Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD


Ly is the most popular Linux alternative to emptty.
Ly is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to emptty.
- Ly is Free and Open Source


Ly is the most popular Linux alternative to emptty.
Ly is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to emptty.


Simple Desktop Display Manager is a display manager (a graphical login program and session manager) for the X11 and Wayland windowing systems.



GNOME Display Manager is a display manager (a graphical login manager) for the windowing systems X11 and Wayland.


Minimalistic, yet full-featured display manager that provides a fast, dialog-based login system without the overhead of the X Window System. Written in pure bash, CDM has almost no dependencies, yet supports multiple users/sessions and can start virtually any desktop environment...
Minimal and flexible login manager daemon that makes no assumptions about what you want to launch.
Terminal User Interface (TUI) Display/Login Manager written in Rust that works on most GNU/Linux and BSD distributions. It can work both with or without SystemD.


Console TDM is an extension for xorg-xinit written in pure bash. It is inspired by CDM, which aimed to be a replacement of display managers such as GDM.

Terminal Based Session Manager is an application or session launcher, written in pure bash with no ncurses or dialog dependencies. It is inspired by cdm, tdm, in some way by krunner and related.

Wraps standalone Wayland compositors into a set of Systemd units on the fly. This provides robust session management including environment, XDG autostart support, bi-directional binding with login session, and clean shutdown.
