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gnome-session for DEBIAN
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Displaying a splash screen implies a noticeable delay in login for most users,
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hence it's disabled by default. You can enable the default splash screen by
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setting the splash_image GConf key to a relative path below /usr/share/pixmaps,
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the default splash of the gnome-session package is
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splash/gnome-debian-splash.png:
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gconftool-2 -s /apps/gnome-session/options/splash_image \
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--type string splash/gnome-debian-splash.png
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Some theme packages might provide other splash pixmaps, notably desktop-base.
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To use the gnome-session manager with startx or xinit, you need to edit your
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The previous maintainers' .xinitrc file looked something like this:
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# This calls our default window-manager
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/usr/bin/x-window-manager&
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# You can replace the line above by seting a WINDOW_MANAGER environment
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# variable to set your preferred WM.
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export WINDOW_MANAGER=sawfish
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# This starts up GNOME
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exec /usr/bin/gnome-session
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Note: If you don't have gnome-session set up at the end of your
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.xinitrc where it does the "exec" (perhaps your window manager
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is there) - you won't be able to use the session manager to
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handle the logging out process (where it will save the state
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Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, & James LewisMoss <dres@debian.org>,
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Mon, 16 Mar 1998 15:27:43 -0800
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Debian's gnome-session uses a Debian-related splash screen instead of
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the original GNOME splash screen by default. You can change the the
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splash screen that should be used using the following gconf key:
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/apps/gnome-session/options/splash_image
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This means that you can set your personal splash screen by using
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gconf-editor to edit the value of that key or you can issue the following
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$ gconftool-2 --type string --set /apps/gnome-session/options/splash_image \
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/usr/share/pixmaps/splash/gnome-splash.png
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The last argument is GNOME's default splash screen. You can choose any
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image, of course. To set the system wide default do:
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# gconftool-2 --direct \
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--config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults \
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--type string --set /apps/gnome-session/options/splash_image \
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/usr/share/pixmaps/splash/gnome-splash.png
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Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov@debian.org>, Sat, 19 Jun 2004 20:51:32 -0300