Category:Display Managers: Difference between revisions

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A display manager presents the user with a login screen. A session starts when a user successfully enters a valid combination of username and password. It is typically a graphical user interface that is displayed at the end of the boot process in place of the default shell.

List of Display Managers

Graphical

GDM (gdm): GNOME display manager
LightDM (lightdm): Cross-desktop display manager
SDDM (sddm): Simple Desktop Display Manager. Recommended for KDE (Plasma) and LXQt.
XDM (xdm): X Display Manager
LXDM (lxdm): A lightweight desktop login manager
SLiM (slim): Desktop-independent graphical login manager for X11 (abandoned since 2013)

Console

Agetty (agetty): Console based login manager

Daemon

Greetd (greetd): Desktop independent lightweight login manager daemon

Pages in category "Display Managers"

The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.

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 == List of Display Managers ==
-* [[GDM]] ({{Pkg|gdm}}): [[Gnome]] display manager
+=== Graphical ===
+* [[GDM]] ({{Pkg|gdm}}): [[GNOME]] display manager
 * [[LightDM]] ({{Pkg|lightdm}}): Cross-desktop display manager
 * [[SDDM]] ({{Pkg|sddm}}): Simple Desktop Display Manager. Recommended for [[KDE]] (Plasma) and [[LXQt]].
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 * [[LXDM]] ({{Pkg|lxdm}}): A lightweight desktop login manager
 * [[SLiM]] ({{Pkg|slim}}): Desktop-independent graphical login manager for X11 (abandoned since 2013)
+=== Console ===
+* [[TTY_Autologin|Agetty]] ({{Pkg|agetty}}): Console based login manager
+=== Daemon ===
+* [[greetd|Greetd]] ({{Pkg|greetd}}): Desktop independent lightweight login manager daemon
 [[Category:Desktop]]
-[[Category:Newbie]]