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Openbox VS SDDM

Compare Openbox VS SDDM and see what are their differences

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Openbox logo Openbox

Openbox is a highly configurable, next generation window manager with extensive standards support.

SDDM logo SDDM

QML based X11 and Wayland display manager. Contribute to sddm/sddm development by creating an account on GitHub.
  • Openbox Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-09-06
  • SDDM Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-10-15

Openbox videos

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Get Rid Of That Bloated Desktop Environment And Install Openbox

More videos:

  • Review - Manjaro Openbox: First Impressions and Review
  • Tutorial - Openbox V8S Review- How to get Free TV!!!

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 Openbox and SDDM)

Openbox

SDDM

Linux
71 71%
Linux
29% 29
Window Manager
100 100%
Window Manager
0% 0
PHP Framework
0 0%
PHP Framework
100% 100
Utilities
100 100%
Utilities
0% 0

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Reviews

These are some of the external sources and on-site user reviews we've used to compare Openbox and SDDM

Openbox Reviews

Top 10 Best Desktop Environments in 2020
People who’re deep into Linux, love Openbox’s simplicity. It’s extremely lightweight, and comes with only a text-based right-click menu that lists all your applications. The menu is customizable too, and you can add scripts or functions within the menu as a link.
Source: www.journaldev.com

SDDM Reviews

We have no reviews of SDDM yet.
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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.

Openbox mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Openbox yet. Tracking of Openbox 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: 12 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 Openbox and SDDM, you can also consider the following products

i3 - A dynamic tiling window manager designed for X11, inspired by wmii, and written in C.

LightDM - A lightweight display manager

dwm - dwm is a dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled, monocle and floating layouts. All of the layouts can be applied dynamically, optimising the environment for the application in use and the task performed.

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

awesome - A dynamic window manager for the X Window System developed in the C and Lua programming languages.

Ly - TUI (ncurses-like) display manager

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