XDM (display manager)
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- This is about the X Window Display Manager. XDM also refers to the XML data model used in XPath 2.0, XSLT 2.0, and XQuery.
 A screenshot of an XDM login screen |
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| Original author(s) | Keith Packard |
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| Developer(s) | X.Org Foundation |
| Initial release | October 1988 |
| Stable release | 1.1.9 / September 18, 2009 [1] |
| Type | X display manager |
| License | MIT License |
XDM (in full, the X Window Display Manager) is the default display manager for the X Window System. It is a bare-bones X display manager. It was introduced with X11 Release 3 in October 1988, to support the standalone X terminals that were just coming onto the market. It was written by Keith Packard.
Because of XDM's minimalism, users of GNOME, KDE, Enlightenment or Window Maker tend to use GDM, KDM, Entrance or wdm instead of XDM.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- Linda Mui and Eric Pearce, X Window System Volume 8: X Window System Administrator's Guide for X11 Release 4 and Release 5, 3rd edition (O'Reilly and Associates, July 1993; softcover ISBN 0-937175-83-8)
- XDM(1) manual page (X.Org)
[edit] External links
- xdm manual page
- Taming The X Display Manager
- Configuring XDM — a graphical login interface for Linux or UNIX (Mark Nielsen, Linux Gazette #43, July 1999)
