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NAME

6       xfce4-session - Starts up the Xfce Desktop Environment
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SYNOPSIS

9       xfce4-session
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DESCRIPTION

12       This manual page documents briefly the xfce4-session command.
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14       The xfce4-session program starts up the Xfce Desktop Environment and is
15       typically executed by your login manager (e.g. xdm, gdm,  kdm,  wdm  or
16       from  your  X startup scripts). It will load your last session or a de‐
17       fault session that includes the standard Xfce programs if no saved ses‐
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20       xfce4-session  is an standard X11R6 session manager that can manage any
21       X11R6 SM compliant program, including GNOME and KDE programs.
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23       xfce4-session uses the contents of the ~/.cache/sessions/ directory for
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OPTIONS

29       xfce4-session takes the following command line options:
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32              Disable  binding to TCP ports in the ICE layer. This is not pos‐
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34              that  does  not  support  it, xfce4-session will print a warning
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37       --help Print a help screen and exit.
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ENVIRONMENT

45       xfce4-session's behaviour is  affected  by  the  following  environment
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49              Specifies the root for all user-specific configuration files. If
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53              Set of preference ordered base  directories  relative  to  which
54              configuration  files  should  be  searched  in  addition  to the
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59              Specifies the root for all user-specific cache data. If this en‐
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63              When defined, this environment variable enables  debugging  mes‐
64              sages  to  be saved to ~/.xfce4-session.verbose-log The log file
65              from the last session run with this environment variable set  is
66              retained  at  ~/.xfce4-session.verbose-log.last  These debugging
67              messages are useful for troubleshooting and development.
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71       xfce4-session  reads  its  configuration  from  Xfconf.   xfce4-session
72       stores its session data into $XDG_CACHE_HOME/sessions/.
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AUTHOR

76       xfce4-session  was  written by Benedikt Meurer <benny@xfce.org> as part
77       of the Xfce project.  This manual page was written by Oliver M.  Bolzer
78       <oliver@debian.org> and Benedikt Meurer <benny@xfce.org>.
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REPORTING BUGS

82       Report bugs to https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-session/.
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86       Copyright © 2003-2014 Benedikt Meurer.
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