SDDM Alternatives

SDDM is described as 'Simple Desktop Display Manager is a display manager (a graphical login program and session manager) for the X11 and Wayland windowing systems' and is an app in the system & hardware category. There are more than 10 alternatives to SDDM for Linux, BSD and Xfce. The best SDDM alternative is Ly, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like SDDM are LightDM, GDM, emptty and SLiM.

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  1. XDM icon

    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

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  2. G

    greetd

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    Minimal and flexible login manager daemon that makes no assumptions about what you want to launch.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  4. CDM icon

    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

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  5. X

    xlogin

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    Lightweight, secure and login like console display manager for X.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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