NAME
gnome-session - Starts up the GNOME desktop environment
SYNOPSIS
gnome-session [--autostart=DIR] [--default-session-key=KEY]
[--failsafe|-f] [--debug]
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 saved
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).
The default session is defined in the GConf keys under
/desktop/gnome/session. When saving a session, gnome-session saves the
currently running applications in the $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gnome-
session/saved-session directory.
gnome-session is an X11R6 session manager. It can manage GNOME
applications as well as any X11R6 SM compliant.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
--autostart=DIR
Start all applications defined in DIR, instead of starting the
applications defined in /desktop/gnome/session/default_session,
or via the --default-session-key option. Multiple --autostart
options can be passed.
--default-session-key=KEY
Sets the GConf key from which applications running a default
session should be read to KEY. If not specificed,
/desktop/gnome/session/default_session will be used.
--failsafe
gnome-session will run in fail-safe mode. User-specified
applications will not be started.
--debug
Enable debugging code.
ENVIRONMENT
gnome-session accepts all of the standard environment variables used by
gnome programs, other than the SESSION_MANAGER environment variable.
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
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 ALSO
gnome-session-properties(1) gnome-session-save(1) gnome-wm(1)
BUGS
If you find bugs in the gnome-session program, please report these on
http://bugzilla.gnome.org.
GNOME GNOME-SESSION(1)