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sddm		gdm
	Project
83	Mentions	1
1,783	Stars	90
2.1%	Growth	-
7.9	Activity	9.0
13 days ago	Latest Commit	16 days ago
C++	Language	C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	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.
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.

sddm

Posts with mentions or reviews of sddm. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-23.

SDDM 0.20.0 released!
1 project | /r/linux | 25 Jun 2023
Plasma users rejoice: SDDM just had a new release!
3 projects | /r/archlinux | 23 Jun 2023

Well, it seems it is still considered experimental https://github.com/sddm/sddm/pull/1737
Slow-reboot SDDM bug fix may soon be upstreamed by KDE
1 project | /r/kde | 6 Jun 2023

There are dozens of threads everywhere about it since around early 2021. KDE will take over the SDDM project and that bug fix may soon finally be up-streamed.
sddm patch required by fish shell users
1 project | /r/slackware | 27 May 2023
Plz don't downvote this is cry for help
2 projects | /r/linuxmasterrace | 25 May 2023

LMAO the login issue was this https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/1592
SDDM trouble
1 project | /r/openSUSE | 24 May 2023

Wayland autologin does not work with sddm (if you're using such a configuration) https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/1676
sddm & wayland config
1 project | /r/voidlinux | 21 May 2023

Thanks everyone for your time - installing xorg-minimal solved the issue; next version should solve the issue topic discussed in sddm github. I leave the following here just in case someone with skill & time comes across - seems a bit of love would not hurt sddm: https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/1471
[SDDM] [Fedora 38] [Nvidia] SDDM extremely laggy, not respecting keyboard layout
1 project | /r/kde | 11 May 2023

Relevant to your keyboard configuration issue: https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/703
Plasma 6: “Better defaults” – Adventures in Linux and KDE
1 project | /r/kde | 11 May 2023

Also fixed in -git
Kubuntu changed my login screen
1 project | /r/linux4noobs | 27 Apr 2023

No, the picture shows that the login manager is still sddm, but somehow the login theme used by sddm has been reverted to the sddm default of the 'maui' instead of the 'breeze' theme used by default in Kubuntu. The package shipping the breeze theme (sddm-theme-breeze) may have become uninstalled, or sddm config changed somehow to not use breeze.

gdm

Posts with mentions or reviews of gdm. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-06.