Setting Session Properties
Use the Current
Session tabbed section to specify startup order values, and to
choose restart styles for the session-managed applications in your current
session.
Figure 10–8 Current Session Tabbed Section in the Sessions Preference Tool
Table 10–8 lists the session properties
that you can configure.
Table 10–8 Session Properties
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Option
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Function
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Order
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The Order
setting specifies the order in which the session manager starts session-managed
startup applications. The session manager starts applications with lower order
values first. The default value is 50.
To specify the startup
order of an application, select the application in the table. Use the Order spin box to specify the startup order value.
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Style
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The Style setting determines the restart
style of an application. To select a restart style for an application, select
the application in the table, then choose one of the following styles:
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Normal
Starts automatically when you start a GNOME session. Use the kill command to terminate applications with this restart style during
a session.
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Restart
Restarts automatically whenever you close or terminate the application.
Choose this style for an application if the application must run continuously
during your session. To terminate an application with this restart style,
select the application in the table, then click on the Remove
button.
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Trash
Does not start when you start a GNOME session.
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Settings
Starts automatically when you start a session. Applications with this
style usually have a low startup order, and store your configuration settings
for GNOME and session-managed applications.
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Remove
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Click on the Remove button to delete
the selected application from the list. The application is removed from the
session manager, and closed. Application that you delete are not started
the next time that you start a session.
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Apply
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Click on the Apply button to apply changes to the startup
order and the restart style.
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