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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.
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 ]
A server can connect, using the XDMCP protocol, to a display manager running on another computer, requesting it to start the session. In this case, the X server acts as a graphical telnet client while the display manager acts like a telnet server: users start programs from the computer running the display manager, while their input and output ...
The X Window System (X11, or simply X; stylized 𝕏) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on Unix-like operating systems.. X originated as part of Project Athena at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1984. [3]