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(on Wikipedia)
(comes with X windows)

A basic display manager, to let the user boot into a login screen.

It gets the job done. It lacks user-switching and poweroff/suspend functionality.

• XDM = X Window Display Manager

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• 2019-02-20 - I haven't used this for some time, and switched to a way to use the tty login prompt as my login tool.
• 2016-03-27 - 1.1.11, on Slackware 14.1
• 2009-03-26 - (version not recorded) on (distribution not recorded)

• I had used XDM on-and-off on other Linux distributions before Lubuntu. I have no notes from those days.

2016-03-27 - 1.1.11 ∞

This comes with Slackware 14.1

Slackware has to be set to boot into a GUI mode:

\mcedit  /etc/inittab

id:3:initdefault:
=>
id:4:initdefault:

After this change, Slackware will automatically use the appropriate desktop manager on bootup.

if xwmconfig has been set to, say, Blackbox, then I believe xdm will be launched on bootup.

Tested and works automagically with Openbox.

2009-03-26 - (version not recorded) ∞

Simple default display manager.

Nice and slim. I like it. The configuration is completely opaque though.

startup by default ∞

nano /etc/rc.d/rc.local

I added xdm in there. It doesn't have to be at the end either.

Or better yet:

until /usr/bin/xdm; do :; done

This must be at the very end.

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I think it's possible to edit /etc/inittab with something like:

x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/xdm >& /dev/null

configure? ∞

/etc/X11/xdm/

It begins here:

/etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config

Stuff here? (See .Xresources)

/etc/X11/xdm/Xresources

Dunno, this looks wrong to me..

Last updated 2020-06-01 at 04:51:19