What is lightdm in linux?

Lightdm is free and open source X Display manager that aims to be lightweight , fast extensible, and multi desktop. It can use various front end to draw user interface also called greeters.

Lightdm starts the x servers user session and greeter ( login screen).

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Lightdm key features :-

  • A well defined greeter api allowing multiple GUI's 
  • Support for all display manager user cases with plugins where appropriate
  • Low code complexity
  • Fast performance


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What is gdm?

What is xdm?

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