[2e704d1b] | 1 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 |
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| 7 | <!ENTITY gnome-session-download-http
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[9041afb] | 8 | "&gnome-download-http;/gnome-session/&gnome-44;/gnome-session-&gnome-session-version;.tar.xz">
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[2e704d1b] | 9 | <!ENTITY gnome-session-download-ftp
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[9041afb] | 10 | "&gnome-download-ftp;/gnome-session/&gnome-44;/gnome-session-&gnome-session-version;.tar.xz">
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| 11 | <!ENTITY gnome-session-md5sum "0223353306fb2e5b84bd42e3fde905f0">
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[06900371] | 12 | <!ENTITY gnome-session-size "476 KB">
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[06314d4] | 13 | <!ENTITY gnome-session-buildsize "12 MB">
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[8e8c2352] | 14 | <!ENTITY gnome-session-time "0.1 SBU">
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[2e704d1b] | 15 | ]>
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| 16 |
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[51dfb3e] | 17 | <sect1 id="gnome-session" xreflabel="gnome-session-&gnome-session-version;">
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[2e704d1b] | 18 | <?dbhtml filename="gnome-session.html"?>
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| 19 |
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| 20 |
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| 21 | <title>gnome-session-&gnome-session-version;</title>
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| 22 |
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| 23 | <indexterm zone="gnome-session">
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| 24 | <primary sortas="a-gnome-session">gnome-session</primary>
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| 25 | </indexterm>
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| 26 |
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| 27 | <sect2 role="package">
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| 28 | <title>Introduction to GNOME Session</title>
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| 29 |
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| 30 | <para>
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| 31 | The <application>GNOME Session</application> package contains
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| 32 | the <application>GNOME</application> session manager.
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| 33 | </para>
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| 34 |
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[c71450c] | 35 | &lfs120_checked;
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[2e704d1b] | 36 |
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| 37 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
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| 38 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 39 | <listitem>
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| 40 | <para>
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| 41 | Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&gnome-session-download-http;"/>
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| 42 | </para>
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| 43 | </listitem>
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| 44 | <listitem>
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| 45 | <para>
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| 46 | Download (FTP): <ulink url="&gnome-session-download-ftp;"/>
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| 47 | </para>
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| 48 | </listitem>
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| 49 | <listitem>
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| 50 | <para>
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| 51 | Download MD5 sum: &gnome-session-md5sum;
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| 52 | </para>
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| 53 | </listitem>
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| 54 | <listitem>
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| 55 | <para>
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| 56 | Download size: &gnome-session-size;
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| 57 | </para>
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| 58 | </listitem>
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| 59 | <listitem>
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| 60 | <para>
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| 61 | Estimated disk space required: &gnome-session-buildsize;
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| 62 | </para>
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| 63 | </listitem>
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| 64 | <listitem>
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| 65 | <para>
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| 66 | Estimated build time: &gnome-session-time;
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| 67 | </para>
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| 68 | </listitem>
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| 69 | </itemizedlist>
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| 70 |
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| 71 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">GNOME Session Dependencies</bridgehead>
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| 72 |
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| 73 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
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| 74 | <para role="required">
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[00bb36f7] | 75 | <phrase revision="sysv"><xref linkend="elogind"/>,</phrase>
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[2e704d1b] | 76 | <xref linkend="gnome-desktop"/>,
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| 77 | <xref linkend="json-glib"/>,
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[02c8038] | 78 | <xref linkend="mesa"/>,
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[00bb36f7] | 79 | <phrase revision="systemd"><xref role="runtime" linkend="systemd"/>
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| 80 | (runtime),</phrase>
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[02c8038] | 81 | and <xref linkend="upower"/>
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[2e704d1b] | 82 | </para>
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| 83 |
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| 84 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
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| 85 | <para role="optional">
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[0129a2f5] | 86 | <xref linkend="xmlto"/>, and
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[2e704d1b] | 87 | <xref linkend="libxslt"/> with
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| 88 | <xref linkend="DocBook"/> and
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| 89 | <xref linkend="docbook-xsl"/> (to build the documentation)
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| 90 | </para>
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[8558044] | 91 |
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[2e704d1b] | 92 | </sect2>
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| 93 |
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| 94 | <sect2 role="installation">
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| 95 | <title>Installation of GNOME Session</title>
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| 96 |
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[75215bf] | 97 | <para>
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[c339779] | 98 | When running GNOME under <xref linkend="wayland"/>, environment settings
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[881bfdc] | 99 | are not imported for the user using the system profile. The Wayland
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| 100 | developers are currently undecided on a standard method to provide system
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| 101 | environment settings for user sessions. To work around this limitation,
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[ab3656c] | 102 | execute the following command to make
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[881bfdc] | 103 | <command>gnome-session</command> use a login shell:
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[75215bf] | 104 | </para>
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| 105 |
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[881bfdc] | 106 | <screen><userinput>sed 's@/bin/sh@/bin/sh -l@' -i gnome-session/gnome-session.in</userinput></screen>
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[75215bf] | 107 |
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[2dbcc855] | 108 | <!--
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[c339779] | 109 | <para revision="sysv">
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| 110 | Adapt meson.build so that gnome-session can build without systemd:
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| 111 | </para>
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| 112 |
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| 113 | <screen revision="sysv"><userinput remap="pre">sed -i "/ systemd_dep/,+3d;/if enable_systemd/a \ systemd_userunitdir = '/tmp\'" meson.build</userinput></screen>
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[2dbcc855] | 114 | -->
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[2e704d1b] | 115 | <para>
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| 116 | Install <application>GNOME Session</application> by
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| 117 | running the following commands:
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| 118 | </para>
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| 119 |
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[51dfb3e] | 120 | <screen revision="sysv"><userinput>mkdir build &&
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| 121 | cd build &&
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| 122 |
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[2dbcc855] | 123 | meson setup --prefix=/usr \
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| 124 | --buildtype=release \
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| 125 | -Dsystemd_journal=false \
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[ddafabd] | 126 | -Dsystemduserunitdir=/tmp \
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[2dbcc855] | 127 | .. &&
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[51dfb3e] | 128 | ninja</userinput></screen>
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| 129 |
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| 130 | <screen revision="systemd"><userinput>mkdir build &&
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[fef2695] | 131 | cd build &&
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| 132 |
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[91318eb] | 133 | meson setup --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release .. &&
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[fef2695] | 134 | ninja</userinput></screen>
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[2e704d1b] | 135 |
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| 136 | <para>
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| 137 | This package does not come with a test suite.
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| 138 | </para>
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| 139 |
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| 140 | <para>
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| 141 | Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
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| 142 | </para>
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| 143 |
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[fef2695] | 144 | <screen role="root"><userinput>ninja install</userinput></screen>
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[ab3656c] | 145 | <!-- For some reason, there are I/O errors with the DTD @ freedesktop
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| 146 | that causes error messages to flood stdin. -->
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[2e704d1b] | 147 |
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[98c3ae8] | 148 | <para>
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| 149 | Move the documentation to a versioned directory:
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| 150 | </para>
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| 151 |
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| 152 | <screen role="root"><userinput>mv -v /usr/share/doc/gnome-session{,-&gnome-session-version;}</userinput></screen>
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| 153 |
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[12fe806] | 154 |
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[86324838] | 155 | <para>
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| 156 | This package creates two Xorg based <filename>.desktop</filename> files
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| 157 | in the <filename class="directory">/usr/share/xsessions/</filename>
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| 158 | directory, and two Wayland based <filename>.desktop</filename> files in
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| 159 | the <filename class="directory">/usr/share/wayland-sessions/</filename>
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| 160 | directory. Only one is needed in each directory on a BLFS system, so
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| 161 | prevent the extra files showing up as options in a display manager. As
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| 162 | the &root; user:
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| 163 | </para>
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[12fe806] | 164 |
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[86324838] | 165 | <screen role="root"><userinput>rm -v /usr/share/xsessions/gnome.desktop &&
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| 166 | rm -v /usr/share/wayland-sessions/gnome.desktop</userinput></screen>
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[2dbcc855] | 167 | <!--
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[7533b500] | 168 | <para revision="sysv">
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| 169 | Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user,
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| 170 | remove systemd units that are useless on SysV systems:
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| 171 | </para>
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| 172 |
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[c339779] | 173 | <screen role="root" revision="sysv"><userinput>rm -rv /tmp/{*.d,*.target,*.service}</userinput></screen>
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[2dbcc855] | 174 | -->
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[86324838] | 175 | <!-- this part is not needed on systemd, since the dbus session is created
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| 176 | by systemd-user.-->
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| 177 | <para revision="sysv">
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| 178 | The startup sequence of gnome-wayland needs to create a dbus session.
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| 179 | On SysV, this has to be added to the shipped
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| 180 | <filename>gnome-wayland.desktop</filename> file, which is written for
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| 181 | systemd. As the &root; user:
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| 182 | </para>
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| 183 |
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| 184 | <screen role="root" revision="sysv"><userinput>sed -e 's@^Exec=@&/usr/bin/dbus-run-session @' \
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| 185 | -i /usr/share/wayland-sessions/gnome-wayland.desktop</userinput></screen>
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| 186 |
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[2e704d1b] | 187 | </sect2>
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| 188 |
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[adf17153] | 189 | <sect2 role="commands">
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| 190 | <title>Command Explanations</title>
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| 191 |
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| 192 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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| 193 | href="../../xincludes/meson-buildtype-release.xml"/>
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[2dbcc855] | 194 |
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| 195 | <para revision="sysv">
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[ddafabd] | 196 | <parameter>-Dsystemd_journal=false</parameter>
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| 197 | and <parameter>-Dsystemduserunitdir=/tmp</parameter>: Allow building
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| 198 | with elogind support on a SysV based system.
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[2dbcc855] | 199 | </para>
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| 200 |
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| 201 | </sect2>
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[adf17153] | 202 |
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[a875313] | 203 | <sect2 role="starting">
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| 204 | <title>Starting GNOME</title>
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| 205 |
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| 206 | <para>
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| 207 | The easiest way to start GNOME is to use a display manager.
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[6d61390b] | 208 | <xref linkend="gdm"/> is the recommended display manager.
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[a875313] | 209 | </para>
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| 210 |
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| 211 | <para>
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| 212 | It is also possible to start <application>GNOME</application> from the
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| 213 | command line. However, you must still have <xref linkend="gdm"/> installed
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| 214 | for some portions of the desktop to work. One reason to start from the
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| 215 | command line is if you want Wayland support on a system that has the
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| 216 | proprietary NVIDIA driver installed, since GDM will not show the Wayland
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| 217 | session type on such a system.
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| 218 | </para>
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| 219 |
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| 220 | <para>
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| 221 | To start <application>GNOME</application> using
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| 222 | <xref role="nodep" linkend="xinit"/>, run the following commands:
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| 223 | </para>
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| 224 |
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| 225 | <screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat > ~/.xinitrc << "EOF"
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| 226 | <literal>dbus-run-session gnome-session</literal>
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| 227 | EOF
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| 228 |
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| 229 | startx</userinput></screen>
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| 230 |
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| 231 | <para>
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| 232 | Alternatively, to start <application>GNOME</application> with Wayland
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| 233 | support, run the following command:
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| 234 | </para>
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| 235 |
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| 236 | <screen role="nodump"><userinput>XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland dbus-run-session gnome-session</userinput></screen>
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| 237 |
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| 238 | </sect2>
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| 239 |
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[2e704d1b] | 240 | <sect2 role="content">
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| 241 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 242 |
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| 243 | <segmentedlist>
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| 244 | <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
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| 245 | <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
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| 246 | <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
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| 247 |
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| 248 | <seglistitem>
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| 249 | <seg>
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[06900371] | 250 | gnome-session, gnome-session-inhibit, and gnome-session-quit
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[2e704d1b] | 251 | </seg>
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| 252 | <seg>
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| 253 | None
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| 254 | </seg>
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| 255 | <seg>
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[0129a2f5] | 256 | /usr/share/doc/gnome-session-&gnome-session-version; and
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| 257 | /usr/share/gnome-session
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[2e704d1b] | 258 | </seg>
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| 259 | </seglistitem>
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| 260 | </segmentedlist>
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| 261 |
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| 262 | <variablelist>
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| 263 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 264 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 265 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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| 266 |
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| 267 | <varlistentry id="gnome-session-prog">
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| 268 | <term><command>gnome-session</command></term>
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| 269 | <listitem>
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| 270 | <para>
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| 271 | is used to start up the <application>GNOME</application>
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[4c24eb0a] | 272 | Desktop environment
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[2e704d1b] | 273 | </para>
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| 274 | <indexterm zone="gnome-session gnome-session-prog">
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| 275 | <primary sortas="b-gnome-session">gnome-session</primary>
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| 276 | </indexterm>
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| 277 | </listitem>
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| 278 | </varlistentry>
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| 279 |
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| 280 | <varlistentry id="gnome-session-inhibit">
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| 281 | <term><command>gnome-session-inhibit</command></term>
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| 282 | <listitem>
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| 283 | <para>
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| 284 | is used to inhibit certain <application>GNOME</application>
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[4c24eb0a] | 285 | Session functionality while executing the given command
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[2e704d1b] | 286 | </para>
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| 287 | <indexterm zone="gnome-session gnome-session-inhibit">
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| 288 | <primary sortas="b-gnome-session-inhibit">gnome-session-inhibit</primary>
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| 289 | </indexterm>
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| 290 | </listitem>
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| 291 | </varlistentry>
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| 292 |
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| 293 | <varlistentry id="gnome-session-quit">
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| 294 | <term><command>gnome-session-quit</command></term>
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| 295 | <listitem>
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| 296 | <para>
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[4c24eb0a] | 297 | is used to end the <application>GNOME</application> Session
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[2e704d1b] | 298 | </para>
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| 299 | <indexterm zone="gnome-session gnome-session-quit">
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| 300 | <primary sortas="b-gnome-session-quit">gnome-session-quit</primary>
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| 301 | </indexterm>
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| 302 | </listitem>
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| 303 | </varlistentry>
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| 304 |
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| 305 | </variablelist>
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| 306 |
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| 307 | </sect2>
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| 308 |
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| 309 | </sect1>
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