1. Introduction

1.1. Copyright Information

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1.2. Disclaimer

No liability for the contents of this documents can be accepted. Use the concepts, examples and other content at your own risk. As this is a new edition of this document, there may be errors and inaccuracies, that may of course be damaging to your system. Proceed with caution, and although this is highly unlikely, the author(s) do not take any responsibility for that.

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Naming of particular products or brands should not be seen as endorsements.

You are strongly recommended to take a backup of your system before major installation and backups at regular intervals.

1.3. New Versions

The latest version number of this document may be obtained from The Northants LUG, UK Project Pages .

1.4. Credits

Thanks go to the following people for help with information and proof reading of the document.

Scot W Stevenson for the original X terminal mini-howto document, from 1995, on which some of the material for the section on advanced xdm-config configurations was obtained.

Members of the Northants LUG, UK for proof reading the document.

The writers of the XDM, Xserver man pages and the default XDM scripts.

1.5. Feedback

Feedback is most certainly welcome for this document. Without your submissions and input, this document wouldn't exist. Please send your additions, comments and criticisms to the following email address: <xdm-mini@northants.lug.org.uk>.

1.6. To do

I probably ought to mention some details about the following at some point ...

• Debugging problems with XDM.

• FAQs and common mistakes