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GNOME Display Manager (GDM) is a display manager (a graphical login manager) for the windowing systems X11 and Wayland. The X Window System by default uses the XDM display manager. However, resolving XDM configuration issues typically involves editing a configuration file .
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 ]
Name Configurable titlebar buttons Graphical configuration Hotkeys ICCCM/EWMH compliant Panel for window switching Tabbed windows Themeable 9wm: No No No Yes No No aewm [citation needed]
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] SDDM is free and open-source software subject to the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or later. [4]
In computing, in the X Window System, a display manager keeps the X server process alive on the X server machine, connecting it to a physical screen and serving a login prompt on this screen when there are no clients running.
Window managers range in sophistication and complexity from the bare-bones (e.g., twm, the basic window manager supplied with X, or evilwm, an extremely light window manager) to the more comprehensive desktop environments such as Enlightenment and even to application-specific window managers for vertical markets such as point-of-sale.
In the X Window System, an X display manager is a graphical login manager which starts a login session on an X server from the same or another computer. A login screen shown by the SDDM display manager. A display manager presents the user with a login screen. A session starts when a user successfully enters a valid combination of username and ...
A virtual window manager is a window manager that uses virtual screens, whose resolution can be higher than the resolution of one's monitor/display adapter thus resembling a two dimensional virtual desktop with its viewport. This environment is very useful when one wishes to have a large number of windows open at the same time.