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NAME
GDM - The GNOME Display Manager
SYNOPSIS
gdm [options]
gdm-binary [options]
gdmsetup [options]
gdm-stop
gdm-restart
gdm-safe-restart
DESCRIPTION
GDM is a replacement for XDM, the X Display Manager. Unlike its com-
petitors (X3DM, KDM, WDM) GDM was written from scratch and does not
contain any original XDM / X Consortium code. GDM runs and manages
the X servers for both local and remote logins (using XDMCP). See
http://www.jirka.org/gdm.html for more details.
gdm is just a script that runs the actual gdm-binary executable. gdm-
stop is a script that stops the current running daemon immediately,
gdm-restart restarts the current daemon immediately and gdm-safe-
restart restarts the current daemon after everyone has logged out.
gdmsetup is a graphical tool for easily changing the most commonly
used options.
For full documentation see the GNOME help browser under the GNOME /
System section.
OPTIONS
gdm and thus also gdm-binary accept the following options:
-nodaemon
Do not fork into the background
--no-console
No console (local) servers to be run
--preserve-ld-vars
Preserve LD_* variables
--version
Print the GDM version
--help Print simple description of accepted options
gdmsetup accepts all standard GNOME options.
CONFIGURATION
Configuration is done either by running gdmsetup or by editting the
/etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf (usually, could also be /etc/gdm/gdm.conf) file.
The graphical tool does not support all the options possible so edit-
ting the configuration file is sometimes necessary.
AUTHOR
GDM is being written and maintained by George (Jiri) Lebl
based on the original codebase by Martin K. Peterson
.
SEE ALSO
X(7x), xdm(1), Xsecurity(7x), Xserver(1),
GDM 2.4.2.102 Aug 21 2003 GDM(1)
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