Simple Desktop Display Manager

Display manager for the windowing systems X11 and Wayland From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Simple Desktop Display Manager

Simple Desktop Display Manager (SDDM) is a display manager (a graphical login program) for the X11 and Wayland windowing systems.[5] SDDM was written from scratch in C++11 and supports theming via QML.[6]

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Simple Desktop Display Manager
Original author(s)Abdurrahman Avci
Developer(s)Abdurrahman Avci, KDE, LXQt, Liri[1]
Initial release19 March 2013; 12 years ago (2013-03-19)[2]
Stable release
0.21.0[3]  / 26 February 2024; 13 months ago (26 February 2024)
Repository
Written inC++, QML
PlatformUnix-like
TypeX display manager
LicenseGPL-2.0-or-later[4]
Websitegithub.com/sddm/sddm 
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SDDM is free and open-source software subject to the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or later.[4]

Adoption

In 2013, Fedora KDE members decided to default to SDDM in Fedora 21.[7]

KDE chose SDDM to be the successor of the KDE Display Manager for KDE Plasma 5.[8][9]

The LXQt developers recommend SDDM as a display manager.[10]

See also

  • LightDM, Light display manager, formerly written for Ubuntu, now independent
  • GDM, the default graphical login program for GNOME

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