NAME¶
cinnamon-session - Start the GNOME desktop environment
SYNOPSIS¶
cinnamon-session [-a|--autostart=DIR] [--session=SESSION] [--failsafe|-f]
[--debug] [--whale]
DESCRIPTION¶
The
cinnamon-session program starts up the GNOME desktop environment.
This command is typically executed by your login manager (either mdm, 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
gnome.session, a .desktop-like file
that is looked for in
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/cinnamon-session/sessions,
$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/cinnamon-session/sessions and
$XDG_DATA_DIRS/cinnamon-session/sessions.
When saving a session,
cinnamon-session saves the currently running
applications in the
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/cinnamon-session/saved-session
directory.
cinnamon-session is an X11R6 session manager. It can manage GNOME
applications as well as any X11R6 SM compliant application.
OPTIONS¶
The following options are supported:
- --autostart=DIR
- Start all applications defined in DIR, instead of starting the
applications defined in gnome.session, or via the --session
option. Multiple --autostart options can be passed.
- --session=SESSION
- Use the applications defined in SESSION.session. If not specified,
gnome.session will be used.
- --failsafe
- Run in fail-safe mode. User-specified applications will not be
started.
- --debug
- Enable debugging code.
- --whale
- Show the fail whale in a dialog for debugging it.
SESSION DEFINITION¶
Sessions are defined in
.session files, that are using a .desktop-like
format, with the following keys in the
GNOME Session group:
- Name
- Name of the session. This can be localized.
- RequiredComponents
- List of component identifiers (desktop files) that are required by the
session. The required components will always run in the session.
- RequiredProviders
- List of task providers that are required by the session. A default
provider for each task has to be defined with a
DefaultProvider-TASK key; the provider can be overridden by
required components, the saved session or autostart applications. The task
providers will always run in the session.
- DefaultProvider-TASK
- Identifier (desktop file) of the default provider for TASK. If no
provider for TASK is found in the required components, the saved
session and in the autostart applications, the default provider will be
started.
Here is an example of a session definition:
[GNOME Session]
Name=GNOME fallback
RequiredComponents=gnome-panel;metacity;gnome-settings-daemon;
RequiredProviders=notifications;
DefaultProvider-notifications=notification-daemon
The
.session files are looked for in
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/cinnamon-session/sessions,
$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/cinnamon-session/sessions and
$XDG_DATA_DIRS/cinnamon-session/sessions.
ENVIRONMENT¶
cinnamon-session sets several environment variables for the use of its
child processes:
SESSION_MANAGER
- This variable is used by session-manager aware clients to contact
cinnamon-session.
DISPLAY
- This variable is set to the X display being used by
cinnamon-session. Note that if the --display option is used
this might be different from the setting of the environment variable when
cinnamon-session is invoked.
FILES¶
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/config/autostart
$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/config/autostart /usr/share/gnome/autostart
- The applications defined in those directories will be started on login.
cinnamon-settings(1) can be used to easily configure them.
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/cinnamon-session/sessions
$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/cinnamon-session/sessions
$XDG_DATA_DIRS/cinnamon-session/sessions
- These directories contain the .session files that can be used with
the --session option.
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/cinnamon-session/saved-session
- This directory contains the list of applications of the saved
session.
SEE ALSO¶
cinnamon-settings(1) cinnamon-session-quit(1)