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 installa
tion on your system).
You can optionally specify a specific session name to
restore.
gnome-session is an X11R6 session manager. It can manage
GNOME applications 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 Sess
sion" 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 ses
sions 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 SES
SION_MANAGER environment variable. [ xref to a manpage
where this is documented. ] gnome-session also sets sev
eral environment variables for the use of its child pro
cesses.
SESSION_MANAGER
This variable is used by session-manager aware
clients to contact gnome-session.
DISPLAY
This variable is set to the X display being used by
gnome-session. 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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