---
name: "mate-settings-daemon"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "mate-settings-daemon"
version: "1.28.0-3"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/mate-settings-daemon"
---

# mate-settings-daemon(1)

Handles the MATE session settings

## NAME

mate-settings-daemon - Handles the MATE session settings

## SYNOPSIS

**mate-settings-daemon** \[**--debug**\] \[**--replace**\] \[**--display**=*DISPLAY*\]

## DESCRIPTION

*mate-settings-daemon* is responsible for setting the various preference parameters of a MATE session and the applications that run under it.

## OPTIONS

Help options

- \-?, **--help**

  Show this help message

Application options

- **--debug**

  Enable debugging code

- **--replace**

  Replaces the current running daemon

- **--display**=*DISPLAY*

  X display to use

## AUTHOR

**mate-settings-daemon** was written by Jonathan Blandford \<jrb@redhat.com\> and William Jon McCann \<mccann@jhu.edu\>.

This manual page was originally written by Joshua Cummings \<jrac@internode.on.net\>.

This manual page was adopted for MATE by Vangelis Mouhtsis \<vangelis@gnugr.org\>.