Re: Icons on the desktop

[Tom Tromey <tromey cygnus com>]

>>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin Birch <kbirch@pobox.com> writes:

Kevin> I.e: how and when is a Gnome desktop activated when a user logs
Kevin> in?  Will Gnome support its own login process?  Or just install
Kevin> some custom scripts for X to run?

I didn't see an answer to this.

The answer is that the user will put this at the end of his .xinitrc
(aka .xession):

	exec gnome-session

Presumably the default xsession code will be modified to do this by
Gnome-oid system builders (Red Hat, Debian).

gnome-session will handle starting all your applications and saving
their state when you log out.  This mostly works right now, with the
big holdout being window managers.

Tom