budgie-desktop(1)

budgie-desktop1

Central entry point from gnome-session to display the graphical interface

Overview

Usage:

gnome-session-binary [OPTION?]

? the GNOME session manager

Help Options:

-h, --help

Show help options

Application Options:

--systemd-service

Running as systemd service

--systemd

Use systemd session management

--builtin

Use builtin session management (rather than the systemd based one)

-a, --autostart=AUTOSTART_DIR

Override standard autostart directories

--session=SESSION_NAME

Session to use

--debug

Enable debugging code

-f, --failsafe

Do not load user-specified applications

--version

Version of this application

--whale

Show the fail whale dialog for testing

--disable-acceleration-check

Disable hardware acceleration check

Releases

5 releases since Debian 10 (Buster); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 10–11
  2. 12
  3. 13
  4. Arch

--builtin since Debian 12 (Bookworm); --systemd since Debian 12 (Bookworm); --systemd-service since Debian 12 (Bookworm).

From budgie-desktop 10.10.2-3 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.