Software Alternatives & Reviews

LightDM VS GDM

Compare LightDM VS GDM and see what are their differences

LightDM logo LightDM

A lightweight display manager

GDM logo GDM

Electronics
  • LightDM Landing page
    Landing page //
    2021-10-16
  • GDM Landing page
    Landing page //
    2020-01-01

LightDM videos

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

GDM videos

Sony GDM-FW900 Review

More videos:

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

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to LightDM and GDM)
Linux
62 62%
38% 38
PHP Framework
60 60%
40% 40
Operating Systems
58 58%
42% 42
PHP MVC Framework
64 64%
36% 36

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What are some alternatives?

When comparing LightDM and GDM, 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.

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

Xfce - Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems. It aims to be fast and low on system resources, while still being visually appealing and user friendly.

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