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Simple Desktop Display Manager (SDDM) is a display manager (a graphical login program and session manager) for the X11 and Wayland
windowing system In computing, a windowing system (or window system) is software that manages separately different parts of display screens. It is a type of graphical user interface (GUI) which implements the WIMP (windows, icons, menus, pointer) paradigm for ...
s. SDDM was written from scratch in
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and supports theming via QML. SDDM is
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subject to the terms of the
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version 2 or later.


Adoption

In 2013, Fedora KDE members decided to default to SDDM in Fedora 21.
KDE KDE is an international free software community that develops free and open-source software. As a central development hub, it provides tools and resources that allow collaborative work on this kind of software. Well-known products include the ...
chose SDDM to be the successor of the KDE Display Manager for
KDE Plasma 5 KDE Plasma 5 is the fifth and current generation of the graphical workspaces environment created by KDE primarily for Linux systems. KDE Plasma 5 is the successor of KDE Plasma 4 and was first released on 15 July 2014. It includes a new defaul ...
. The
LXQt LXQt is a free and open source lightweight desktop environment. It was formed from the merger of the LXDE and Razor-qt projects. Like its GTK predecessor LXDE, LXQt does not ship or develop its own window manager, instead LXQt lets the use ...
developers recommend SDDM as a display manager.


See also

* GDM, the default graphical login program of GNOME *
LightDM LightDM is a free and open-source 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 def ...
, formerly the default graphical login program of
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, replaced by GDM


References

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