MATE-SESSION(1)MATE-SESSION(1)NAMEmate-session - Start the MATE Desktop Environment.
SYNOPSISmate-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/desk‐
top/session/
When saving a session, mate-session saves the currently running appli‐
cations 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-ses‐
sion
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.
ENVIRONMENTmate-session sets several environment variables for the use of its child
processes:
SESSION_MANAGER
This variable is used by session-manager aware clients to con‐
tact mate-session.
DISPLAY
This variable is set to the X display being used by mate-ses‐
sion. 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 eas‐
ily 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-desk‐
top.org/docs
mate-session-properties(1), mate-session-save(1), mate-wm(1)MATE Desktop Environment 11 February 2014MATE-SESSION(1)
