Terms and Conventions Used in This Manual

This manual describes version 2.24.0 of the GNOME Display Manager. It was last updated on 08/27/2008.

Chooser - A program used to select a remote host for managing a display remotely on the attached display (gdmchooser).

FreeDesktop - The organization providing desktop standards, such as the Desktop Entry Specification used by GDM. http://www.freedesktop.org.

GDM - Gnome Display Manager. Used to describe the software package as a whole.

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

PAM - Pluggable Authentication Mechanism

XDMCP - X Display Manage Protocol

Xserver - An implemention of the X Window System. For example the Xorg webserver provided by the X.org Foundation http://www.x.org.

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.