MDM(1)MDM(1)NAMEMDM - The MDM Display Manager
SYNOPSIS
mdm [options]
mdmsetup [options]
DESCRIPTIONMDM is a replacement for XDM, the X Display Manager. Unlike its com‐
petitors (X3DM, KDM, WDM) MDM was written from scratch and does not
contain any original XDM / X Consortium code. MDM runs and manages the
X servers for both local and remote logins (using XDMCP). See
http://www.gnome.org/projects/mdm/ for more details.
mdm is main executable. mdmsetup is a graphical tool for easily chang‐
ing the most commonly used options.
For full documentation see the GNOME help browser under the Applica‐
tions / System Tools section.
OPTIONS
mdm and thus also mdm accept the following options:
-nodaemon
Do not fork into the background
--no-console
No console (local) servers to be run
--preserve-ld-vars
Preserve LD_* variables
--version
Print the MDM version
--help Print simple description of accepted options
mdmsetup accepts all standard GNOME options.
CONFIGURATION
Configuration is done either by running mdmsetup or by editting the
/etc/X11/mdm/mdm.conf (usually, could also be /etc/mdm/mdm.conf) file.
The graphical tool does not support all the options possible so edit‐
ting the configuration file is sometimes necessary.
AUTHORMDM is being written and maintained by George (Jiri) Lebl
<jirka@5z.com> based on the original codebase by Martin K. Peterson
<mkp@mkp.net>.
SEE ALSOX(7x), xdm(1), Xsecurity(7x), Xserver(1),
MDM 2.4.2.102 Aug 21 2003 MDM(1)