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gdm(1) -- Linux man page
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.jirka.org/gdm.php 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
X(7x),
xdm(1),
Xsecurity(7x),
Xserver(1),
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