Bug 506797

Summary:	Since about V25.04.2 Kate Autostart now regularly purges my Kate Session
Product:	[Applications] kate	Reporter:	Dominik Kummer <admin>
Component:	sessions	Assignee:	KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	tbertels, waqar.17a
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	25.04.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Dominik Kummer 2025-07-09 11:55:23 UTC

I added Kate in Autostart KCM with the following parameters `-n -s <my-session-name>`. But when I boot my machine and login my user with SDDM - since latest update - Kate starts with the welcome page, telling me that my most important session has zero files. Without regular backup I'd probably quit myself.

Comment 1 Thomas Bertels 2025-08-19 10:52:04 UTC

I just had this too with Kate 25.04.3 on Wayland with the "On login, launch apps that were open: On last logout" Session Restore KCM setting enabled.
I used to manually close Kate before rebooting and reopening it by opening a file.

For anyone wondering, the sessions are saved in ~/.local/share/kate/sessions/

Comment 2 Waqar Ahmed 2025-08-20 08:40:24 UTC

Can someone try with latest Kate and see if this is still reproducible?

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Comment 4 Dominik Kummer 2025-09-04 21:35:53 UTC

I is still reproducable with autostart application settings:

program: kate
arguments: -s [yoursessionname]

Comment 5 Dominik Kummer 2025-09-04 21:37:02 UTC

btw it does not happen after every single login, so its not reliably reproducable IMHO.

Comment 6 Waqar Ahmed 2025-09-24 04:34:35 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 508494 ***