

		    GDM - GNOME DISPLAY MANAGER


    Announcing a beta release of gdm - the Gnome Display Manager.

The Gnome Display Manager is a re-implementation of the well known xdm
program. gdm, however, consists of two separate parts: A small daemon
and a graphical login program -- gdmgreeter.

gdm 0.8 implements all significant features required for managing
local and remote displays.

The gdm daemon features:

 o X Authentication
 o Default and per-display initialization scripts
 o Pre and post session scripts
 o Pluggable Authentication Modules
 o XDMCP

gdmgreeter supports:

 o Logo image (in any GdkImlib supported format)
 o A face browser like the one on NeXT/SGI
 o Tab-completion (no, doesn't work on passwords)
 o Halt, reboot and laptop suspend
 o Iconified login window (i.e. for xfishtank)
 o Session selection support (Package manager friendly)
 o Language selection support

Most features can be turned on and off in the configuration file by
the sysadmin.

Availability:

   ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/gdm-0.8.tar.gz


Please consult README.install for instructions on how to configure and
install gdm.

Send suggestions, patches, bug reports etc. to mkp@SunSITE.auc.dk.
Bear in mind that this is beta software and please enable debug
logging (see README.install) and include your syslog and
<vardir>/gdm/<display>.log when sending bug reports.


Martin K. Petersen, The Gnome Project

