mate-session − Start the MATE Desktop Environment.
mate-session [OPTIONS]
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.
−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.
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.
˜/.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.
http://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-session-manager/issues
Miguel de Icaza
<[email protected]> (2000)
Vincent Untz <[email protected]> (2009-2010)
Adam Erdman <[email protected]> (2014)
mate-session-properties(1), mate-session-save(1), mate-wm(1)