This manual describes version 2.20.4 of the GNOME Display Manager. It was last updated on 03/10/2008.
Copyright © 1998, 1999 Martin K. Petersen
Copyright © 2001, 2003, 2004 George Lebl
Copyright © 2003 Red Hat, Inc.
Copyright © 2003, 2004 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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Abstract
GDM is the GNOME Display Manager, a graphical login program.
Table of Contents
This manual describes version 2.20.4 of the GNOME Display Manager. It was last updated on 03/10/2008.
Chooser - A program used to select a remote host for managing a display remotely on the attached display (gdmchooser).
Configurator - The configuration application (gdmsetup).
GDM - Gnome Display Manager. Used to describe the software package as a whole. Sometimes also referred to as GDM2.
gdm - The Gnome Display Manager daemon (gdm).
Greeter - The graphical login window (gdmlogin or gdmgreeter).
GTK+ Greeter - The standard login window (gdmlogin).
PAM - Pluggable Authentication Mechanism
Themed Greeter - The themable login window ( gdmgreeter).
XDMCP - X Display Manage Protocol
Paths that start with a word in angle brackets are relative to the
installation prefix. I.e. <share>/pixmaps/
refers to <share>/pixmaps
if GDM was configured
with --prefix=/usr. Normally also note that
GDM is installed with --sysconfigdir=<etc>/X11,
meaning any path to which we refer to as
<etc>/gdm/PreSession
usually means
<etc/X11>/gdm/PreSession
. Note that for
interoperability it is recommended that you use a --prefix of
/usr
and a --sysconfdir of
<etc>/X11
.