tbsm Alternatives

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

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  1. Ly icon

    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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    • Ly is the most popular Linux alternative to tbsm.

    • Ly is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to tbsm.

    • Ly is Free and Open Sourcetbsm is also Free and Open Source
  4. SDDM icon

    SDDM

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    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

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  5. emptty

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    Dead simple CLI Display Manager on TTY.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  6. SLiM icon

    SLiM

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    Lightweight and elegant graphical login solution.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
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  7. GDM icon

    GDM

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    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
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  9. 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.

    16 XDM alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  10. lemurs icon

    lemurs

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    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

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  11. mlogind

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    The MidnightBSD login manager (forked from SLiM).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • BSD
     
  12. 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

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     

  13. Brzdm

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    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

    Platforms

    • Linux
     

  14. xlogin

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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