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, Universal Wayland Session Manager, lemurs and MDM (login manager).

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LightDM alternatives page was last updated Nov 6, 2024

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xlogin
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Lightweight, secure and login like console display manager for X.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
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.
16 TDM alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
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.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Origin
United States
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 (GPL-2.0)
Origin
United States
Alerts
Discontinued
Platforms
Linux
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