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Section: uxlaunch manual (1) Updated: Sep 29, 2009
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NAME

uxlaunch - program to start the X desktop  

SYNOPSIS

uxlaunch [OPTIONS] [-- SESSION]  

DESCRIPTION

uxlaunch is a program that initiates the X server and desktop environment. It starts the main component of the desktop up as soon as the X server is ready and relies on autostart .desktop files for other applications to be started. uxlaunch Was designed to start the Moblin desktop but can launch Gnome, Xfce and other desktop sessions as well.  

OPTIONS

-u [USERNAME], --user=[USERNAME]

 specify an alternative user to start the desktop session as. By
 default, uxlaunch will use the first user accound found through
 various tests, or the user "meego" if none valid is found.
-s [SESSION], --session=[SESSION]

 specify an alternative session to start. This overrides the
 default session (Moblin) and attempts to start [SESSION]
 instead.
-t [TTY], --tty=[TTY]

 Specify to use tty [TTY] instead of tty2 to run the X server
 on.
-v, --verbose

 Display more information on stderr. All messages go to the
 logfile (/var/log/uxlaunch.log) in any case.
-h, --help

 Display terse usage information.
 show the help message.
 

BUGS

Send bug reports to <meego-dev@meego.com>  

SEE ALSO

The program is more fully described at http://meego.com/  

AUTHOR

uxlaunch was written by Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>, and Auke Kok <auke@linux.intel.com>.


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
BUGS
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR

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