The Sessions preference tool enables you to manage your sessions. You can set session preferences, and specify which applications to start when you start a session. You can configure sessions to save the state of applications in the GNOME Desktop, and to restore the state when you start another session. You can also use this preference tool to manage multiple GNOME sessions.
You can customize the settings for sessions and startup applications in the following functional areas:
Session Options
Current Session
Startup Programs
Use the Session Options tabbed section to manage multiple sessions, and to set preferences for the current session.
Table 11.22, “Session Options” lists the session options that you can modify.
Table 11.22. Session Options
Use the Current Session tabbed section to specify startup order values, and to choose restart styles for the session-managed applications in your current session.
Table 11.23, “Session Properties” lists the session properties that you can configure.
Table 11.23. Session Properties
Dialog Element |
Description |
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Order |
The Order property specifies the order in which the session manager starts session-managed startup applications. The session manager starts applications with lower order values first. The default value is 50. To specify the startup order of an application, select the application in the table. Use the Order spin box to specify the startup order value. |
Style |
The Style property determines the restart style of an application. To select a restart style for an application, select the application in the table, then choose one of the following styles:
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Click on the button to delete the selected application from the list. The application is removed from the session manager, and closed. Application that you delete are not started the next time that you start a session. |
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Click on the button to apply changes to the startup order and the restart style. |
Use the Startup Programs tabbed section of the Sessions preference tool to specify non-session-managed startup applications. Startup applications are applications that start automatically when you start a session. You specify the commands that run the non-session-managed applications in the Startup Programs tabbed section. The commands execute automatically when you log in.
You can also start session-managed applications automatically. For more information, see the section called “Setting Session Preferences”.
Table 11.24, “Startup Programs Preferences” lists the startup applications preferences that you can modify.
Table 11.24. Startup Programs Preferences
Dialog Element |
Description |
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Additional startup programs |
Use this table to manage non-session-managed startup applications as follows:
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