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 competitors (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.gnome.org/projects/gdm/
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 editting the configuration file
is sometimes necessary.
AUTHOR
GDM is being written and maintained by George
(Jiri) Lebl <jirka@5z.com>
based on the original codebase by Martin K. Peterson <mkp@mkp.net>.
SEE ALSO
(7x),
xdm(1),
(7x),
xserver(1),