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Display Managers

Display managers are graphical user interfaces that is displayed after booting. Usually it also manages the login process before starting the window manager.

List of Display Managers

The following display managers are featured in this wiki.

  • LightDM is a lightweight GUI display manager.
  • Lemurs is a lightweight TUI display manager.
  • Ly is a lightweight display manager with consolue UI.

Use xinitrc as xsession

Often a display manager needs a xsession to work. For this xinit-xsession needs to be installed which is available on most Linux distributions in a package of the same name. When setting this up there should be no ~/.xsession available. If it is please use another setup or backup this file. Make the xinitrc file executable as shown in the following command and link it to the xsession file.

chmod +x ~/.xinitrc
ln -s ~/.xsession ~/.xinitrc

Afterwards the session will start like the xinitrc