LightDM
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LightDM is a free and open-source X display manager that aims to be lightweight, fast, extensible and multi-desktop. It can use various front-ends to draw the user interface, also called Greeters. It also supports Wayland.
Key facts
- Software.name
- LightDM
- Software.screenshot
- ElementaryOS Pantheon Greeter 5.0 screenshot.png
- Software.caption
- LightDM in elementaryOS with its default "Pantheon Greeter 5.0" front-end
- Software.author
- Robert Ancell
- Software.programming language
- C
- Software.operating system
- Linux, OpenIndiana
- Software.size
- 1 MB
- Software.language
- >50 languages
- Software.genre
- X display manager
- Software.license
- GPL-3.0-or-later
via Wikipedia infobox
Source code
The core LightDM project does not provide any greeter with it; you should install a greeter appropriate to your system. Popular greeter projects are: System provided configuration should be stored in /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/ . System administrators can override this configuration by adding files to /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/ and /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf . Files are read in the above order and combined together to make the LightDM configuration. For example, if a sysadmin wanted to override the system configured default session (provided in /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d ) they should make a file /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/50-myconfig.conf with the following: Stack Overflow and Ask Ubuntu are good sites for frequently asked questions.
Excerpt from the source-code README · 3,952 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- free software
- Official website
- github.com/canonical/lightdm
- Image
- Lightdm-screenshot.jpg
- Has use
- X display manager
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- Commons category
- LightDM
- programmed in
- C
- software version identifier
- 1.32.0
- operating system
- FreeBSD
- inception
- 2010-09-10
- source code repository URL
- github.com/ubuntu/lightdm
- implementation of
- XDMCP
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Article · Italiano
LightDM è un gestore di accesso al desktop utilizzato in passato da Ubuntu e creato come alternativa a GDM. È sviluppato presso Canonical e a tutti i contributori è richiesto di cedere i loro diritti d'autore a Canonical.
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