GDM(1)                                                                  GDM(1)



NAME
       GDM - The GNOME Display Manager

SYNOPSIS
       gdm [options]
       gdmsetup [options]

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.gnome.org/projects/gdm/ for more details.

       gdm is main executable.  gdmsetup is a graphical tool for easily chang‐
       ing the most commonly used options.

       For full documentation see the GNOME help browser  under  the  Applica�‐
       tions / System Tools section.

OPTIONS
       gdm and thus also gdm 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
       <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)