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XDM VS SDDM

Compare XDM VS SDDM and see what are their differences

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XDM logo XDM

The default display manager for the X Window System.

SDDM logo SDDM

QML based X11 and Wayland display manager. Contribute to sddm/sddm development by creating an account on GitHub.
  • XDM Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-05-04
  • SDDM Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-10-15

XDM videos

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Springfield XDM 9mm Review: Better Than Glock 17 / 19. One of the Best Full Size Pistols (XD, XD M)

More videos:

  • Review - [First Review] Springfield Armory XDM Elite 3.8"
  • Review - Springfield XDm 9mm 5.25

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 XDM and SDDM)

XDM

SDDM

Linux
43 43%
Linux
57% 57
PHP Framework
42 42%
PHP Framework
58% 58
Operating Systems
48 48%
Operating Systems
52% 52
PHP MVC Framework
39 39%
PHP MVC Framework
61% 61

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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.

XDM mentions (0)

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

LightDM - A lightweight display manager

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

Ly - TUI (ncurses-like) display manager

GDM - Electronics

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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