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As gnome-shell is a required component for GNOME sessions, gnome-session will currently always try to autostart it. However as we are moving towards using systemd's user instance for session startup, gnome-session should only be responsible for launching the shell when either not running under systemd or when we were built without systemd support. gnome-session can detect the former but not the latter, so communicate this via the newly added X-GNOME-HiddenUnderSystemd key in the .desktop file. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/507 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-session/merge_requests/13
GNOME Shell
GNOME Shell provides core user interface functions for the GNOME 3 desktop, like switching to windows and launching applications. GNOME Shell takes advantage of the capabilities of modern graphics hardware and introduces innovative user interface concepts to provide a visually attractive and easy to use experience.
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