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 -b
type:
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 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¶
wdm(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>