GDM is a replacement for XDM, the X Display Manager. Unlike its com-
petitors (X3DM, KDM, WDM) GDM was written from scratch and does not
contain any original XDM / X Consortium code. GDM runs and manages the
X servers for both local and remote logins (using XDMCP). See
http://www.gnome.org/projects/gdm/ for more details.
http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=xorg-x11-xdm
refer to this link for more details
http://linux.chinaitlab.com/server/36683.html