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NAME

6       GDM - The GNOME Display Manager
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SYNOPSIS

9       gdm [options]
10       gdm-binary [options]
11       gdmsetup [options]
12       gdm-stop
13       gdm-restart
14       gdm-safe-restart
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DESCRIPTION

17       GDM  is  a  replacement for XDM, the X Display Manager. Unlike its com‐
18       petitors (X3DM, KDM, WDM) GDM was written from  scratch  and  does  not
19       contain any original XDM / X Consortium code.  GDM runs and manages the
20       X servers  for  both  local  and  remote  logins  (using  XDMCP).   See
21       http://www.gnome.org/projects/gdm/ for more details.
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23       gdm  is just a script that runs the actual gdm-binary executable.  gdm-
24       stop is a script that stops the  current  running  daemon  immediately,
25       gdm-restart  restarts  the  current  daemon  immediately  and gdm-safe-
26       restart restarts the current daemon  after  everyone  has  logged  out.
27       gdmsetup is a graphical tool for easily changing the most commonly used
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30       For full documentation see the GNOME help browser  under  the  GNOME  /
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OPTIONS

34       gdm and thus also gdm-binary accept the following options:
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36       -nodaemon
37              Do not fork into the background
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45       --version
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48       --help Print simple description of accepted options
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50       gdmsetup accepts all standard GNOME options.
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CONFIGURATION

53       Configuration  is  done  either  by running gdmsetup or by editting the
54       /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf (usually, could also be /etc/gdm/gdm.conf)  file.
55       The  graphical  tool does not support all the options possible so edit‐
56       ting the configuration file is sometimes necessary.
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AUTHOR

59       GDM  is  being  written  and   maintained   by   George   (Jiri)   Lebl
60       <jirka@5z.com>  based  on  the  original codebase by Martin K. Peterson
61       <mkp@mkp.net>.
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SEE ALSO

64       X(7x), xdm(1), Xsecurity(7x), Xserver(1),
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