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[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Hello Shirish!

You are looking at the wrong place. xsessions belong to

	/usr/share/xessions

and that's where I can find the MATE session on my laptop:

glaubitz at znote-t60l:~$ ls -l /usr/share/xsessions/
total 20
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   86 Aug  6  2011 lightdm-xsession.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6773 Mar  9 12:01 mate.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4294 Jan 18 10:38 xfce.desktop
glaubitz at znote-t60l:~$

The mate session file is located in the package "mate-session-manager":

glaubitz at znote-t60l:~$ ls -l /usr/share/xsessions/
total 20
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   86 Aug  6  2011 lightdm-xsession.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6773 Mar  9 12:01 mate.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4294 Jan 18 10:38 xfce.desktop
glaubitz at znote-t60l:~$

It is currently not available in Debian unstable but only from
the MATE repositories [1] since it is still stuck in NEW [2]:

glaubitz at znote-t60l:~$ apt-cache policy mate-session-manager
mate-session-manager:
   Installed: 1.8.0-0+jessie
   Candidate: 1.8.0-0+jessie
   Version table:
  *** 1.8.0-0+jessie 0
         500 http://repo.mate-desktop.org/archive/1.8/debian/ 
jessie/main amd64 Packages
         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
glaubitz at znote-t60l:~$

Thus, you can either install MATE through the MATE repositories
from [1] or simply wait until MATE has been completely uploaded
to Debian unstable. Since MATE is a fully blown desktop which is
installed through a large number of packages, it takes some time
until all packages necessary for MATE are part of Debian and users
have to be patient and should refrain from reporting bugs.

Cheers,

Adrian

 > [1] http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download
 > [2] https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/mate-session-manager_1.6.1-1.html

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