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MATE-SESSION(1) 	     General Commands Manual		 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 com-
     mand is typically executed by your Login/Display Manager (like  GDM,  LXDM,
     XDM,  SLiM, or from your X startup scripts like .xinitrc). It will load ei-
     ther 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	applica-
     tions  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 ap-
	    plications 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  ses-
	    sion.

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)

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 2014		 MATE-SESSION(1)

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