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Month: April 2021

kate text editor “feature” under konqueror centos7: hard to open more than one file simultaneously

JMW uses Konqueror rather than nautilus file manager under centos7. This “feature” may appear only with above config, but anyway:

if I open a file with kate it’s fine.

if i open a second, the first disappears.  only one shows on desktop and on bottom bar listing all open files.  I can toggle between them on the document tab of left sidebar, but only one at a time!

FIXES:

  1.  View>>split view and then in the document tab on left sidebar, select  each of the TWO (max) files to show in a SINGLE split window.
  2. After opening one, click on new window (control n) and a second (empty) independent window will open up. In that second empty window, you can then navigate with file>>open menu  to second desired file and open it.  This will be my favored approach

I spent a good length of time reading the manual (useless – it tells what kate can do but not how!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) and some blogs and it looks like there is no way to make it automatically put every document in a separate window.  So one of the above “features” will have to do.

–Joel