GNOME(1) General Commands Manual GNOME(1)gnome-wm - Launches the user selected window manager for the GNOME sessionSYNOPSIS
gnome-wm [--default-wm windowmanager] [--sm-client-id id]
DESCRIPTION
The gnome-wm script invokes the user selected window manager. If the user has not chosen a window manager it will try to launch a GNOME
compliant window manager.
The user can overwrite the selection of a window manager by setting the WINDOW_MANAGER environment variable. If a --default-wm option is
given the script uses that window manager in case WINDOW_MANAGER is not set. If gnome-wm is given as the argument to --default-wm then it
is the same as if no default was given.
The script takes the --sm-client-id argument and translates the id to an appropriate option depending on which window manager was selected.
ENVIRONMENT
The gnome-wm program uses the value of the WINDOW_MANAGER environment variable to let the user override the configured window manager.
PERSISTENT SETTINGS
The program stores the current selection of a window manager in the gconf key /desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager/default
SEE ALSO gnome-session(1),default.session(5)BUGS
If you find bugs in the gnome-wm program, please report these using bug-buddy or the gnome-bug script included with the GNOME libraries
distribution.
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GNOME(1) General Commands Manual GNOME(1)gnome-session - Starts up the GNOME desktop environmentSYNOPSIS
gnome-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 installation 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 Sesssion" 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 /usr/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 sessions 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).
ENVIRONMENT
gnome-session accepts all of the standard environment variables used by gnome programs, other than the SESSION_MANAGER environment vari-
able. [ xref to a manpage where this is documented. ] gnome-session also sets several 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 ALSO default.session(5),gnome-session-save(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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