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<H3><A NAME="s1">1. Introduction</A></H3>

<P>The KDE Display Manager is a ``drop-in'' replacement for xdm, the X
Display Manager and a little utility. kdmdesktop is to draw nice
backgrounds. Kdm is superior to xdm in several ways:
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<LI>Kdm supports session arguments in a userfriendly way (xdm doesn't
tell the user, which args it might generate).</LI>
<LI>Kdm has an optional ``shutdown''-button (much like NT's login
box).</LI>
<LI>Kdm has an optional graphical view of users on the system (idea
stolen from IRIX' login box).</LI>
<LI>Kdm looks ways better than xdm ;-)</LI>
<LI>Kdm can be configured with a graphical user interface (a part of
the KDE control center)</LI>
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