Editing X display manager (section)

==Implementations==
The [[X Window System]] supplies [[X Display Manager (implementation)|XDM]] as its standard display manager.

Programmers have developed other X display managers, both commercial and free, offering additional functionality over the basic display management:

===Active===
* [[GNOME Display Manager|GDM]], [[GNOME]] implementation
* [[Simple Desktop Display Manager|SDDM]], recommended display manager for [[KDE Plasma 6]] and [[LXQt]]. Successor to KDM.
* [[LightDM]], a lightweight, modular, cross-desktop, fully themeable desktop display manager by [[Canonical Ltd.]]
* [[TWin]], the [[Trinity Desktop Environment|TDE]] window manager
* [[dtlogin]] (shipped with [[Common Desktop Environment|CDE]])

===Inactive===
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* [[KDE Display Manager|KDM]] (part of [[KDE]]) allows the user to graphically select a [[X window manager|window manager]] or [[desktop environment]] in the login screen
* [http://qingy.sourceforge.net/ Qingy] ultralight and very configurable graphical login independent on X Window (uses [[DirectFB]]) 
* [https://sourceforge.net/projects/xdm-options/ XDM-OPTIONS] for XDM. Easy full install, Xhost Phonebook, X Login, X Desktop Chooser, menu-reconfig, repair utils.
* LDM, the (remote) Display Manager of the [[Linux Terminal Server Project]]
* [https://github.com/linuxmint/mdm MDM], a graphical display manager developed for Linux Mint.
* {{mono|scologin}} (provided by [[SCO OpenServer|SCO Open Desktop]]) also checks for expired passwords and performs some administrative tasks
* [[WINGs Display Manager]] (using the WINGs widget-set used in [[Window Maker]])
* [[entrance (display manager)|entranced/entrance]] (employs the architecture used in [[Enlightenment (window manager)|Enlightenment]] v.17, on hiatus since 2005)
* [https://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXDM LXDM], a lightweight cross-desktop and fully themeable display manager, part of [[LXDE]]
* [https://sourceforge.net/projects/slim-fork/ SLiM], an independent login manager.
* [https://github.com/ghost1227/cdm CDM], an ultralight Console Display Manager for Unix
* [http://www.jonshouse.co.uk/xlogin.cgi xlogin] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090727195110/http://www.jonshouse.co.uk/xlogin.cgi |date=2009-07-27 }}, X Window login with separate XDMCP server
* [http://enter.sourceforge.net/ Enter], a lightweight graphical login manager
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20121106004540/http://repos.e-x-a.org/view.cgi/orthos Orthos], another lightweight solution with very configurable animated themes that use OpenGL only
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20091223224641/http://www.enricozini.org/sw/nodm/ nodm], auto-login display manager for systems like kiosks, appliances and mobile phones
* [https://github.com/Crakem/xlogin xlogin display manager], a lightweight, secure and login like console display manager for X, written in C.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Build software better, together |url=https://github.com/topics/display-manager |website=[[GitHub]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Display manager - ArchWiki |url=https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Display_manager}}</ref>

On some Unix distributions, the default display manager is selected in file $PREFIX/etc/X11/default-display-manager.