GNOME(1)GNOME(1)gnome-session - Starts up the GNOME desktop environment
SYNOPSISgnome-session [--choosesession] [--failsafe] [--purge-delay=DELAY]
[--warn-delay=DELAY] [--suicide-delay=DELAY] [session-name]
DESCRIPTION
The gnome-session program starts up the GNOME desktop environment.
This command is typically executed by your login manager (either gdm,
xdm, or from your X startup scripts). It will load either your last
session, or it will provide a default session for the user as defined
by the system administrator (or the default GNOME installation on your
system).
You can optionally specify a specific session name to restore.
gnome-session is an X11R6 session manager. It can manage GNOME appli‐
cations as well as any X11R6 SM compliant.
gnome-session uses the contents of the ~/.gnome/session file for
starting up as specified by the "Current Sesssion" key in the
~/.gnome/session-options file. Various default values are provided in
case the file entry does not exist.
If the session file does not exist, gnome-session will use the contents
of the ${prefix}/share/gnome/default.session file.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
--choose-session=ARG
User can specify a session to load, as opposed to the session
specified in the ~/.gnome/session-options file. If that entry
does not exist in the ~/.gnome/session file (or if that file
doesn't exist), it will use the default session and all saves to
that session will be to the new session name.
--failsafe
Fail safe operations mode: only reads saved sessions from the
default.session file.
--purge-delay=ARG
The number of millisecond that gnome-session will wait for
clients to register, if you use 0 it will wait forever (default
value: 30,000 milliseconds).
--warn-delay=ARG
The number of millisecond that gnome-session will wait for
clients to respond, if you use 0 it will wait forever (default
value: 10,000 milliseconds).
--suicide-delay=ARG
The number of millisecond that gnome-session will wait for
clients to die, if you use 0 it will wait forever (default
value: 10,000 milliseconds).
ENVIRONMENTgnome-session accepts all of the standard environment variables used by
gnome programs, other than the SESSION_MANAGER environment variable. [
xref to a manpage where this is documented. ] gnome-session also sets
several environment variables for the use of its child processes.
SESSION_MANAGER
This variable is used by session-manager aware clients to con‐
tact gnome-session.
DISPLAY
This variable is set to the X display being used by gnome-ses‐
sion. Note that if the --display option is used this might be
different from the setting of the environment variable when
gnome-session is invoked.
SEE ALSOdefault.session(5),save-session(1)BUGS
If you find bugs in the gnome-session program, please report these
using bug-buddy or the gnome-bug script included with the GNOME
libraries distribution.
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