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SDDM VS Wayfire

Compare SDDM VS Wayfire and see what are their differences

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SDDM logo SDDM

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

Wayfire logo Wayfire

Wayland compositor with 3d effects.
  • SDDM Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-10-15
  • Wayfire Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-08-19

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

Wayfire videos

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GNOME 3.36: macOS-like apps with KAWAII BLUR ..on Wayfire :p

More videos:

  • Review - Wayfire: Wayfire config manager + wf-panel
  • Review - Micro Review 2/2 Rayban Wayfire

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to SDDM and Wayfire)

SDDM

Wayfire

Linux
51 51%
Linux
49% 49
PHP Framework
100 100%
PHP Framework
0% 0
Window Manager
0 0%
Window Manager
100% 100
PHP MVC Framework
100 100%
PHP MVC Framework
0% 0

User comments

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Social recommendations and mentions

Wayfire might be a bit more popular than SDDM. We know about 2 links to it since March 2021 and only 2 links to SDDM. 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.

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

Wayfire mentions (2)

  • Cant change the system GTK theme/icons
    So im trying to change my GTK theme/icons (on Wayfire) I tryed changing them using LXAppearance and it "changes" in LXappearance until I close it then they goes back to default (no other application changes themes/icons). Source: over 2 years ago
  • [Wayfire] System locks up when trying to build wf-shell
    Im trying to build/install Wayfire (on Debian Testing, using Openbox) using wf-install and I cant seem to get past building wf-shell (i have also tried building using wf-shell instructions, same result),. Source: over 2 years ago

What are some alternatives?

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

LightDM - A lightweight display manager

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

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

KDE Plasma Desktop - Plasma Workspaces is the umbrella term for all graphical environments provided by KDE.

Ly - TUI (ncurses-like) display manager

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

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