SDDM Alternatives

Alternatives list

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   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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   LightDM

    8 likes

   A lightweight display manager.

   16 LightDM alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

   

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   GDM

    3 likes

   GNOME Display Manager is a display manager (a graphical login manager) for the windowing systems X11 and Wayland.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

   

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   emptty

    2 likes

   Dead simple CLI Display Manager on TTY.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

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   SLiM

    3 likes

   Lightweight and elegant graphical login solution.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Xfce

   

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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

   

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   mlogind

    1 like

   The MidnightBSD login manager (forked from SLiM).

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • BSD

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    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

    

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    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

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    MDM (login manager)

     1 like

    The MDM Display Manager.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

    Origin

    • Ireland
    • EU

    Platforms

    • Linux

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    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

    

    

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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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