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, emptty and SLiM.

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  1. lemurs icon
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    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

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    The MDM Display Manager.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  3. CDM icon
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    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  4. TDM icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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