Virtual desktops may be combined with Xinerama (Section 4.2) and
scrolling virtual screens (Section 4.6)??”but since each of these techniques
alters the user??™s perception of the display space, using them
together may overload the user??™s mental model of the display and may
leave him disoriented and unproductive.
Figure 8-3. Actual window positions (dotted outlines represent unmapped windows)
Figure 8-4. Actual window position created by positioning windows off-screen
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8.4 Starting GNOME
GNOME is started through its session manager, gnome-session, which may be
directly called from the command line if the DISPLAY variable has been set to point to
a running X server:
$ gnome-session
When started, gnome-session will look up the current session name in the ~/.gnome2/
session-options file, and then look for that session in ~/.gnome2/session. If that file
can??™t be found, gnome-session uses the default session in /usr/share/gnome/
default.session as a system-wide default session definition.
A standard GNOME session includes these standard GNOME clients:
??? The window manager (gnome-wm)
??? The panel manager (gnome-panel)
??? The Nautilus file manager, which also manages desktop icons
??? gnome-volume-manager, which monitors the desktop bus (DBUS) for new
devices and media and performs specific actions when they are found (for example,
mounting a device, starting a media player, or loading images from a
camera)
Other applications may also be started.
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