Xsession.options(5) File Formats Manual Xsession.options(5)
NAME
Xsession.options, Xsession.options.d - configuration options for Xsession(5)
DESCRIPTION
/etc/X11/Xsession.options and /etc/X11/Xsession.options.d/*.conf contain options that de-
termine some of the behavior of the Xsession(5) Bourne shell (sh(1)) script. See the
Xsession(5) manpage for further information.
These configuration files may contain comments, which begin with a hash mark ('#') and end
at the next newline, just like comments in shell scripts. The rest of the file consists
of options which are expressed as words separated by hyphens, with only one option per
line. Options are enabled by simply placing them in the file; they are disabled by pre-
fixing the option name with 'no-'.
Options are read from /etc/X11/Xsession.options, followed by /etc/X11/Xsession.op-
tions.d/*.conf in sorted order; later occurrences of an option (with or without the 'no-'
prefix) take precedence over earlier occurrences.
Available options are:
allow-failsafe
If the 'failsafe' argument is passed to the Xsession script, an emergency X session
is invoked, consisting of only an x-terminal-emulator(1) in the upper-left hand
corner of the screen. No window manager is started. If an x-terminal-emulator
program is not available, the session exits immediately.
allow-user-resources
If users have a file called .Xresources in their home directories, these resources
will be merged with the default X resources when they log in.
allow-user-xsession
If users have an executable file called .xsession in their home directories, it can
be used as the startup program for the X session (see Xsession(5)). If the file is
present but not executable, it may still be used, but is assumed to be a Bourne
shell script, and executed with sh(1).
use-session-dbus
If the dbus package is installed, the session bus will be activated at X session
launch.
use-ssh-agent
If the ssh-agent(1) program is available and no agent process appears to be running
already, the X session will be invoked by exec'ing ssh-agent with the startup com-
mand, instead of the startup command directly.
All of the above options are enabled by default. Additional options may be supported by
the local administrator. Xsession(5) describes how this is accomplished.
AUTHORS
Stephen Early, Mark Eichin, and Branden Robinson developed Debian's X session handling
scripts. Branden Robinson wrote this manual page.
SEE ALSO
Xsession(5), ssh-agent(1), x-terminal-emulator(1)
Debian Project 2004-10-31 Xsession.options(5)
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