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 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 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
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>