Am Sonntag 18 Dezember 2016 schrieb Michele Calgaro:
Unfortunately I do nowhere see an option to set default session. However, it appeared once, in an opening dialog to choose the session to open and there was an switch to let kate always open that chosen session when starting. But I can't reproduce that.
The default session up to R14.0.x is hardwired in the code, if a session does not exist the default session is created/selected by default.
Kate -> Settings -> Configure Kate -> Session: provides option for session management when opening and closing Kate. In particular if you choose "Manually choose session" you will be presented with a dialog where to select the session to use when you start Kate
And there comes up again the option to permanently choose that session to be opened by default. I did not try that because I was thinking it would only choose the session for that one particular start-up of kate.
That is what I could not rediscover after it had appeared one time... Thanx. So, the proposed "work-around" is obsolete ;-)