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.\" gnome-session manual page.
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.\" (C) 2000 Miguel de Icaza (miguel@helixcode.com)
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.TH GNOME 1 "GNOME 1.0"
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gnome-session \- Starts up the GNOME desktop environment
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.B gnome-session [\-\-choosesession] [\-\-failsafe]
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[\-\-purge-delay=DELAY] [\-\-warn-delay=DELAY]
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[\-\-suicide-delay=DELAY] [session-name]
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The \fIgnome-session\fP program starts up the GNOME desktop
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environment. This command is typically executed by your login manager
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(either gdm, xdm, or from your X startup scripts). It will load
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either your last session, or it will provide a default session for the
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user as defined by the system administrator (or the default GNOME
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installation on your system).
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You can optionally specify a specific session name to restore.
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\fIgnome-session\fP is an X11R6 session manager. It can manage GNOME
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applications as well as any X11R6 SM compliant.
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\fIgnome-session\fP uses the contents of the ~/.gnome2/session file
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for starting up as specified by the "CurrentSession" key in the
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~/.gnome2/session-options file. Various default values are
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provided in case the file entry does not exist.
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If the session file does not exist, \fIgnome-session\fP will use the
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.I @datadir@/gnome/default.session
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The following options are supported:
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.I "--choose-session=ARG"
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User can specify a session to load, as opposed to the session
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specified in the ~/.gnome2/session-options file. If that entry
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does not exist in the ~/.gnome2/session file (or if that file
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doesn't exist), it will use the default session and all saves
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to that session will be to the new session name.
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Fail safe operations mode: only reads saved sessions from the
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.I "--purge-delay=ARG"
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The number of millisecond that \fIgnome-session\fP will wait for
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clients to register, if you use 0 it will wait forever (default value:
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The number of millisecond that \fIgnome-session\fP will wait for
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clients to respond, if you use 0 it will wait forever (default value:
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.I "--suicide-delay=ARG"
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The number of millisecond that \fIgnome-session\fP will wait for
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clients to die, if you use 0 it will wait forever (default value:
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\fIgnome-session\fP accepts all of the standard environment variables
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used by gnome programs, other than the SESSION_MANAGER
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environment variable. [ xref to a manpage where this is documented. ]
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gnome-session also sets several environment variables
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for the use of its child processes.
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This variable is used by session-manager aware clients to contact
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This variable is set to the X display being used by
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\fIgnome-session\fP. Note that if the --display option is used
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this might be different from the setting of the environment variable
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when gnome-session is invoked.
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.BR default.session (5), gnome-session-save(1)
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If you find bugs in the \fIgnome-session\fP program, please report
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these using \fIbug-buddy\fP or the \fIgnome-bug\fP script included
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with the GNOME libraries distribution.