File | Quit > >> Asks me whether to save the session; click "Save". > >> > >> --- > >> > >> 5. Open blank kate. > >> No sidebar. Good. But... > >> > >> 6. Type some text. > >> > >> 7. File | Quit > >> Asks me whether to save the file. > >> I select yes, and give it a filename. > >> Asks me whether to save the session; click "Delete". > > > > But why did you want to delete the session which is remembering that you > > don't want the sidebar to be displayed? > > ??? I wanted to delete the new session that I was in, so that it wouldn't > get written to disk, so that when I next opened kate, it would be in the > same state as in state 5. > > There are three session-related choices when I quit: Save, Delete, Cancel. > Cancel obviously isn't right, because that cancels the attempt to quit. > Save isn't right, because if I do that, the next time I open kate, it > remembers the text I type in 6, and also gives me the sidebar. So "delete" > was the only thing that made sense. > > Feel free to tell me what I should have selected... but I've explicitly > tried both Save and Delete, and neither did the right thing. > > > Now that you know that the session is recording that, you can change > > 'Ask user' to 'Save session' (it really means 'Re-save session') and it > > will remember it forever. 'Load last-used session' and 'Save session' > > will do what you want. > > OK, so, going back to the initial configuration, I execute: > > 1. Open blank kate. > This has a sidebar with "Untitled" in it. > > 2. Change session configuration to: "Ask user". > > 3. Remove sidebar. > > 4. File | Quit > Asks me whether to save the session; click "Save". > > 5. Open blank kate. > No sidebar. Good. > > 6. Change session configuration to "Save Session". > > 7. Check that session configuration says "Load last-used session". It does. > > 8. File | Quit > Kate immediately quits, with no questions. > > 9. Open blank kate. > This has a sidebar with "Untitled" in it. > > So at what step did I do something different from what you think I should > do? > > Doc I think you have to, after removing the sidebar, set Sessions => Save As, with a new name, e.g. 'NoSidebar' before doing File => Quit. Then that will be the session loaded the next time, since you have 'Load last-used session' active when you quit. Leslie -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.4 - x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.1.0 tde-config: 1.0 ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
