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Simple Desktop Display Manager
X11 & Wayland display manager

Simple Desktop Display Manager (SDDM) is a display manager (a graphical login program) for the X11 and Wayland windowing systems. SDDM was written from scratch in C++11 and supports theming via QML.

SDDM is free and open-source software subject to the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or later.

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Adoption

In 2013, Fedora KDE members decided to default to SDDM in Fedora 21.4

KDE chose SDDM to be the successor of the KDE Display Manager for KDE Plasma 5.56

The LXQt developers recommend SDDM as a display manager.7

See also

  • Free and open-source software portal
  • LightDM, Light display manager, formerly written for Ubuntu, now independent
  • GDM, the default graphical login program for GNOME

References

  1. "0.12.0-Release-Announcement". GitHub. https://github.com/sddm/sddm/wiki/0.12.0-Release-Announcement ↩

  2. "SDDM: A Lightweight QML-Based Display Manager". 19 January 2013. Retrieved 5 March 2014. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI3ODc ↩

  3. "README.md". GitHub. https://github.com/sddm/sddm/blob/develop/README.md ↩

  4. Rex Dieter (26 November 2013). "Rex's Blog". http://rdieter.blogspot.com/2013/11/sddm-change-pushed-back-to-fedora-21.html ↩

  5. "Display Managers In Plasma 5". 3 November 2014. Archived from the original on 2015-08-27. https://web.archive.org/web/20150827124914/http://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/display_managers_finale ↩

  6. Larabel, Michael (3 November 2014). "SDDM Is The Recommended Display Manager Of KDE Plasma 5". Phoronix. Retrieved 3 November 2014. /wiki/Michael_Larabel ↩

  7. Leclanche, Jerome (2013-10-30). "[Lxde-list] CALL FOR TESTERS: LXQt now available for testing". sourceforge.net. SourceForge. Retrieved 2015-08-08. ... For a display manager, SDDM is recommended ... http://sourceforge.net/p/lxde/mailman/message/31580081/ ↩