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The xsession program is a session manager. It is normally executed by your
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~/.xinitrc (or ~/.xsession) script and controls your X Window session. As
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soon as it is started, xsession launches a window manager and some
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applications of your choice. At anytime during your session, you may switch
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to another window manager or execute some other applications from the
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xsession menus.
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You may also lock your screen using an independent locker application. The
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window contains a message area which is used to notify the user whenever an
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application or a window manager starts or ends, and also to display all the
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output and error messages of the programs (the applications and the window
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managers) run by xsession. The console output messages can also be shown
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either in this area or in a second, separate area.
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One useful feature of xsession is the preprocessing of window managers'
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configuration files. When a window manager is launched, its startup file
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can be filtered through m4(1) or cpp(1). Some macros are defined (such as
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the host name, screen size and so on) that will help you customize your
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menus and screen layout. One advantage of this feature is that several
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window managers can share the same startup file: some lines are protected by
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a test on the "WM_NAME" macro, but the other lines are common. This saves a
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lot of time if you want to maintain the same menu structure for several of
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them. You can also use "include" statements in your file.
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Note: This slackbuild builds xsession without sound support. If you wish to
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have sound support see the Imakefile and INSTALL files within the source
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tarball.
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