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gnome-session for Debian
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GNOME 3 / GNOME Fallback
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The gnome-session package provides the standard GNOME 3 session, which
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is based on the GNOME Shell. The gnome-session-flashback package provides
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a “fallback” session which is based on the GNOME panel and Metacity. You
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can choose them in the display manager (typically GDM).
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If no suitable 3D acceleration is detected, the fallback session will be
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launched in both cases.
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Changing the window manager
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The GNOME Shell requires mutter and cannot run with another window
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manager.
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If you want to use an alternative window manager (such as compiz or
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openbox), you need to select the fallback session. Then, put in your
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.gnomerc file the following:
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WINDOW_MANAGER=my_wonderful_wm
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export WINDOW_MANAGER
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Applications at startup
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Upon startup, gnome-session starts the following applications:
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- Saved session: if you have saved a session, it is located in
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~/.config/gnome-session/saved-session/. You can enable automatic
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session saving or manually save it in the "Startup Applications"
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configuration applet.
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- Autostart applications: applications shipping a .desktop file in
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/usr/share/gnome/autostart or /etc/xdg/autostart. This includes the
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keyring manager, the settings daemon, nautilus and the power
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manager. They can be selectively disabled in the configuration
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applet.
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- Required components: they are listed in the
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/usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/*.desktop file corresponding to the
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current session (gnome or gnome-fallback).
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MIME types associations
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This package ships a list of default MIME types associations used when running
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the GNOME desktop.
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This file is installed in /usr/share/applications/gnome-mimeapps.list.
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The system administrator can override some associations by adding a file at
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/etc/xdg/gnome-mimeapps.list or /etc/xdg/mimeapps.list if he wants to apply to
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all the desktop environment.
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