gnome-session - Starts up the GNOME desktop environment

SYNOPSIS
    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 appli-
    cations 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 variable. [
    xref to  a manpage where this is documented. ] gnome-session also sets
    several environment variables for the use of its child processes.

    SESSION_MANAGER

    This variable is used by session-manager aware clients to con-
    tact gnome-session.

    DISPLAY

    This variable is set to the X display being used by gnome-ses-
    sion. 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.