source: gnome/platform/gnome-session.xml@ d37d7c5

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   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY gnome-session-download-http
           "&gnome-download-http;/gnome-session/&gnome-44;/gnome-session-&gnome-session-version;.tar.xz">
  <!ENTITY gnome-session-download-ftp
           "&gnome-download-ftp;/gnome-session/&gnome-44;/gnome-session-&gnome-session-version;.tar.xz">
  <!ENTITY gnome-session-md5sum        "0223353306fb2e5b84bd42e3fde905f0">
  <!ENTITY gnome-session-size          "476 KB">
  <!ENTITY gnome-session-buildsize     "12 MB">
  <!ENTITY gnome-session-time          "0.1 SBU">
]>

<sect1 id="gnome-session" xreflabel="gnome-session-&gnome-session-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="gnome-session.html"?>


  <title>gnome-session-&gnome-session-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="gnome-session">
    <primary sortas="a-gnome-session">gnome-session</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to GNOME Session</title>

    <para>
      The <application>GNOME Session</application> package contains
      the <application>GNOME</application> session manager.
    </para>

    &lfs113_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&gnome-session-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&gnome-session-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &gnome-session-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &gnome-session-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated disk space required: &gnome-session-buildsize;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated build time: &gnome-session-time;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">GNOME Session Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
      <phrase revision="sysv"><xref linkend="elogind"/>,</phrase>
      <xref linkend="gnome-desktop"/>,
      <xref linkend="json-glib"/>,
      <xref linkend="mesa"/>,
      <phrase revision="systemd"><xref role="runtime" linkend="systemd"/>
      (runtime),</phrase>
      and <xref linkend="upower"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="xmlto"/>, and
      <xref linkend="libxslt"/> with
      <xref linkend="DocBook"/> and
      <xref linkend="docbook-xsl"/> (to build the documentation)
    </para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
      <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/gnome-session"/>
    </para>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of GNOME Session</title>

    <para>
      When running GNOME under <xref linkend="wayland"/>, environment settings
      are not imported for the user using the system profile. The Wayland
      developers are currently undecided on a standard method to provide system
      environment settings for user sessions. To work around this limitation,
      execute the following command to make
      <command>gnome-session</command> use a login shell:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>sed 's@/bin/sh@/bin/sh -l@' -i gnome-session/gnome-session.in</userinput></screen>

<!--
    <para revision="sysv">
      Adapt meson.build so that gnome-session can build without systemd:
    </para>

<screen revision="sysv"><userinput remap="pre">sed -i "/  systemd_dep/,+3d;/if enable_systemd/a \    systemd_userunitdir = '/tmp\'" meson.build</userinput></screen>
-->
    <para>
      Install <application>GNOME Session</application> by
      running the following commands:
    </para>

<screen revision="sysv"><userinput>mkdir build &amp;&amp;
cd    build &amp;&amp;

meson setup --prefix=/usr             \
            --buildtype=release       \
            -Dsystemd_journal=false   \
            -Dsystemduserunitdir=/tmp \
            ..                        &amp;&amp;
ninja</userinput></screen>

<screen revision="systemd"><userinput>mkdir build &amp;&amp;
cd    build &amp;&amp;

meson setup --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release .. &amp;&amp;
ninja</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      This package does not come with a test suite.
    </para>

    <para>
      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>ninja install</userinput></screen>
<!-- For some reason, there are I/O errors with the DTD @ freedesktop
     that causes error messages to flood stdin. -->

    <para>
      Move the documentation to a versioned directory:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>mv -v /usr/share/doc/gnome-session{,-&gnome-session-version;}</userinput></screen>


    <para>
      This package creates two Xorg based <filename>.desktop</filename> files
      in the <filename class="directory">/usr/share/xsessions/</filename>
      directory, and two Wayland based <filename>.desktop</filename> files in
      the <filename class="directory">/usr/share/wayland-sessions/</filename>
      directory.  Only one is needed in each directory on a BLFS system, so
      prevent the extra files showing up as options in a display manager.  As
      the &root; user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>rm -v /usr/share/xsessions/gnome.desktop &amp;&amp;
rm -v /usr/share/wayland-sessions/gnome.desktop</userinput></screen>
<!--
    <para revision="sysv">
      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user,
      remove systemd units that are useless on SysV systems:
    </para>

<screen role="root" revision="sysv"><userinput>rm -rv /tmp/{*.d,*.target,*.service}</userinput></screen>
-->
<!-- this part is not needed on systemd, since the dbus session is created
by systemd-user.-->
    <para revision="sysv">
      The startup sequence of gnome-wayland needs to create a dbus session.
      On SysV, this has to be added to the shipped
      <filename>gnome-wayland.desktop</filename> file, which is written for
      systemd. As the &root; user:
    </para>

<screen role="root" revision="sysv"><userinput>sed -e 's@^Exec=@&amp;/usr/bin/dbus-run-session @' \
    -i /usr/share/wayland-sessions/gnome-wayland.desktop</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
      href="../../xincludes/meson-buildtype-release.xml"/>

    <para revision="sysv">
      <parameter>-Dsystemd_journal=false</parameter>
      and <parameter>-Dsystemduserunitdir=/tmp</parameter>: Allow building
      with elogind support on a SysV based system.
    </para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="starting">
    <title>Starting GNOME</title>

    <para>
      The easiest way to start GNOME is to use a display manager.
      <xref linkend="gdm"/> is the recommended display manager.
    </para>

    <para>
      It is also possible to start <application>GNOME</application> from the
      command line. However, you must still have <xref linkend="gdm"/> installed
      for some portions of the desktop to work. One reason to start from the
      command line is if you want Wayland support on a system that has the
      proprietary NVIDIA driver installed, since GDM will not show the Wayland
      session type on such a system.
    </para>

    <para>
      To start <application>GNOME</application> using
      <xref role="nodep" linkend="xinit"/>, run the following commands:
    </para>

<screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat &gt; ~/.xinitrc &lt;&lt; "EOF"
<literal>dbus-run-session gnome-session</literal>
EOF

startx</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      Alternatively, to start <application>GNOME</application> with Wayland
      support, run the following command:
    </para>

<screen role="nodump"><userinput>XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland dbus-run-session gnome-session</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>
          gnome-session, gnome-session-inhibit, and gnome-session-quit
        </seg>
       <seg>
          None
        </seg>
        <seg>
          /usr/share/doc/gnome-session-&gnome-session-version; and
          /usr/share/gnome-session
        </seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="gnome-session-prog">
        <term><command>gnome-session</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is used to start up the <application>GNOME</application>
            Desktop environment
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="gnome-session gnome-session-prog">
            <primary sortas="b-gnome-session">gnome-session</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="gnome-session-inhibit">
        <term><command>gnome-session-inhibit</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is used to inhibit certain <application>GNOME</application>
            Session functionality while executing the given command
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="gnome-session gnome-session-inhibit">
            <primary sortas="b-gnome-session-inhibit">gnome-session-inhibit</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="gnome-session-quit">
        <term><command>gnome-session-quit</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is used to end the <application>GNOME</application> Session
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="gnome-session gnome-session-quit">
            <primary sortas="b-gnome-session-quit">gnome-session-quit</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>