lxsession-edit(1)

📦 version 0.5.6, in alpine 3.24, debian bookworm, debian trixie, fedora 43, fedora 44, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable, opensuse-leap 16.0, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 lxsession-edit(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual — this is the page for lxsession-edit, and yes she is as cute as she sounds. sit down, grab a strawberry, we're doing session editing 🍓

✨ NAME ✨

lxsession-edit — a simple session editor GUI for LXDE which follows autostart specs from FreeDesktop.Org

like, she's a GUI, she's simple, and she plays by the FreeDesktop.Org autostart rules because we respect the spec in this house 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

lxsession-edit [ DE ]

that's it. one optional lil thing. we love a low-effort queen 👑

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so lxsession-edit is the app you open when you wanna change the list of applications which will be ran on session start. it's giving "who gets to show up to the party when you log in" energy, and you're the one with the guest list 📝✨

and where does she get the session name from, you ask? three options, in order of drama:

  • from the command line (hey, that's your DE argument, more on her in a sec)
  • from the environment variables XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP or DESKTOP_SESSION
  • and if literally none of those show up? "LXDE" is assumed. she's got a default, she's got a fallback, she's prepared 🫶

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • DE — provide desktop session name to edit autostart list

that's the whole menu, bestie. one option, zero bloat, main character energy fr fr 👑

🦋 ENVIRONMENT 🦋

these are the env vars she peeks at to figure out your session name, and yes the order matters:

  • XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP — default variable to get session name
  • DESKTOP_SESSION — fallback variable to get session name

so XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP is the first pick, and if she's not home, DESKTOP_SESSION picks up the phone. and if both ghost you… hi, "LXDE", nice to meet you 😭💜

👑 AUTHORS 👑

This manual page is written by Andriy Grytsenko <andrej@rep.kiev.ua>. thank you for your service, icon 🫡✨

🌈 that's the whole page, babes 🌈

and that's a wrap on lxsession-edit(1) from the General Commands Manual — no cap, you now know everything this page knows. go forth and curate your autostart list like the icon you are 💖🎀🦋

📦 where this page comes from