1wdmLogin(1x)                                                      wdmLogin(1x)
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NAME

6       wdmLogin - wdm login panel
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SYNOPSIS

9       wdmLogin  [-d display] [-l logo] [-w <window managers>] [-b background]
10       [-h helpfile] [-u username] [-p password]
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DESCRIPTION

13       wdmLogin is greeter designed to work with wdm(1x). It has several  fea‐
14       tures  not  found  on  xdm's  greeter.  wdmLogin  should  not be called
15       directly, that's wdm's task.
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OPTIONS

18       -d     starts on the specified display
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20       -l     uses the specified logo for the panel. The logo will be  resized
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23       -w     presents  the  colon  separated list of window managers, for the
24              user to pick one, or None if you want only NoChange to appear.
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26       -a     enables animations consisting of shaking the Login panel (if  an
27              error) and rolling up the image (when closing the panel).
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29       -h     uses  the  specified  text  file  to  display  in the help panel
30              instead of the static help message which is in the sources. Take
31              care  of  long lines which may cause display trouble in the help
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34       -u     use the default username and password as specified in wdm-config
35              if nothing is typed by the user. USE WITH EXTREME CAUTION.
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37       -b     uses  the specified background image (see the next section).  If
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BACKGROUND IMAGE SPECIFICATION

41       There are several possible ways of specifing a  background  image.  The
42       generic format is -btype:image. type can be any of:
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44       none   do  not  set  the background.  This user can still set the back‐
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47       solid  it renders a solid backgroud, and image is a color name
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50              a gradient (either horizontal, vertical  or  diagonal)  will  be
51              rendered.  image is comma separated of color names, and any num‐
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54       pixmap a pixmap will be used for the background. image is the full path
55              to  an  image file (tiff, png, jpeg and xpm allowed) and it will
56              be scaled to use the full screen.
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FILES

59       wdmLogin can be customized by modifying /etc/X11/wdm/wdm-config.
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ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

62       Some variables that defines locale affects the look  of  wdmLogin.  wdm
63       program  will  set  LANG  environment variable according to `wdmLocale'
64       resource in wdm-config file.
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SEE ALSO

67       wdm(1x) , locale(1)
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AUTHOR

70       wmdLogin was written by Gene Czarcinski <genec@mindspring.com>. wdm  is
71       based on work by Tom Rothamel (xdm's external greeter protocol) and xdm
72       itself, (c) 1988 X Consortium
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74       This man page was written by Marcelo Magallon <mmagallo@debian.org> and
75       modified by Jerome Alet <alet@unice.fr>
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79                                  August 1998                     wdmLogin(1x)