GDM Alternatives

Alternatives list

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   Ly

    5 likes

   TUI (ncurses-like) display manager.

   16 Ly alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • BSD

   

   

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   • Ly is the most popular Linux alternative to GDM.

   • Ly is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to GDM.

   • Ly is Free and Open SourceGDM is also Free and Open Source
2. LightDM

    8 likes

   A lightweight display manager.

   16 LightDM alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

   

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   SDDM

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   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

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

   

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5. emptty

    1 like

   Dead simple CLI Display Manager on TTY.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

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   SLiM

    2 likes

   Lightweight and elegant graphical login solution.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Xfce

   

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7. xlogin

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

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

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   XDM

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   XDM (in full, the X Display Manager) is the default display manager for the X Window System. It is a bare-bones X display manager. It was introduced with X11 Release 3 in October 1988, to support the standalone X terminals that were just coming onto the market.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

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10. Brzdm

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    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

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux

    

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11. Universal Wayland Session Manager

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    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

    Platforms

    • Linux

    

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12. greetd

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    Minimal and flexible login manager daemon that makes no assumptions about what you want to launch.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Origin

    • Denmark
    • EU

    Platforms

    • Linux

    

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13. mlogind

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    The MidnightBSD login manager (forked from SLiM).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Origin

    • United States

    Platforms

    • BSD

    

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14. tbsm

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    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

    

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