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GDM VS SDDM

Compare GDM VS SDDM and see what are their differences

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Electronics

SDDM logo SDDM

QML based X11 and Wayland display manager. Contribute to sddm/sddm development by creating an account on GitHub.
  • GDM Landing page
    Landing page //
    2020-01-01
  • SDDM Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-10-15

GDM videos

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Sony GDM-FW900 Review

More videos:

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

SDDM videos

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ArcoLinux : 1048 Installing Plasma with SDDM instead of Lightdm on ArcoLinuxD

More videos:

  • Review - Plasma 5x Gentoo Vlog 2 | SDDM black screen fix
  • Review - Debian 9 Stretch - Personalizar SDDM de KDE Plasma - Tema Brisa

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to GDM and SDDM)

GDM

SDDM

Linux
41 41%
Linux
59% 59
PHP Framework
41 41%
PHP Framework
59% 59
Operating Systems
46 46%
Operating Systems
54% 54
PHP MVC Framework
34 34%
PHP MVC Framework
66% 66

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, SDDM seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 2 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.

GDM mentions (0)

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

SDDM mentions (2)

  • sddm patch required by fish shell users
    Could anybody notify Slackware KDE maintainers to apply the patch? It’s also OK to just grab latest version from https://github.com/sddm/sddm develop branch. Source: 11 months ago
  • SDDM Default Monitor Settings?
    Https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB/Tips_and_tricks#Setting_the_framebuffer_resolution Https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB/Tips_and_tricks#Disable_framebuffer Https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SDDM Https://github.com/sddm/sddm Https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2021/05/custom-screen-resolution-ubuntu-wayland-xorg/. Source: almost 2 years ago

What are some alternatives?

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

Ly - TUI (ncurses-like) display manager

LightDM - A lightweight display manager

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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