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