I mentioned with the start options you provided me
that
Kate no longer would pop to the front and grab the focus
unless I set focus stealing to none. Today I noticed a side
effect of that. I open my virtual machines in virtual
desktop 2 and now whenever I do that the focus shifts to
that virtual desktop immediately. Not what I want because I
prefer them to open in the background as they take a minute
or two to fully boot. Annoying. Yet another reason not to
like Kate sessions.
There is a work-around:
In Control Center, Desktop, Window-Specific Settings; or from Kate's title bar context
menu, select Advanced, Special window settings; and create an option for Kate. In the
'Workarounds' tab, set the focus stealing prevention level to None and leave the
global setting at Low.
How in the world did I remember that? :)
Darrell