lemurs Alternatives

lemurs is described as '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' and is an app in the system & hardware category. There are more than 10 alternatives to lemurs for Linux, BSD and Xfce. The best lemurs alternative is Ly, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like lemurs are LightDM, SDDM, emptty and SLiM.

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  1. Ly icon

    Ly

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    TUI (ncurses-like) display manager.

    16 Ly alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
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    • Ly is the most popular Linux alternative to lemurs.

    • Ly is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to lemurs.

    • Ly is Free and Open Sourcelemurs is also Free and Open Source
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    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
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  5. emptty

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    Dead simple CLI Display Manager on TTY.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  6. SLiM icon

    SLiM

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    Lightweight and elegant graphical login solution.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
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  7. GDM icon

    GDM

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    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
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  9. xlogin

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    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
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    CDM

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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
     
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    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

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  13. Universal Wayland Session Manager

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    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

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  14. tbsm

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    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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