Tribblix: manual page: mate-session.1

MATE-SESSION(1) User Commands 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-manager/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)