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This page will teach you how to design your own personalized X sessions. Desktop environments like [http://www.gnome.org GNOME] often have their own session managers. These session managers allow you to specify which additional programs will be loaded at the beginning of your session. However, if you do not use GNOME or [http://www.kde.org KDE], and do not know how to create custom X sessions, then you will have to start all of your applications by hand. This page will teach you how to design your own personalized X sessions by editing shell scripts. Desktop environments like [http://www.gnome.org GNOME] often have their own session managers. These session managers allow you to specify which additional programs will be loaded at the beginning of your session by providing a graphical interface. However, knowing how to create X session scripts can grant you greater flexibility in customizing your desktop environment whether you use GNOME, [http://www.kde.org KDE], [http://www.xfce.org XFCE] or other lesser-known window managers like [http://blackboxwm.sourceforge.net/ Blackbox] or [http://www.fvwm.org FVWM]. Furthermore, being able to create X session scripts allows you to run a graphical desktop even if the graphical login manager, GDM, is broken or not installed.

This page will teach you how to design your own personalized X sessions by editing shell scripts. Desktop environments like [http://www.gnome.org GNOME] often have their own session managers. These session managers allow you to specify which additional programs will be loaded at the beginning of your session by providing a graphical interface. However, knowing how to create X session scripts can grant you greater flexibility in customizing your desktop environment whether you use GNOME, [http://www.kde.org KDE], [http://www.xfce.org XFCE] or other lesser-known window managers like [http://blackboxwm.sourceforge.net/ Blackbox] or [http://www.fvwm.org FVWM]. Furthermore, being able to create X session scripts allows you to run a graphical desktop even if the graphical login manager, GDM, is broken or not installed.

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