mlogind Alternatives

mlogind is described as 'The MidnightBSD login manager (forked from SLiM)' and is an app in the system & hardware category. There are more than 10 alternatives to mlogind for Linux, BSD and Xfce. The best mlogind alternative is Ly, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like mlogind are LightDM, SDDM, emptty and SLiM.

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mlogind alternatives page was last updated Nov 22, 2024

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
Is LightDM a good alternative to mlogind?
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 mlogind?
emptty
1 like
Dead simple CLI Display Manager on TTY.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Platforms
Linux
Is emptty a good alternative to mlogind?
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 mlogind?
GDM
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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
Is GDM a good alternative to mlogind?
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 mlogind?
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 mlogind?
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 mlogind?
MDM (login manager)
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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 mlogind?
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.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
Linux
Is Brzdm a good alternative to mlogind?
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.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
Linux
Is this a good alternative to mlogind?