lightdm
Display Manager (by canonical)
packages
The packages Mason, what do they mean? (Package requests and bug reports here) 📑 (by chaotic-aur)
| lightdm | packages | |
|---|---|---|
| 19 | 56 | |
| 795 | 308 | |
| 1.9% | 0.7% | |
| 5.6 | 9.9 | |
| 13 days ago | 2 days ago | |
| C | Shell | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | - |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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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.
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?
packages
Posts with mentions or reviews of packages.
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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My computer just freezes when installing librewolf. I used both yay and cloned it from got, neither one worked.
Get Librewolf from chaotic-aur https://aur.chaotic.cx/ and avoid building it entirely.
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Project on GitHub - Customizable Arch Linux Podman images based on the official Arch Linux Docker image
Chaotic-AUR (installed via pacman)
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AUR
Some unofficial repos may be helpful, like Chaotic-AUR.
- how it feels when aur download is taking longer so you leave it on in the background and forget to put password at the end and all progress is canceled
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I am officially one of you.
follow steps (only 4 steps) here: https://aur.chaotic.cx/
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How do you guys manage AUR compilation?
Just use chaotic-aur and whatever aur helper you already use. Then you’d only have to compile the more obscure packages.
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Needed packages, best windows manager (ur opinion), and some help
The Chaotic-AUR is the GOAT. Follow the website's instructions to use it. It's like the AUR; but precompiled, so installing from it is much faster.
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Some games not launching due to invalid file descriptor
so i got it working, but instead of vanilla wine i use wine-tkg-staging-fsync-git, you can get by adding chaotic-aur well known pre-build binaries repo, use at your own risk but it's a very popular and well known repo.
- What can I expect more from EndavourOS other than easy-install Arch?
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Just switched from Debian to Arch, Some advices ?
Add the chaotic aur it'll save you a ton of time
What are some alternatives?
When comparing lightdm and packages you can also consider the following projects:
slick-greeter - A slick-looking LightDM greeter
linux-tkg - linux-tkg custom kernels
gruvbox-material - Gruvbox with Material Palette
distrobox - Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with. Mirror available at: https://gitlab.com/89luca89/distrobox
bspwm - A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning
geckolinux-project - GeckoLinux bug tracker and documentation
sddm - QML based X11 and Wayland display manager
wine-tkg-git - The wine-tkg build systems, to create custom Wine and Proton builds
polybar - A fast and easy-to-use status bar
SyncThingy - SyncThingy = Syncthing + simple tray indicator
2bwm - A fast floating WM written over the XCB library and derived from mcwm.
Firefox-UI-Fix - 🦊 I respect proton UI and aim to improve it.