mate-session(1)

1MATE-SESSION(1)             General Commands Manual            MATE-SESSION(1)
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NAME

6       mate-session - Start the MATE Desktop Environment.
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SYNOPSIS

9       mate-session [OPTIONS]
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DESCRIPTION

12       The  mate-session  program starts up the MATE desktop environment. This
13       command is typically executed by your Login/Display Manager (like  GDM,
14       LXDM, XDM, SLiM, or from your X startup scripts like .xinitrc). It will
15       load either your saved session, or it will provide  a  default  session
16       for  the  user  as  defined by the system administrator (or the default
17       MATE installation on your system).
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19       The default session is defined in the dconf keys under  /org/mate/desk‐
20       top/session/
21       When  saving a session, mate-session saves the currently running appli‐
22       cations in the ~/.config/mate-session/saved-session  directory  of  the
23       users /home.
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25       mate-session is an X11 session manager. It can manage MATE applications
26       as well as any other X11 SM compliant ones.
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OPTIONS

30   The following options are supported:
31       -a, --autostart=DIR
32              Start all applications defined in "DIR", instead of starting the
33              applications  defined  in /org/mate/desktop/session/default-ses‐
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35              Multiple --autostart options can be passed.
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37       -f, --failsafe
38              Run in fail-safe mode. User-specified applications will  not  be
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41       --debug
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44       --display=DISPLAY
45              X display to use.
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47       --version
48              Output version information and exit.
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50       -?, -h, --help
51              Print standard command line options.
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53       --help-all
54              Print all command line options.
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ENVIRONMENT

58   mate-session  sets  several  environment variables for the use of its child
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60       SESSION_MANAGER
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62              This variable is used by session-manager aware clients  to  con‐
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67              This  variable  is  set to the X display being used by mate-ses‐
68              sion. Note that if the --display option is used  this  might  be
69              different  from  the  setting  of  the environment variable when
70              mate-session is invoked.
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74       ~/.config/autostart
75       /usr/share/autostart
76       /usr/share/mate/autostart
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78              The applications  defined  in  the  above  directories  will  be
79              started on login. mate-session-properties(1) can be used to eas‐
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82       ~/.config/mate-session/saved-session
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84              This directory contains the list of applications  of  the  saved
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BUGS

88   Should you encounter any bugs, they may be reported at:
89       http://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-session-manager/issues
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AUTHORS

92   This Manual page was originally written for gnome-session by:
93       Miguel de Icaza <miguel@helixcode.com> (2000)
94       Vincent Untz <vuntz@gnome.org> (2009-2010)
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96   It has been updated for the MATE Desktop Environment by:
97       Adam Erdman <hekel@archlinux.info> (2014)
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