Is it possible to run a vote among all LQ members about their most preferred display manager?

PicardDefendingData · 01-09-2020, 12:45 PM

Hi Everyone!

I have used Debian Potato, Stretch, Squeeze, Lenny, Etch, Sarge, Wheezy, Jessie, and now Buster. I have also used three display managers. KDM, GDM, and Lightdm.

So just wondering is it possible to put a voting system up and running for a couple of days to see, among all LQ members who use which display managers the most?

For me, Lightdm is a dream come true for me. I am super enthusiastic about Xfce and Lightdm's lightweight component factor and super fast loading time. No offense to anybody. It's just my personal opinion. I know GDM and KDM have their own merit points (in fact I used them extensively) but personally I like Lightdm. I have a USB expansion drive and still, I am satisfied. Thank you all.

Timothy Miller · 01-09-2020, 12:48 PM

Well, KDM is basically dead (SDDM is the modern QT5 replacement).

But actually not a horrible idea, maybe something that could be done next year if it's decided it's too late to implement this year.

LightDM, SDDM, GDM3, SLIM, XDM...are there others that are still around?

273 · 01-09-2020, 12:58 PM

I'm another fan of LightDM and it, along with XFCE, has been my choice for years.
I have nothing against the other DMs, and have used them sometimes, but LightDM just does the job well.

sevendogsbsd · 01-09-2020, 12:58 PM

LXDM is also good, very lightweight. I personally do not use a display manager but my favorite is LXDM actually. LightDM also works well and if given a choice, I would use either of those 2. The few times I have used Plasma, SDDM also seems to work well. GDM is my least favorite of all.

teckk · 01-09-2020, 02:16 PM

Never use one. Here are a few to look at for the thread.

cdm
https://github.com/ghost1227/cdm

Console TDM
https://github.com/dopsi/console-tdm

ly
https://github.com/cylgom/ly

tbsm
https://loh-tar.github.io/tbsm/

GDM
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GDM

LightDM
https://github.com/CanonicalLtd/lightdm/

LXDM
https://sourceforge.net/projects/lxdm/

SDDM
https://github.com/sddm/sddm

XDM
https://jlk.fjfi.cvut.cz/arch/manpages/man/xdm.8

frankbell · 01-09-2020, 07:52 PM

OP, you could certainly post a poll. Whether or not "all LQ users" would choose the participate in it is another issue.

I suspect that are a lot of LQers who vote with me: Whichever one is installed, so long as it works.

jsbjsb001 · 01-09-2020, 07:59 PM

The poll idea wouldn't be able to be included in this years MCA's if that's what you're asking. But you could suggest it for next years MCA's here.

Nice idea though.

ondoho · 01-11-2020, 07:34 AM

As long as an option "none" is included.

PicardDefendingData · 01-11-2020, 02:25 PM

My second computer had AMD Athlon 3400+ (AMD64) processor and Debian Sarge on it. GDM was fine.

When I upgraded to Debian Lenny GDM was taking up too much resource. I also tried remotely connecting to X-server-Xorg and desktoping from a different Linux computer. It worked but wasn't intuitive and easy. Besides, when I installed another desktop environment it couldn't recognize it or detect it. I had to manually add the entry.

I tried the KDE display manager. At that time it was called KDM. But it was written with the Gtk-C++ port. I think. I am not hundred percent sure. So was taking a lot of resources too. More than GDM.

Now with LightDM, I am fully satisfied with my Lenovo laptop.