lightdm
Display Manager (by canonical)
bspwm
A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning (by baskerville)
| lightdm | bspwm | |
|---|---|---|
| 19 | 92 | |
| 795 | 7,515 | |
| 1.9% | - | |
| 5.6 | 1.0 | |
| 13 days ago | 11 days ago | |
| C | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
lightdm
Posts with mentions or reviews of lightdm.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-06.
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Project on GitHub - Customizable Arch Linux Podman images based on the official Arch Linux Docker image
LightDM display manager (in general not needed, but may be used to spawn Xfce4 on hosts without desktop environment)
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Show IP on Login Screen
You can see all available lightdm settings in lightdm.conf and lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf
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Debian 11 bullseye best display manger
Does lightdm still run X as root? I haven't used lightdm for some time, but there's the open issue Support non-root X.
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Thoroughly confused about monitor layout configuration
you can also copy the default conf contents here https://github.com/Canonical/lightdm/blob/main/data/lightdm.conf and paste it into a text file anywhere. then open a terminal in the same directory as that text file.
- archinstall installs sway & lightdm but reboots into the tty.
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Start Qtile in Wayland with DM such as LightDM?
I have opened a bug report for lightdm: https://github.com/canonical/lightdm/issues/268 No answer from devs so far. So i believe it's still there.
- Multi-seat setup with lightdm
- Display manager LightDM 1.32.0 released
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Are display managers inherently difficult pieces of software or am I just unlucky?
lightdm wishlist bug - https://github.com/canonical/lightdm/issues/18
- How do i customize LightDM?
bspwm
Posts with mentions or reviews of bspwm.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-09.
- can't download and decompress git repo
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BSPWM?
Bspwm is a window manager. Configuration happens in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/bspwm/bspwmrc, as per stated here: https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm
- Multiple screens with different resolutions?
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What WM should I use?
Use BSPWM. It supports right clicks by default and its modular. You might want to look for status bars that work with it, slstatus does not work. Good luck, supremacist!
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What are some OpenSource apps that are the best of their kind?
I had not heard of bspwm but I am a fan of telling WMs. Looking at the documentation now, I really like the pragmatic approach lol https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm
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Changing layout of node
If you use the bspwm off of github instead of the old 0.9.10, you can use bspc node @parent -y next to cycle the split type of the parent of the focused. I added it ~1.5years ago, after baskerville added node -y horizontal and node -y vertical to set the split type of a node to vertical/horizontal ~2 years ago.
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How to use dump and load state?
Also bspwm's JSON generation and parsing is not great. If you have a window with quotes in its class name, bspwm, when dumping it, will not escape them generating invalid JSON (e.g. {"className":"the "cool" window",) that jq will not be able to read, and even worse, bspwm itself will not be able to read. (Yes, if a window's class name contains a " character, bspwm will fail to reload after you run wm -r #1362).
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How to install bspwm on ubuntu-22.04 and config it?
Just follow this guide
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[bspwm] yine yeşillik ama biraz farklısından
Pencere yöneticisi: bspwm
What are some alternatives?
When comparing lightdm and bspwm you can also consider the following projects:
slick-greeter - A slick-looking LightDM greeter
i3 - A tiling window manager for X11
gruvbox-material - Gruvbox with Material Palette
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
sddm - QML based X11 and Wayland display manager
i3-gaps - i3-gaps – i3 with more features (forked from https://github.com/i3/i3)
polybar - A fast and easy-to-use status bar
river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
2bwm - A fast floating WM written over the XCB library and derived from mcwm.
bismuth - KDE Plasma add-on, that tiles your windows automatically and lets you manage them via keyboard, similarly to i3, Sway or dwm.
tamzen-font - 💌 Bitmapped programming font, based on Tamsyn
herbstluftwm - A manual tiling window manager for X11