LightDM is a
free and open-source
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X display manager 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,
Xubuntu and
Mythbuntu since 11.10 release,
for
Lubuntu since 12.04 release
until 16.10, for
Kubuntu beginning with 12.10
until 15.04
for
Linux Mint and
Antergos
Antergos is a discontinued Linux distribution based on Arch Linux. It includes the GNOME desktop environment by default but it could also employ the Cinnamon (software), Cinnamon, MATE (software), MATE, KDE Plasma 5, Deepin, and Xfce desktops. I ...
.
Features
Features include:
* codebase with very few dependencies
* supports different display technologies (
X11 and
Wayland through
Mir)
* 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
* Chemi ...
)
* 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 libraries
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to work, but at the cost of some features, that the user may or may not need.
Available greeters
See also
*
SDDM
Simple Desktop Display Manager (SDDM) is a display manager (a graphical login program and session manager) for the X11 and Wayland windowing systems. SDDM was written from scratch in C++11 and supports theming via QML.
SDDM is free and open ...
*
SLiM
*
XDM (display manager)
The X Display Manager (XDM) is the default display manager for the X Window System. It is a bare-bones X display manager. It was introduced with X11 Release 3 in October 1988, to support the standalone X terminals that were just coming onto t ...
*
GNOME Display Manager
References
External links
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Bugs in DebianBugs in Ubuntu
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Canonical (company)
Ubuntu
Software that uses GTK
X display managers