Penguin
Recent Changes
Blame: x-session-manager(1)
EditPageHistoryDiffInfoLikePages
Annotated edit history of x-session-manager(1) version 2, including all changes. View license author blame.
Rev Author # Line
1 perry 1 GNOME
2 !!!GNOME
3 NAME
4 SYNOPSIS
5 DESCRIPTION
6 OPTIONS
7 ENVIRONMENT
8 SEE ALSO
9 BUGS
10 ----
11 !!NAME
12
13
14 gnome-session - Starts up the GNOME desktop environment
15 !!SYNOPSIS
16
17
18 __gnome-session [[--choosesession] [[--failsafe]__
19 [[--purge-delay=DELAY] [[--warn-delay=DELAY]
20 [[--suicide-delay=DELAY] [[session-name]
21 !!DESCRIPTION
22
23
24 The ''gnome-session'' program starts up the GNOME desktop
25 environment. This command is typically executed by your
26 login manager (either gdm, xdm, or from your X startup
27 scripts). It will load either your last session, or it will
28 provide a default session for the user as defined by the
29 system administrator (or the default GNOME installation on
30 your system).
31
32
33 You can optionally specify a specific session name to
34 restore.
35
36
37 ''gnome-session'' is an X11R6 session manager. It can
38 manage GNOME applications as well as any X11R6 SM
39 compliant.
40
41
42 ''gnome-session'' uses the contents of the
43 ~/.gnome/session file for starting up as specified by the
44 ''
45
46
47 If the session file does not exist, ''gnome-session''
48 will use the contents of the
49 ''/etc/gnome/default.session'' file.
50 !!OPTIONS
51
52
53 The following options are supported:
54
55
56 ''--choose-session=ARG''
57
58
59 User can specify a session to load, as opposed to the
60 session specified in the ~/.gnome/session-options file. If
61 that entry does not exist in the ~/.gnome/session file (or
62 if that file doesn't exist), it will use the default session
63 and all saves to that session will be to the new session
64 name.
65
66
67 ''--failsafe''
68
69
70 Fail safe operations mode: only reads saved sessions from
71 the default.session file.
72
73
74 ''--purge-delay=ARG''
75
76
77 The number of millisecond that ''gnome-session'' will
78 wait for clients to register, if you use 0 it will wait
79 forever (default value: 30,000 milliseconds).
80
81
82 ''--warn-delay=ARG''
83
84
85 The number of millisecond that ''gnome-session'' will
86 wait for clients to respond, if you use 0 it will wait
87 forever (default value: 10,000 milliseconds).
88
89
90 ''--suicide-delay=ARG''
91
92
93 The number of millisecond that ''gnome-session'' will
94 wait for clients to die, if you use 0 it will wait forever
95 (default value: 10,000 milliseconds).
96 !!ENVIRONMENT
97
98
99 ''gnome-session'' accepts all of the standard environment
100 variables used by gnome programs, other than the
101 SESSION_MANAGER environment variable. [[ xref to a manpage
102 where this is documented. ] gnome-session also sets several
103 environment variables for the use of its child
104 processes.
105
106
107 __SESSION_MANAGER__
108
109
110 This variable is used by session-manager aware clients to
111 contact gnome-session.
112
113
114 __DISPLAY__
115
116
117 This variable is set to the X display being used by
118 ''gnome-session''. Note that if the --display option is
119 used this might be different from the setting of the
120 environment variable when gnome-session is
121 invoked.
122 !!SEE ALSO
123
124
2 perry 125 default.session(5),__save-session(1)__
1 perry 126 !!BUGS
127
128
129 If you find bugs in the ''gnome-session'' program, please
130 report these using ''bug-buddy'' or the ''gnome-bug''
131 script included with the GNOME libraries
132 distribution.
133 ----
This page is a man page (or other imported legacy content). We are unable to automatically determine the license status of this page.