Hello, After giving up on this I tried troubleshooting again and found that the fix I noted above is working now.
This was using the same fix shown above by editing the "katerc" file in section named [General] and adding, Last Session=mysession.katesession My notes: $ kate --version Qt: 4.8.4 KDE Development Platform: 4.11.5 Kate: 3.11.5 $ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 13.10 Release: 13.10 Codename: saucy -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/774985 Title: kate does not load last-used session To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kdesdk/+bug/774985/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
