GDM(1) GDM(1) 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(2,8) the following options: -nodaemon Do not fork into the background --no-console No console(4,n) (local) servers to be run --preserve-ld-vars Preserve LD_* variables --version Print the GDM version(1,3,5) --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(1,n) 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), GDM 2.4.2.102 Aug 21 2003 GDM(1)