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, Universal Wayland Session Manager and lemurs.

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  1. Ly icon

    Ly

     6 likes

    TUI (ncurses-like) display manager.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
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  2. L

    LightDM

     8 likes

    A lightweight display manager.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  4. SDDM icon

    SDDM

     5 likes

    Simple Desktop Display Manager is a display manager (a graphical login program and session manager) for the X11 and Wayland windowing systems.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  5. U

    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
    Universal Wayland Session Manager screenshot 1
     
  6. lemurs icon

    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

    Platforms

    • Linux
    lemurs screenshot 1
     
  7. M

    mlogind

     1 like

    The MidnightBSD login manager (forked from SLiM).

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • BSD
     
  9. B

    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

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  10. M

    MDM (login manager)

     1 like

    The MDM Display Manager.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  11. E

    emptty

     2 likes

    Dead simple CLI Display Manager on TTY.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    emptty screenshot 1
     
  12. SLiM icon

    SLiM

     3 likes

    Lightweight and elegant graphical login solution.

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
    SLiM screenshot 1
     
  13. GDM icon

    GDM

     2 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
    GDM screenshot 1
     
  14. XDM icon

    XDM

     Like

    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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