Can someone explain to me exactly what gnome-session
and gnome-settings-daemon
do and how they might be useful to me, as someone who doesn't use GNOME or any of its relatives as a DM (i use i3)?
I've only known that one of the two can be used to automatically set media keybindings but am increasingly bothered that I know neither which one sets the keybindings nor what either of them is really for.
Best Answer
gnome-session starts gnome-settings-daemon. The latter manages the data used in a session. The former tells it what to do.
Based on the description, you'll be more interested in the settings daemon than the session manager.
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