LightDM Alternatives

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

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LightDM alternatives page was last updated Nov 22, 2024

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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Is Ly a good alternative to LightDM?

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Ly vs LightDM Comments

Maalo
Positive commentDec 25, 2017
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Because it is made with ncurses and fits well with minimal windows managers like Xmonad, bspwm, etc.
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Ly is Free and Open SourceLightDM is also Free and Open Source
SDDM
5 likes
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 (GPL-2.0)
Platforms
Linux
L
Is SDDM a good alternative to LightDM?
E
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emptty
2 likes
Dead simple CLI Display Manager on TTY.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Platforms
Linux
E
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Is emptty a good alternative to LightDM?
SLiM
3 likes
Lightweight and elegant graphical login solution.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Alerts
Discontinued
Platforms
Linux
Xfce
L
Is SLiM a good alternative to LightDM?
GDM
2 likes
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
L
Is GDM a good alternative to LightDM?
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
U
L
Is this a good alternative to LightDM?
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
L
Is lemurs a good alternative to LightDM?
M
M
MDM (login manager)
1 like
The MDM Display Manager.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Origin
Ireland
EU
Platforms
Linux
M
L
Is MDM (login manager) a good alternative to LightDM?
M
M
mlogind
1 like
The MidnightBSD login manager (forked from SLiM).
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Origin
United States
Platforms
BSD
M
L
Is mlogind a good alternative to LightDM?
B
B
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
B
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Is Brzdm a good alternative to LightDM?
T
T
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
T
L
Is tbsm a good alternative to LightDM?
G
G
greetd
Like
Minimal and flexible login manager daemon that makes no assumptions about what you want to launch.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Origin
Denmark
EU
Platforms
Linux
G
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Is greetd a good alternative to LightDM?