1GNOME-SESSION(1)            General Commands Manual           GNOME-SESSION(1)
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NAME

6       gnome-session - Starts up the GNOME desktop environment
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SYNOPSIS

9       gnome-session  [--autostart=DIR]  [--default-session-key=KEY]  [--fail‐
10       safe|-f] [--debug]
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DESCRIPTION

13       The gnome-session program starts  up  the  GNOME  desktop  environment.
14       This  command  is typically executed by your login manager (either gdm,
15       xdm, or from your X startup scripts).  It will load either  your  saved
16       session,  or  it will provide a default session for the user as defined
17       by the system administrator (or the default GNOME installation on  your
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20       The  default  session  is  defined  in  the  GConf  keys  under  /desk‐
21       top/gnome/session.  When saving a session, gnome-session saves the cur‐
22       rently   running   applications   in   the  $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gnome-ses‐
23       sion/saved-session directory.
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25       gnome-session is an X11R6 session manager.  It can manage GNOME  appli‐
26       cations as well as any X11R6 SM compliant.
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OPTIONS

29       The following options are supported:
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31       --autostart=DIR
32              Start  all  applications defined in DIR, instead of starting the
33              applications defined in  /desktop/gnome/session/default_session,
34              or  via  the  --default-session-key option. Multiple --autostart
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37       --default-session-key=KEY
38              Sets the GConf key from which  applications  running  a  default
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43              gnome-session will run in fail-safe mode. User-specified  appli‐
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ENVIRONMENT

50       gnome-session accepts all of the standard environment variables used by
51       gnome programs, other than the  SESSION_MANAGER  environment  variable.
52       gnome-session  also  sets  several environment variables for the use of
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57              This variable is used by session-manager aware clients  to  con‐
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62              This  variable  is set to the X display being used by gnome-ses‐
63              sion. Note that if the --display option is used  this  might  be
64              different  from  the  setting  of  the environment variable when
65              gnome-session is invoked.
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SEE ALSO

68       gnome-session-properties(1) gnome-session-save(1) gnome-wm(1)
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BUGS

71       If you find bugs in the gnome-session program, please report  these  on
72       http://bugzilla.gnome.org.
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