Ly Alternatives

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

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TUI (ncurses-like) display manager.

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SDDM
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Free • Open Source
Linux
8 SDDM alternatives
Simple Desktop Display Manager is a display manager (a graphical login program and session manager) for the X11 and Wayland windowing systems.
- - SDDM is the most popular Linux alternative to Ly.
- - SDDM is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Ly.
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emptty
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Free • Open Source
Linux
8 emptty alternatives
Dead simple CLI Display Manager on TTY.
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LightDM
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Free • Open Source
Linux
8 LightDM alternatives
A lightweight display manager.
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SLiM
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Free • Open Source
Linux
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8 SLiM alternatives
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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Free • Open Source
Linux
8 TDM alternatives
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
8 XDM alternatives
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
8 CDM alternatives
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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