In computing, the WINGs Display Manager (WDM) is a display manager for the X window system, mainly used for graphically logging in, on a Unix-based system. WINGs is a modification of xdm, XFree86's original display manager.
It uses a Window Maker-style interface to present a graphical login screen. It uses the WINGs widget toolkit.
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