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emptty VS LightDM

Compare emptty VS LightDM and see what are their differences

emptty logo emptty

Dead simple CLI Display Manager on TTY. Contribute to tvrzna/emptty development by creating an account on GitHub.

LightDM logo LightDM

A lightweight display manager
  • emptty Landing page
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    2023-10-11
  • LightDM Landing page
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    2021-10-16

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Ubuntu 11.10 LightDM Login Screen, Review

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  • Review - Customising Grub, Plymouth, Lightdm and the Mate Desktop on Debian
  • Review - Linux HowTo: LightDM Multi Monitor setup

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to emptty and LightDM)
PHP Framework
27 27%
73% 73
Linux
23 23%
77% 77
PHP MVC Framework
40 40%
60% 60
Operating Systems
0 0%
100% 100

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, emptty seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 3 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

emptty mentions (3)

  • Sway
    There are multiple ways to start sway however; I use the following - https://github.com/tvrzna/emptty. Source: 10 months ago
  • GTK apps taking ages to startup
    I had this problem recently as an i3 user + https://github.com/tvrzna/emptty as a DM. Could also repro with Sway. Source: 11 months ago
  • Ly crashes if password is wrong twice
    I cannot believe nobody recommended emptty - https://github.com/tvrzna/emptty. Source: 12 months ago

LightDM mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of LightDM yet. Tracking of LightDM recommendations started around Mar 2021.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing emptty and LightDM, you can also consider the following products

SDDM - QML based X11 and Wayland display manager. Contribute to sddm/sddm development by creating an account on GitHub.

Ly - TUI (ncurses-like) display manager

CDM - Console Display Manager. Contribute to evertiro/cdm development by creating an account on GitHub.

Slim Framework - Slim is a PHP micro framework that helps you quickly write simple yet powerful web applications and APIs.

GDM - Electronics

XDM - The default display manager for the X Window System.