Ly Alternatives

Ly is described as 'TUI (ncurses-like) display manager' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to Ly for Linux, BSD and Xfce. The best Ly alternative is LightDM, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Ly are SDDM, emptty, SLiM and GDM.

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Ly alternatives page was last updated Nov 7, 2024

LightDM
8 likes
A lightweight display manager.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
Linux
Is LightDM a good alternative to Ly?
SDDM
4 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
Is SDDM a good alternative to Ly?
emptty
1 like
Dead simple CLI Display Manager on TTY.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Platforms
Linux
Is emptty a good alternative to Ly?
SLiM
2 likes
Lightweight and elegant graphical login solution.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Alerts
Discontinued
Platforms
Linux
Xfce
Is SLiM a good alternative to Ly?
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 Ly?
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 (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
Linux
Is TDM a good alternative to Ly?
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
Is tbsm a good alternative to Ly?
MDM (login manager)
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The MDM Display Manager.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Origin
Ireland
EU
Platforms
Linux
Is MDM (login manager) a good alternative to Ly?
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
Is XDM a good alternative to Ly?
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
Is xlogin a good alternative to Ly?
mlogind
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The MidnightBSD login manager (forked from SLiM).
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Origin
United States
Platforms
BSD
Is mlogind a good alternative to Ly?
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
Is CDM a good alternative to Ly?