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¶
mate-session-properties(1), mate-session-save(1),
mate-wm(1)