xdm manages a collection of X servers, which may be on the local host or remote machines. It provides services similar to those provided by init, getty, and login on character-based terminals: prompting for login name and password, authenticating the user, and running a session. xdm supports XDMCP (X Display Manager Control Protocol) and can also be used to run a chooser process which presents the user with a menu of possible hosts that offer XDMCP display management.
If the sessreg package is installed, xdm can use the sessreg utility to register login sessions to the system utmp file; this, however, is not necessary for xdm to function.
xdm requires the C preprocessor (cpp) to process its configuration files.
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| Architecture | Package Size | Installed Size | Files |
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| alpha | 179.8 kB | 828 kB | [list of files] |
| amd64 | 170.4 kB | 784 kB | [list of files] |
| arm | 164.6 kB | 764 kB | [list of files] |
| hppa | 172.4 kB | 776 kB | [list of files] |
| i386 | 164.5 kB | 764 kB | [list of files] |
| ia64 | 205.8 kB | 924 kB | [list of files] |
| mips | 171.9 kB | 812 kB | [list of files] |
| mipsel | 171.7 kB | 812 kB | [list of files] |
| powerpc | 169.2 kB | 780 kB | [list of files] |
| s390 | 170.7 kB | 780 kB | [list of files] |
| sparc | 162.4 kB | 760 kB | [list of files] |