Display manager
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)