> 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