display-managers.md

Display Managers

• Display manager
• The X display manager is a graphical login manager which starts a login session on an X server from the same or another computer

Graphical Display Managers

• SDDM (Simple Desktop Display Manager)
  • Used as default by KDE, Fedora, and LXQt.
  • Slightly better user interface
  • Recommended for Plasma and LXQt
• GDM (GNOME Display Manager) = Gnome default.
  • Used as default by Gnome
  • Slightly easier to customize
• LXDM (Lightweight X Desktop Environment Display Manager)
  • default for LXDE
• LightDM
  • Lighter and faster than gdm3
• XDM (X Display Manager)
  • Xorg default
• SLiM (Simple Login Manager) for X11
  • Abandoned 9 years ago

Console Display Managers

• Ly
  • Supports X11 & Wayland
  • Lightweight TUI (ncurses-like)
  • Works with every display server
  • Works with X11 and Wayland
  • Recommended for use with i3wm
• CDM (Console Display Manager)
  • Written in Bash