Terms and Conventions Used in This Manual

This manual describes version 2.6.0.4 of the GNOME Display Manager. It was last updated on 7/14/2004.

GDM - Gnome Display Manager. Used to describe the software package as a whole. Sometimes also referred to as GDM2.

gdm - The Gnome Display Manager daemon (gdm).

Greeter - The graphical login window (gdmlogin or gdmgreeter).

Standard Greeter - The standard login window ( gdmlogin).

Graphical Greeter - The themable login window ( gdmgreeter).

Chooser - The host chooser which appears on remote displays sending INDIRECT queries (gdmchooser).

Configurator - The configuration program (gdmsetup).

Paths that start with a word in angle brackets are relative to the installation prefix. I.e. <share>/pixmaps/ refers to /usr/share/pixmaps if GDM was configured with --prefix=/usr. Normally also note that GDM is installed with --sysconfigdir=/etc/X11, meaning any path to which we refer to as <etc>/gdm/PreSession usually means /etc/X11/gdm/PreSession. Note that for interoperability it is recommended that you use a prefix of /usr and a sysconfdir of /etc/X11.