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GNOME Display Manager
Display manager for the windowing systems X11 and Wayland / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
GNOME Display Manager (GDM) is a display manager (a graphical login manager) for the windowing systems X11 and Wayland.
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![]() GNOME Display Manager 3 (its default appearance uses a dark theme) | |
Developer(s) | The GNOME Project (William Jon McCann, Brian Cameron, Ray Strode) |
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Stable release | 3.16.2[1] ![]() |
Preview release | |
Repository | |
Written in | C |
Operating system | Unix and Unix-like (Linux, BSD, Solaris) |
Type | Login manager for Wayland, X display manager |
License | GPL-2.0-or-later |
Website | wiki![]() |
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The X Window System by default uses the XDM display manager. However, resolving XDM configuration issues typically involves editing a configuration file. GDM allows users to customize or troubleshoot settings without having to resort to a command line. Users can pick their session type on a per-login basis. GDM 2.38.0 is the last version that features customization with themes; subsequent releases do not support themes.