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<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its" type="topic" style="task" id="session-custom" xml:lang="tr">
<info>
<link type="guide" xref="sundry#session"/>
<link type="guide" xref="login#management"/>
<revision pkgversion="3.12" date="2014-06-17" status="review"/>
<credit type="author copyright">
<name>minnie_eg</name>
<email>amany.elguindy@gmail.com</email>
<years>2012</years>
</credit>
<credit type="editor">
<name>Jana Svarova</name>
<email>jana.svarova@gmail.com</email>
<years>2013</years>
</credit>
<credit type="editor">
<name>Petr Kovar</name>
<email>pknbe@volny.cz</email>
<years>2014</years>
</credit>
<include xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="legal.xml"/>
<desc>Create a custom session by installing a desktop session file.</desc>
</info>
<title>Create a custom session</title>
<p>To create your own session with customized configuration, follow these
steps:</p>
<steps>
<item><p>Create a <file>.desktop</file> file in
<file>/etc/X11/sessions/<var>new-session</var>.desktop</file>. Make sure that
the file specifies the following entries:</p>
<code>[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Name=<input>Custom session</input>
Comment=<input>This is our custom session</input>
Exec=<input>gnome-session --session=new-session</input></code>
<p>The <code>Exec</code> entry specifies the command, possibly
with arguments, to execute. You can run the custom session with the
<cmd>gnome-session --session=<var>new-session</var></cmd>
command.</p>
<p>For more information on the parameters that you can use with
<cmd>gnome-session</cmd>, see the
<link its:translate="no" href="man:gnome-session">gnome-session</link> man
page.</p>
</item>
<item><p>Create a custom session file in
<file>/usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/<var>new-session</var>.session</file>
where you can specify the name and required components for the session:</p>
<code>[GNOME Session]
Name=<input>Custom Session</input>
RequiredComponents=<input>gnome-shell-classic;gnome-settings-daemon;</input></code>
<p>Note that any item that you specify in <code>RequiredComponents</code>
needs to have its corresponding <file>.desktop</file> file in
<file>/usr/share/applications/</file>.</p>
</item>
</steps>
<p>After configuring the custom session files, the new session will be
available in the session list on the GDM login
screen.</p>
<section id="custom-session-issues">
<title>Known issues</title>
<p>On a Debian or Debian-based system, the following error may occur:</p>
<screen>Xsession: unable to launch ""
Xsession --- "" not found; falling back to default
session.</screen>
<p>Should this happen to you, follow these steps to change the
<file>/etc/X11/Xsession.d/20x11-common_process-args</file> file:</p>
<steps>
<item><p>Change <code>STARTUP_FULL_PATH=$(/usr/bin/which <input>"$1"</input>|| true)</code>
to <code>STARTUP_FULL_PATH=$(/usr/bin/which <input>$1</input> || true)</code>
</p></item>
<item><p>Change <code>STARTUP=<input>"$1"</input></code> to <code>STARTUP=<input>$1</input></code>
</p></item>
</steps>
</section>
</page>
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