SLiM Alternatives

SLiM is described as 'Lightweight and elegant graphical login solution' and is an app in the system & hardware category. There are more than 10 alternatives to SLiM for Linux and BSD. The best SLiM alternative is Ly, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like SLiM are LightDM, SDDM, emptty and GDM.

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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
     
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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

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    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

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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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

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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