LightDM Alternatives

LightDM is described as 'A lightweight display manager' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to LightDM for Linux, BSD and Xfce. The best LightDM alternative is Ly, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like LightDM are SDDM, emptty, SLiM and GDM.

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LightDM alternatives page was last updated Nov 11, 2024

Ly
5 likes
TUI (ncurses-like) display manager.
16 Ly alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Platforms
Linux
BSD
Is Ly a good alternative to LightDM?

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Comments about Ly as an Alternative to LightDM

Maalo
Positive commentDec 25, 2017
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Because it is made with ncurses and fits well with minimal windows managers like Xmonad, bspwm, etc.
Ly is Free and Open SourceLightDM is also Free and Open Source
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 (GPL-2.0)
Platforms
Linux
Is SDDM a good alternative to LightDM?
emptty
1 like
Dead simple CLI Display Manager on TTY.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Platforms
Linux
Is emptty a good alternative to LightDM?
SLiM
2 likes
Lightweight and elegant graphical login solution.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Alerts
Discontinued
Platforms
Linux
Xfce
Is SLiM a good alternative to LightDM?
GDM
1 like
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
Is GDM a good alternative to LightDM?
greetd
Like
Minimal and flexible login manager daemon that makes no assumptions about what you want to launch.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Origin
Denmark
EU
Platforms
Linux
Is greetd a good alternative to LightDM?
MDM (login manager)
Like
The MDM Display Manager.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Origin
Ireland
EU
Platforms
Linux
Is MDM (login manager) a good alternative to LightDM?
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 (Apache-2.0)
Platforms
Linux
Is lemurs a good alternative to LightDM?
xlogin
Like
Lightweight, secure and login like console display manager for X.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
Linux
Is xlogin a good alternative to LightDM?
TDM
Like
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 (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
Linux
Is TDM a good alternative to LightDM?
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.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Origin
United States
Platforms
Linux
Is XDM a good alternative to LightDM?
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 (GPL-2.0)
Origin
United States
Alerts
Discontinued
Platforms
Linux
Is CDM a good alternative to LightDM?