Gnome Display Manager
The Gnome Display Manager is a reimplementation of the well known xdm program. GDM consists of a daemon and a graphical login application which runs as an unpriviledged user. The login GUI features a face browser, an optional logo, and language/session type selection support. The daemon includes an XDMCP implementation for managing remote displays. Access control relies on TCPWrappers and PAM.
| Tags | Desktop Environment GNOME |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
Recent releases
- 06 Feb 2005 07:09
Changes: This release fixes several minor bugs. It also adds some translations.
- 14 Sep 2004 20:09
Changes: This version features translation updates, and a minor Solaris fix.
- 18 Aug 2004 18:44
Changes: This release adds bugfixes and translation updates.
- 11 Jun 2004 18:40
Changes: This release adds many minor bugfixes, a fix for an issue with blinking cursors, Solaris build fixes, fixes for the accessibility modules, and more.
- 07 May 2004 13:39
Changes: This release has UI enhancements, IPv6 support, accessibility work, and many bugfixes. This is aimed at the GNOME 2.6 desktop.
- All comments
Recent commentsRe: face browser for the graphical greeter
There are now some docs on this in the reference documentation. See www.jirka.org/gdm.html for more info
Re: face browser for the graphical greeter
There are no docs, except for the sources. See gdm.h headerfile for the defines, and see the sources of gdmlogin.c and greeter/greeter.c for the implementation of the protocol. There is much duplicated code between the two that needs to be split out into a library. That would also be a fun project for someone. The face browser is there in the newest development versions. You have to just have a theme that supports a face browser and there is one like that based on happygnome in the default distribution.
face browser for the graphical greeter
It would be nice to have a face browser in the graphical
greeter interface.
I'm planning a new graphical interface for gdm, where can I
find some documentation about the protocol to
communicate whith the gdm daemon and other usefull stuff?