What is the right way of starting session?

["Sergey I. Panov" <sipan mit edu>]

     What is the proper way of starting GNOME?


Well, that probably should be in the FAQ or, at least, in some readme
file.

If I understand it right GNOME has sesion manager and it is
gnome-session. Supposedly, there is a way to tell session manager which
windows manager to run (just as it runs other programs). I though one
can start gnome-session without windows manager and after logout
gnome-sesion would remember that it should run you favorite windows
manager. That does not work. I am either completely clue-less, or
session manager does not work right yet.

That is what I have in my /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession file (I use kdm
instead of xdm, I guess in gdm one would also be able to choose
session):

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#!/bin/bash -login
# $XConsortium: Xsession /main/10 1995/12/18 18:21:28 gildea $

case $# in
1)
        case $1 in
        failsafe)
                exec xterm -geometry 80x24-0-0
                ;;
        twm)
                exec twm
                ;;
        fvwm)
                exec fvwm
                ;;
        fvwm2)
                exec fvwm2
                ;;
        gnome)
                gnome-session &
                exec fvwm2
                ;;
        kde)
                kaudioserver &
                kwmsound &
                kfm &
                kcontrol -init &
                kbgndwm &
                krootwm &
                kpanel &
                exec kwm
                ;;
        esac
esac

# redirect errors to a file in user's home directory if we can
for errfile in "$HOME/.xsession-errors" "${TMPDIR-/tmp}/xses-$USER" "/tmp/xses-$USER"
do
        if ( cp /dev/null "$errfile" 2> /dev/null )
        then
                chmod 600 "$errfile"
                exec > "$errfile" 2>&1
                break
        fi
done

# clean up after xbanner
freetemp

startup=$HOME/.xsession
resources=$HOME/.Xresources
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The gnome related part:
                gnome-session &
                exec fvwm2
Is it correct?

The inconvinience is that when you hit "logout" in panel you still have to
get out of windows manager.

 Sergey