GDM Alternatives

GDM is described as 'GNOME Display Manager is a display manager (a graphical login manager) for the windowing systems X11 and Wayland' and is an app in the system & hardware category. There are more than 10 alternatives to GDM for Linux, BSD and Xfce. The best GDM alternative is Ly, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like GDM are LightDM, SDDM, Universal Wayland Session Manager and lemurs.

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  1. Ly icon

    Ly

     6 likes

    TUI (ncurses-like) display manager.

    16 Ly alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
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  4. SDDM icon

    SDDM

     5 likes

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

    16 SDDM alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  5. U

    Universal Wayland Session Manager

     1 like

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Universal Wayland Session Manager screenshot 1
     
  6. lemurs icon

    lemurs

     1 like

    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.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    lemurs screenshot 1
     
  7. B

    Brzdm

     1 like

    Brzdm is a simple graphical login manager for X11. It aims to be simple, fast and independent from the various desktop environments. Text and image display is handled by imlib2.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  9. M

    mlogind

     1 like

    The MidnightBSD login manager (forked from SLiM).

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • BSD
     
  10. T

    tbsm

     1 like

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    tbsm screenshot 1
     
  11. M

    MDM (login manager)

     1 like

    The MDM Display Manager.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  12. E

    emptty

     2 likes

    Dead simple CLI Display Manager on TTY.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  13. SLiM icon

    SLiM

     3 likes

    Lightweight and elegant graphical login solution.

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
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  14. X

    xlogin

     Like

    Lightweight, secure and login like console display manager for X.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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