greetd Alternatives

greetd is described as 'Minimal and flexible login manager daemon that makes no assumptions about what you want to launch' and is an app in the system & hardware category. There are more than 10 alternatives to greetd for Linux, BSD and Xfce. The best greetd alternative is Ly, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like greetd are LightDM, SDDM, emptty and SLiM.

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greetd alternatives page was last updated Nov 11, 2024

Ly
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TUI (ncurses-like) display manager.
16 Ly alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Platforms
Linux
BSD
Is Ly a good alternative to greetd?
Ly is the most popular Linux alternative to greetd.
Ly is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to greetd.
Ly is Free and Open Sourcegreetd is also Free and Open Source
LightDM
8 likes
A lightweight display manager.
16 LightDM alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Platforms
Linux
Is LightDM a good alternative to greetd?
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
Is SDDM a good alternative to greetd?
emptty
1 like
Dead simple CLI Display Manager on TTY.
16 emptty alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Platforms
Linux
Is emptty a good alternative to greetd?
SLiM
2 likes
Lightweight and elegant graphical login solution.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Alerts
Discontinued
Platforms
Linux
Xfce
Is SLiM a good alternative to greetd?
GDM
1 like
GNOME Display Manager is a display manager (a graphical login manager) for the windowing systems X11 and Wayland.
16 GDM alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Platforms
Linux
Is GDM a good alternative to greetd?
xlogin
Like
Lightweight, secure and login like console display manager for X.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Platforms
Linux
Is xlogin a good alternative to greetd?
mlogind
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The MidnightBSD login manager (forked from SLiM).
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Origin
United States
Platforms
BSD
Is mlogind a good alternative to greetd?
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.
16 XDM alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Origin
United States
Platforms
Linux
Is XDM a good alternative to greetd?
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
Is Brzdm a good alternative to greetd?
TDM
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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
Is TDM a good alternative to greetd?
lemurs
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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
Is lemurs a good alternative to greetd?