LightDM
Display manager for X windowing systems From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
LightDM is a free and open-source X display manager that aims to be lightweight, fast, extensible and multi-desktop.[5] It can use various front-ends to draw the user interface,[6] also called Greeters.[7] It also supports Wayland.[8][9]
LightDM in elementaryOS with its default "Pantheon Greeter 5.0" front-end | |
| Original author(s) | Robert Ancell |
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| Initial release | September 10, 2010 |
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| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Linux, OpenIndiana |
| Size | 1 MB |
| Available in | >50 languages[2][3][4] |
| Type | X display manager |
| License | GPL-3.0-or-later |
| Website | github |
LightDM is the default display manager for Edubuntu, Xubuntu and Mythbuntu since the 11.10 release,[10][11][12] for Lubuntu since the 12.04 release[13] until 16.10,[14] for Kubuntu beginning with 12.10[15] until 15.04[16] for Linux Mint[17] and Antergos.
Features
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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)
- 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 to work, but at the cost of some features that the user may or may not need.[18][19]
Available greeters
| LightDM Greeters in active development | |||
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| Name | Key feature(s) | Version | Website |
| Arctica Greeter | Greeter for Arctica,[20] fork of Unity Greeter | 0.99.1.4[21] | github |
| Deepin Greeter | Greeter for Deepin | 5.0.0[22] | github |
| GTK Greeter | Greeter for Xubuntu and former GTK reference implementation,[23] former Lubuntu default,[13] Xubuntu default[11] | 2.0.8[24] | github |
| Mini Greeter | Minimalist, single-user. INI configuration | 0.5.1[25] | github |
| Pantheon Greeter | Greeter for elementary OS[26] | 7.0.0[27] | github |
| Qt5 Greeter | Greeter for Qt 5 | 0.11.1[28] | github |
| Slick Greeter | Greeter for Linux Mint, fork of Unity Greeter | 1.4.1[29] | github |
| WebEngine Greeter | QtWebEngine-based, C++ rewrite of Web Greeter 3.0 | — | github |
| Web Greeter | QtWebEngine-based, continuing Antergos Web Greeter 3.0,[30] allows to create web based themes | 3.4.1[31] | |
| WebKit2 Greeter | Easy theming[6] | 2.0.0[32] | gitlab |
| Dormant LightDM Greeters | |||
| Name | Key feature(s) | Version | Website |
| Antergos Web Greeter | Default greeter for Antergos.[33] Uses HTML/Javascript for theming[34] | 2.2.5[35] | github |
| Crowd Greeter | Demonstration for an OpenGL-based Greeter[36][37] | 0.0.2[38] | launchpad |
| GTK Builder Greeter | An alternative implementation from LXDE for GTK based on GtkBuilder featuring WYSIWYG theme editing with Glade Interface Designer. | 0.2.0[39] | lxde |
| KDE Greeter | Plasma 4 integration,[40][41] Kubuntu default[15] until superseded by SDDM[16] | 0.3.2.2[42] | github |
| LXQt Greeter | Qt-only Greeter for LXQt desktop (formerly Razor Greeter[43]) until superseded by SDDM[44] | 0.7 | github |
| Qt Greeter | Reference implementation in Qt | — | launchpad |
| Unity Greeter | Former Ubuntu default[6] | 15.04.3[45] | launchpad |
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