Universal Wayland Session Manager Alternatives

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

    • Ly is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Universal Wayland Session Manager.

    • Ly is Free and Open SourceUniversal Wayland Session Manager 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.

    16 emptty alternatives

    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. 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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  10. xlogin

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  11. 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
     

  12. greetd

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

    16 greetd alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  13. 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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  14. TDM icon

    TDM

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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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