Display Managers

dm / description

A display manager is a program that provides graphical login capabilities for the X Window System.

dm / restriction

Only one display manager can manage a given X server, but multiple display manager packages are installed. Please select which display manager should run by default.

Lets say that you have installed SLiM. And we want to install xdm. What will happen? During installation we will be asked to select which display manager we want . But why?

dm / implementations

dm / implementations / xdm

about

devuan xdm packages

config

config / files

/etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config

config / change background

the devuan xbm logo

$ sudo nano /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config
 DisplayManager*resources:       /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources

 $ sudo nano /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources 
#if PLANES >= 8
!xlogin*logoFileName: /usr/share/X11/xdm/pixmaps/debian.xpm
xlogin*logoFileName: /usr/share/X11/xdm/pixmaps/devuan-logo-xdm-bw.xpm
#else 
!xlogin*logoFileName: /usr/share/X11/xdm/pixmaps/debianbw.xpm
xlogin*logoFileName: /usr/share/X11/xdm/pixmaps/devuan-logo-xdm-bw.xpm