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-<chapter id="sessions-0">
- <title>Session Management</title>
- <highlights>
- <para>This chapter introduces session management, and describes
-how to set session defaults. The chapter also contains information on sessions
-and login scripts.</para>
- </highlights>
- <sect1 id="sessions-1">
- <title>Introduction to Sessions</title>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>sessions</primary>
- <secondary>introduction</secondary>
- </indexterm>
- <para>A session occurs between the time that a user logs in to
-the GNOME Desktop and the time that the user logs out. The session manager
-starts after the <application>Login Manager</application> authenticates the
-user. The session manager enables the user to manage the session. For example,
-a user can save the state of a session and return to that session the next
-time that the user logs in. </para>
- <para>At a minimum, the following applications run in a session:</para>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>The session manager, <command>gnome-session</command>.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>The <application>GConf</application> X settings daemon, <command>gnome-settings-daemon</command>.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>The <application>gnome-panel</application> application, which
-runs the panels in the GNOME Desktop.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>The <application>Metacity</application> window manager.</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </sect1>
- <sect1 id="sessions-3">
- <title>Setting Session Defaults</title>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>sessions</primary>
- <secondary>setting defaults</secondary>
- </indexterm>
- <para>The following table lists the files that contain default
-session information:</para>
- <informaltable frame="topbot">
- <tgroup cols="2" colsep="0" rowsep="0">
- <colspec colwidth="51.80*"/>
- <colspec colwidth="48.20*"/>
- <thead>
- <row rowsep="1">
- <entry>
- <para>File</para>
- </entry>
- <entry>
- <para>Description</para>
- </entry>
- </row>
- </thead>
- <tbody>
- <row>
- <entry valign="top">
- <para>
- <filename>/usr/share/gnome/default.session</filename>
- </para>
- </entry>
- <entry valign="top">
- <para>Default session file.
-Default session details are stored in this file.</para>
- </entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry valign="top">
- <para>
- <filename>$HOME/.gnome2/session</filename>
- </para>
- </entry>
- <entry valign="top">
- <para>User session file. When a user modifies the session,
-the details are stored in this file.</para>
- </entry>
- </row>
- </tbody>
- </tgroup>
- </informaltable>
-<!--The last row does not appear to be true in Mercury - check.-->
- <para>To set default session details for all users, modify the default session
-file. </para>
- <para>To restore the default session settings for a user, delete the session
-file from the home directory of the user. If no user session file is present,
-the default settings in <filename>/usr/share/gnome/default.session</filename>
-are used. </para>
- <para>To save the current session as the default session, users can run the <command>gnome-session-save</command> command. </para>
- </sect1>
-</chapter>