In the X Window System, an X display manager is a graphical login manager which starts a login session on an X server from the same or another computer...
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GNOME Display Manager (GDM) is a display manager (a graphical login manager) for the windowing systems X11 and Wayland. The X Window System by default...
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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...
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Display Manager was based on the source code of X display manager and was the default display manager of the KDE Software Compilation, until it was retired...
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XDM (redirect from X Window Display Manager)
refer to: X display manager, a part of the X Window System architecture XDM (display manager), the default display manager included with the X Window System...
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The X Window System (X11, or simply X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on Unix-like operating systems. X originated as part of Project...
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Entrance /ɛnˈtræns/ is a display manager for the X Window System. It is written using the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries, a graphical toolkit written...
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applications. This connects to an X display manager (introduced in X11R3) running on a central machine, using XDMCP (X Display Manager Control Protocol, introduced...
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Simple Desktop Display Manager (SDDM) is a display manager (a graphical login program) for the X11 and Wayland windowing systems. SDDM was written from...
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In computing, the X Window System (commonly: X11, or X) is a network-transparent windowing system for bitmap displays. This article details the protocols...
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An X window manager is a window manager that runs on top of the X Window System, a windowing system mainly used on Unix-like systems. Unlike MacOS Classic...
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... The purpose of the X Display Manager Control Protocol (XDMCP) is to provide a uniform mechanism for an autonomous display to request login service...
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functions. The device driver software for the video controller and the X display server program have to implement the XVideo interface. The video playback...
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result into the display memory. A compositing window manager is a window manager that is also a compositing manager. Compositing managers may perform additional...
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X.Org Server is the free and open-source implementation of the X Window System (X11) display server stewarded by the X.Org Foundation. Implementations...
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tries to log in, the login manager passes the user's credentials to an authentication system. Since an X display manager is a graphical user interface...
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Windowing system (redirect from Display server)
libraries. The X.Org Server is a display server, but in its current implementation it relies on a second program, the compositing window manager, to do the...
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responsibility of the display server. Users of the X Window System have the ability to easily use many different window managers – Metacity, used in GNOME...
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coupled dependencies). The default window manager used is Openbox, but one can configure a third-party window manager for use with LXDE, such as Fluxbox, IceWM...
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LightDM (category X display managers)
LightDM is a free and open-source X display manager that aims to be lightweight, fast, extensible and multi-desktop. It can use various front-ends to...
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Wayland (protocol) (redirect from Wayland (display manager))
Wayland merges display server and compositor as a single function. Also, it incorporates some of the tasks of the window manager, which in X is a separate...
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Linux kernel that supports logical volume management X display manager, a graphical login manager Degenerative myelopathy, a condition in dogs affecting...
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Free and open-source software portal Comparison of X window managers Comparison of file managers Croquet Project DistroWatch – a website containing information...
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Where an X display manager is employed, a login session is considered to be the lifetime of a designated user process that the display manager invokes...
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environments, users can access a task manager with the Control-Alt-Delete keyboard shortcut. Task managers can display running services. (processes) as well...
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getty for several virtual consoles. X Window System can be configured in /etc/inittab or by an X display manager. A number of Linux distributions use...
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Dtlogin (category X display managers)
dtlogin is a display manager for the X Window System. It is typically found on Unix and Unix-like computer systems running The Open Group's Common Desktop...
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List of computing and IT abbreviations (section X)
XDM—X Window Display Manager XDMCP—X Display Manager Control Protocol XCBL—XML Common Business Library XHTML—eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language XILP—X Interactive...
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physical width and the height of the display. It is expressed as two numbers separated by a colon (x:y), where x corresponds to the width and y to the...
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utility for the hard disk; partition editor GDM – X display manager GNOME Keyring Manager – Password manager GNOME Screensaver – Simple screensaver configuration...
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