LightDM is a free and open-source

X display manager In the X Window System, an X display manager is a graphical login manager which starts a login session on an X server from the same or another computer. A display manager presents the user with a login screen. A session starts when a user ...

that aims to be lightweight, fast, extensible and multi-desktop. It can use various front-ends to draw User Interface, also called ''Greeters''. It also supports Wayland. LightDM is the default display manager for Edubuntu,

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and

Mythbuntu Mythbuntu is a discontinued media center operating system based on Ubuntu, which integrated the MythTV media center software as its main function, and did not install with all of the programs included with Ubuntu. Following the principles of f ...

since 11.10 release, for

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since 12.04 release until 16.10, for Kubuntu beginning with 12.10 until 15.04 for

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and

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Features

Features include: * codebase with very few dependencies * supports different display technologies (

X11 The X Window System (X11, or simply X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on Unix-like operating systems. X provides the basic framework for a GUI environment: drawing and moving windows on the display device and interacting wi ...

and Wayland through

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) * Supports remote login (incoming – XDMCP, VNC, outgoing – XDMCP, pluggable) * Comprehensive test suite. * standards-compliance (PAM, logind, etc.) * well-defined interface between the server and user interface * cross-desktop (greeters can be written in any

toolkit A toolkit is an assembly of tools; set of basic building units for user interfaces. The word toolkit may refer to: * Abstract Window Toolkit * Accessibility Toolkit * Adventure Game Toolkit * B-Toolkit * Battlefield Mod Development Toolkit * Ch ...

) * well-defined greeter API allowing multiple GUIs * support for all display-manager use-cases, with plug-ins where appropriate LightDM has a simpler code base than GDM and does not load any GNOME

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to work, but at the cost of some features, that the user may or may not need.

Available greeters

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Bugs in Debian

Bugs in Ubuntu
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Features

Available greeters

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