wlgreet Alternatives

wlgreet is described as 'Raw wayland greeter for greetd, to be run under sway or similar. Note that cage is currently not supported due to it lacking wlr-layer-shell-unstable support' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to wlgreet for Linux, Qt, i3, Wayland and Rust. The best wlgreet alternative is LightDM Elephant Greeter, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like wlgreet are nwg-hello, Betterlockscreen, Web Greeter and Sea Greeter.

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  2. nwg-hello

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    Nwg-hello is a GTK3-based greeter for the greetd daemon, written in python. It is meant to work under a Wayland compositor, like sway, Hyprland or labwc.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  4. Betterlockscreen icon

    Betterlockscreen

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    Sweet looking lockscreen for linux system.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • i3
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    Web Greeter

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    A modern, visually appealing greeter for LightDM, that allows to create web based themes with HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  6. Sea Greeter icon

    Sea Greeter

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    Sea (like C) greeter for LightDM allows to create themes with web technologies, the same as web-greeter, nody-greeter and the outdated lightdm-webkit2-greeter. This project aims to be similar to the last one, as sea-greeter is made with webkit2 instead of chromium.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
     

  9. waycratedm

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    qml greetd frontend.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Qt
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  10. QtGreet

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    Qt based greeter for greetd, to be run under wayfire or similar wlr-based compositors.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Qt
    QtGreet screenshot 1
     

  11. ddlm

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    A stupidly simple graphical login manager. Uses framebuffer, so You won't have to run a Wayland session to bootstrap your Wayland session (unlike gtkgreet). This is a greetd frontend.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
     

  12. ReGreet

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    A clean and customizable GTK-based greetd greeter written in Rust using Relm4. This is meant to be run under a Wayland compositor (like Sway).

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Rust
    ReGreet screenshot 1
     

  13. dlm

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    A stupid simple graphical login manager. Written in Rust because I felt like it. Uses greetd.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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