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gdm — The GNOME Display Manager (GDM) is a replacement for the X Display Manager (XDM). See also: `gdm-bin

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Problem

How to use the gdm command: The GNOME Display Manager (GDM) is a replacement for the X Display Manager (XDM). See also: gdm-binary, gdmsetup, gdm-stop, gdm-restart, gdm-safe-restart. More information: <https://manned.org/gdm>.

Solution

gdm — The GNOME Display Manager (GDM) is a replacement for the X Display Manager (XDM). See also: gdm-binary, gdmsetup, gdm-stop, gdm-restart, gdm-safe-restart. More information: <https://manned.org/gdm>.

Run the GNOME Display Manager application:
gdm


Prevent gdm from being run as a daemon background process:
gdm --nodaemon


Disable gdm management of local console X servers for headless or remote environments:
gdm --no-console


Prevent sanitizing environment variables that start with $LD_:
gdm --preserve-ld-vars


Display help:
gdm --help


Display version:
gdm --version

Code Snippets

Run the GNOME Display Manager application

gdm

Prevent `gdm` from being run as a daemon background process

gdm --nodaemon

Disable `gdm` management of local console X servers for headless or remote environments

gdm --no-console

Prevent sanitizing environment variables that start with `$LD_`

gdm --preserve-ld-vars

Display help

gdm --help

Context

tldr-pages: common/gdm

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