mate-session - Start the MATE Desktop Environment.
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Bugs
Shouldyouencounteranybugs,theymaybereportedat:http://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-session-manager/issues
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.
Environment
mate-sessionsetsseveralenvironmentvariablesfortheuseofitschildprocesses: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.
Name
mate-session - Start the MATE Desktop Environment.
Options
Thefollowingoptionsaresupported:-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.
See Also
Furtherinformationmayalsobeavailableat:http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/docsmate-session-properties(1),mate-session-save(1),mate-wm(1) MATE Desktop Environment 11 February 2014 MATE-SESSION(1)
Synopsis
mate-session[OPTIONS]
