source: gnome/other/gdm/gdm-desc.xml@ 2f66c98

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<para>The gdm package contains <userinput>gdm</userinput>,
<userinput>gdm-binary</userinput>,
<userinput>gdmXnestchooser</userinput>,
<userinput>gdmchooser</userinput>,
<userinput>gdmflexiserver</userinput>,
<userinput>gdmgreeter</userinput>, <userinput>gdmlogin</userinput>,
<userinput>gdmmktemp</userinput>, <userinput>gdmphotosetup</userinput>,
<userinput>gdmsetup</userinput>, <userinput>gdmthemetester</userinput>,
<userinput>gdm-restart</userinput>,
<userinput>gdm-safe-restart</userinput>,
<userinput>gdm-stop</userinput>, <userinput>gdmaskpass</userinput>,
<userinput>gdmconfig</userinput> and <userinput>gdmopen</userinput>.</para>

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<sect2><title>Description</title>

<sect3><title>gdm</title>
<para>gdm is a wrapper script to execute gdm-binary, the configurable
GNOME-based login prompt.</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>gdmchooser</title>
<para>gdmchooser is an application for selecting XDMCP enabled hosts on
the local network.</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>gdmsetup</title>
<para>gdmsetup is a graphical interface to edit the gdm.conf.</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>gdm-restart and gdm-safe-restart</title>
<para>gdm-restart sends the HUP signal and gdm-safe-restart sends the
USR1 signal to the daemon so that it restarts. There are used after the
config file is edited.</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>gdmconfig</title>
<para>gdmconfig is an application for managing the configuration of the
entire GDM applications suite.  It handles look and feel, security,
XDMCP, GDMchooser and more.</para></sect3>

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