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GDM VS LightDM

Compare GDM VS LightDM and see what are their differences

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GDM logo GDM

Electronics

LightDM logo LightDM

A lightweight display manager
  • GDM Landing page
    Landing page //
    2020-01-01
  • LightDM Landing page
    Landing page //
    2021-10-16

GDM

Categories
  • Linux
  • PHP Framework
  • PHP MVC Framework
  • Operating Systems
Website wiki.gnome.org
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LightDM

Categories
  • Linux
  • PHP Framework
  • Operating Systems
  • PHP MVC Framework
Website freedesktop.org
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GDM videos

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Sony GDM-FW900 Review

More videos:

  • Review - A review of the practice bulletin on clinical management of GDM

LightDM videos

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Ubuntu 11.10 LightDM Login Screen, Review

More videos:

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

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to GDM and LightDM)

GDM

LightDM

Linux
39 39%
Linux
61% 61
PHP Framework
42 42%
PHP Framework
58% 58
Operating Systems
41 41%
Operating Systems
59% 59
PHP MVC Framework
41 41%
PHP MVC Framework
59% 59

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What are some alternatives?

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

Ly - TUI (ncurses-like) display manager

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

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

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

Console TDM - a login-manager-like desktop session selector written in bash (original source tree, now forked by dopsi https://github.com/dopsi/console-tdm) - mytbk/console-tdm

Entrance - Display manager for Enlightenment.

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