wdmLogin(1x)

NAME

   wdmLogin - wdm login panel

SYNOPSIS

   wdmLogin  [-d display] [-l logo] [-w <window managers>] [-b background]
   [-h helpfile] [-u username] [-p password]

DESCRIPTION

   wdmLogin is greeter designed to  work  with  wdm(1x).  It  has  several
   features  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 specifying 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
          background via other means.

   solid  it renders a solid background, 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
          number 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.

FILES

   wdmLogin can be customized by modifying /etc/X11/wdm/wdm-config.

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 ALSO

   wdm(1x) , locale(1)

AUTHOR

   wmdLogin was written by Gene Czarcinski <[email protected]>. 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 <[email protected]> and
   modified by Jerome Alet <[email protected]>

                              August 1998                     wdmLogin(1x)

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