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


NAME

       mate-session - Start the MATE Desktop Environment.


SYNOPSIS

       mate-session [OPTIONS]


DESCRIPTION

       The mate-session program starts up the MATE desktop environment. This
       command is typically executed by your Login/Display Manager (like GDM,
       LXDM, XDM, SLiM, or from your X startup scripts like .xinitrc). It will
       load either your saved session, or it will provide a default session
       for the user as defined by the system administrator (or the default
       MATE installation on your system).

       The default session is defined in the dconf keys under
       /org/mate/desktop/session/
       When saving a session, mate-session saves the currently running
       applications in the ~/.config/mate-session/saved-session directory of
       the users /home.

       mate-session is an X11 session manager. It can manage MATE applications
       as well as any other X11 SM compliant ones.


OPTIONS

   The following options are supported:
       -a, --autostart=DIR
              Start all applications defined in "DIR", instead of starting the
              applications defined in
              /org/mate/desktop/session/default-session
              Multiple --autostart options can be passed.

       -f, --failsafe
              Run in fail-safe mode. User-specified applications will not be
              started.

       --debug
              Enable debugging code.

       --display=DISPLAY
              X display to use.

       --version
              Output version information and exit.

       -?, -h, --help
              Print standard command line options.

       --help-all
              Print all command line options.


ENVIRONMENT

   mate-session sets several environment variables for the use of its child
       processes:
       SESSION_MANAGER

              This variable is used by session-manager aware clients to
              contact mate-session.

       DISPLAY

              This variable is set to the X display being used by mate-
              session. Note that if the --display option is used this might be
              different from the setting of the environment variable when
              mate-session is invoked.


FILES

       ~/.config/autostart
       /usr/share/autostart
       /usr/share/mate/autostart

              The applications defined in the above directories will be
              started on login. mate-session-properties(1) can be used to
              easily configure them.

       ~/.config/mate-session/saved-session

              This directory contains the list of applications of the saved
              session.


BUGS

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


AUTHORS

   This Manual page was originally written for gnome-session by:
       Miguel de Icaza <miguel@helixcode.com> (2000)
       Vincent Untz <vuntz@gnome.org> (2009-2010)

   It has been updated for the MATE Desktop Environment by:
       Adam Erdman <hekel@archlinux.info> (2014)


SEE ALSO

   Further information may also be available at:
       http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/docs
       mate-session-properties(1), mate-session-save(1), mate-wm(1)

MATE Desktop Environment       11 February 2014                MATE-SESSION(1)

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