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johane

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From: Dalarna - Sweden

Registered: 2010-02-05

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Kate always open the file dialog in my home directory.

Kate has lost her memory. Every time I open the file dialog Kate starts in my home directory and not where the file is located. This is annoying and I want to fix it. I have looked in every setting but to no success. How do I get Kate to remember?

johane

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From: Dalarna - Sweden

Registered: 2010-02-05

Posts: 42

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Re: Kate always open the file dialog in my home directory.

Still very annoying.
I really need a "point me in the right direction" here.
It also happens when I choose "save as". Kate open the file dialog in my home directory and not where the file is located.

pb

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From: Krakow, PL

Registered: 2014-12-26

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Re: Kate always open the file dialog in my home directory.

File a bug to bugs.kde.org.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,665

Re: Kate always open the file dialog in my home directory.

It works here, so more likely to be a problem on johane's setup than a KDE bug. Are the permissions on e.g. ~/.config/katerc correct? Have you ever ran kate as root without using kdesu? What does your session look like?

loginctl show-session $XDG_SESSION_ID

johane

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From: Dalarna - Sweden

Registered: 2010-02-05

Posts: 42

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Re: Kate always open the file dialog in my home directory.

What does your session look like?

$ loginctl show-session $XDG_SESSION_ID
Id=c2
User=1000
Name=johan
Timestamp=Sun 2018-02-18 20:19:04 CET
TimestampMonotonic=31197227
VTNr=1
Seat=seat0
Display=:0
Remote=no
Service=sddm
Desktop=KDE
Scope=session-c2.scope
Leader=581
Audit=0
Type=x11
Class=user
Active=yes
State=active
IdleHint=no
IdleSinceHint=0
IdleSinceHintMonotonic=0
LockedHint=no

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: Kate always open the file dialog in my home directory.

Forum pro hint: when you are asked 3 relevant but distinct questions and answer just 1 it is easy to interpret that as apathy or being ignored.  If there are reasons you cannot as readily answer the other questions, at least note that in your response.

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johane

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From: Dalarna - Sweden

Registered: 2010-02-05

Posts: 42

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Re: Kate always open the file dialog in my home directory.

Forum pro hint: when you are asked 3 relevant but distinct questions and answer just 1 it is easy to interpret that as apathy or being ignored.  If there are reasons you cannot as readily answer the other questions, at least note that in your response.

Sorry, I was in a bit of a hurry and totally missed those two questions. My bad.

No I have not run kate as root without kdesu.
What are the correct permissions?

Trilby

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Re: Kate always open the file dialog in my home directory.

Either of the following, personally I prefer the latter:

ls -l ~/.config/katerc
stat ~/.config/katerc

I don't have kate, so I can't say precisely what they should be, but most likely the ownership should be <youruser>:<youruser> or <youruser>:users and the permissions should likely be 0644 or -rw-r--r-- (don't yet try to change them if they are not as I'm not 100% sure).

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,665

Re: Kate always open the file dialog in my home directory.

Permissions:

-rw------- 1 videl videl   261 18. Feb 19:01 .config/katemetainfos
-rw------- 1 videl videl 53086 20. Mär 2017  .config/katemoderc
-rw------- 1 videl videl  1706 18. Feb 18:59 .config/katepartrc
-rw------- 1 videl videl  2369 20. Feb 14:09 .config/katerc
-rw------- 1 videl videl    92 19. Dez 2016  .config/kateschemarc
-rw------- 1 videl videl  1919 18. Sep 16:07 .config/katesyntaxhighlightingrc
-rw------- 1 videl videl   419 29. Aug 2016  .config/katevirc

Potentially relevant content example

[General]
Config Revision=10
Days Meta Infos=30
Last Session=
Modified Notification=false
Recent File List Entry Count=10
Restore Window Configuration=true
Save Meta Infos=true
Show Full Path in Title=false
Show Menu Bar=true
Show Status Bar=true
Show Tab Bar=true
Startup Session=manual

[KFileDialog Settings]
Recent Files[$e]=file:$HOME/Dokumente/FHNW/algd1/11 - MergeSort/mergetheory.txt,file:$HOME/Dokumente/FHNW/EDBS/05RelDesign/RelD01A1.txt,file:$HOME/Dokumente/FHNW/EDBS/05RelDesign/A3.txt,file:$HOME/Dokumente/FHNW/ecae2/basiceng,file:///etc/shadow,file:///etc/motd
Recent URLs[$e]=file:$HOME/Dokumente/FHNW/eana/,file:$HOME/Dokumente/FHNW/algd1/02 - Fliesskommazahlen & Zeichen/,file:$HOME/Dokumente/FHNW/algd1/04 - Vor- und Nachbedingungen/,file:$HOME/Dokumente/FHNW/swc/le04-continuousIntegration/,file:$HOME/Dokumente/FHNW/algd1/05 - Komplexität/,file:$HOME/Dokumente/FHNW/algd1/10 - Rekursion/,file:$HOME/Dokumente/FHNW/algd1/11 - MergeSort/

adjust as relevant on your system. Is it only kate that has this issue, or does it happen in other kdialog using programs as well?

R00KIE

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From: Between a computer and a chair

Registered: 2008-09-14

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Re: Kate always open the file dialog in my home directory.

I would create a new user and check if with that user it works fine or not, that should help figure out if it the problem is caused by a stale/borked configuration file or something system wide.

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