Simple Desktop Display Manager

Simple Desktop Display Manager
Original author(s)Abdurrahman Avci
Developer(s)Abdurrahman Avci, KDE, LXQt, Liri[1]
Initial release19 March 2013; 11 years ago (2013-03-19)[2]
Stable release
0.21.0[3] Edit this on Wikidata / 26 February 2024; 9 months ago (26 February 2024)
Repository
Written inC++, QML
PlatformUnix-like
TypeX display manager
LicenseGPL-2.0-or-later[4]
Websitegithub.com/sddm/sddm Edit this on Wikidata

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]

Adoption

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In 2013, Fedora KDE members decided to default to SDDM in Fedora 21.[7]

KDE chose SDDM to be the successor of the KDE Display Manager for KDE Plasma 5.[8][9]

The LXQt developers recommend SDDM as a display manager.[10]

See also

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  • LightDM, Light display manager, formerly written for Ubuntu, now independent
  • GDM, the default graphical login program for GNOME

References

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  1. ^ Pier Luigi Fiorini (2014). "plfiorini's blog".
  2. ^ "Release v0.1.0". GitHub. 19 January 2013.
  3. ^ "Release 0.21.0". 26 February 2024. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
  4. ^ a b "README.md". GitHub.
  5. ^ "0.12.0-Release-Announcement". GitHub.
  6. ^ "SDDM: A Lightweight QML-Based Display Manager". 19 January 2013. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
  7. ^ Rex Dieter (26 November 2013). "Rex's Blog".
  8. ^ "Display Managers In Plasma 5". 3 November 2014. Archived from the original on 2015-08-27.
  9. ^ Larabel, Michael (3 November 2014). "SDDM Is The Recommended Display Manager Of KDE Plasma 5". Phoronix. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
  10. ^ 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 ...