Newbie finds KATE acting strangely

[Richard Troy]

On Tue, 17 Sep 2024, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> *QUESTION*
> How do I start KATE as it would have been if it had never been run on this 
> machine?
>

Kate, as most utilities with personalizable attributes do, has an entry in 
your home directory.

I've only tried kate once and haven't bothered wiht it since but I knew I 
had done this so I went looking:

$ ls -A ~ | grep -i kate

The above revealed nothing.

The following, however, showed what you need to muck with:

$ ls -A ~/.* | grep -i kate

Presuming all that shows up is exclusively kate-the-editor related and not 
something else (NOT a safe bet), you could remove all of it and it should 
be as if you never had run it.

HTH,
Richard

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