Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD


Ly is the most popular Linux alternative to xlogin.
Ly is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to xlogin.
- Ly is Free and Open Source
xlogin is described as 'Lightweight, secure and login like console display manager for X' and is an app in the security & privacy category. There are more than 10 alternatives to xlogin for Linux, BSD and Xfce. The best xlogin alternative is Ly, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like xlogin are LightDM, SDDM, emptty and SLiM.


Ly is the most popular Linux alternative to xlogin.
Ly is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to xlogin.


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




GNOME Display Manager is a display manager (a graphical login manager) for the windowing systems X11 and Wayland.


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.
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.

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.

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.

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.
