XDM Alternatives

XDM

XDM (in full, the X Display Manager) 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 the market. It was written by Keith Packard.

Because of XDM's minimalism, most desktop environments tend to use later, more sophisticated display managers.

Written in C, C++

Best Free XDM Alternatives

Need an alternative to XDM? Read on. We've looked at the best XDM alternatives available for Windows, Mac and Android.

LightDM

FreeOpen SourceLinux

LightDM is a cross-desktop display manager. A display manager is a daemon that: Runs display servers (e.g. X) where necessary. Runs greeters to allow users to pick...

Ly

FreeOpen SourceLinuxBSD

Ly is a lightweight TUI (ncurses-like) display manager for Linux and BSD. ## Dependencies - a C99 compiler (tested with tcc and gcc) - a C standard library -...

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