Simple Console Display Manager

This simpler version of CDM:

• can use a common .xinitrc script to start the X programs.
• supports a default selection and with timeout.
• doesn't depend on dialog/ncurses.
• doesn't clear the screen.

Invocation

To run cdm, use

$ cdm [RCFILE]

cdm tries to source configuration files in this order, and uses the first existing one:

[RCFILE specified on command line]
$HOME/.cdmrc
/etc/cdmrc

To autostart cdm when you log in your account, copy the content of /usr/share/cdm/cdm-profile.sh to the tail of your shell profile (~/.profile, ~/.bashrc, etc.):

# To avoid potential situation where cdm(1) crashes on every TTY, here we
# default to execute cdm(1) on tty1 only, and leave other TTYs untouched.
if [[ "$(tty)" == '/dev/tty1' ]]; then
    [[ -n "$CDM_SPAWN" ]] && return
    # Avoid executing cdm(1) when X11 has already been started.
    [[ -z "$DISPLAY$SSH_TTY$(pgrep xinit)" ]] && cdm
fi

Customisation

See /etc/cdmrc for examples.

Copying

CDM-simple Copyright (C) 2013, J Honorio Casado Fdez [email protected]
CDM Copyright (C) 2009-2012, Daniel J Griffiths [email protected]

Thanks to:

Andrwe          beta-testing and submitting the fix for the all
                important X incrementation function
brisbin33       code cleanup
tigrmesh        finding a critical issue with the gnome-session handler
Profjim         several incredibly useful patches
lambchops468    consolekit and hibernation patches
CasperVector    Massive rearchitecturing and code sanitation

Licensed under GPLv2+