LightDM

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LightDM
Original author(s) Robert Ancell
Developer(s)
  • Robert Ancell
  • David Edmundson
Initial releaseSeptember 10, 2010;13 years ago (2010-09-10)
Stable release
1.32.0 [1]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 18 July 2022;18 months ago (18 July 2022)
Repository
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.com/CanonicalLtd/lightdm

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]

Contents

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

Features include:

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
NameKey feature(s)VersionWebsite
Arctica GreeterGreeter for Arctica, [20] fork of Unity Greeter0.99.1.4 [21] github.com/ArcticaProject/arctica-greeter
Deepin GreeterGreeter for Deepin 5.0.0 [22] github.com/linuxdeepin/dde-session-ui
GTK GreeterGreeter for Xubuntu and former GTK reference implementation, [23] former Lubuntu default, [13] Xubuntu default [11] 2.0.8 [24] github.com/Xubuntu/lightdm-gtk-greeter
Mini GreeterMinimalist, single-user. INI configuration0.5.1 [25] github.com/prikhi/lightdm-mini-greeter
Pantheon GreeterGreeter for elementary OS [26] 3.3.1 [27] github.com/elementary/greeter
Qt5 GreeterGreeter for Qt 50.11.1 [28] github.com/rezso/lightdm-qt5-greeter
Slick GreeterGreeter for Linux Mint, fork of Unity Greeter1.4.1 [29] github.com/linuxmint/slick-greeter
WebEngine Greeter QtWebEngine-based, C++ rewrite of Web Greeter 3.0— github.com/matijaskala/lightdm-webengine-greeter
Web Greeter QtWebEngine-based, continuing Antergos Web Greeter 3.0, [30] allows to create web based themes3.4.1 [31]

github.com/JezerM/web-greeter

WebKit2 GreeterEasy theming [6] 2.0.0 [32] gitlab.com/tearch-linux/applications-and-tools/lightdm-webkit2-greeter
Dormant LightDM Greeters
NameKey feature(s)VersionWebsite
Antergos Web GreeterDefault greeter for Antergos. [33] Uses HTML/Javascript for theming [34] 2.2.5 [35] github.com/Antergos/web-greeter
Crowd GreeterDemonstration for an OpenGL-based Greeter [36] [37] 0.0.2 [38] launchpad.net/crowd-greeter
GTK Builder GreeterAn alternative implementation from LXDE for GTK based on GtkBuilder featuring WYSIWYG theme editing with Glade Interface Designer.0.2.0 [39] lxde.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lxde%2Fldm-gtk-builder-greeter%3Ba%3Dsummary
KDE Greeter Plasma 4 integration, [40] [41] Kubuntu default [15] until superseded by SDDM [16] 0.3.2.2 [42] github.com/KDE/lightdm
LXQt Greeter Qt-only Greeter for LXQt desktop (formerly Razor Greeter [43] ) until superseded by SDDM [44] 0.7 github.com/surlykke/qt-lightdm-greeter
Qt GreeterReference implementation in Qt — launchpad.net/lightdm-qt-greeter
Unity GreeterFormer Ubuntu default [6] 15.04.3 [45] launchpad.net/unity-greeter

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