Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
XDM Alternatives
XDM is described as '(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' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to XDM for Linux, BSD and Xfce. The best XDM alternative is Ly, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like XDM are LightDM, SDDM, GDM and Universal Wayland Session Manager.
Alternatives list
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
- Linux
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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
- 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 (MIT)
Platforms
- Linux
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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 (Apache-2.0)
Platforms
- Linux
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Platforms
- Linux
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