---
name: "default.session"
section: "5"
platform: "linux"
package: "gnome-session"
version: "2.22.3-2"
release: "Debian 5.0 (Lenny)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/default.session"
---

# default.session(5)

GNOME Default session configuration file.

## NAME

default.session - GNOME Default session configuration file.

## DESCRIPTION

The  */usr/share/gnome/default.session* file contains a list of programs to be launched the first time a user logs into the GNOME environment.

The format of the file is the one used by the gnome\_config libraries, and it looks like this:

```
[Section]
SEQID,id=uniqueID
SEQID,Priority=PRIO
SEQID,RestartCommand=command
num_clients=TOP
```

There are three possible names for  **Section** And they are:

*Default*

-

  This specifies the Default session to load

*Chooser*

-

  Lets the user configure which non-session aware programs should be started up when the session begins

*Warner*

-

  Since the gnome\_config file format is not very flexible, an array of data is emulated by listing starting from 0 chunks of "id,Priority,RestartCommand", and at the end the  *num\_clients* variable lists the number of chunks listed.

The  **uniqueid** key provides a name that is unique within this file and passed to the app as the client id which it must use to register with gnome-session.

The  **RestartCommand** specifies the command to run from the $PATH.

The  **Priority** determines the order in which the commands are started (with Priority = 0 first) and defaults to 50.

The clients must be numbered from 0 to the value of  *num\_clients-1*