Universal Wayland Session Manager Alternatives

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   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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   LightDM

    8 likes

   A lightweight display manager.

   16 LightDM alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

   

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   SDDM

    6 likes

   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 (GPL-2.0)

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

   

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   emptty

    2 likes

   Dead simple CLI Display Manager on TTY.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

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   SLiM

    3 likes

   Lightweight and elegant graphical login solution.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Xfce

   

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   GDM

    3 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

   

   

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9. 

   

   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

   • Free
   • Open Source (Apache-2.0)

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

   

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    tbsm

     1 like

    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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    MDM (login manager)

     1 like

    The MDM Display Manager.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

    Origin

    • Ireland
    • EU

    Platforms

    • Linux

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    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

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

    Platforms

    • Linux

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    mlogind

     1 like

    The MidnightBSD login manager (forked from SLiM).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

    Origin

    • United States

    Platforms

    • BSD

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14. X

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    xlogin

     Like

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

    Platforms

    • Linux

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