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- gnome-session for Debian
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- Applications at startup
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-
- Upon startup, gnome-session starts the following applications:
- - Saved session: if you have saved a session, it is located in
- ~/.config/gnome-session/saved-session/. You can enable automatic
- session saving or manually save it in the "Startup Applications"
- configuration applet.
- - Autostart applications: applications shipping a .desktop file in
- /usr/share/gnome/autostart or /etc/xdg/autostart. This includes the
- keyring manager, the settings daemon, nautilus and the power
- manager. They can be selectively disabled in the configuration
- applet.
- - Required components: they are listed in the
- /desktop/gnome/session/required_components_list GConf key. In
- Debian, this only includes the window manager and the panel.
- (Upstream also includes the file manager, but in Debian it is an
- autostart application.)
- The required components are always respawned if they crash or exit.
- To disable them, you need to change this GConf key. If you want to
- use an alternate panel or window manager, you need to change the
- corresponding key in /desktop/gnome/session/required_components/.
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- Enabling the splash screen
- --------------------------
-
- Displaying a splash screen implies a noticeable delay in login for most users,
- hence it's disabled by default. You can enable the default splash screen by
- setting the /apps/gnome-session/options/show_splash_screen GConf key.
-
- Some theme packages might provide other splash pixmaps, notably desktop-base.
-
-
- Changing the splash screen
- --------------------------
-
- Debian's gnome-session uses a Debian-related splash screen instead of
- the original GNOME splash screen by default. You can change the the
- splash screen that should be used using the following gconf key:
-
- /apps/gnome-session/options/splash_image
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- Changing the window manager
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-
- By default, gnome-session tries to start compiz, metacity or sawfish if
- they are installed, then falls back to the system default.
-
- If you want to specify the window manager by hand, you can set the
- /desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager GConf key to
- the value of your preferred one.
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