DTCHOOSER(1)

💖 dtchooser — the CDE dtlogin chooser screen display utility ✨

okay so this is dtchooser, and it lives in the user cmd section of the manual — yes, the header literally says dtchooser(user cmd), we love a lowkey title 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

dtchooser

that's it. no flags, no arguments, no little extras. she takes zero input and she slays regardless 🫶

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so here's the tea ☕ — the CDE dtchooser utility is the little helper that dtlogin calls up to display the host chooser screen on a display whenever an XDMCP indirect request comes in. like, dtlogin is like "bestie, someone's asking, can you show them the list?" and dtchooser is like "say less" 💫

then the user gets to select a host from the list presented, and dtlogin on that host will pop a login screen onto the display. main character energy all around 👑

and the count matters, bestie: there will be one dtchooser process per display on which a chooser screen is visible. one display = one process. no cap. 🔥

💡 also important — all customization of the chooser screen is done via dtlogin configuration files. dtchooser does not take styling notes directly, she gets her fit from dtlogin. for the full rundown on chooser screen customization, go read the dtlogin(1) man page. iykyk 📖✨

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• dtlogin(1) — the actual source of all chooser screen customization info 💜

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 ngl it's a short one but she's iconic. the footer stamp on this thing is literally just dtchooser(user cmd) — no date, no version number, nothing extra, and honestly? mysterious. we respect it 💅✨