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GDM is the GNOME Display Manager, a graphical login program that uses the X Window System.

GDM provides the equivalent of a "login:" prompt for X displays--it pops up a login window and starts an X session. It provides all the functionality of XDM, including XDMCP support for managing remote displays.

The greeting window is written using the GNOME libraries and hence looks like a GNOME application, even to the extent of supporting themes! By default, the greeter is run as an unprivileged user for security.

To stop the gdm service, you can use the command

#invoke-rc.d stop

This command requires root privileges. Other possible options for the above command instead of 'stop' are --- 'start', 'restart', 'reload', 'force-reload' etc...

You can also kill the X server by pressing CTRL+ALT+SUPR.

GDM can load different desktop environments and window managers by using the session menu on the login screen.

By default, logging into the computer via GDM as root is forbidden.

See also


CategoryBootProcess