XDM (display manager)

This article is about the X Display Manager. XDM also refers to the XML data model used in XPath 2.0, XSLT 2.0, and XQuery.

Not to be confused with X display manager.

The X Display Manager (XDM) is the default display manager for the X Window System. It is a bare-bones X display manager. It was introduced with X11 Release 3 in October 1988, to support the standalone X terminals that were just coming onto the market. It was written by Keith Packard.

XDM

A screenshot of an XDM login screen
Original author(s)	Keith Packard
Developer(s)	X.Org Foundation
Initial release	October 1988; 35 years ago (1988-10)
Stable release	1.1.14^[1]  / 3 December 2022; 12 months ago (3 December 2022)
Repository	gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xdm
Written in	C, C++
Type	X display manager
License	MIT License

It can be configured using modules and scripts.^[2]

Because of XDM's minimalism, most desktop environments tend to use later, more sophisticated display managers.^{[citation needed]}

See also

•  Free and open-source software portal

• X display manager

References

1. . 3 December 2022. Archived from the original on 30 July 2023.
2. "freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xdm". GitLab. Retrieved 2023-08-01.

Further reading

• Mui, Linda & Pearce, Eric (July 1993). X Window System Volume 8: X Window System Administrator's Guide for X11 Release 4 and Release 5 (softcover) (3rd ed.). O'Reilly and Associates. ISBN 0-937175-83-8.
• "XDM(1) manual page". X.Org.

External links

• xdm manual page.
• Taming The X Display Manager.
• Nielsen, Mark (July 1999). "Configuring XDM — a graphical login interface for Linux or UNIX". Linux Gazette. No. 43. from the original on July 5, 2004.