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xfce4-session(1)				   General Commands Manual				    xfce4-session(1)

NAME
       xfce4-session - Starts up the Xfce Desktop Environment

SYNOPSIS
       xfce4-session

DESCRIPTION
       This manual page documents briefly the xfce4-session command.

       The  xfce4-session  program  starts  up	the Xfce Desktop Environment and is typically executed by your login manager
       (e.g. xdm, gdm, kdm, wdm or from your X startup scripts). It will load your last session or a  default  session	that
       includes the standard Xfce programs if no saved session is available.

       xfce4-session  is  an  standard X11R6 session manager that can manage any X11R6 SM compliant program, including GNOME
       and KDE programs.

       xfce4-session uses the contents of the ~/.cache/sessions/ directory for starting previously saved sessions.

OPTIONS
       xfce4-session takes the following command line options:

       --disable-tcp
	      Disable binding to TCP ports in the ICE layer. This is not possible on every platform. If you use this  option
	      on a platform that does not support it, xfce4-session will print a warning message and ignore the setting.

       --help Print a help screen and exit.

       --version
	      Output version information and exit.

ENVIRONMENT
       xfce4-session's behaviour is affected by the following environment variables.

       XDG_CONFIG_HOME
	      Specifies	 the  root  for all user-specific configuration files. If this environment variable is unset, it de‐
	      faults to ~/.config/

       XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
	      Set of preference ordered base directories relative to which configuration files should be searched  in  addi‐
	      tion to the $XDG_CONFIG_HOME base directory. The directories should be separated with a colon.

       XDG_CACHE_HOME
	      Specifies	 the  root  for	 all user-specific cache data. If this environment variable is unset, it defaults to
	      ~/.cache/

       XFSM_VERBOSE
	      When defined, this environment variable enables debugging messages to be saved to ~/.xfce4-session.verbose-log
	      The log file from the last session run with this environment variable set is retained at ~/.xfce4-session.ver‐
	      bose-log.last These debugging messages are useful for troubleshooting and development.

FILES
       xfce4-session reads its configuration from Xfconf.  xfce4-session stores its session data  into	$XDG_CACHE_HOME/ses‐
       sions/.

AUTHOR
       xfce4-session  was  written  by	Benedikt  Meurer  as part of the Xfce project.	This manual page was
       written by Oliver M. Bolzer  and Benedikt Meurer .

REPORTING BUGS
       Report bugs to https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-session/.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright © 2003-2014 Benedikt Meurer.

							Sep 28, 2014					    xfce4-session(1)
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