Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
Ly is the most popular Linux alternative to TDM.
Ly is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to TDM.
- Ly is Free and Open Source
TDM Alternatives
TDM is described as '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' and is an app in the system & hardware category. There are more than 10 alternatives to TDM for Linux, BSD and Xfce. The best TDM alternative is Ly, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like TDM are LightDM, SDDM, emptty and SLiM.
Alternatives list
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
16 SDDM alternativesSimple Desktop Display Manager is a display manager (a graphical login program and session manager) for the X11 and Wayland windowing systems.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Linux
- Xfce
16 GDM alternativesGNOME Display Manager is a display manager (a graphical login manager) for the windowing systems X11 and Wayland.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
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
- 16 Universal Wayland Session Manager alternatives
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
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
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
Minimal and flexible login manager daemon that makes no assumptions about what you want to launch.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
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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