LightDM
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![]() LightDM in elementaryOS with its default "Pantheon Greeter 5.0" front-end | |
Original author(s) | Robert Ancell |
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Developer(s) |
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Initial release | September 10, 2010 |
Stable release | 1.30.0
/ March 17, 2019[1] |
Repository | |
Written in | C |
Operating system | Linux |
Size | 1 MB |
Available in | >50 languages[2][3][4] |
Type | X display manager |
License | GNU General Public License, version 3 or later |
Website | github |
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 User Interface,[6] also called Greeters.[7] It also supports Wayland.[8][9]
LightDM is the default display manager for Edubuntu, Xubuntu and Mythbuntu since 11.10 release,[10][11][12] for Lubuntu since 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:
- codebase with very few dependencies
- supports different display technologies (X11 and Wayland (display server protocol) through Mir (software))
- 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 |
GTK Greeter | Greeter for Xubuntu and former GTK reference implementation,[20] former Lubuntu default,[13] Xubuntu default[11] | 2.0.8[21] | github |
Mini Greeter | Minimalist, single-user. INI configuration | 0.4.0[22] | github |
Pantheon Greeter | Greeter for elementary OS[23] | 3.3.1[24] | github |
Qt5 Greeter | Greeter for Qt 5 | 0.11.1[25] | github |
Slick Greeter | Greeter for Linux Mint, fork of Unity Greeter | 1.4.1[26] | github |
WebKit Greeter | Easy theming[6] | 2.0.0[27] | gitlab |
Dormant LightDM Greeters | |||
Name | Key feature(s) | Version | Website |
Crowd Greeter | Demonstration for an OpenGL-based Greeter[28][29] | 0.0.2[30] | 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[31] | lxde |
KDE Greeter | Plasma 4 integration,[32][33] Kubuntu default[15] until superseded by SDDM[16] | 0.3.2.2[34] | github |
LXQt Greeter | Qt-only Greeter for LXQt desktop (formerly Razor Greeter[35]) until superseded by SDDM[36] | 0.7 | github |
Qt Greeter | Reference implementation in Qt | — | launchpad |
Web Greeter | Default greeter for Antergos.[37] Uses HTML/Javascript for theming[38] | 2.2.5[39] | github.com |
Unity Greeter | Former Ubuntu default[6] | 15.04.3[40] | launchpad |
See also
References
- ^ Light Display Manager, Github
- ^ "Translations: Light Display Manager". Translations.launchpad.net. 2011-05-13. Retrieved 2013-05-29.
- ^ "Translations: LightDM GTK Greeter". Translations.launchpad.net. 2013-05-08. Retrieved 2013-05-29.
- ^ "Translations: Unity Greeter". Translations.launchpad.net. 2012-01-24. Retrieved 2013-05-29.
- ^ The Light Display Manager (LightDM), retrieved 17 May 2011
- ^ a b c Ubuntu 11.10 To Switch From GDM To LightDM, 12 May 2011, retrieved 18 May 2011
- ^ Fischer, Matt (2012-02-07). "» So You Want to Write a LightDM Greeter… Matt Fischer's Blog". Mattfischer.com. Retrieved 2013-05-29.
- ^ "Readme Manual of LightDM".
- ^ "Arch Linux Wiki".
- ^ Ubuntu 11.10 ReleaseNotes, Canonical, retrieved 28 May 2012
- ^ a b Xubuntu 11.10 Release Notes, Canonical, retrieved 17 December 2012
- ^ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BionicBeaver/ReleaseNotes
- ^ a b Lubuntu 12.04 ReleaseNotes, Canonical, retrieved 14 Jun 2012
- ^ https://blueprints.launchpad.net/lubuntu-next/+spec/1610-qt-greeter
- ^ a b RFC] Merging LightDM into KDE Workspaces, mail.kde.org, retrieved 2013-05-29
- ^ a b Swapnil Bhartiya. "Kubuntu 15.04 With Plasma 5.3 - A Totally Different Kubuntu - Linux.com". Linux.com - The source for Linux Information. Archived from the original on 2016-03-16. Retrieved 2015-05-03.
- ^ New features in Linux Mint 18.2 Cinnamon (go down or search for LightDM), retrieved 2017-07-02
- ^ Ubuntu adopts LightDM, login screens to get more exciting, Geek.com, 12 May 2011, retrieved 18 May 2011
- ^ LightDM, or: an examination of a misunderstanding of the problem, 12 May 2011, retrieved 14 July 2015
- ^ LightDM GTK Greeter in Launchpad, Launchpad.net, retrieved 2012-12-16
- ^ "GTK LightDM Greeter for Xubuntu". Github.
- ^ Mini Greeter Releases, GitHub, retrieved 2020-04-04
- ^ Hello, Luna Beta 1 | elementary, Elementaryos.org, 2012-11-14, retrieved 2013-05-29
- ^ "LightDM Greeter for Pantheon". Github.
- ^ "LightDM Greeter for Qt 5". Github.
- ^ Slick Greeter Releases, GitHub, retrieved 2020-09-20
- ^ LightDM Webkit Greeter, GitLab, retrieved 2020-09-20
- ^ ~lightdm-team/crowd-greeter/trunk (2011-07-27), ~lightdm-team/crowd-greeter/trunk : contents of NEWS at revision 33, Bazaar.launchpad.net, retrieved 2013-05-29
- ^ LightDM Crowd Greeter, YouTube, 2011-09-07, retrieved 2013-05-29
- ^ Crowd Greeter : "LightDM Development Team" team, Launchpad.net, 2011-09-08, retrieved 2013-05-29
- ^ Status of LXDE Components, LXDE Team, retrieved 17 December 2012
- ^ David Edmundson (2012-07-21), LightDM-KDE 0.2.0, Sharpley.org.uk, archived from the original on 2012-12-24, retrieved 2012-08-23
- ^ Rationales, Static.davidedmundson.co.uk, retrieved 2013-05-29
- ^ LightDM-KDE File Archive, KDE, retrieved 6 June 2013
- ^ Razor-qt, razorqt-lightdm-greeter, Github.com, retrieved 2012-08-23
- ^ Leclanche, Jerome (2013-10-30). "[Lxde-list] CALL FOR TESTERS: LXQt now available for testing". sourceforge.net. SourceForge. Retrieved 2016-05-08.
... For a display manager, SDDM is recommended ...
- ^ "Antergos | Your Linux. Always Fresh. Never Frozen". Antergos Linux. Retrieved 2016-08-06.
- ^ "lightdm-webkit2-greeter - master". doclets.io. Archived from the original on 2016-10-07. Retrieved 2016-08-06.
- ^ "Antergos/web-greeter". GitHub. Retrieved 2016-08-06.
- ^ Unity Greeter, Launchpad.net, retrieved 2012-12-16
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