https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=360063
--- Comment #3 from CapsAdmin <eliashogstv...@gmail.com> --- (In reply to Greg Lepore from comment #2) > I saw a recent comment on a forum that indicated this was because there was > an existing process of kate running, so when you try to open it via > double-clicking on a text file or from the command line, kate doesn't open > because it is already running. > > Check for a running kate (ps aux | grep kate) when it refuses to open. Force > closing that running instance (killall kate) should allow you to run kate by > command line again. > > The forum report indicated that this was due to closing kate via the corner > x and not via File->Quit, which supposedly avoids the issue. The bug is also > reported fixed, but I just encountered it, thus the Googling! > > On a related note, kate should check for exactly this situation and display > a popup dialog indicating that kate is currently running somewhere else... Turns out there was about 20 instances of kate running and if I close those I can open documents from dolphin again. This is caused by some other issue where on boot about 100 instances of kate will open and I guess closing kate is broken ish. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=360066 Maybe plasma attempts to restore the hidden kate processes on reboot which stacks up after a while since they don't always close -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.