Questions tagged [gnome-session]
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What happens under the covers to log me in and start up Unity or another Graphical User Interface?
When there's trouble, it might be good to understand what happens under the covers to sign a user into a GUI session and get a Unity (or other window manager) to bring up a desktop.
John S Gruber
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Save Unity Desktop Session
Is there a way to save current session (the applications + the organization of windows in desktops) in Unity and load it when needed?
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ubuntu 14.10 multiple Simultaneous independent remote (desktop like ) connections
Can anyone please suggest a free server (that works just like terminal server which allows multiple rdp-like independent sessions) that is compatible for ubuntu 14.10?
I have tried: Simultaneous remote connections
I googled FreeNX but most of the…
Aravinda
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remotely log out of (graphical) gnome session
I have a (graphical) login session running on an office computer, and I'd like to log it out to save on a few computer resources.
I can ssh to the office box, but when I try gnome-session-quit I get this:
$ gnome-session-quit --logout…
drevicko
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How to log out with a command in a gnome-less environment?
I installed various window managers (Awesome, dwm, etc.) from which I am not able to log out back to the login screen (gnome-session) in order to switch to another window manager. I need to reboot to do that, which is a waste of time (and can lead…
octosquidopus
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Ubuntu 13.10: How to remember running applications on shutdown so that they start upon login?
I'm running Ubuntu 13.10 and I don't seem to have any of the same menu items mentioned in other questions. In my "classicmenu" I have a "System Tools" > "Preferences" and then nothing about sessions.
According to Software Centre, I have Gnome…
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Does gnome-fallback.desktop require accelerated graphics in 13.10?
I am trying to run gnome-fallback.desktop under VncServer.
After upgrading to 13.10, my VNC no longer works - it just shows an empty terminal window, with no session.
These are the sessions that I have installed:
$ ls…
muzzamo
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Automatically Remember current Running Applications
Hello Guys I am facing an odd issue, I am trying to enable the auto-save-session on Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS, I try to follow some answers already here, but I wasn't able to restore my gnome session.
I use this link to configure my…
blah
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Session ends abruptly when disconnecting HDMI cable (Ubuntu 24.04)
I've just upgraded from Ubuntu 23.10 to 24.04 and realized that everytime I disconnect the external monitor (HDMI), the Gnome session ends abruptly and the login screen is shown. On Ubuntu 23.10 that didn´t use to happen.
I'm using wayland.
All…
Diogo Domanski
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How to set default umask in Ubuntu 17.04?
In the past, I have always set umask at ~/.profile. I set a umask of 077 so my documents get a permission of 600 (rw-------). But setting this at ~/.profile no longer works in Ubuntu 17.04.
So as new documents get created in a gnome session on…
G.W.
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Close gnome session from console
I use Ubuntu 11.10 64 bits with Gnome Shell.
I have opened a bug because sometimes "Close session" and "Shutdown" buttons doesn't work. gnome-session-quit only works sometimes: bug
How can I close the session cleanly from console without…
Juan Simón
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How to kill a specific x11rdp session
I am using x11rdp with xrdp v0.6.0 in ubuntu 12.04
The problem that when I connect remotely from home to office my session is stuck!
When I get back to work I can't open applications that are already run in the x11rdp session. e.g. Firefox,…
kamil
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Unable to login after killing gnome-session
I was explaining to a friend that the graphical interface in Linux is a separate program that can be killed like any other. To demonstrate that I switched to tty1 and tried to kill the GUI (as a real-life scenario of when the GUI freezes or…
amyassin
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Brew causing this message on bootup "Error found when loading /home/user/.profile:"
When I restart my PC I get this error:
Error found when loading /home/ray/.profile:
/home/ray/.profile: line 28: /bin/brew: No such file or directory
As a result the session will not be configured correctly.
You should fix the problem as soon as…
RayGar
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Problem with ~/.cache/upstart
I'm not experienced at all with Ubuntu yet and I know there are lots of things I have to learn, but I'm kinda puzzled about this one.
I just got (suddenly after a reboot) a free disk space warning about only having 17MB of free disk space left. I…
chrk
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