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# Display Managers
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Display managers are graphical user interfaces that is displayed after booting.
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Usually it also manages the login process before starting the window manager.
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## List of Display Managers
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The following display managers are featured in this wiki.
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- [LightDM](/wiki/linux/lightdm.md) is a lightweight GUI display manager.
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- [Lemurs](/wiki/linux/lemurs.md) is a lightweight TUI display manager.
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- [Ly](/wiki/linux/ly.md) is a lightweight display manager with consolue UI.
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## Use `xinitrc` as `xsession`
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Often a display manager needs a `xsession` to work.
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For this `xinit-xsession` needs to be installed which is available on most
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[Linux distributions](/wiki/linux.md#distributions) in a package of the same name.
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When setting this up there should be no `~/.xsession` available.
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If it is please use another setup or backup this file.
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Make the `xinitrc` file executable as shown in the following command and link it to the `xsession`
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file.
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```sh
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chmod +x ~/.xinitrc
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ln -s ~/.xsession ~/.xinitrc
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```
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Afterwards the session will start like the `xinitrc`
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