Closing this bug as it is old and there is no real bug, in fact. Feel free to reopen it if needed.
In the french translation, I can read "Session par défaut du système" (= System default session) wich seems good to me. Unlike Jeff, I'm not sure that "read .xsession" or something like that is a good idea. It's not sexy at all. Let face it : most of our user don't know about session or things like that. 3 years ago, editing your .xsession was the first thing you learned as a Linux newbie. Today, people don't even know what GNOME is... and that's good ;-) ** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Rejected -- gdm does not parse ~/.xsession https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/10830 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs