[NBLUG/talk] Default startup for Gnome

[Todd Cary]

Dave -

Interesting situation in Fedora 3 (did not check the version of Gnome).  
Nothing was specified in the Startup, but "Automatically save changes to 
session" was not checked.  Checking that seemed to fix the problem.

Todd

Dave Sisley wrote:

>On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 08:57:26AM -0800, Todd Cary wrote:
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>>When Gnome starts upon logon, it creates a Terminal window even though 
>>when I shutdown there was not a terminal window present.  Is there a 
>>setting in one of the "dot" files that controls this?
>>
>>Todd
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>Todd:
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>I'm sure that there is a text-based config file for that, but I'm
>embarrassed to admit I don't know where it is.  While I'm usually a
>command-line kind of guy, I use the gui app in gnome to set the
>startup applications.
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>Bear in mind I'm using Fedora Core 2 with gnome 2.6, but I think this
>is a gnome thing, not redhat/Fedora specific.
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>Here's how:
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>gnome menu (big foot) -> Preferences -> Sessions
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>Then you get a window with 3 tabs; select Startup Programs.  You
>should see gnome-terminal listed there.  Select that and then press
>the delete button.
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>I have mine set up to start the terminal, ironically.
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>Hope that helps!
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>-dave.
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