Simple Desktop Display Manager Explained

Simple Desktop Display Manager
Author:	Abdurrahman Avci
Developer:	Abdurrahman Avci, KDE, LXQt, Liri^[1]
Released:	^[2]
Programming Language:	C++, QML
Platform:	Unix-like
Genre:	X display manager
License:	GPL-2.0-or-later^[3]

Simple Desktop Display Manager (SDDM) is a display manager (a graphical login program) for the X11 and Wayland windowing systems.^[4] SDDM was written from scratch in C++11 and supports theming via QML.^[5]

SDDM is free and open-source software subject to the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or later.

Adoption

In 2013, Fedora KDE members decided to default to SDDM in Fedora 21.^[6]

KDE chose SDDM to be the successor of the KDE Display Manager for KDE Plasma 5.^{[7] [8]}

The LXQt developers recommend SDDM as a display manager.^[9]

See also

• LightDM, Light display manager, formerly written for Ubuntu, now independent
• GDM, the default graphical login program for GNOME

Notes and References

1. Web site: plfiorini's blog. Pier Luigi Fiorini. 2014 .
2. Web site: Release v0.1.0 . GitHub . 19 January 2013 .
3. Web site: README.md. .
4. Web site: 0.12.0-Release-Announcement. .
5. Web site: SDDM: A Lightweight QML-Based Display Manager . 19 January 2013 . 5 March 2014 .
6. Web site: Rex's Blog. Rex Dieter . 26 November 2013 .
7. Web site: Display Managers In Plasma 5 . 3 November 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150827124914/http://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/display_managers_finale . 2015-08-27 .
8. News: Larabel. Michael. Michael Larabel. 3 November 2014. SDDM Is The Recommended Display Manager Of KDE Plasma 5. Phoronix. 3 November 2014.
9. Web site: [Lxde-list] CALL FOR TESTERS: LXQt now available for testing ]. Leclanche . Jerome . 2013-10-30 . sourceforge.net . SourceForge . 2015-08-08 . ... For a display manager, SDDM is recommended ....