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 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, emptty, LightDM and SLiM.
TUI (ncurses-like) display manager.
Ly Features
Simple Desktop Display Manager is a display manager (a graphical login program and session manager) for the X11 and Wayland windowing systems.
SDDM Features
emptty
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- Linux
Dead simple CLI Display Manager on TTY.
emptty Features
LightDM
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- Linux
A lightweight display manager.
LightDM Features
SLiM
Do you think this is a good alternative?YesNo- Free • Open Source
8 alternatives to SLiM- Linux
- Xfce
Lightweight and elegant graphical login solution.
Discontinued
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.
XDM Features
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...
CDM Features
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.
TDM Features
