lightdm
Display Manager (by canonical)
lightdm-gtk-greeter
A GTK greeter for LightDM (by Xubuntu)
| lightdm | lightdm-gtk-greeter | |
|---|---|---|
| 19 | 1 | |
| 795 | 135 | |
| 1.9% | 3.7% | |
| 5.6 | 7.1 | |
| 13 days ago | 5 days ago | |
| C | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | 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?
lightdm-gtk-greeter
Posts with mentions or reviews of lightdm-gtk-greeter.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-19.
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Show IP on Login Screen
You can see all available lightdm settings in lightdm.conf and lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf
What are some alternatives?
When comparing lightdm and lightdm-gtk-greeter you can also consider the following projects:
slick-greeter - A slick-looking LightDM greeter
qosd - display text over your Xorg screen
gruvbox-material - Gruvbox with Material Palette
hexchat - GTK+ IRC client
bspwm - A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning
sddm - QML based X11 and Wayland display manager
polybar - A fast and easy-to-use status bar
2bwm - A fast floating WM written over the XCB library and derived from mcwm.
tamzen-font - 💌 Bitmapped programming font, based on Tamsyn
tuir
alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.
dotfiles