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The Session Group provides you methods of controlling various items that occur with the startup of your GNOME Session. These include startup programs and startup hints.
This capplet allows you to select any startup hints or messages displayed when you first log into GNOME. The capplet allows you to choose from various sources of messages.
The Enable login hints checkbox allows you to turn this feature on or off.
The Display normal hints checkbox will display a group of hints on how to use GNOME. This is a good choice for new users of GNOME.
The Display fortunes instead of hints checkbox allows you to make use of the fortune application which displays various "fortunes" and sayings. Please refer to the fortune documentation for how to set it up.
The Display message of the day instead of hints checkbox allows you to define a message of the day to be displayed instead of hints of fortunes. The Message of the day file to use text box allows you to define the text file that will be used as the message. This is a good choice for system administrators to use to inform many users of daily news.
Startup Programs capplet allows you control what applications are started at login. By default, GNOME starts some default programs, such as File Manager (necessary for functioning of the desktop), Panel and all applets in it, and some other supporting programs. But it can do more than that.
First, GNOME has the concept of session management. In simple terms, it means that you can save your "session" (that is, information about currently working applications, their status and position on screen) at logout and at your next login the same applications will reappear on your screen in the same positions, allowing you to continue your work. Note, however, that this only works for GNOME applications.
GNOME also provides another way of starting applications at login. You can explicitly specify one or more commands to run, and GNOME will execute them at login. This works for all kinds of applications, whether GNOME compatible or not.
Startup Programs capplet allows you to configure all of these options, as described below.
Show splash screen on login — This option controls whether the splash screen should be shown at startup. It does nothing useful, but is an eye candy, so why not?
Prompt on logout — If this option is enabled, a confirmation dialog will appear at logout. Among other things, this dialog asks you if you want to save the current session. If you answer Yes, the current session will be saved and will be restored at your next login. If you answer No, the previous saved session will be used.
Automatically save session — If you have disabled the logout dialog, this option determines whether your current session will be automatically saved at logout time or not. Note that you can also manually save your session at any time by selecting Settings->Session->Save Current Session from the Main Menu.
Non-session managed startup programs — In this section, you can explicitly specify the commands that should be executed during login. This is mostly used for programs that are not GNOME-compatible. For GNOME applications, it is easier just to leave them running and then save your session at logout — this will ensure that they will be restarted at your next login.
To add a new command, press Add button and enter the command to run in the appearing dialog window. For example, if you want Netscape to start every time you login, just enter netscape in the Startup command field.
You can also specify priority, which determines the order in which the programs will be started: programs with lower values are started before the ones with higher values. The default value is 50, which means that the program will be started after all core GNOME components. Unless you know what you are doing, it is better to use this default value.
You can also edit or remove previously entered programs using Edit... and Remove... buttons.
Browse currently running programs — This button will launch Session properties dialog which shows the state of your current GNOME session — in other words, which programs are currently running, their status, priorities, and more. It can also be used to remove one of the core GNOME programs, such as Panel, from your session, thus making sure that it won't be started next time you login.
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