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What compositor does Cinnamon use?
Since October 2013 (version 2.0 onwards), Cinnamon is no longer a frontend on top of the GNOME desktop like Unity or GNOME Shell, but a discrete desktop environment in its own right. Although Cinnamon is still built on GNOME technologies and uses GTK, it no longer requires GNOME itself to be installed.
What is xsession log?
xsession-errors file is where the X Window system logs all errors that occur within the Linux graphical environment. All desktop environments, whether Gnome, KDE, Cinnamon, XFCE, LXDE, etc., and all lighter window managers like FVWM, IceWM or Window Maker make use of the X Window system.
What is Xsession errors old?
xsession-errors file. the . old version is just the file from the last time you rebooted, while . xsession-errors is the current error file. In my case, I was getting probed on a VNC port, and the error messages were filling up the file.
Why is my xsession unable to launch cinnamon session?
I got following error after i was fixing some sound problems. Xsession: unable to launch “cinnamon-session-cinnamon” X session — “cinnamon-session-cinnamon” not found; falling back to default session. When I click Ok I get a black screen and can only see my cursor.
Where to set user xsession in X session?
X session startup can be complicated these days. A good place to start is the script /etc/X11/Xsession to see how things will get executed. On my Debian/Ubuntu systems, the script /etc/X11/Xsession sets the variable USERXSESSION=$HOME/.xsession.
What’s the purpose of ~ /.xsession in Xorg?
~/.xsession has the role of ~/.profile and ~/.xinitrc combined: it’s supposed to perform the initial startup of your session (e.g. define environment variables), then launch programs specific to the GUI (usually at least window manager). Nowadays, most X display managers give you a choice of a session.
What does.xsession run after starting X11?
.xsession is the traditional startscript for the X11 environment. Nowadays with sessionmanagers like kdm it is not that much of a use anymore, but on a traditionaly set up system. This is what is run after starting X11 with startx.