When kate is "terminated" by closing it's window there is a kate process left. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Launch kate 2. Close kate's window 3. Issue "ps -ef | grep kate" from a vt Actual Results: There is a kate process still shown, for example: paul@Orion-Tumble:~$ ps -ef | grep kate paul 1573 1451 10 15:10 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/kate -b paul 1604 1580 0 15:11 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto kate paul@Orion-Tumble:~$ Expected Results: The kate process terminates when it's window is closed. This behaviour was observed after the kde-frameworks-5.17.0 update. Kate 15.08.3 KDE Frameworks 5.17.0 Qt 5.5.1 (built against 5.5.1) Further information on the openSUSE forum, please see: https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/512463-Odd-problem-with-%28kde%29-kate-following-the-20151229-TW-snapshot
I have the same problem. When I close the Kate window, Kate process is still running in the background yet the window is gone. When I go to open another file associated with Kate, it opens in the background process and no window is displayed. I have to use "killall kate" to remove the processes from the background in order to use Kate again. - Fedora 22 - Kate Version 5.0.0 Using: KDE Frameworks 5.17.0 Qt 5.5.1 (built against 5.5.1) The xcb windowing system
Sorry, forgot to add if I use "File -> Quit" instead of the "Close" button, kate terminates correctly.
Confirmed: "File -> Quit" properly terminates Kate. The "Close" button is causing the problem.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 354507 ***