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xfce4-session(1) User Commands xfce4-session(1)

NAME

xfce4-session - Starts up the Xfce Desktop Environment

SYNOPSIS

xfce4-session

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the xfce4-session command.

The xfce4-session program starts up the Xfce Desktop Environment and
is typically executed by your login manager (e.g. xdm, gdm, kdm, wdm
or from your X startup scripts). It will load your last session or a
default session that includes the standard Xfce programs if no saved
session is available.

xfce4-session is an standard X11R6 session manager that can manage
any X11R6 SM compliant program, including GNOME and KDE programs.

xfce4-session uses the contents of the ~/.cache/sessions/ directory
for starting previously saved sessions.

OPTIONS

xfce4-session takes the following command line options:

--disable-tcp
Disable binding to TCP ports in the ICE layer. This is not
possible on every platform. If you use this option on a
platform that does not support it, xfce4-session will print a
warning message and ignore the setting.

--help Print a help screen and exit.

--version
Output version information and exit.

ENVIRONMENT

xfce4-session's behaviour is affected by the following environment
variables.

XDG_CONFIG_HOME
Specifies the root for all user-specific configuration files.
If this environment variable is unset, it defaults to
~/.config/

XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
Set of preference ordered base directories relative to which
configuration files should be searched in addition to the
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME base directory. The directories should be
separated with a colon.

XDG_CACHE_HOME
Specifies the root for all user-specific cache data. If this
environment variable is unset, it defaults to ~/.cache/

XFSM_VERBOSE
When defined, this environment variable enables debugging
messages to be saved to ~/.xfce4-session.verbose-log The log
file from the last session run with this environment variable
set is retained at ~/.xfce4-session.verbose-log.last These
debugging messages are useful for troubleshooting and
development.

FILES

xfce4-session reads its configuration from Xfconf. xfce4-session
stores its session data into $XDG_CACHE_HOME/sessions/.

AUTHOR

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

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to http://bugzilla.xfce.org/.