![]() 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 | 1.32.0[1] ![]() |
Repository | |
Written in | C |
Operating system | Linux, OpenIndiana |
Size | 1 MB |
Available in | >50 languages[2][3][4] |
Type | X display manager |
License | GPL-3.0-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 the 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 the 11.10 release,[10][11][12] for Lubuntu since the 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
[edit]Features include:
- Codebase with very few dependencies
- Supports different display technologies (X11 and Wayland through Mir)
- 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
[edit]LightDM Greeters in active development | |||
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Name | Key feature(s) | Version | Website |
Arctica Greeter | Greeter for Arctica,[20] fork of Unity Greeter | 0.99.1.4[21] | github |
Deepin Greeter | Greeter for Deepin | 5.0.0[22] | github |
GTK Greeter | Greeter for Xubuntu and former GTK reference implementation,[23] former Lubuntu default,[13] Xubuntu default[11] | 2.0.8[24] | github |
Mini Greeter | Minimalist, single-user. INI configuration | 0.5.1[25] | github |
Pantheon Greeter | Greeter for elementary OS[26] | 7.0.0[27] | github |
Qt5 Greeter | Greeter for Qt 5 | 0.11.1[28] | github |
Slick Greeter | Greeter for Linux Mint, fork of Unity Greeter | 1.4.1[29] | github |
WebEngine Greeter | QtWebEngine-based, C++ rewrite of Web Greeter 3.0 | — | github |
Web Greeter | QtWebEngine-based, continuing Antergos Web Greeter 3.0,[30] allows to create web based themes | 3.4.1[31] | |
WebKit2 Greeter | Easy theming[6] | 2.0.0[32] | gitlab |
Dormant LightDM Greeters | |||
Name | Key feature(s) | Version | Website |
Antergos Web Greeter | Default greeter for Antergos.[33] Uses HTML/Javascript for theming[34] | 2.2.5[35] | github |
Crowd Greeter | Demonstration for an OpenGL-based Greeter[36][37] | 0.0.2[38] | 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[39] | lxde |
KDE Greeter | Plasma 4 integration,[40][41] Kubuntu default[15] until superseded by SDDM[16] | 0.3.2.2[42] | github |
LXQt Greeter | Qt-only Greeter for LXQt desktop (formerly Razor Greeter[43]) until superseded by SDDM[44] | 0.7 | github |
Qt Greeter | Reference implementation in Qt | — | launchpad |
Unity Greeter | Former Ubuntu default[6] | 15.04.3[45] | launchpad |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Release 1.32.0". 18 July 2022. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
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- ^ "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. Archived from the original on 2013-07-19. Retrieved 2013-05-29.
- ^ "Readme Manual of LightDM". GitHub. 3 May 2022.
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- ^ Ubuntu 11.10 ReleaseNotes, Canonical, retrieved 28 May 2012
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- ^ "BionicBeaver/ReleaseNotes - Ubuntu Wiki".
- ^ a b Lubuntu 12.04 ReleaseNotes, Canonical, retrieved 14 Jun 2012
- ^ "Discussion about greeter (Log in) application for 16.10 Qt versi... : Blueprints : Lubuntu Next". 11 May 2014.
- ^ a b RFC] Merging LightDM into KDE Workspaces, mail.kde.org, 20 August 2012, retrieved 2013-05-29
- ^ a b Bhartiya, Swapnil. "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 Archived 2020-11-12 at the Wayback Machine (go down or search for LightDM), retrieved 2017-07-02
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- ^ "The Arctica Project". arctica-project.org. The Arctica Project. Retrieved 2023-05-14.
- ^ "Arctica Greeter". Github.
- ^ "dde-session-ui". Github.
- ^ LightDM GTK Greeter in Launchpad, Launchpad.net, 29 November 2011, retrieved 2012-12-16
- ^ "GTK LightDM Greeter for Xubuntu". Github.
- ^ Mini Greeter Releases, GitHub, retrieved 2022-03-13
- ^ 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
- ^ Antergos Web Greeter 3.0, GitHub, retrieved 2021-07-10
- ^ Web Greeter 3.4.1 release, GitHub, retrieved 2021-04-10
- ^ LightDM Webkit Greeter, GitLab, 11 January 2016, retrieved 2020-09-20
- ^ "Antergos | Your Linux. Always Fresh. Never Frozen". Antergos Linux. Archived from the original on 2019-09-03. 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.
- ^ ~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, archived from the original on 17 October 2019, retrieved 17 December 2012
- ^ Edmundson, David (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, archived from the original on 27 October 2017, 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.
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- ^ Unity Greeter, Launchpad.net, 31 May 2011, retrieved 2012-12-16