GDM Alternatives

Alternatives list

1. 

   

   Ly

    7 likes

   TUI (ncurses-like) display manager.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • BSD

   

   

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   LightDM

    8 likes

   A lightweight display manager.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

   

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4. S

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   SDDM

    6 likes

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

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

   

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5. 

   

   emptty

    2 likes

   Dead simple CLI Display Manager on TTY.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

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   SLiM

    3 likes

   Lightweight and elegant graphical login solution.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Xfce

   

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8. U

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   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

   

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9. B

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   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

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Platforms

   • Linux

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10. M

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    mlogind

     1 like

    The MidnightBSD login manager (forked from SLiM).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

    Origin

    • United States

    Platforms

    • BSD

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11. T

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    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

    

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12. 

    

    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

    • Free
    • Open Source (Apache-2.0)

    Platforms

    • Linux

    

    

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13. M

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    MDM (login manager)

     1 like

    The MDM Display Manager.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

    Origin

    • Ireland
    • EU

    Platforms

    • Linux

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14. X

    X

    xlogin

     Like

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

    Platforms

    • Linux

    X

    

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