Matthias Clasen
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Sindhu S
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Aruna Sankaranarayanan
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Petr Kovar
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Which processes should I expect to see running in a pristine, stock GNOME session?
Andika Triwidada
andika@gmail.com 2020-2023

# Typical processes

In a stock GNOME session, programs called daemons or services run on the system as background processes. You should find the following daemons running by default:

# dbus-daemon

The dbus-daemon provides a message bus daemon which programs can use to exchange messages with one another. dbus-daemon is implemented with the D-Bus library which provides one-to-one communication between any two applications.

For extended information, see the man page for dbus-daemon.

# gnome-keyring-daemon

Credentials such as user name and password for various programs and websites are stored securely using the gnome-keyring-daemon. This information is written into an encrypted file called the keyring file and saved in the user's home directory.

For extended information, see the man page for gnome-keyring-daemon.

# gnome-session

Program gnome-session bertanggung jawab untuk menjalankan lingkungan desktop GNOME dengan bantuan manajer tampilan seperti GDM, LightDM, atau NODM. Sesi baku untuk pengguna diatur pada saat instalasi sistem oleh administrator sistem. gnome-session biasanya memuat sesi terakhir yang sukses dijalankan pada sistem.

For extended information, see the man page for gnome-session.

# gnome-settings-daemon

The gnome-settings-daemon handles settings for a GNOME session and for all programs that are run within the session.

For extended information, see the man page for gnome-settings-daemon.

# gnome-shell

gnome-shell provides the core user interface functionality for GNOME such as launching programs, browsing directories, viewing files and so on.

For extended information, see the man page for gnome-shell.

# pulseaudio

PulseAudio adalah server suara untuk Linux, POSIX dan sistem Windows yang memungkinkan program mengeluarkan suara melalui PulseAudio daemon.

For extended information, see the man page for pulseaudio.

Depending on the user's setup, you may also see some of the following, among others:

# Additional Processes

at-spi2-dbus-launcher

at-spi2-registryd

gnome-screensaver

gnome-shell-calendar-server

goa-daemon

gsd-printer

various Evolution factory processes

various GVFS processes