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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](/wiki/linux/lightdm.md) is a lightweight GUI display manager.
- [Lemurs](/wiki/linux/lemurs.md) is a lightweight TUI display manager.
- [Ly](/wiki/linux/ly.md) 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](/wiki/linux.md#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.
```sh
chmod +x ~/.xinitrc
ln -s ~/.xsession ~/.xinitrc
```
Afterwards the session will start like the `xinitrc`