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2 !!!Xsession.options
3 NAME
4 DESCRIPTION
5 SEE ALSO
6 AUTHOR
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8 !!NAME
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11 Xsession.options - configuration options for __Xsession(5)__
12 !!DESCRIPTION
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15 ''/etc/X11/Xsession.options'' contains a set of flags
16 that determine some of the behavior of the
5 perry 17 Xsession(5) Bourne shell (sh(1)) script. See
18 the Xsession(5) manpage for further
1 perry 19 information.
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22 ''Xsession.options'' may contain comments, which begin
23 with a hash mark and end at the next newline, just like
24 comments in shell scripts. The rest of the file consists of
25 options which are expressed as words separated by hyphens,
26 with only one option per line. If an option is present with
27 the
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31 Available options are:
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34 allow-failsafe
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37 If the
38 Xsession'' script, an emergency X session is invoked,
5 perry 39 consisting of only an x-terminal-emulator(1) in the
1 perry 40 upper-left hand corner of the screen. No window manager is
41 started. If an x-terminal-emulator is not available, the
42 session exits immediately.
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45 allow-user-resources
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48 If users have a file called ''.Xresources'' in their home
49 directories, these resources will be merged with the default
50 resources when they log in.
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53 allow-user-xsession
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56 If users have an executable file called ''.Xsession'' in
57 their home directories, it is used as the startup program
5 perry 58 for the X session (see Xsession(5)). If the file is
1 perry 59 present not executable, it is still used, but assumed to be
60 a Bourne shell script, and executed with
61 sh(1).
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64 use-ssh-agent
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5 perry 67 If the ssh-agent(1) program is available no agent
1 perry 68 process appears to be running already, the X session will be
69 invoked by exec'ing __ssh-agent__ with the startup
70 command, instead of the startup command
71 directly.
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74 Additional options may be supported by the local
5 perry 75 administrator. See Xsession(5) for how this is
1 perry 76 accomplished.
77 !!SEE ALSO
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5 perry 80 Xsession(5), __ssh-agent__(1),
81 x-terminal-emulator(1)
1 perry 82 !!AUTHOR
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85 This manpage was written by Branden Robinson for Debian
86 GNU/Linux.
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