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Original author(s)
  
Robert Ancell

Written in
  
C

Development status
  
Active

LightDM

Developer(s)
  
Robert Ancell David Edmundson

Initial release
  
September 10, 2010; 6 years ago (2010-09-10)

Stable release
  
1.20.0 / October 15, 2016; 4 months ago (2016-10-15)

LightDM is an X display manager that aims to be lightweight, fast, extensible and multi-desktop. It uses various front-ends to draw login interfaces, also called Greeters.

Features

Features include:

  • codebase with few external dependencies
  • 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 plugins 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. LightDM is the default display manager for Ubuntu, Edubuntu, Xubuntu and Mythbuntu since 11.10 release, for Lubuntu since 12.04 release, and for Kubuntu beginning with 12.10 until 15.04.

    References

    LightDM Wikipedia
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