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LightDM VS SDDM

Compare LightDM VS SDDM and see what are their differences

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LightDM logo LightDM

A lightweight display manager

SDDM logo SDDM

QML based X11 and Wayland display manager. Contribute to sddm/sddm development by creating an account on GitHub.
  • LightDM Landing page
    Landing page //
    2021-10-16
  • SDDM Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-10-15

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

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 LightDM and SDDM)

LightDM

SDDM

Linux
54 54%
Linux
46% 46
PHP Framework
51 51%
PHP Framework
49% 49
Operating Systems
55 55%
Operating Systems
45% 45
PHP MVC Framework
48 48%
PHP MVC Framework
52% 52

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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.

LightDM mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of LightDM yet. Tracking of LightDM 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 LightDM and SDDM, you can also consider the following products

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

Ly - TUI (ncurses-like) display manager

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

GDM - Electronics

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