Changeset a875313 for gnome/platform

Timestamp:

02/22/2023 08:51:43 PM (19 months ago)

Author:

Pierre Labastie <pierre.labastie@…>

Branches:

11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, gimp3, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, plabs/newcss, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, xry111/for-12.3, xry111/llvm18, xry111/spidermonkey128, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

12fe806, 1ae85c65

Parents:

e461d1a

Message:

Move instructions to start GNOME from a terminal

Those instructions are on the GDM page. They fit better on the
gnome-session page.

File:

• gnome/platform/gnome-session.xml (modified) (1 diff)

gnome/platform/gnome-session.xml

@@ -168 +168 @@
       href="../../xincludes/meson-buildtype-release.xml"/>
    </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 recommendend 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">