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6 GDM - The GNOME Display Manager
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9 gdm [options]
10 gdm-binary [options]
11 gdmsetup [options]
12 gdm-stop
13 gdm-restart
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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
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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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53 Configuration is done either by running gdmsetup or by editting the
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