wdmLogin(1x)wdmLogin(1x)NAMEwdmLogin - wdm login panel
SYNOPSISwdmLogin [-d display] [-l logo] [-w <window managers>] [-b background]
[-h helpfile] [-u username] [-p password]
DESCRIPTIONwdmLogin is greeter designed to work with wdm(1x). It has several fea‐
tures not found on xdm's greeter. wdmLogin should not be called
directly, that's wdm's task.
OPTIONS-d starts on the specified display
-l uses the specified logo for the panel. The logo will be resized
to 200 by 130 pixels.
-w presents the colon separated list of window managers, for the
user to pick one, or None if you want only NoChange to appear.
-a enables animations consisting of shaking the Login panel (if an
error) and rolling up the image (when closing the panel).
-h uses the specified text file to display in the help panel
instead of the static help message which is in the sources. Take
care of long lines which may cause display trouble in the help
panel.
-u use the default username and password as specified in wdm-config
if nothing is typed by the user. USE WITH EXTREME CAUTION.
-b uses the specified background image (see the next section). If
this is not specified, then the background is NOT set.
BACKGROUND IMAGE SPECIFICATION
There are several possible ways of specifing a background image. The
generic format is -btype:image. type can be any of:
none do not set the background. This user can still set the back‐
ground via other means.
solid it renders a solid backgroud, and image is a color name
hgradient, vgradient, dgradient
a gradient (either horizontal, vertical or diagonal) will be
rendered. image is comma separated of color names, and any num‐
ber of colors can be specified.
pixmap a pixmap will be used for the background. image is the full path
to an image file (tiff, png, jpeg and xpm allowed) and it will
be scaled to use the full screen.
FILESwdmLogin can be customized by modifying /usr/local/lib/X11/wdm/wdm-con‐
fig.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
Some variables that defines locale affects the look of wdmLogin. wdm
program will set LANG environment variable according to `wdmLocale'
resource in wdm-config file.
SEE ALSOwdm(1x) , locale(1)AUTHOR
wmdLogin was written by Gene Czarcinski <genec@mindspring.com>. wdm is
based on work by Tom Rothamel (xdm's external greeter protocol) and xdm
itself, (c) 1988 X Consortium
This man page was written by Marcelo Magallon <mmagallo@debian.org> and
modified by Jerome Alet <alet@unice.fr>
August 1998 wdmLogin(1x)
