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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  1. mlogind

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    The MidnightBSD login manager (forked from SLiM).

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    • BSD
     

  2. Brzdm

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    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.

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    • Linux
     

  4. tbsm

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    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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  5. Universal Wayland Session Manager

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    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.

    16 Universal Wayland Session Manager alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
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