GDM Alternatives
GDM is described as 'The GNOME Display Manager is a program that manages graphical display servers and handles graphical user logins' and is an app in the System & Hardware category. There are eight alternatives to GDM for Linux, BSD and Xfce. The best alternative is Ly, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like GDM are SDDM (Free, Open Source), emptty (Free, Open Source), LightDM (Free, Open Source) and SLiM (Free, Open Source).
- Simple Desktop Display Manager is a display manager (a graphical login program and session manager) for the X11 and Wayland windowing systems.
- Lightweight and elegant graphical login solution.
Discontinued
No screenshots yet - 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.
- Minimalistic, yet full-featured display manager that provides a fast, dialog-based login system without the overhead of the X Window System.No screenshots yet
- 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.