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-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-desktop.org/docs
       mate-session-properties(1), mate-session-save(1), mate-wm(1)