LightDM Alternatives

LightDM is described as 'A lightweight display manager' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are eight alternatives to LightDM for Linux, BSD and Xfce. The best 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

Free • Open Source
Linux

A lightweight display manager.

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Ly
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8 alternatives to Ly
TUI (ncurses-like) display manager.
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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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SDDM
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Free • Open Source
Linux
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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.
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emptty
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Free • Open Source
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8 alternatives to emptty
Dead simple CLI Display Manager on TTY.
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SLiM
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Linux
Xfce
8 alternatives to SLiM
Lightweight and elegant graphical login solution.

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GDM
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Free • Open Source
Linux
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GNOME Display Manager is a display manager (a graphical login manager) for the windowing systems X11 and Wayland.
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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.
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XDM
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Free • Open Source
Linux
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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.
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CDM
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Free • Open Source
Linux
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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...
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