Chapter 1. A sample session

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The provisional startup sequence

Using GNOME's internationalization support

When GNOME becomes stable there will be a simple recipe for starting up a GNOME session: users will simply type gnome-session and it will start up their environment. But we are not yet at that point: right now UNIX users usually run their stable X Window environment with their favorite window manager, and the run the GNOME panel and other programs from the shell or from their .xsession or .xinitrc files.

I assume that you have the GNOME programs and libraries installed on your system, and that they are in your path.