GNOME login manager??”The GNOME display manager (gdm) comes with a Login
Window Preferences utility (from the desktop, run the gdmsetup command as root
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user). From the Login Window Preferences window, you can select the Local tab and
choose a whole different theme for the login manager. On the Security tab, you may
notice that all TCP connections to the X server are disallowed. Don??™t change this selection
because no processes other than those handled directly by your display manager should
be allowed to connect to the login screen.
After your login and password have been accepted, the desktop environment configured for your
user account starts up. Users can modify their desktop environments to suit their tastes (even to
the point of changing the entire desktop environment used).
Boot to a Text Prompt
Instead of a nice graphical screen with pictures and colors, you might see a login prompt that looks
like this:
Welcome to XYZ Linux
yourcomputer login:
This is the way all UNIX and older Linux systems used to appear on the screen when they booted
up. Now this is the login prompt that is typical for a system that is installed as a server or, for some
reason, was configured not to start an X display manager for you to log in.
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