wdmLogin(1x)

💖 wdmLogin 💖

okay so real talk, bestie — this whole page is the manual for wdmLogin, which lives in the 1x section of the manual. it's the login panel. the pretty face. the moment before everything. let's get into it 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

wdmLogin — wdm login panel 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

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

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so wdmLogin is a greeter, and it's built to work with wdm(1x). it comes with several features that xdm's greeter simply does not have, no cap. iconic behavior honestly.

🚨 bestie listen: wdmLogin should NOT be called directly. that is literally wdm's whole job. do not summon it yourself. 🙈

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -d — starts on the specified display ✨
• -l — uses the specified logo for the panel. heads up tho, the logo is gonna get resized to 200 by 130 pixels no matter what 💅
• -w — presents the colon separated list of window managers, so the user can pick one. or None if you want only NoChange to appear 👀
• -a — enables animations, which are: shaking the Login panel (if an error happens 😭) 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 that's baked into the sources. take care of long lines tho, because they 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. 🚨🚨 like genuinely, extreme caution, i am not playing
• -b — uses the specified background image (see the next section for the deets). if this is not specified, then the background is NOT set 🫶

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🌈 BACKGROUND IMAGE SPECIFICATION 🌈

there are several possible ways of specifying a background image, and the generic format is -btype:image. type can be any of these:

• 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 🖼️

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🍓 FILES 🍓

wdmLogin can be customized by modifying /etc/X11/wdm/wdm-config — that's the one, bestie 💜

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🧚 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES 🧚

some variables that defines locale affects the look of wdmLogin. the wdm program will set the LANG environment variable according to wdmLocale resource in the wdm-config file 🌍

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

wdm(1x) , locale(1)

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🫶 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> 💖

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okay that's the whole page, we ate and left absolutely no crumbs. it's dated August 1998, and the source/version line says wdmLogin(1x) — so yeah, this beauty has been iconic since '98 and it still is. periodt 💅✨🎀