XDM

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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.

XDM
Design by	Keith Packard
Initial release	October 1988
Genre	X display manager

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 its lack of user-friendliness, users of GNOME, KDE or Enlightenment tend to use GDM, KDM or Entrance instead of XDM.

[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 (XFree86.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)
• Gentoo Tip - configuring XDM with shutdown/reboot buttons and background image