XDM (display manager)

The X Display Manager (XDM) is the default display manager for the X Window System. It is a bare-bones X display manager. It was introduced with X11 Release 3 in October 1988, to support the standalone X terminals that were just coming onto the market. It was written by Keith Packard.

This article is about the X Display Manager. XDM also refers to the XML data model used in XPath 2.0, XSLT 2.0, and XQuery.
Not to be confused with X display manager.
XDM
Original author(s)Keith Packard
Developer(s)X.Org Foundation
Initial releaseOctober 1988 (1988-10)
Stable release
1.1.14  / 3 December 2022 (3 December 2022)
Repository
Written inC, C++
TypeX display manager
LicenseMIT License

It can be configured using modules and scripts.

Because of XDM's minimalism, most desktop environments tend to use later, more sophisticated display managers.

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