GNOME Display Manager
GDM is the GNOME Display Manager. It is an entirely new implementation
of XDMCP (the X Display Manager Control Protocol) and associated
functionality. gdm consists of four separate parts: A small daemon, a
graphical login program, a host chooser and a configurator. gdm2 implements
a rich feature set required for managing local and remote displays.
gdm daemon
Provides a secure daemon for handling authentication and client
communication.
- X Authentication
- Default and per-display initialization scripts
- Pre and post session scripts
- Pluggable Authentication Modules
- XDMCP
- TCP Wrappers for access control
gdmlogin
Provides a configurable GNOME-based login prompt.
- Logo image (in any GdkImlib supported format)
- A face browser like the one on NeXT/SGI
- Tab-completion (no, doesn't work on passwords)
- Halt, reboot and laptop suspend
- Iconified login window (i.e. for xfishtank)
- Session selection support (Package manager friendly)
- Language selection support
gdmchooser
Provides a GNOME application for selecting XDMCP enabled hosts on the local
network.
- Visual host browser
- Customizable icons
gdmconfig
Provides a GNOME application for managing the configuration of the entire
GDM application suite. Most features can be turned on or off.
- Basic configuration of look and feel
- Security configuration
- XDMCP configuration
- GDMchooser configuration
- Session file configuration
- Advanced low level path configuration
- Options to configure every other GDM-related feature
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