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GDM is the GNOME Display Manager, it is the little proggie that runs
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in the background, runs your X sessions, presents you with a login box
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and then tells you to piss off because you forgot your password. It
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does pretty much everything that you would want to use xdm for, but
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doesn't involve as much crack. It doesn't use any code from xdm, and
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has a more paranoid and safer design overall. It also includes many
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features over xdm, the biggest one of which is that it is more user
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friendly, even if your X setup is failing. The goal is that users
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should never, ever have to use the command line to customize or
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troubleshoot gdm. It of course supports xdmcp, and in fact extends
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xdmcp a little bit in places where I thought xdm was lacking (but is
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still compatible with xdm's xdmcp).
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