LightDM

LightDM

LightDM in Ubuntu 11.10 with the default "Unity Greeter" frontend
Original author(s) Robert Ancell
Initial release September 10, 2010 (2010-09-10)
Stable release v1.0.6 / November 4, 2011; 4 months ago (2011-11-04)
Development status Active
Written in C
Platform Linux
Size 1 MB
Available in 31 languages
Type X display manager
License GNU GPL
Website www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/LightDM

LightDM is an X display manager that aims to be light, fast, extensible and multi-desktop.[1] It uses a WebKit backend to draw HTML-based login interfaces.[2]

LightDM offers at least the same functionalities as GDM, but it has a simpler code base and does not load any GNOME libraries to work.[3] Because of this, LightDM has been chosen as the default display manager for Ubuntu and Xubuntu[4] 11.10.

References

  1. ^ "The Light Display Manager (LightDM)". http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/LightDM. Retrieved 17 May 2011. 
  2. ^ "Ubuntu 11.10 To Switch From GDM To LightDM". 12 May 2011. http://digitizor.com/2011/05/12/ubuntu-11-10-lightdm/. Retrieved 18 May 2011. 
  3. ^ "Ubuntu adopts LightDM, login screens to get more exciting". Geek.com. 12 May 2011. http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/ubuntu-adopts-lightdm-login-screens-to-get-more-exciting-20110512/. Retrieved 18 May 2011. 
  4. ^ "“xubuntu-meta” 2.129 source package in The Oneiric Ocelot". Launchpad. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/oneiric/+source/xubuntu-meta/2.129. Retrieved 14 June 2011. 

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